I ran across an article in the The Star that was quite interesting. They wrote about a local business owner who was having trouble getting paid from one of their customers so they contacted the police, who then contacted the debtor in order to obtain payment for the business.
In my experience this had only been done with a bad check, but a Midlothian business owner said he went to police for help in collecting a debt from one of his customers because there was "no other way" to collect the money.
What od you think of this practice?
Have any of you done this and what were the results?
Please leave your comments below!
Michelle, you have stated in several articles that when customers don't pay, it is not because they don't want to but usually because they can't. Keeping this in mind, what good would it do to send the police to collect a payment if the person cannot pay? How does that work? Does the officer stay at the person's home until they collect? Or do they take the debtor to jail if he/she fails to pay? I understand the need to collect, I just think this is a very drastic way to accomplish that goal.
Posted by: Kimberlee Morrison | July 26, 2007 9:48 AM | Permalink to Comment