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		<title>Would you dump a customer?</title>
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		<description>Would you dump a customer?</description>
		<lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</lastBuildDate>
		
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				<title><![CDATA[Very recently I found it necessa]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Very recently I found it necessary to fire a customer. I don`t do it lightly, but every so often I get a customer who so high-maintenance that it just isn`t fair to my other customers. This is the type who wants everything done for free or a mere pittance,[...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hi all,
A company I work for ju]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
A company I work for just sent a notice to a large customer that we will no longer quote orders for them.&nbsp; This customer, over the last few years, has r]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[It`s true that one of the concep]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It`s true that one of the concepts lacking in much of today`s business
is Respect. It used to be that shopkeepers actually respected their
customers, and customers admired and respected shopkeepers.

Nowadays, it seems as if so many business ma]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I`ve just read all this topic`s&]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I`ve just read all this topic`s&nbsp;replies and what I love to find out is what`s the essence, what is beneath a situation.
In my own experience I could share a `fire` situation where I gave a service to a customer and he paid me (I found out l]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[SO, apparently it is the Sprint ]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[SO, apparently it is the Sprint Customer DISservice plan!&nbsp; Dropped like soooooooo many of their calls!I`m in customer service in the casino industry and we drop (tell them t]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I think firing a customer has mo]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I think firing a customer has more to do with initiating an action, on
the part of the business, where the customer is just going along doing
their regular thing. The customer isn`t avoiding payment, doing
something wrong, or whatever. To their viewpoin[...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Well, If they continue doing it ]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Well, If they continue doing it over, and over, and over, and avoid you, it gets to the point where they no longer respect you or don`t care to respect you. Another scenario was where a customer called me a muther F` er.. I dropped him like a bad habit]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I don`t know if stopping a servi]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I don`t know if stopping a service for non-payment can be really considered as "firing the customer".&nbsp; That seems like pretty standard procedure to me - say you&nbsp;own a restarurant&nbsp;and someone walks out on their bill; would you serve them the [...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Oleg,I love this topic.sorry I`m]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Oleg,I love this topic.sorry I`m a little late on responding but. YES I HAVE FIRED! NOT ONE BUT LETS SAY ABOUT 10 customers this year.See It comes down to Respect!. I know alot of you will probably disagree with me to some extent, but here ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Yup, I agree.&nbsp; We`ve had it]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Would-you-dump-a-customer.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Yup, I agree.&nbsp; We`ve had it out with DishNetwork several times.&nbsp; The last time over their dish not getting a channel we enjoyed.&nbsp; They wanted to charge us to come look at the dish we don`t own.&nbsp; It was off kilter because when they sc]]></description>
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