My client still owes me money... advice needed.

Hi guys. I'm back and I need a bit of help this time. It has been about a week now since one of my clients has ceased all communications with me. The problem is, he still owes me money. I am considering posting all the articles on my web page so that they would be useless to that client (Web articles should be original. Webmasters check with copyscape.com). Would this be the smart thing to do or should I wait some more?

if you're still unpaid by this time, better post them on the web now....

if it's been this long, chances are you are not getting paid.

i would suggest sending 1 more email and making it clear that the client broke their end of the business agreement and is therefore not entitled to use your work. inform them of your intent to post the work publicly, give them a day to respond, and then do so if you don't receive payment. that way, you have it in writing that you clearly attempted to collect payment and that the client is choosing to voluntarily sever the deal.

Go ahead and post it online. It will have no actual effect on the client. You need to know that person's full name, if that student's a client, and s/he's graduated, then you can't do anything. The school/college/university will not retain copies of the essay so nothing to compare against what you post online. The student can then simply say it's someone else with the same name.

I have found that it's often fairly easy to locate the school and even the instructor of many clients, especially when they include instructions for their papers that come word-for-word from their instructors. Google the text of the assignment description and see what comes back.

I have never contacted a school/instructor with such an issue, but I have sent a few emails to customers who left me in the same situation, politely letting them know that I have reason to believe they are using my product to cheat at (name of institution customer attends), and that in order to protect the copyright of my product I will be emailing a copy of the article to (student's instructor, if known, or the Dean of instruction/other appropriate authority). I have never failed to receive payment doing this.

pheelyks has the right idea, most students just need the threat of calling them out and reporting them. If you drop the name of the school they attend then the fear really sets in that they just tried to rip off the wrong person and you will get paid.

Why did they take your paper prior to payment?

you are being a crybaby. get over it.