Find A Good One

In my work, I spend a lot of time collecting.  Customers make purchases and fail to pay for these purchases. Call me crazy but it seems to me if you can not pay for a purchase... you don't go out and make another purchase.  This is what always surprises me.


I guess you could say that if you were reselling goods, maybe you didn't sell the first purchase with a high enough profit margin?  Maybe product went bad or you were unable to find someone to buy?  After a possible scenario such as these, then maybe you tell yourself that you will purchase more product and sell it at a high enough profit to be able to pay both not only this purchase but the one before.  But if this doesn't work, surely, you would think, you would not make still another purchase.


Unfortunately, I see it often.  Purchase after purchase with no ability to pay.  The problem is that most businesses will give a person 30 days to make payment.  So you don't know they are not paying until they may have made many many purchases during that 30 day window.


This is where it comes time to get aggressive in collecting.  And if your customer is out of state, all I can say, is thank goodness for process servers.  Process servers deliver or "serve" legal documents to a defendant or person involved in a court case.  Fortunately, they are located all over the country.  For example, if your trying to collect from a person on the west coast, then you can call a California process server.  And if papers aren't served properly, the court is not able to rule on a case relating to an individual if they were not legally made aware of it.  So find a good one is all I can say.

This is a sponsored post for ABC Legal, however, all the points and views are my own.