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 .?

[Ken4155]

Thecorbyloon; You know full well that when a company goes into liquidation, the people who are owed the most get paid out first. Often there is nothing left for people like this woman who have, in good faith, paid for an item which they expected to be delivered. I would like to believe i would have done exactly the same thing in her position.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Unsecured creditors rank below secured creditors when it comes to receiving payment following the liquidation of a company. Unsecured creditors do not have the benefit of having a claim over a particular asset, and can include suppliers, contractors, landlords and customers. Perhaps surprisingly HMRC is also an unsecured creditor. As they do not have a hold over any particular asset it is much harder for unsecured creditors to recover the cash they are owed. Instead they have to hold tight and hope there is enough money left to go aroundafter the secured creditors have been paid. Unfortunately the reality is that unsecured creditors typically receive very little, if anything, following the liquidation of a company."

If HMRC has no more rights than a customer, do you still think it right for someone to take items from a liquidated company?

[Ken4155]

^
Surely, if you had bought something from a shop and was waiting a delivery, would you not get to it before said shop closed for business? Would you be quite happy to receive just a percentage of what you had paid? Really?

[bainbrig]

To repeat: there is The Letter of The Law, and there is justice.

Not always the same thing.

[gingejbee]

CORBYLOON is on his high horse....let's leave him there....

[bainbrig]

True. But The Law is on His Side. And as Mr Bumble said, “The law is a ass.”

[Jackdaw33]

Well done her. Although the shop had gone into administration it must still have been open for business otherwise she would have had no access.

[DarceyK123]

Yes Jackdaw, get they were still taking people's money.

[DarceyK123]

Bet^^

[Old_Geezer]

When I was a youth, I had a jacket refused me when I had sent it back for being a bit tight and the firm went into liquidation. I'd paid fully too. Wish I'd put up with it being tight. So it's an unpleasant situation but receipt or not, it wasn't hers until delivery; whether folk think it right or not. She was a crefitor along eith all others owed something. And it wil have been theft as the goods in the shop were being sold to pay existing creditors. I'd doubt she'll get away with it if the receivers take her to court.

[Ken4155]

Cops said no criminal offence had been committed, though, OG. That would, i assume, include theft.

[Buenchico]

If something you own (or otherwise have an interest in) is stored on someone else's premises, you sometimes need to take drastic action to get hold of it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-45367080

[Old_Geezer]

I'd be more inclined to assume that the average cop on the street has but a working understanding of the law. It's a large complex subject.