We were recently introduced to a roofing company by one of our clients. They’d been chasing three overdue invoices totalling just over £7,000 for more than seven months. The debts were owed by different legal entities, but all part of the same property maintenance group, a neat way for the debtor to confuse and delay payment.
The client had heard it all:
· “We never had the service.”
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· “It’s with our payment team.”
· “The wrong invoice was sent.”
In other words, every excuse under the sun. But what they didn’t get was the one thing they actually needed: payment.
That’s where we came in.
As soon as we were instructed, we applied the kind of third-party psychology that debtors simply can’t ignore. Where they felt comfortable brushing the roofing company off, they suddenly had to deal with a professional collections agency that wasn’t going away.
Within three weeks, the results spoke for themselves:
· £2,376 recovered after the “we never had the service” line collapsed.
· £2,398 recovered once the “wrong invoice” excuse was dismantled.
· £1,440 recovered after weeks of dodging calls finally ended in payment.
That’s £7,000 recovered in full, straight into the client’s account after seven months of them getting nowhere on their own.
This case is a perfect example of why timing matters. Once an invoice goes 60+ days overdue, the odds of payment without intervention drop dramatically. Debtors get used to ignoring you… until someone like us gets involved.
Question is: how many of your old debts could be cleared if you let us step in?
Who do you know that could benefit from this?
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At Athena Collections, we will always fight for our clients’ right to recover what they’re owed. But cases like this show how much reform is needed before businesses can have real confidence in the courts again.
Businesses deserve better than a two-year wait for nothing.
Have you faced similar delays or issues trying to get a defended claim heard? Share your experience, the more voices speak up, the harder this problem becomes to ignore.