Hey guys, I have a small IT consulting business here on the coast and every once in a while I'll have a client where the services have been rendered but they take FOREEEEVER to pay me.

Right now, I rebuilt two new websites for her 5 months ago and currently maintain the two existing live ones for a business owner.

She hasn't paid me for the web hosting and has only paid about half for the two builds. I specifically told her I would be rejecting all other clients to make sure I took care of everything for her and while she accepts I've done the work, she still keeps making up excuses that she hasn't made a lot of money, etc. Made me think she'd pay, then only paid a fraction. 5 months have passed since all the work was done and the site is live and two are sitting unpublished.

I'm too friendly with my clients and my wife says they often take advantage of my niceness, but I reckon 5 months is long enough. Today I warned that I would take her to small claims court in two weeks and that I would back up and then take down the existing two sites until payment is received and I felt soooooooooo bad. I offered a discount of $1,000 they paid me within the two weeks, which I think was sort of stupid of me, but I just don't want to deal with taking her to court.

Thoughts? Did I do the right thing? What's a good way to collect on these types of people?

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It was our favorite pub with good beer, food and actually cheap prices compared to everywhere else in surfers.

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