Swedish mag Flygrevyn and payment for images published

[Hans Rolink]

Sorry for the lengthy title, gents, but I couldn't get it any shorter.
A few months ago I was approached by a journo from the Swedish aviation magazine Flygrevyn. Apparantly, he had discovered images taken by me of German Phantoms at Wittmund. They were going to do a piece on the subject and figured my images would do well.
We agreed a price and the magazine went to press with my images in the article. So far so good.
Now the editor, one Christina Lindberg, claims that payment is not possible as her bank claims that my IBAN number is incorrect. Of course, I checked with my bank who confirmed the number to be correct.

Did anyone of you have similar experiences with Flygrevyn? Any such experiences with other mags? I am not yet so far to accuse Flygrevyn of anything, I just would like to find out if this happens to more people and what to do now.

Thanks for your views.

Cheers,
Hans.

[warthog64]

I had the same BS with the french magazine air- fan a couple of years ago.

Never got my money......
Hope it WILL work out for you.

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[aviodromefriend]

In such a case, they should at least be willing to show you that their bank says the IBAN is not correct. Then you can see what (if anything) is wrong. I don't know your IBAN, but it is known sometimes the 0 (which all Dutch IBANs have more than one on a row of, creating the possibility of miscounting the number of 0s) and O are unintentionally misread.

[Thijs]

in the last mentioned option take bank costs into account. It can be more than 10 euro!

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[Hans Rolink]

Thanks for the tips guys!
I already suggested using paypal and cheque, but they don't react to these ideas?

Hans.

[topgun1984]

Hans, perhaps you can contact our swedish man mr viggen who lives in sweden. Perhaps he can use some dutch persuasion with swedish language... it can help .


cheers,

TG1984

[Hans Rolink]

Well, I was hoping for any Swedish readers to chip in with remarks like "well, yeah, in Sweden we are having problems with the IBAN system". So if Mr. Viggen could confirm or deny, I would be glad.

Hans.

[John0001]

Hi Hans

I live in Sweden. There are no problems with IBAN codes. It is easy to make bank payments to overseas companies/people and charges are low. Most banks have online forms I can do it easily. Send the company your invoice. Make sure you have on it your full account number with correct zeros, sort or clearing code code, IBAN code with correct codes, BIC/SWIFT code.

It may well be that a 0 is astray somewhere. Swedes take payment very seriously and nearly always pay promptly. They also pay usually within 7-10 days. So put terms 7 days on it. (Unlike UK where it is more like 30 days). If you do not get paid within that period send them another invoice with 7 days on it and say that if you do not get payment within that time you will report them to Kronofogden. Make sure you have all your contact details on the invoice so they can contact you if there is problem. Swedes pay up quickly as if they are reported to Kronofogden - the payment enforcement agency - and found guilty of non payment the single black mark means it is almost impossible to get credit and even to do business.

Good luck.

I do not often look at these forums so I may miss any comment you may make

[Hans Rolink]

Thanks John!
I'll try it that way.
As you wrote, IBAN also works from Sweden. I rechecked the data I sent Flygrevyn many times.

Hans.

[Propwash]

Next time, first the money then the pictures

[Hans Rolink]

Next time, first the money then the pictures

That doesn't work very well. An editor has to decide whether or not images are worth his money. He can only do that while having the images.... Then there is the time factor...

Hans.

[evhest]

Well, that's what watermarks are for. If you sent the pictures without a watermark before payment...... not so smart on your part...

[Hans Rolink]

Learned something the hard way

Hans.