Joyce,  Please tell your uncle Ken that, a person (business) that

"tends to not want to accept our fees as they are and always wants to try to talk them down"

and is  "slow pay" fully meets the terms of what Eric used to describe him earlier and

should get out of the business.  The fact that he may be a "very nice guy" just proves that

if he spreads enough B.S. he can make it in this business because enough people will

do his work, instead of working for a company that doesn't  "try to talk them down" and

be late on payments.  Those are the types in the business that make it so that we have

to be extra careful before taking on a new company.