Persuading customers to pay in advance for a product scheduled to arrive in spring 2014 is an impressive feat.
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People were interested in their product, and were willing to pay in advance.
Prices for customers who make few calls and pay in advance are reasonable.
When the deal has been completed, Mr Brent aims to pay staff their October pay in advance and within 24 hours.
Retailers do not pay in advance, and in the wake of the economic crisis, banks have been unwilling to lend to start-ups.
But what about those homeowners who had opted to pay in advance?
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Brazil, for its part, has made some concessions: it has scrapped subsidised credits for exports to Mercosur, and a rule that in practice required many Brazilian importers to pay in advance for Mercosur products.
Budget experts suggest doing a breakdown of where you spend every dime, but the simplest budget method by far is to remove a significant percentage of your pay in advance (double digits, at least) and deposit it into an account you cannot easily access.
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One of these is the way in which auction houses use third-party guarantees, where an outside individual or company agrees in advance to pay a set amount for a work sold at auction, in return for a cut of proceeds if the consignment sells for more than that.
It is not likely that they will be for each quarter next year, because most subscribers pay for a year in advance to get one month free and avoid having to write a small check each month.
Finally, Compensation Committees will ask their consultants to analyze their relationship between pay and performance well in advance of their proxy going to print in order to address key issues and ensure that shareholders appreciate their pay for performance story.
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Participants could pay to see the predictions in advance, but they saw them free after the coin toss had occurred.
Guests pay an agreed donation - often in advance to cover "no shows" - providing the artists with a guaranteed income, often more generous than their share from a larger commercial event.
What makes it tougher is that unlike newsletters, which collect subscription money in advance and then pay the printer's bills over the course of a year, Vulcan pays for printing upfront and then collects from advertisers and distributors.
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If moviegoers buy a ticket on-line a few weeks in advance, they will pay the lowest price.
In the negotiations over reopening the border, the Pakistanis have asked the U.S. to pay customary cross-border transit fees in advance.
If you plan on going, book a hotel in Kalibo at least a month in advance and expect to pay two to five times the usual rates.
Mr. MCGREGOR: We aren't accepting orders unless they either pay for half upfront, or cash in advance, or cash with order, which is something that we typically have not had to do very much at all.
Rather than just building houses and then trying to find people to buy them, developers increasingly find people to buy houses in advance, getting the householders to pay for construction.
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Mr McPartland likens this to buying a book on Amazon instead of eBay: you often pay more at Amazon, but at least you know the price in advance.
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For that reason and to help pay for the purchase and installation of the upgrade some builders require upgrade deposits in advance.
Why aren't they as sensitive to their customers' time, especially that of business travelers, who pay a disproportionately high share of airfares because they can't make unbreakable reservations a month or two in advance the way vacationers can?
Customers can opt to be on the pay as you go program (which the Tax Day promotion will apply to) where they buy email credits in advance, much like postage stamps (one credit is used per email address on their list), or on the monthly subscription program.
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