How do I make money off of this AJAX chat script I made when the client defaulted on the payment?

Question by l4nc3rr: How do I make money off of this AJAX chat script I made when the client defaulted on the payment?
Hey, I recently created an AJAX chat for a client of mine. We didn’t have any contract, and he ended wracking up $ 3000 worth in my coding that he didn’t pay me (he won’t sign on, reply to my emails, and he changed the password to the cPanel/FTP). The all-AJAX-chat includes profiles with AJAX updating, AJAX picture uploader/viewer, font options, AJAX changeable skins, an AJAX language changer/translater, emoticons, an admin CP that allowed the admin to edit/delete users and skins, AJAX login/registration with email confirmation, creating rooms with passwords, a chat filter, the ability to kick/ban users (for the admin), tools to edit the ads, filtered words, and kicks and bans, and a bunch of other things I know I’m forgetting.

How can I make money off of my hard work? Can I publish the site myself? Can I re-sell it to someone? Multiple people? Can I do all of these? Is there any way I can get him to pay? He did pay for about of the fifth of the total cost of the website previously, so would it be legal to do any of these things?

Help!
Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by ?
Take this as a ‘lesson learned’. When you do work for the next client, be professional about it. Quote him, have him accept the quote, then get paid 1/3-1/3-1/3. Do all the work on YOUR OWN web site, and then after he pays the first 2/3, make it operational on his and collect the last 1/3.

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