sooooooo, I quess this is business, picked up a new account truck leasing company asked to be put on P.o. got the first check after 60 days and bounce!!!! Any advise besides the obvious first time dealing with this situation. I guess it's our initiation!!!!

I would contact the customer and let them know what happened. More than likely there was some kind of clerical mistake, otherwise the customer would not have issued a check at all. The customer would not issue a check with the intentions of defrauding you, since he will have to pay the fees associated with an overdraft.

C.O.D OR 10 day terms with a credit card on file.

thanks for your advise I will go with C.O.D>/credit card on file

We take a lot of checks for the deductibles, and it seems like we go through cycles when all of the sudden several will bounce. But it doesn't happen very much with a business customer.

We contact the customer and try to get a credit card number from them on the phone. Sometimes they just continue to give you the runaround. You have to be persistent.

One guy gave us his credit card, and had us split the payment in 2, a couple of days apart. The first one went through, but the second charge kept getting denied. So we kept trying about 3 times a day until it finally went through about a week later.

If you end up being unable to collect, you need to have a relationship with a collections agency that you can use. They often can collect what you can't, for a 35% fee or so.

we take ours to the county attorney.

i think we pay 10 bucks or so, but they have collected the ones we took there.

we don't get them that often either, so i am not an expert at getting the money back. i usually have them bring me cash, but if they don't cooperate, they go to the courthouse.