The nightlife industry is covered with lead promoters that dont pay co leads and subpromoters. But yet it is also covered with people who do make payouts, timely, as promised, accurately. Ironically, even in large markets, today it's a horrible mistake to cheat teams, for two big reasons. 1) In many markets, teams are merging more than ever before. The result is simple - everyone knows each other moreso now then ever before. If someone has a history of not paying, more teams find out faster now then ever before. You use to see nightly events that could be handled by one or two teams because their database is big enough, like an ******. Now you see single events handled by a slur of teams all together. Everyone finds out everyone else's track record on paying or not paying within 7 days. 2) In many markets, the life span of a team is generally 2-3 years. If you cheat the marketplace's teams, go luck finding new teams to cheat in the next 36 months. You basically run out of people to cheat. Finally, while most people dont realize this, one of the most important things to remember is that clubgoers, non industry people, will not patronize an event or venue if they know of someone or better yet even witnessed someone cheating first hand. Even a year or more later, people that cheat us or our friends still contact us for referrals, adding us on myspace, acting like our friends, sending cutesy emails. Yet, the number of people they will get from us and our friends will for lifetime remain the same - zero. End of story.