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YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
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Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#32Seriously? Please learn how to properly freelance before publicly flaming a bootstrapped startup. Always get your task/rate in writing before continuing..
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#33Oh this isn't me by the way I just saw it on Reddit.
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#34This happened to me as well with a YC company. I then found out that YC companies are known for this kind of thing since they're so early-stage. Always get a contract.
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#35How much does it really matter in these situations whether or not you have a "signed contract"? My understanding is that any agreement to do work for compensation is a contract, and these days even a "signed" contract is likely to just be a PDF which is as easily faked as an emailed "$65/hr? Sounds good, go ahead and get started."
Is it just one of those things where someone's less likely to try to rip you off if they put their signature on something? Or is it more to make sure you get the words in front of a couple of lawyers who are much less likely to lie than the involved parties?
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#36I don't understand this, people. They're YC funded, in the worst case they have how much now, 10k? Risk your reputation for a few hundred dollars, having a few thousand in the pocket, why?
Same here. I am not taking sides, but just for drama reasons I would always prefer having these things go away for a few hundred bucks than go trying to argue with the interwebs.
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#37I don't understand what happened here. The CEO told him to submit his invoice to legal@. Did he do that? What did their legal say? Did the company formally decline to pay the invoice? Or did he just assume he wasn't going to get paid and jump the gun?
But anyways: LESSON LEARNED for startup CEOs. Here it is, it's very simple:
If you want to question or slowroll an invoice, direct it to finance@, not legal@.
You have exactly the same set of options with finance@, and your legal can still review the invoice, ping the vendor, or what-have-you, but you haven't escalated the situation.
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#38Is this how PR disaster look like ?
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#39LOL this bitch Katelyn Gleason is going to get some serious hatin if she doesn't cough up this guys $$ LOL
Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
#40I'm going to go out on a limb and register a slight discomfort with the increasing use of HN as a "court of public opinion" in very fact-bound disputes like this one. I can sort of see resorting to it out of desperation, but I'm afraid the Internet Lynch Mob has a very high ratio of outrage to effort spent actually investigating. This post has 84 upvotes in 21 minutes, which suggests a very quick investigation! So, t…
Agreed. Both parties just look silly.