hey guys, as you all may know i dance professionally.

I did a gig for a friend a few months ago and was hired by his company to perform. We have had agreements made, i was featured on their website etc. Even made a excel template of payment. However its been a couple months now and I still have not gotten paid. He owes me a couple hundred bucks and keeps on telling me that he is working on it etc. Wont return my texts/calls consistantly. What should I do? should i keep nagging him? should i bring legal matters into this? He is a friend but not that good. He owes me and 4 others who performed with me a couple hundred EACH.

 

right now keep trying to contact him, document everything. Email, Text, etc. let him know if he doesnt pay within "x" amount of days/months you will be forced to take it to legal matters.

 

Small claims court. Maybe even go on judge judy or whatever the current court shows are. Get some air time. Exposure FTW!

 

Give him the benifit of the doubt and keep trying to contact him. After a few more weeks if he's still unresponsive and not willing to pay up take legal action.

 

I actually like this idea. If he's really your friend, he'd at least give you an explanation. Otherwise, he's just taking advantage of you, and that's not what friends do.

 

Get Jeffie and Shin to go karate kick him and break his knee caps. That'll learn him.....

 

350z beat down coming up

 

Shin would just call a favor in and have one of his friends kill the guy.

 

couple months has givin him the benifit of the doubt.. i would tell him now that your taking legal action.. maybe offer him a payment installment contract... even though it a couple hundred bucks.

 

Shin isssss my body gaurd!!

 

Both of these are very true.

 

legal action over a couple hundred bucks? Just don't work for the guy again.

 

If they don't plan to pay now, they never will. That is the nature of people: self first, others second.

It takes a few hours to draft up a small claims document so I suggest you do that. Be sure to have his full name and physical address. Include any documentation you may have regarding the matter and go to the clerk's office @ the small claim's court. When you go into the courthouse, be sure to have multiple copies of your evidence file (at least 3.) Keep the original, one will be sent to him, and the court will have the 3rd copy of the case file.

You'll then have an option to send your case via first class mail, or have a sheriff go knocking on his door and personally hand him the documents. (Sheriff's cost about $30'ish or so more, but highly effective.)

 

I wouldnt wait any longer, let him know he has seven business days to pay or your taking him to court. You have given him way to long to pay. Your to nice.

 

yeah i am way too nice, im gonna see the guy tonight at a breakdance battle at College park. We will see what happens. SHin is coming too hahaha

 

this gets in my nerves. I know a lot of people that would do that "that's why I always either take a full/half payment before performing anything".
keep this in mind next time and about the guy/"not friend any more" he lost people trust so he deserve to go to court and charged with get all sort of stuff. by this time I wouldn't think about the money I would teach him a lesson on "how losing friends is painful to the pocket" lol.

 

Your money is gone. Move on.

 

^ lol why would you even suggest such thing?

Reputation is very important to most people. The person who hired you guys to perform obviously has a reputation in a certain area. Make sure he knows the consequences of this FACT being leaked to that area.

 

^ what david said may not be too far from the truth. We all know how nice goofball is. The guy probably knew that and took 100% advantage of it knowing that goof will most likely do absolutely nothing about it.

 

yeah e10 is right it's not about the money. It's about reputation. The guys wants to promote and do events and have great talent work with him this is not the way to do it. He screwed over 5 very good dancers not just me, i can careless about the money, I care more because these other dancers do not have the networking or benefits I do. Some drove 2 hours a day to rehearse for this event, to not get paid? These are starving artists. We cannot be successful if we get taken advantage of. So I want this person to learn that you cannot screw over people. Every other performer got paid EXCEPT us. This was not a small event either, it was an event where people paid 100 dollars for admission!