Has anyone tried to recover unpaid invoices from a Chinese translation agency? Tips?

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

Did you get the unpaid work through Proz? I must say that Proz staff has been very helpful every time I have submitted a non-payment report (two or three cases), and I got paid in a few days. Send all the proof you have (emails exchanged and/or PO, etc.) with your non-payment report. Good luck!

P.S. I have never worked with Chinese agencies before.

Thomas T. Frost wrote:

To report lack of payment in the Blue Board and submit a non-payment report (towards the end of the Blue Board entry procedure) do not require you to have found the client in any particular way.

The most important condition for giving a bad score is that the billed work must not have been subject to any complaint within a reasonable time (about one month), so I would let at least one month pass between delivery and scoring.

I've only worked for a Chinese company once, and only for a short period, as it was too much trouble in many ways. I generally limit myself to European and North American clients, where Wise makes it easy to get paid without rip-off fees.