Getting Knocked...

[mickbrown]

2 hours ago, only1swanny said:

Just found out last night.

My website address has been sold on to another company. I bought it and was told "that's it, you own it", well they then went and sold it on as it transpires i didn't own it outright!

 

Cnuts!

You need to renew them every year

[Duck Egg]

2 hours ago, MickyD said:

My dad owned an electronics company specialising in fuel monitoring equipment. In essence it prevents fuel theft by drivers. One company bought one of the fuelling systems, about £10k had it fitted and then went bankrupt. Same folk then re-opened under a slightly different name. (They added the year to the already established name)

My dad chased them for payment and they told him that the invoice was with the receiver and was not their debt. My old man registered an interest and expected something like 5p in the pound.

A few months later the company phoned my dad up complaining the equipment had stopped working and they’d like a service engineer to visit. Dad pointed out that he hadn’t sold the company anything so there was no warranty. The company tried to prove it was under manufacturers guarantee. 
 

They ended up given the choice of paying up or being unable to fuel their vehicles. 

That's brilliant 😁

[Winchester White]

5 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

You need to renew them every year

Not quite, they last between 1 and 10 years depending on how long you registered them for. Either way, they should out of courtesy told him it was running out.

[MickyD]

4 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Not quite, they last between 1 and 10 years depending on how long you registered them for. Either way, they should out of courtesy told him it was running out.

From Swanny’s Facebook post on the same subject it seems this is a bought but unused domain name. Perhaps the provider tried to search, found it to be unused so sold it again.

Either that or I misunderstood the Facebook post.

[green genie]

2 hours ago, MickyD said:

My dad owned an electronics company specialising in fuel monitoring equipment. In essence it prevents fuel theft by drivers. One company bought one of the fuelling systems, about £10k had it fitted and then went bankrupt. Same folk then re-opened under a slightly different name. (They added the year to the already established name)

My dad chased them for payment and they told him that the invoice was with the receiver and was not their debt. My old man registered an interest and expected something like 5p in the pound.

A few months later the company phoned my dad up complaining the equipment had stopped working and they’d like a service engineer to visit. Dad pointed out that he hadn’t sold the company anything so there was no warranty. The company tried to prove it was under manufacturers guarantee. 
 

They ended up given the choice of paying up or being unable to fuel their vehicles. 

Nice to see. Had similar once. We were in dispute with main contractor on a scheme we did control system for refuelling light diesel trains (Network rail trying to clamp down on red diesel fraud). They wouldn't pay final account until Network Rail said system had gone down and Nottinghams trains were going to have to stop. We agreed to attend after docs signed off and turned out I was there all of 2 minutes before saw the "emergency stop operated lamp". All the mushroom heads at pumps been pressed by staff pissed at losing their free fuel. 

[Duck Egg]

A lass I used to work with was going out with some Salford scrote who couldn't hold down a regular job.  Her dad had a really lucrative business to do with advertising on public transport and took him on to help them out.

A year or so later the lad left and set up a rival business under cutting his father in law left, right and centre. She sided with him and is now estranged from her dad.  She posts lots of pics on Facebook of them on exotic holidays or in their enormous house.  I suppose it's business but family should come first surely 

[MickyD]

10 minutes ago, green genie said:

Nice to see. Had similar once. We were in dispute with main contractor on a scheme we did control system for refuelling light diesel trains (Network rail trying to clamp down on red diesel fraud). They wouldn't pay final account until Network Rail said system had gone down and Nottinghams trains were going to have to stop. We agreed to attend after docs signed off and turned out I was there all of 2 minutes before saw the "emergency stop operated lamp". All the mushroom heads at pumps been pressed by staff pissed at losing their free fuel. 

My dad’s favourite sales pitch involved showing fleet managers the latest figures for numbers of diesel cars against petrol cars. I think at the time it was something in the region of 12-15% diesel. Then they’d go for a walk on the staff car park where diesel cars accounted for 60-70% of cars. Often the fleet manager would make excuses why his company didn’t want any security on the pumps; a sure sign he was involved in the fuel theft too.

[Winchester White]

34 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

A lass I used to work with was going out with some Salford scrote who couldn't hold down a regular job.  Her dad had a really lucrative business to do with advertising on public transport and took him on to help them out.

A year or so later the lad left and set up a rival business under cutting his father in law left, right and centre. She sided with him and is now estranged from her dad.  She posts lots of pics on Facebook of them on exotic holidays or in their enormous house.  I suppose it's business but family should come first surely 

If my lads did that to me I would be devastated. If I had a daughter and her fella did it with her blessing it would probably be even worse. Dark web and contract kill would defo enter my swede for the bastard.

 

[mickbrown]

54 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Not quite, they last between 1 and 10 years depending on how long you registered them for. Either way, they should out of courtesy told him it was running out.

Ah.. I must have been a cheapskate and give for the 12 month option everytime

[Dimron]

7 hours ago, gonzo said:

 Break the cunts legs, still doesnt get your money back

That is a very good point'

I've been involved in a few business schemes and come off badly but when I've run into the bastards in town I've felt nothing but apathy. At the end of the day I am bigger than this and karma will get them

[gonzo]

3 hours ago, crawshawbooth said:

Had very little work in since March ,but will be sending out invoices on Tuesday to  a set of twats that still havent paid me for work done in January and February

A housing company I contract for hasnt paid me a penny since march. 

They were nice enough to let me know the contract has been renewed for 2 years mind. Theyre getting a good deal

Think the most mugged off Ive felt was when some fella made a braclet thing on my wrist in Jamaica. I was young,pissed and fell right into the trap of having to buy the fucking thing. 

Edited November 27, 2020 by gonzo

[Rudy]

1 minute ago, gonzo said:

A housing company I contract for hasnt paid me a penny since march. 

They were nice enough to let me know the contract has been renewed for 2 years mind. Theyre getting a good deal

Think the most mugged off Ive felt was when some fella made a braclet thing on my wrist in Jamaica. I was young,pissed and fell right into the trap of having to buy the fucking thing. 

Could have been worse mate, went to Jamaica a few years ago and a fella in the hotel OD’d, him and missus fancied a night on the Charlie ended up snorting a line of Horse. 
Heroin is cheaper than coke for Dealers so they sell heroin and tell them it’s Cecil 

[crawshawbooth]

What gets to me is they all get a salary from the NHS

Then they get paid per item

then they get paid off the patient

patient is walking around 24/7 with my work in their gobs oblivious that the bloke who made it still hasnt been paid#

9 fucking months later

[tomski]

A mate of mine who posts on here was steaming in walkabout Manchester, I gave him £20 to get drinks at the bar and he never reappeared. 30 minutes later rang me to tell me his pizza was fucking ace haha

[Dimron]

6 minutes ago, gonzo said:

A housing company I contract for hasnt paid me a penny since march. 

They were nice enough to let me know the contract has been renewed for 2 years mind. Theyre getting a good deal

 

Not getting this pal

You have "contracted" to them? Any contract has terms of consideration, that is payment. If they are not paying then they are breaching the contract. If you are carrying out building type work then you can request an adjudication under the Construction Act which should cost very little as you don't need a lawyer.

Just get in there, be hard faced and don't be shy is my advice regarding payment, I am now working into my 60s owing to cunts ripping me off when I didn't think it mattered

[gonzo]

7 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Not getting this pal

You have "contracted" to them? Any contract has terms of consideration, that is payment. If they are not paying then they are breaching the contract. If you are carrying out building type work then you can request an adjudication under the Construction Act which should cost very little as you don't need a lawyer.

Just get in there, be hard faced and don't be shy is my advice regarding payment, I am now working into my 60s owing to cunts ripping me off when I didn't think it mattered

Im a window cleaner mate,

Ive a contract for 50+ schemes across the north west. 

To invoice I need purchase order for each scheme. They all go together for one big invoice then that has to be signed off by about 3 million people before its released. 

Its a fucking nightmare just raising the PO nevermind actually waiting for the balance to be settled. 90 days payment on top of that obviously.

Ace when it comes in like, but its more often than not been spent before it arrives

 

[MancWanderer]

Never been done myself but my Dad was done twice on a big scale

First was Louis Edwards. Did him big time on a deal. His company fitted tannoy systems in sports grounds. Wish he was here now to ask but I suspect that he got the contract to replace the tannoy at Old Trafford, but can’t be certain, and then got done losing a shit load of money. For the most mild mannered man you could ever meet his bile and vitriol towards Man U was spectacular and beats anything that you could ever read on here 

Second time he set up a van hire company in Salford in the 70s. Backed by merchant bankers. Depots all over the North West. Massively successful. Fucking merchant bankers. Bent fucking cunts. Went bust and took his company with them. Bright orange vans. Stood out from the crowd. Anyone old enough might remember Salford Van Hire used to be blue. Overnight they changed their colour to bright orange as they picked the fucking corpse of my Dads company and bought all his vans and trucks for fuck all

Bitter? Me?

 

[Dimron]

40 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Im a window cleaner mate,

Ive a contract for 50+ schemes across the north west. 

To invoice I need purchase order for each scheme. They all go together for one big invoice then that has to be signed off by about 3 million people before its released. 

Its a fucking nightmare just raising the PO nevermind actually waiting for the balance to be settled. 90 days payment on top of that obviously.

Ace when it comes in like, but its more often than not been spent before it arrives

 

I feel for you, I was all set up, I did shit loads of work on football grounds including the Reebok and then things started going wibble because I took my eye off the financial ball.

These days I really can't be bothered with all the cunts and now work for a previous competitor on a PAYE basis but he is getting fed up with me although I run a tight ship.

As I've said previously never ever be afraid to ask for your money... you have earned it and you have mouths to feed.

[Traf]

56 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

Never been done myself but my Dad was done twice on a big scale

First was Louis Edwards. Did him big time on a deal. His company fitted tannoy systems in sports grounds. Wish he was here now to ask but I suspect that he got the contract to replace the tannoy at Old Trafford, but can’t be certain, and then got done losing a shit load of money. For the most mild mannered man you could ever meet his bile and vitriol towards Man U was spectacular and beats anything that you could ever read on here 

Second time he set up a van hire company in Salford in the 70s. Backed by merchant bankers. Depots all over the North West. Massively successful. Fucking merchant bankers. Bent fucking cunts. Went bust and took his company with them. Bright orange vans. Stood out from the crowd. Anyone old enough might remember Salford Van Hire used to be blue. Overnight they changed their colour to bright orange as they picked the fucking corpse of my Dads company and bought all his vans and trucks for fuck all

Bitter? Me?

 

@DazBob says Tannoy is a brand name and surely you mean PA system 😉

Edited November 27, 2020 by Traf

[MancWanderer]

8 minutes ago, Traf said:

@DazBob says Tannoy is a brand name and surely you mean PA system 😉

Every day is a school day

[MickyD]

I reckon like Hoover became almost accepted as a catch-all for all vacuum cleaners and Portacabin for portable accommodation systems so Tannoy is a fairly widely used term for PA systems.

[Rudy]

Or Frankenstein, which is the Doctor which created him not the monster 

[Traf]

20 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I reckon like Hoover became almost accepted as a catch-all for all vacuum cleaners and Portacabin for portable accommodation systems so Tannoy is a fairly widely used term for PA systems.

It's Partridge, mate.

[bolton va va]

48 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I reckon like Hoover became almost accepted as a catch-all for all vacuum cleaners and Portacabin for portable accommodation systems so Tannoy is a fairly widely used term for PA systems.

Generic trademarks.   Biro for pens is another.

[MickyD]

28 minutes ago, Traf said:

It's Partridge, mate.

I’m sure that’s very witty but I’m not sure I get it.