No thief is happy to be a thief and no murderer is happy to be a murderer.
― Rajneesh
While hard times bring out the best in some people, they bring out the worst in thieves.
I ran into thieves during the Great Recession, when I was running consumer shows.
A half dozen exhibitors―people with whom I'd been doing business for years―wrote me bad checks for their booth rents at the close of several shows. Some simply skipped out of the shows without paying anything.
I lost more than $18,000 to those thieves.
A half dozen exhibitors―people with whom I'd been doing business for years―wrote me bad checks for their booth rents at the close of several shows. Some simply skipped out of the shows without paying anything.
I lost more than $18,000 to those thieves.
I'm running into thieves now. Texas-based Newtek last month billed my credit card nearly $900, claiming I owed the company for "storage."
While the company had been my web-hosting provider for 10 years―billing my card $6 every month for the service―I shut down my website over two years ago, after which I heard no more from Newtek.
Until it suddenly billed my credit card the $900 last month.
Now the company wants me to prove I shut down the website it hosted.
"If you 'turned off the services in February 2018,'" the CFO wrote me yesterday, "I could not find any tangible evidence to support this event.
"I can assure you we are only collecting on balances that are due and payable.
"I would be more than happy to credit the account if you can provide the tangible evidence."
While the company had been my web-hosting provider for 10 years―billing my card $6 every month for the service―I shut down my website over two years ago, after which I heard no more from Newtek.
Until it suddenly billed my credit card the $900 last month.
Now the company wants me to prove I shut down the website it hosted.
"If you 'turned off the services in February 2018,'" the CFO wrote me yesterday, "I could not find any tangible evidence to support this event.
"I can assure you we are only collecting on balances that are due and payable.
"I would be more than happy to credit the account if you can provide the tangible evidence."
"No thief is happy to be a thief and no murderer is happy to be a murderer," the guru Rajneesh said.
"They have been forced. In fact they are victims; they have been compelled by the logic of situations. They have been brought up in such a way that their whole being has been poisoned.”
Time are hard―and growing harder.
