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I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information
via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us |
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Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea :
I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us The more you dig, the more suspicious it seems, despite the apparent quality of the web site design. |
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On 06/02/2019 12:10, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us Plenty of small businesses work from home. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 :
Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. |
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On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:08:31 UTC, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. I keep getting error 503 service unavailable. It's perfectly possible that someone is working from home + garage or lock-up. NT |
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Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea : http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us The more you dig, the more suspicious it seems, despite the apparent quality of the web site design. Their "umbrella" organisation williamsharp.net does appear to have lost its website, they've been trading for 10 years according to companies house, rumbling along with few assets and some debt. They might be plumbers themselves, working from home, who treat selling on a few products from suppliers they deal with anyway as more strings to their bow, possible drop-shipped so they never see the products or keep any stock ... not necessarily dodgy. |
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On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. I haven't spotted where it claims to be a big business. The site says it's a brand of William Sharp Ltd. That company exists but is micro: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/c...filing-history Possibly just a website which orders the goods from suppliers as and when customers order from them (him?). -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid |
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It might be what's called a registered address, often this is the company's solicitor but not unknown for a private address to be registered and not unusual for several companies to share the same address. I have never known the reason for having a registered address but perhaps someone might enlighten us.
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On 06/02/2019 12:17, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea : I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us The more you dig, the more suspicious it seems, despite the apparent quality of the web site design. From the T&Cs: "The Plumb Depot and Parts Depot websites are trade only websites: by registering you confirm that you consider yourself to be a business or acting on behalf of a business and therefore you will not be covered by any contract law that relates to retailers and their customers. Distance Selling Regulations will not apply. Under law, wholesalers and resellers are expected to negotiate their own terms and conditions. The following Terms and Conditions set out the trading arrangements with William Sharp Ltd." Is that allowed? Does one get consumer rights because one is a consumer or because one claims to be? |
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 13:40:12 +0000, Andrew May
wrote: On 06/02/2019 12:17, Harry Bloomfield wrote: Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea : I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us The more you dig, the more suspicious it seems, despite the apparent quality of the web site design. From the T&Cs: "The Plumb Depot and Parts Depot websites are trade only websites: by registering you confirm that you consider yourself to be a business or acting on behalf of a business and therefore you will not be covered by any contract law that relates to retailers and their customers. Distance Selling Regulations will not apply. Under law, wholesalers and resellers are expected to negotiate their own terms and conditions. The following Terms and Conditions set out the trading arrangements with William Sharp Ltd." Is that allowed? Does one get consumer rights because one is a consumer or because one claims to be? It is legal for a company to trade on Business to Business terms as long as they make that perfectly clear. If someone who is not a business specifically says they are a business in order to deal with such a company they can't really expect to be able to claim later that they were really a private individual. Trading on B2B terms is far from unusual. However, it can't be used to deceive, so someone patently trading Business to Consumer (B2C) can't later claim it was really B2B. |
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On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. I've known a one man business in a cowshed that took card payments -- Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat. |
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On 06/02/2019 13:34, Tricky Dicky wrote:
It might be what's called a registered address, often this is the company's solicitor but not unknown for a private address to be registered and not unusual for several companies to share the same address. I have never known the reason for having a registered address but perhaps someone might enlighten us. Mine is my accountant. Its where official documents relating to the legal status of the company go. He has about 50 companies using it as their registered address. Mostly tax and companies house ****. Richard -- How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. Adolf Hitler |
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On 06/02/2019 13:34, Tricky Dicky wrote:
It might be what's called a registered address, often this is the company's solicitor but not unknown for a private address to be registered and not unusual for several companies to share the same address. I have never known the reason for having a registered address but perhaps someone might enlighten us. Richard It is a statutory requirement for any limited company to have a registered address. Many use that of their accountant or solicitor. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. They say they have a lot of web sites, but I don't see any specific claims to being a large business. I work from home, on my own, and take card payments. The card machine is a few feet from where I am sitting now. If you check the company number at Companies House, it shows it to be William Sharp Ltd, which is mentioned on the site, and they have been trading since 2010. Doing an internet search on the post code throws up a couple of other businesses operating from one of the neighbouring properties at 2 Thistle Road. I wouldn't consider there to be anything inherently suspicious about the company, but if you are worried, don't buy from them. Use somebody with an e-commerce site with payments going through somebody like Sage Pay or one of the really big name companies. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote: Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. They say they have a lot of web sites, but I don't see any specific claims to being a large business. I work from home, on my own, and take card payments. The card machine is a few feet from where I am sitting now. OOI how much does your card machine work out at? Is it a % off the top of each sale or a monthly fee & smaller % arrangement? Or something else? TIA -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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Somebody who bought up a load of bankrupt stuff at an auction and his wife
wants her garage back? Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message ... I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us |
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Well they want to get an edge over 5G.
Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message ... I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us |
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On 06/02/2019 17:18, Jim K.. wrote:
Nightjar Wrote in message: On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote: Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. They say they have a lot of web sites, but I don't see any specific claims to being a large business. I work from home, on my own, and take card payments. The card machine is a few feet from where I am sitting now. OOI how much does your card machine work out at? Is it a % off the top of each sale or a monthly fee & smaller % arrangement? Or something else? A percentage of every credit card transaction and a flat fee per debit card transaction. I don't recall the exact amounts though. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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"Andrew May" wrote in message ... On 06/02/2019 12:17, Harry Bloomfield wrote: Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea : I spotted an item I thought to maybe buy, so requested more information via there web form. No reply so I emailed the via their sales email address, still no reply, so I looked a little deeper. Both of their listed addresses are the addresses of homes on ordinary streets, rather than any commercial address. http://www.plumbdepot.co.uk/contact-us The more you dig, the more suspicious it seems, despite the apparent quality of the web site design. From the T&Cs: "The Plumb Depot and Parts Depot websites are trade only websites: by registering you confirm that you consider yourself to be a business or acting on behalf of a business and therefore you will not be covered by any contract law that relates to retailers and their customers. Distance Selling Regulations will not apply. Under law, wholesalers and resellers are expected to negotiate their own terms and conditions. The following Terms and Conditions set out the trading arrangements with William Sharp Ltd." Is that allowed? Yes, the law does make that distinction. Does one get consumer rights because one is a consumer Yes. But they don't deal with consumers, they are trade only. or because one claims to be? |
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On 06/02/2019 19:10, Nightjar wrote:
On 06/02/2019 17:18, Jim K.. wrote: Nightjar Wrote in message: On 06/02/2019 13:08, Harry Bloomfield wrote: Nightjar wrote on 06/02/2019 : Plenty of small businesses work from home. Yes, but this one is claiming to be a rather big business and suggesting it takes card payments. Check the about page as to how big they suggest they are... None of it is backed up by facts, or is traceable to actual companies that I could find. They say they have a lot of web sites, but I don't see any specific claims to being a large business. I work from home, on my own, and take card payments. The card machine is a few feet from where I am sitting now. OOI how much does your card machine work out at? Is it a % off the top of each sale or a monthly fee & smaller % Â* arrangement? Or something else? A percentage of every credit card transaction and a flat fee per debit card transaction. I don't recall the exact amounts though. ISTR that there is also a minimum monthly charge, if the transaction fees don't reach that much (which doesn't affect me) and a small monthly fee for a security audit. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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On 07/02/2019 14:46, Jim K.. wrote:
Interesting thanks. Looking at izettle as part of a project - flat 1.75% per transaction, no contract. Card readers need buying though, Their introductory"reader 2" does contactless and is only 19+vat on offer... Looks like a fair price. At least you know exactly what you're going to pay for each transaction regardless of whether its credit/debit/commercial/premium etc "payment roulette" we play. :) |
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On 06/02/2019 13:34, Tricky Dicky wrote:
It might be what's called a registered address, often this is the company's solicitor but not unknown for a private address to be registered and not unusual for several companies to share the same address. I have never known the reason for having a registered address but perhaps someone might enlighten us. It is where official documents are sent or, more formally where legal notices are served. Richard -- djc (–€Ì¿Ä¹Ì¯–€Ì¿ Ì¿) No low-hanging fruit, just a lot of small berries up a tall tree. |
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