Sofa Removal From Shop ?

[wendilla]

Yesterday I just saw the end of a clip on tv of a woman hiring her own van to remove a sofa she wanted from shop .Can someone tell me what this was all about . All I heard was would she get the deposit she had paid returned .?

[ummmm]

If it's the same as the article I read yeaterday the sofa had been ordered and not delivered. In the end they went to the shop and took the display model.

[Ken4155]

I saw this on the news and i understood her to say she had paid the full amount for the item. That is why she got some guys together to remove it from the shop before the receivers were called in. The police stopped their vehicle but, after she showed them her receipt, chose not to intervene as it was a civil matter. Good luck to the lass.

[wendilla]

Thanks for your reply .i wondered if it was that .i ordered a power recliner recently and was given an 11 week waiting delivery but it was delivered in 6 weeks . £70 delivery charge . Hope they get it back .

[Togo]

It was House of Fraser, I believe, who had gone into liquidation after she paid £185 for a sofa, and refused a refund or the sofa. The woman turned up with a van and a few" helpers and carted away the one in store. The store rang plod and reported a theft. The police decided not to intervene when she produced a receipt for the sofa. Good for her.

[Ken4155]

Apparently the manager of the shop ran after them shouting that "This is theft". To which the woman replied, "No, theft is taking my money and not producing the goods." Much prefer her definition :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

If the order was made prior to the takeover then I can't see why it's not theft. All the goods belong to the new owner and there is also an Administrator involved.

[DarceyK123]

Good on her, I say!

[jno]

it means less money for other creditors, I suppose, some of whom may be in exactly the same position as this one

[maggiebee]

Well done that woman - took guts to do what she did.

[wendilla]

Thanks all for replies . Good on that woman shows that many more people should stand up for there rights .

[gingejbee]

CORBYLOON....perhaps your opinion would be different (and your actions the same) if it had happened to you?

[THECORBYLOON]

What rights does she have?

[THECORBYLOON]

If a company had gone into bankruptcy would you think it okay for folk to turn up at their premises and take goods?

What about those that were not fast enough to get there before everything went?

[gingejbee]

I suppose that when it happens to you, what's "fair" and "OK" takes on a different slant....you do what you feel is right so that YOU are not disadvantaged. The legalities don't come into it,at the time.

[maggiebee]

Corbyloon //If a company had gone into bankruptcy would you think it okay for folk to turn up at their premises and take goods?//

No, not at all but this woman was taking goods she had paid for, it was not a free for all IMO.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's okay for one person then but what about ten or twenty? At what point does it become unacceptable?

[maggiebee]

If they had all bought and paid for goods then yes. Is there not a "contract" at stake?

[bainbrig]

There are two sorts of justice. There is Written Down Justice, much favoured by judges and lawyers. And sometimes there is Peoples' Justice, much favoured by.... people.

[THECORBYLOON]

Which is better, some folk getting everything they are owed with others getting nothing or everyone getting a set percentage?

[mushroom25]

some years ago, an acquaintance bought a specialist vehicle from a convertor in Scotland, and it was to be handed over to him at a trade show at the NEC in Birmingham, where the vehicle was to be the centrepiece of the convertor's trade stand. on arriving at the show, my acquaintance couldn't find the stand, just a large space where it should have been. one phone call later, he learned the company had folded. so he shot over to the airport, caught the next flight to Edinburgh and taxi-ed to the convertor's works, bribed the security guard to let him in and made off with his vehicle before anyone knew what was happening....