In June of this year our ad agency contacted Ingo Ramin of 24-7 Media ( www.24-7media.de ) in Germany to produce 11 website banners for a Fortune 500 corporation client of ours.
We finalized the details in August, with the understanding that the client was by now anxious to get their banners.
He was very communicative-we sent several emails back and forth outlining the project, talked about the budget, and had a phone conversation to get started. We transferred $4,000 U.S. to his bank account in Germany.