The nasty side of the tile industry... Being owed money. (Not restricted to our indu)

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: The nasty side of the tile industry... Being owed money. (Not restricted to our i

Well maybe if the bailiffs sieze goods then they will remove things like tiling tools and tile cutters plus other equipment.

I could then have an auction on here until the debt which is now £700+ is recovered !!

 

[White Room]

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I know that if you go bankrupt they can't touch your working tools, don't know if it's the same for bailiffs

 

[Pebbs]

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Richard,
You have to do what you have to do, its the principle of being owed money and then being given the run-around with lame excuses. They had the goods, and you are not running a charity, end of story.

Lynn

 

[mikethetile]

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bailiffs cant take your bed or your means to make a living, they also have to leave white goods

everything else they can take

if its a business premises they can take anything to the value of the debt

 

[Ant]

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Bang on Richard,

If you let these thieves get away with it, then you might as well give them a license to do it again and again.

Ant

 

[Ken Bruty]

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All I can say is, I feel for you Richard. Good luck.

 

[user123]

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Ugly business, all of it.... shudder.... so what happens then? The bailiffs take goods and then what? Do they sell them (where?) and you get your money after they have taken their cut? Luckily I have never experienced anything like that, I don't believe in debt, basically, but that would really scare me... how does that debt increase so quickly? Totally green with stuff like that... would have been nice to get sorted without the aggro, eh?

 

[Deleted member 1779]

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The bailiffs take goods and then what?

From my perspective we produced goods for them at our cost, posted them (at our cost!) they had our goods free of charge for 30 days to sell on to tilers. They sold all of them and made a profit but decided to double their income by not paying for the actual items!!

The only people I blame for this situation is the Tile Training Centre who chose this path. At all stages they could have paid the bill from 18 months ago. They chose not to pay so were sent a warning letter after a year and a half of emails and calls. They chose not to pay so interest was added. They chose not to pay so a court action was filed. They chose not to turn up and defend themselves (they could have challenged the invoice) by not turning up to court the judgement was awarded to us and costs to them were added. And now the bailiff will attempt to collect the debt on our behalf.

If it is a Limited company (it is) bailiffs can only remove goods belonging to the company and not the individuals.

NOW FOR PART THAT HURTS:
While we all sit back and watch the costs of that debt spiral up in costs remember this cold hard fact.

If 365drills are just one of many companies executing judgement against them - and they file for bankruptcy... Read this bit below... And then read it again...

If they file for bankrupcy then the costs you are watching spiral upwards and then enforced against.... ME !

Yes you read that right. The solicitors will turn on me and will want their money, so will the courts, so will the baliffs. So I repeat as we all sit here watching that bill grow larger then if bankrupcy is filed all those charges (plus the loss of the debt) will be coming out of my pocket.

Who said business was easy or fair....

would have been nice to get sorted without the aggro, eh?

More than you can know !

 

[user123]

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Gawd, all sounds horrible... and I can see you're as mad as a hatter. I was just really wondering what the bailiffs can do with their second hand goods... I mean people don' t beat the path to the door to buy repossessed stuff, do they? How do they and most importantly you get their money back from whatever can be taken from a tile training centre?? What is there, pc, tile cutters and a few well used tools, heaters, furniture all covered in dust , tiles? Weird.... I really really wish you luck and really hope it's not NETT, I liked it there...

 

[Deleted member 1779]

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Well I have some good news to report this Saturday....

Just before I left for a trade show I was telephoned by the Tile Training Company offering to settled the debt. I told them they had to contact the solicitors as it is not for me to deal with it now.

But I did tell them to pay the full bill direct to my account.

I get home from a two day show to find all the money in my bank account and a letter from the solicitors telling me that if I instruct them in writing to settle the case then that is the end of the matter..

Hooray!!

So now all I have to do is pay their invoice out of the money in the account. And I get to keep most of the original debt.

Result !

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

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Good result Richard, nice to see a happy ending

 

[Deleted member 1779]

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One question I do still have is "What next..." Obviously we would like to continue to have our product in front of new tilers and training centres are ideal outlets.

Once the dust has settled should I offer the olive branch and say that provided they pay in advance for stock that we would want to work with them?

Or do we just bomb it out and stay well clear?

 

[mikethetile]

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G

reposessed goods go to auction, its big business, I used to buy and sell on

 

[mikethetile]

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Richard

I would still sell to them but not give credit

so they will have to buy stock to sell on to their students

 

[CJ]

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Wot part of the country is this training center