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Originally Posted by KC911
Reminds me of a PARF thread...Tervuren, this isn't like you  . Don't care how you rationalize it...not cool at all imo. |
I talked to the head accountant of the company I work for earlier today prior to my post. Every single French Canadian business has had its credit revoked for lack of payment. Two companies, despite the company having the money, the accountant has had to go to court to receive the money.
I am not asking why based on one instance. I was able to recognize the actions as that of a French Canadian without knowing his name, or address.
It is normal, from my talks with our accountant from time to time, for cities that border the great lakes, Hudson River, and north eastern coastal Continental North America(US and Canada) to pay as late as they can get away with, either the full 30 days, or 30 days + whenever you actually call to collect. However, in these cases, a placed phone call results in eventual payment. If the call is always required, the terms are shortened by 10 days and a moderate interest rate is applied for those 10 days, followed by a regular interest rate once the bill is 30 days +.
While there are difficult businesses to deal with in the USA, and the rest of the world, no other region has every business offered terms, always abuse them such that they are eventually permanently put on COD or prepay only.
So this is my perspective, yes perhaps I am not normally like this as I'm short on regular sleep, and my initial post was a poorly written initial vent of frustration, one that I hoped would spark a discussion for me to read. However, I have had to provide more detail in order to possibly get that discussion going. Unfortunately I have given unintended offence in my haste.
For the New York businesses, I see a culture that does not see a difference between money they have that they owe, and money that they have that they don't owe. This culture is the reason they push credit past terms. However, they do understand the need to pay eventually.
The problem with businesses in Quebec, is they do not seem to see the reason to pay at all.
I only have my data points. I've had conversations with a few presidents of international corporations. I always ask them about how it is doing business in China, Russia, and Quebec. Their answer about Quebec is generally the same as what I've said above. China is a mixed bag of different answers, the same no universal answer goes for Russia as well.
Different places have their different cultures, Try doing business in Mexico City, you cannot do so like you would in the United States. In the Mexican business world, its common for employees to say what they think you want to hear rather than reality. Once you know this, you can carefully tailor you questions to not reveal what you want to hear. This gives you something closer to the truth.
The donation I mentioned to a French Canadian, was buying a registration on
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I am feeling better now, thanks to all for your help in calming a frazzeled Terv. However, I would appreciate any insight on why businesses outside of Canada have trouble with business in certain parts of the province of Quebec.