Well....I own a freight brokerage with a few asset based options.
About 3 years ago there was a customer that owed us about $25,000. Which is a decent chunk. We had been trying to get them to pay it for some time. But they had been refusing and demanding that we agree to take 30 cents on the dollar or they were just going to declare bankruptcy. But they were not on the brink of insolvency. They were just fucking at it. We did not agree, and we deactivated their on line platform so they could not ship any more until we were paid. But they got cute and decided to create a manual BOL listing us as the bill to party on one last shipment. This meant we would still get the freight bill from the carrier even though we had effectively cut them off. Fucking Choads.
Unfortunately for them though, they sent the freight to their customers old address. And since they put us as the bill to party, the carrier contacted us when they could not deliver. We instructed the carrier to deliver to our warehouse. Then we waited. We knew it would not be long, because this was a good $80,000 worth of vibration analysis equipment sitting in our bay. And it was destined for by far their largest customer.
About 2 days later when their customer was screaming for the freight, they called the carrier and asked where it was. The carrier informed them it was directed to our warehouse after the delivery address was invalid. They screamed at the carrier and demanded to know why they weren't called. But the PAYING PARTY must authorize all changes.
Now this company....that tried to dick us over for even more money by squeaking this shipment through, has to call us up to get us to release this product. At first they try to get it done without even mentioning the fact that the owe us 25K and tried to dick us even further. But the office is ready for the call and they forward it to me. I calmly explain we will be more than happy to release the freight once their balance, which now included storage fees, is cleared in full - via wire.
They scream, they yell, they promise to give me some now then pay the rest later. No dice. They threaten to get their lawyers involved...go right ahead....Nothing illegal is going on here. They threaten to call the police and fly down to our fucking warehouse themselves....No problem..... Let me know when they are coming and I'll have the police here when they arrive. They are apoplectic and just screaming. I hang up. The owner calls me up 10 minutes later and asks to pay by credit card. But I insist on a wire given the balance and their behavior up to this point. More yelling and screaming. I hang up again.
About an hour and a half later I get the wire for everything.
I don't know if revenge is the right word for it. But that was very, VERY satisfying.