[TriLUG] OT: referal and introduction fees

[Jim Ray]

i generally take someone out to lunch, buy them a beer, carry over 
doughnuts one morning or try to reciprocate with a lead.  however, i 
avoid a finder's fee agreement and merely try to maintain personal 
relationships instead of financial relationships.

regards,

jim

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Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> I have an arrangement with a business person whereby if he
> brings me a customer for my compute skills, I give him 1/3
> of the final labor fees. This is all on a handshake basis.
>
> Now I'm in the situation where the customer has introduced
> me to someone else who wants work. The original business person
> has not been involved in any way in this next introduction,
> Since I wouldn't have met this next person except for the
> original introduction I think it reasonable for the business
> person to get some sort of fee, but not the full fee, since
> they didn't have to do any work at all. We haven't discussed
> this situation, because apparently neither of us thought
> about it.
>
> How is this normally handled?
>
> Thanks Joe