[BrightSpark]

Back in the day when I was doing some debit collections I found that sitting in their front office for awhile tended to make them pay up and if they didn't I would them serve them, normally with a small claims, which tended to make them take notice and then pay.

If they still didn't pay we went to the judge to get an oral examination ordered. All the while their bill is getting bigger and bigger.

When they have to appear in front of a judge and explain why they haven't paid your bill tends to make them think twice and to pay up.

Yes, it has cost you some time and money, but it then gets out that so and so doesn't pay their bills and was taken to court and this way they don't catch another person as well.