I have only had one company try to play the reply within 12 hour trick and drop the email on a Friday night at 6:00 PM with a ridiculous question that was answered in the report. I attached my unaltered .pdf of my report and cut and pasted the original reply in the body of the email. I then tried calling them at 9:00 AM when they should have been open the next day and a few more times and nobody would answer the phone.
I'm not mentioning company names, because you never know what company will pick up a client you really want to shop. I caught it only because I woke up at 5:00 am and read my email and I answered the emails with a 30 minutes to spare. This was duplicated for all three shops with asked questions that were well answered. They no longer show me any jobs, as they know I am not an easy mark.
I have not worked for them again, and they did pay me, only because I caught them in time. I had to reply to all three emails and attach my .pdf and cut and paste the same answer on each.
They no longer show me that assignment, as they know they can't trick me into not getting paid. It is a small MSC and I still did not deactivate, but I removed the bookmark from my browser.
Take that!
This is the proper way to handle a MSC that is trying to weasel out. Just put them on ignore.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/16/2015 04:44AM by scanman1.