Unresponsive client

[b66aaf3d]

Good morning. I want to make a report about a client that has refused to activate the next milestone(s) and has stopped responding.

The gag is that it's my first job paid in milestones, so I was not well-informed about the workings. There were three milestones: for START, for HALF OF THE BOOK, and for THE COMPLETED BOOK.

However, he only funded for start, which I only noticed when I had submitted the full work and get stopped responding. So, all my previous submissions were allotted to the FIRST milestone, and he was responsive the whole time until I submitted the whole book.

It was after some research that I realised that he hadn't even funded for the last two milestones. And he didn't approve for the first milestone to be paid, it was the 14-day automatic deposit that paid me.

It has been well over a month since my submission and he has simply ignored my messages, even when he comes online. I realize that my ignorance played a huge role in this, but can anything be done?

Thanks.

[petra_r]

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Victoria O wrote:
Good morning. I want to make a report about a client that has refused to activate the next milestone(s) and has stopped responding.

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Clients can't be reported for not activating milestones, nor are they required to respond to freelancers.

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Victoria O wrote:
... can anything be done?

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Other than the fact that the client only owns the rights to the part of the books that they paid for, nothing can be done.

[youssefbahaa]

Hi Victoria, I am sorry to hear that you went through this bad experience. All you can do now is to learn from this mistake; Never start working on anything unless you make sure that the client has already funded the part that you'll be working on.

Wish you the best of luck.