Weirdest payment you have ever received

**Dark Millennium** · January 14th, 2003, 12:21 PM

What's the strangest thing you have ever received as payment for repairing, installing, building, etc.... a computer?

I myself received a Pentium 200 MHz CPU after installing a Pentium 4 2 GHz machine

I didn't mind though as I plopped it into my old Pentium 166 box

**jmani** · January 14th, 2003, 12:24 PM

I got a brand spankin new Teak dining room table that seats 12...including teak side chairs and end chairs...worth about 2500 for moving a few servers and 2 dozen workstations to a new building.

**kato2274** · January 14th, 2003, 12:29 PM

a live chicken.

just kidding.

I got my bathroom redone and built computers for each of the two contractors.

**meatwad** · January 14th, 2003, 12:51 PM

I got 2 and a half pounds of fresh haddock straight off of the boat for fixing a fisherman's computer in half the time I quoted him. It was daaaaaaaaamn good.

Let's put it this way. He said the fish was swimming 12 hours before he gave it to me.

**CJK** · January 14th, 2003, 01:03 PM

Got one of my wisdom teeth pulled, the funny thing was they never called me to do the work. Got paid before I did the work or worked!

**NooNoo** · January 14th, 2003, 01:20 PM

I would have had 14lb of smoked salmon, but it was removed by the customs man...

**Budd** · January 14th, 2003, 02:01 PM

one guy i do work for is a Cyrus O'leary pie salesman, so along with my $35 and hour he throws in 3 or 4 pies. usaully chocolate creme, chocolate peanut butter or a banana creme. really really good pies.

i do a lot of work for my friends father, when ever i'm done he'll give me a 5th of whiskey or scotch or whatever he has handy. i don't know if its wierd, but its my favorite

**swamprat** · January 14th, 2003, 03:18 PM

Traded a new computer for a Trane ac unit, and always get free samples of hot sauce from the company that makes it when I repair their computers.

**Wayward Clam** · January 14th, 2003, 03:52 PM

Never happened to me, but a coworker once got a night of happiness for some work he did...

**Outcoded** · January 14th, 2003, 07:24 PM

Heh, you'll never believe this one....

Did some work for a lawyer a while back, on an invoice basis. I left saying I'd send the bill. A day later my g/f at the time got done for assault, I ripped the bill up, he got her off.

Standard terms are payment on collection, cash, weed, booze or sexual favours (ladies only) accepted.

I few of my mates are mechanics, they have computers, I have cars, we only ever charge each other parts.

Fish - yeah, had that too, big f'off Rainbow Trout, damn that was nice. Fresh is one thing, this was another, he'd caught it while I was working on his puter, put it in a keep net to see if I'd accept it. Kill to grill in 15 minutes

**GokuSS2** · January 14th, 2003, 08:00 PM

I got a brand new Laptop.

**Darkstar** · January 15th, 2003, 04:21 PM

I got a laptop, probably worth about $600 for about 3 hours of work (did the work while getting paid at work already)

**Archangel42069** · January 15th, 2003, 04:58 PM

I replaced this lady's cd-rom drive before I went to Okinawa, and when she offered to pay me I told her not to worry about it (she had watched my very rambunctious kid many times for free). She refused to take no for an answer, so I told her I would write up an invoice and bring it to her. Well, my portcall date came before the invoice did, so I hoped she would just forget about it...but she didn't. After I came back from Okinawa, the first time I saw her she handed me a check for $250...for 15 minutes of labor, and she bought the drive herself.