Re: Lingual Consultancy Services
Notorious, serial non-payers. I've been working with them on and off since 2015. Every time a relatively large sum accumulates, they go AWOL and it takes several months to get the payment. It happened to me three times. The first time, I posted a negative review on ProZ (where they first found me), and instantly got an email from a project manager offering to settle the bill "with a humble hope that I will change my review to positive". While they did not outright say they would not pay if I don't amend the review, I felt that mentioning the payment and my review in the same sentence was intended to imply causality. After that, I started keeping track of reviews they get on ProZ. I now have a portfolio of screenshots that prove: they routinely request translators to write positive reviews or remove negative reviews in exchange for settling long outstanding payments. Regularly, someone posts a negative review, then 1-2 weeks later it disappears or changes to five stars. This has been going on for years. I and other people have reported and discussed it with the ProZ admin team to death, and they are just not inclined to lose a paying client, that is the bottom line.
I am right this moment sitting with a $700 invoice for Lingual Consultancy outstanding since July, and they happily continue to email me with project offers. Three times is really the charm. Yes, they will pay. But in 5-6 months and after multiple reminders, threats and bad reviews. Nobody needs this negativity in their lives.
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