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All Disputes articles – Page 21
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: What to do when a tricky landlord holds out on the lease
Howard Coffey, asks how do you get the council to sell you the freehold after it says it won't dispose of commercial leases but is busily transferring them to other companies?
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Dear Jac
High (cost of) finance
There's no such thing as a free lunch, or free banking, apparently. A year ago Karim Mawji, who runs Young's Newsagents in Pinner in Middlesex, recommended Nationwide Building Society's Business Investor account which, although restrictive, did...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Subpostmasters are ‘working in a climate of fear’
Like many of you who are subpostmasters, I also believe the Horizon system is faulty owing to the sheer weight of evidence.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Is this leasing or fleecing?
Asokar Ramalingham took out a loan to refurbish his Best One store at Gravesend, Kent, but now he's been sent a further bill for £1,207.50
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Dear Jac: Just who can you bank on?
Resham Singh Sunnar (Sunnar News, Slough, Berkshire) was prompted to ring about Naresh Sandhir's and Nimish Patel's two-year battle with Halifax/Bank of Scotland to recover missing thousands
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: We’ve got news for you…or not
Time for a regular, and thoroughly justified, whinge about news wholesalers - both of them.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: High-level stitch-ups
Here is a not-very-satisfactory update on a case I reported in September 2008. Several South London retailers lost thousands in their local Halifax branch.
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Dear Jac
What happened to credit where credit’s due
Has anybody else had trouble wrestling credits out of News International for newspaper returns? That was the essence of Amit Patel's email query. He writes that he has not received credits for the election edition of papers on Friday, May 7 (The Sun...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Don’t bank on fair treatment
Barclaycard Merchant Bank has removed its credit/debit terminal from a retailer in the North-west because a transaction for £1,018 which he processed turned out to be fraudulent.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Justice prevails for the Tamworth two
As I write this Jaswinder Singh Dhesi and his wife Sukvinder Kaur are celebrating in Tamworth following a court victory with business transfer agents RTA
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Bank is on a sticky wicket
I stopped counting after more than 100 retailers contacted me about photocopy company Lanwall and could never have space enough to report all their stories...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: A glitch in real time
Over the past six months or so, one common factor in the claims by subpostmasters is that their accounting system Horizon has glitches.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Power to put you out of business
The present government has brought in enough red tape to strangle the independent sector, all the while protesting that it has its best interests at heart.
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Dear Jac: Take note of a helpful hint
Alison Doubleday from Mossley in Lancashire is one of those retailers stuck with a Lanwall photocopier.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Whether to opt in or opt out provides clause for thought
Josie Chamberlin sent me an email on the subject of companies' opt-out clauses.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Relying on the kindness of customers
Support from fellow lottery retailers continues to arrive for Sriharan Rajan who lost his terminal after a customer complained about a late £40 payout.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Look before you switch to energy management
The contractual shenanigans of energy supply companies have long been featured by this magazine. In the last issue our Fight the Power campaign highlighted the weasel ways of rollover contracts.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Retailer dealt a losing hand
Sriharan Rajan's luck ran out when a punter came in to his Premier store in West Molesey, Surrey, for payouts on three lottery tickets.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Are newspapers more trouble than they're worth?
Rakesh Sood has been supplied by Smiths for more than a decade. Now it has decided not to credit him for missing copies.