My old winter job is asking me to pay back commission for a sale that the customer returned; employment contract doesn't specify that I'm responsible for returns, and they're asking for full reimbursement (meaning that they're not even paying me for the presentation/appt.). What should I do?

You've might've heard of Vector Marketing before. Say what you say about them but I made OK money that winter break. They've sent me two letters asking for around $30 back from a 15% commission sale I made a while back. The contract—I'm considered an independent contractor; I'm back in school but I didn't break the contract when I left—doesn't have a section on what to do in case of customers' returns, so that's 1 thing. But the big gripe is that they're supposed to pay me $17 per appointment regardless of a sale or not, and I'm not happy about having to pay them back for work that I did and should collect on. I don't have a problem paying back the $13 in outstanding commission. Should I just write a check at that amount and include like a note?

Submitted April 16, 2017 at 02:36PM by BetweenThePosts http://ift.tt/2pqQYOG