Freelancers, how do you deal with clients who seem to refuse to pay on time? This is just the last few rows of my account balances and as a student that kind of money is huge!

Draw up some contracts, that way you have a legal backbone to threaten when people decide to be cunts.

I cry in a corner. And used to live month by month. Eating dry rice sometimes.

But after a year you get so sick and tired of it. So I tried living for half my expenses, and build a buffer that could sustain me for a few months until payements finaly come in.

@for-Each my experience is that even then they pay late. Large companies more often.

@MisterArie You'll always have that. It's not there to completely stop them.
It's there as a consequence to not paying you

Not sure if illegal, but I'd put code to stop the entire thing until my payment arrives.

@gitpush only illegal if they've part paid I think.

@gitpush that's extortion.

@segfault0xff could be, but not getting paid after delivering work is also no good

@segfault0xff if they don't pay for the product you created they don't own it either..

I order hitmen on dark web.

@DLMousey looking at it from this point of view makes sense, thanks for explaining, need to look from a different angle