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There is another scam out there to be wary of if you are selling, especially on Gumtree or Ebay etc. You get an e-mail from a "buyer" who says they are interested in your car/boat/caravan etc but they are working abroad and cannot come to see the item. They will pay by Paypal and then arrange for a courier/relative to collect the item. As soon as the car etc is collected they cancel the Paypal payment by claiming a defect, misleading description etc and you are then without item or money.

I had a very bad experience with Great Haywood, didn't find them professional at all.

Wow......been away for 3 weeks, logged on to the forum tonight to find this thread still on the first index page, but very little to do with PLM/PLT etc, just George94 regurgitating same arguments

From my experience I would say nooooooooooooo!

He's advertising heavily on PLM facebook

The café has always been slow in the winter and early spring, so I think they make up the income in the summer when it is usually rammed on nice days.

What a shame that the management weren't on the Performance Related Bonus Scheme, they would have saved a fortune or at least £180k

Well PLM/PLT are starting to cut their coat according to their cloth, unfortunately not on the management salary side though. advert on PLM facebook page Pillings Lock Marina23 April Pillings Lock Marina- Restaurant Supervisor Required A Vacancy has arisen for an Experienced Restaurant Supervisor at our friendly waterside café/ Restaurant. We are looking for an individual that has excellent customer service skill that is able to work on their own and as part of a team. Shifts would include Friday and Saturdays 8.30am until 4.30pm and several evening Shifts of 4pm until 11pm s...hifts. We occasionally have special events that require extra working hours. Rate of Pay £6.50 per hour, approximately 28 - 32 hours per week. We also offer a Performance related Bonus Scheme. The successful candidate will require experience in Managing a small team with excellent service standards. Due to the location of our business Own Transport is essential. RR says this is purely supervisory, not management hence the low wage. PL has added Remove Pillings Lock Marina Tips included too :-) so most staff boost this by a few quid an hour on a good day. Yesterday at 13:22 · Like One word - tightwad!!!

Could it be that PLM doesn't have a demand from the council for residential council tax and the £152x(a number of boats) covers the commercial council tax for the apartment?

After a week away I've just had a quick browse through the pages I've missed. I agree that if PLT have paid £30k up front that they may not have to pay quarterly payments in addition, but I don't see how that protects CaRT after April 2015. DD, I think we both remember the boats that started all the residential status debate. But it is interesting that the question of residential council tax did not arise until after PL starting using the apartment as a commercial enterprise.

Definitely b/s merchant. It did strike me that PL could augment the coffers by holding seminars for budding "business persons" showing them how to set up a business, put it into receivership and start again, all in the blink of an eye. That should pay the next NAA instalment.

http://www.narrowboatworld.com/index.php/news-flash/6826-p85m-is-not-enough Maybe now PL/CSH and all the others can realise why the money they owed CaRT was so important.

I agree with the sentiments but, bear in mind that RR has been working at the marina for some while and in all that time he has only ever been a part-time employee doing what he has been told, and from what I have seen and experienced personally his demeanour and mind-set is totally along the lines of PL. He has not been brought in to get things back on track, his name has been used solely to set up a phoenix company to allow PL to carry on in the same vein. There is no way RR will be taking on the reins and telling PL what to do and how things are going to be run. He will be absent from the marina from September if he undertakes the LPC, which is a 1 year full-time course and the work load is astronomical (again personal experience). If he continues on his career path to become a barrister he will than have to find a pupillage overseen by one of the Inns in London, again a heavy work load. So his involvement in PLT/PLM for the next 2-3 years will be negligible. But who would be willing to take a bet that his service to PL has resulted in him leaving uni/training with no debts. I hope that RR sees that future involvement in this situation will do nothing to enhance his prospects, and starts to think seriously about what he needs to do to make sure he achieves his career aspirations. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that now RR is listed as director that everything will change. It will be the same old, same old, just with a different name at the top of the page. Watch this space.