Service Provider's Concerns.

Late Payment

Ethos Complex has contracted a variety of Internet services, from several different providers, over the course of the last eighteen months. Several small, local contractors have worked hard, and beyond their normal invoicing period, on the understanding that the initial opening was a difficult time. Invoices get mislaid and payment schedules could and did stretch from weeks into months.

Refusal to pay Invoices

Unfortunately, it now transpires that the Ethos management team were not merely delaying payment. Currently, they are refusing to honour the invoices of at least two of these local providers, despite longstanding verbal and electronic contracts.

Poor Communication

" This potentially exciting project has been ruined by a lack of communication. "

The initial meetings were good, project structures were laid out and verbal contracts were made. Early on, there were email and phone discussions, work was set in motion, raw materials and tools were purchased.

Then there were unexpected compulsory redundancies within Ethos, and since then all communication from the client has ceased. Increasingly frantic emails and phone calls to Ethos have been stone-walled.

In fact, the only communication received by these local companies for several months now has been via third parties, who are apparently expecting to take on the contracts.

Bad Debts

Now, six months down the line, several small companies in the kent area are left with bad debts. There are subcontractors to pay, overheads to meet, and many hours of work have been wasted.

Despite massively extended payment schedules and offers of scaled payments or even renegotiation of the bottom line, Ethos Lifestyle Complex has failed to pay it's debts.

Services will therefore shortly be withdrawn, and recompense sought through the usual channels.