Dear Jac – Page 62

  • Dear Jac

    Could be time to limit your liability

    2012-01-18T00:00:00Z

    I would suggest that most small businesses ‘targeted’ by companies offering what turn out to be swindles (legal, but swindles nonetheless) are sole traders.

  • Dear Jac

    A penny for your thoughts

    2012-01-18T00:00:00Z

    I do get some head-scratching queries at times. Pradhyman Patel wrote to ask whether he should embark on a new enterprise involving his first shop…

  • Dear Jac

    Get your diary out and be prepared

    2012-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Now we’re well and truly in January it’s easier to think ahead.

  • Dear Jac

    No security in insurance cover

    2012-01-18T00:00:00Z

    How closely have you looked at your insurance policy?

  • Dear Jac

    Build up your energy

    2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Despite what anyone in government ever says, there will be more rules and regs to comply with come April.

  • Dear Jac

    We start as we mean to go on

    2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Have you had your email from Mrs Gaddafi yet?

  • Dear Jac

    Do the same rules apply for all?

    2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

    I’d have to squeeze my already hard-pushed brain to work out where the same rules apply in any situation.

  • Dear Jac

    FYI: How to rate your appeal

    2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

    This bit is designed to add to your overall general retail knowledge, just in case.

  • Dear Jac

    Two pieces of good news

    2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Good news piece number one: Angie Patel, who runs a sub post office in Perivale, Middlesex, has ‘won’ her Lanwall/photocopy/finance case, in that it was thrown out.

  • Dear Jac

    Hammering the point home

    2011-12-20T10:15:00Z

    I could write about PayPoint and Ukash vouchers every issue - in fact, I think I might until everyone gets the message.

  • Dear Jac

    Finding the energy to fight

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Thirteen-and-a-half grand may be just a blip on the balance sheet for energy firm EDF, but it was one helluva back bill for Jas Dhesi when he switched to EON.

  • Dear Jac

    When duty calls...

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Had a look at your old booze stock lately? If you haven’t then I’ve got a timely reminder from Rav Garcha.

  • Dear Jac

    How to do the quickstep

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The Press Distribution Forum has published a three-step guide to making a complaint.

  • Dear Jac

    Jingle tills, jingle tills

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    This is the last regular issue for 2011 - the one where we all look backwards and forwards, expressing our hopes and fears for all the years.

  • Dear Jac

    An appealing case

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    As you’ve no doubt been reading lately, business rates appear to take only one direction: up.

  • Dear Jac

    Between a rock and a hard place

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Ashok Pandya and PayPoint are at loggerheads. Many of you will be familiar with this scenario.

  • Dear Jac

    Vorsprung durch technik

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Not that I’ve been saving them up, but I have a raft of complaints about news wholesalers and if you are wondering about the headline, read on.

  • Dear Jac

    And another thing...

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Many newsagents complain about lack of choice in the market but, as I see it at the moment, if there were to be a choice it would be Hobson’s choice

  • Dear Jac

    Cover your back

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Ukash launched an internet safety campaign in the week that I write this column (Nov 7-11), but it was too late for Robert Cole in Grantham

  • Dear Jac

    I feel a lecture coming on...

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    When did you last read the fine print? Of course, no one ever bothers to read the terms and conditions on their airline ticket until they are stranded at an airport.