So what do you think I should start doing about no-shows . . .

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I would say make them do the $100 deposit.

Payment options include:
1. Cash
2. Money Order/Cashiers Check
3. Paypal
4. Credit Card - You don't have to have a machine; you can do it by phone. Do it right there in front of them so that they know you are for real and they get to hear how much you are actually charging.

Don't take checks ever. EVER. I MEAN IT! For $100 dollars you get to sit around all day and record your own stuff, mix down another project, or post on Homerecording BBS. It is also not that much to come up with, even for a 15 year old.

Beezoboy
 
strmkr, that's horrible about gospel groups dogging you.
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Yeah,its a real bummer that so many of them act that way in this neck of the woods. I think they are taking their cues from what goes on in the community at large here. Religious groups run the town without a doubt. Local government,businesses and everything are expected to march to the beat of their drum,and I think that gives a lot of them a false sense of entitlement.

I am about to add country/western groups to the "pay up front" category also. They are getting to be just about as bad about paying up.:rolleyes:
 
Shailat said:
Just look at it this way...finally you'll have some free time to post at the BBS.

I use a 48 hour policy. Don't cancel 48 hours before? you pay 1/3.
Don't show? you pay. You could have booked somebody else and your losing money.The problem isn't the policy you choose, It's the how to get the money be it a small fine or full price.

Down payment I use on people I am extremly suspicious about.
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Yeah ... i agree with this one... but I'd get the 30% as a deposit... non refundable... up front. Saves you trying to get the money after the fact...

- Tanlith -
 
cross, too bad about black folks giving fagly waglys a hard time. Shouldn't african americans understand the concept of persecution? go figure.
 
look at the hebrews. they endure hundreds of years of slavery in egypt. god delivers them. then 100 years later they are enslaving other nations. the hebrew laws regarding servitude was that no hebrew could enslave another hebrew, but generational enslavement of other nations is fine.

look at liberia. african-americans who re-colonize as a nation in africa and then discriminate against the african people inhabiting the land. up until the current president of liberia there had never been a president who was not of pure african-american descent. the current president is part american-african and part indigenous african.

given the opportunity, the black race is just as likely to discriminate as any other race.

personally, i think that homosexuality is a sin but there is no .commandment regarding it. i also think that lying, cheating, not honoring your mother and father, and coveting thy neighbors belonging and/or wife are also sins... however, i don't see anyone making a big deal about that.
 
crosstudio said:
look at the hebrews. they endure hundreds of years of slavery in egypt. god delivers them. then 100 years later they are enslaving other nations. the hebrew laws regarding servitude was that no hebrew could enslave another hebrew, but generational enslavement of other nations is fine.
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you might want to recheck that.

there was no law saying a hebrew could not enslave another hebrew. it happened all the time. it was one way of working off a debt, among other reasons. but the biblical laws of slavery defined it more as indentured servitude - there were severe restrictions to insure humane treatment, and most importantly, the term of servitude was only for seven years, after which they must be freed. These laws applied equally to hebrews and non-hebrews.

If i HAD to be a slave, I'd much rather choose the ancient hebrew variation than any of the modern versions.

i'm not defending the old testament, by any means. there are plenty of horrible stories, many of which were ordered or sanctioned by God. including the total destruction of the men, women, children, and animals belonging to certain other enemy nations. and of course there were all the things they did that definitely were NOT sanctioned by God. but singling out the ancient hebrews as a corrupt or immoral group seems odd in the face of the practices of some of their other contemporaries.

if you want to look at a much better example of religion-sponsored enslavement and genocide, christianity probably holds the world's record. You can start with the crusades; the spanish inquisition; the conquering, enslavement, and extermination of the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere, the sanctioning of the african slave trade...

if the christians learned about slavery and genocide from the ancient hebrews, then this is certainly a case of the student far surpassing the teacher.
 
Leviticus 25:45-46
You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

my point was that the enslavement of ones ancestors doesn't make you any more/less tolerent than anyone else.

after having endured the holocaust and being rounded up and sent back to the middle east you would think that the hebrews would be more tolerant of their palestinian brethren... but not so.

after having endured hundreds of years of slavery you would think that african-americans would embrace africans, but not so. I guess when you look across the ocean and see that the people who sold you into slavery are suffering, a part of you resents their ancestors (your ancestors) for allowing it to occur, and you hate them a little.
 
All I can tell you is what we do:

40% deposit on all bookings, payable in advance. Deposits are non-refundable, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Cancellations will be accepted if they are made 7 days or more prior to the session date. (the deposit will be retained).

For cancellations under seven days, the studio will endaviour to re-book the scheduled time. Should the studio be successful in doing so, the studio will offset the revenue of the new bookings against the cancellation. If the studio is unsuccessful in re-booking the cancelled time, the time will have to be paid for in full by the party who cancelled the session.

You HAVE to look at a studio as a commercial enterprise, and in that world the above is dead plain normal.

and....... I just read the rest of the posts, didn't realize the topic had changed somewhat.
My mum, who died last January, worked for British intelligence and the Dutch resistance in WWII. She was caught, interrogated, tortured, then send to Ravensbruck concentration camp, and after that to Dachau. After the war she was highly decorated for her work during the war, which saved the lives of many people, and many Jewish people in particular. In her last speach she said (quote): "I have always strived to ensure that, through effective communication and education, the stories of those percecuted will not be forgotten. Quite naturally, during my time, the most effective such story was that of the Jewish people prior to and during the second world war. It is with regret that I now have to ask you, what good do are these stories, what good will these millions of deaths have brough us, when today the once procecuted can be seen to purpetrate similar offences to another race?"
 
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