Not me but a friend...
Worked as an arboricultural assistant for a small company, surveying the suitability of pre-development sites with regards to protected trees etc. One such client was a supermarket with a name very similar to Fresco. Anyway Tesco failed to pay him the ~£500 fee for his consultancy on one particular job, and after repeated calls to head office got the same reply "the cheque is in the post". This became a little grating after three months so the chap went in to his local store, loaded up the trolly with various electrical goods etc totalling approximately £500 in value. When he came to pay he told the tilljockey to put it on his "account". She promptly informed him that the supermarket doesn't operate a customer account system, and he'd have to pay. He demanded to see the manager who came over and began to argue, all whilst a massive queue is building up behind them. The chap starts to get particularly vocal about the company's refusal to pay for their contract, and at the same time refuses to move to one side or leave the store. Eventually out of sheer embarrassment the manager calls head office, and a cheque is couriered out to the store within the hour. Just goes to show being a stubborn cunt and making a scene sometimes can get you exactly what you want :D
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 21:58, 2 replies)

Oh yes indeed.
Your friend wasn't the only one, but he was lucky. I know a number of local companies who've gone belly-up because they subbed work off Fresco, who simply DO NOT PAY.

Look at my previous post www.b3ta.com/questions/theman/post759092
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 13:03, closed)

Fuppin baxtards
the lot of them.
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 3:05, closed)