OK, a sorry story here.
A piece of work on a website was advertised, I applied and won the work. I did the work, invoiced, did some follow-up work, invoiced, and have not been paid, despite reminders and a final letter threatening debt collection. Total amount is not a huge amount, around £1,000.00
It's all a little complex:
I dealt with a freelancer, whom I will call F. He was working on a website W, for what appears to be a joint venture between companies C1 and C2. When I completed, F told me to invoice C2, but gave the name of an employee of C1 - call that employee EC1.
After months of phone calls to EC1, calls not returned, and so on, I spoke to him one last time, and he said "I don't know why you are bothering me, I have nothing to do with C2". So, I wrote to C2, and C2 have replied saying that freelancer F, employee of C1 EC1 and website W are nothing to do with his company C2.
What can I do? Who was my contract with and who can I take to court. I did not obtain a purchase order or anything like that. I have full instant messenger logs of all communications with F, plus we met once and spoke on the phone once or twice.
F is the email admin contact on C2's website and C2 have registered the domains for the website W. So there is some info to link C2 to W and my work.
Any help gratefully received.
A piece of work on a website was advertised, I applied and won the work. I did the work, invoiced, did some follow-up work, invoiced, and have not been paid, despite reminders and a final letter threatening debt collection. Total amount is not a huge amount, around £1,000.00
It's all a little complex:
I dealt with a freelancer, whom I will call F. He was working on a website W, for what appears to be a joint venture between companies C1 and C2. When I completed, F told me to invoice C2, but gave the name of an employee of C1 - call that employee EC1.
After months of phone calls to EC1, calls not returned, and so on, I spoke to him one last time, and he said "I don't know why you are bothering me, I have nothing to do with C2". So, I wrote to C2, and C2 have replied saying that freelancer F, employee of C1 EC1 and website W are nothing to do with his company C2.
What can I do? Who was my contract with and who can I take to court. I did not obtain a purchase order or anything like that. I have full instant messenger logs of all communications with F, plus we met once and spoke on the phone once or twice.
F is the email admin contact on C2's website and C2 have registered the domains for the website W. So there is some info to link C2 to W and my work.
Any help gratefully received.
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