From your first post, I appeared that the orders came at different times and not all at one time.

Many on here post, "will not do any more work, until acct. payment is brought current". That way

one never "gets stuck" for more than one or two orders w/o payment being made.  I think these

types of firms have the ability to figure out who is really "hard ash" and will not play along on future orders w/o payment being advanced.