True Tales

Customer Ordered Signs Too Soon

The shop received an unusual payment option.

Published

1 year ago

May 4, 2025

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Asked Too Soon

Once we had an online customer who reached us for a proposal, and we kept on sending him proposals and designs for a week or so. When everything was finalized, he reached us and said he had no money to pay for the sign and he could only pay when he earned from his business.

Source: Adeel Akhtar, Quick Signage, Hackensack, NJ

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