Berth Attack.

[Guest]

Just had my new yearbook from the marina this morning,sorry to say but my hourly rate has just gone up to compensate next years hike.
Can't say where I am but its gone up nearly 700 from last year, they have not taken any notice from the 2 reports that featured them this year by MBM and MBY, oh well time to look for that swinging mooring.

P S anyone got an old V8 they dont want and some chain.

 

[Guest]

Name Names Paul, don;t be shy.If it's slanderous ipc get the blame, not you.

Picked up from buttscuttle a site worth looking at; www.what-a-ripoff.com. Perhaps you could add them?

 

[Guest]

Think they may be there already. Risky site tho, imho.

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Risky?

Maybe...some USA sites had a <company name>sucks.com site where consumers and others complained of the company. In UK almost unheard of, since as a nation we rarely complain. There's a bank (RBoS) whose company practises are currently being exposed on the web and it's the people who are least able to afford the loss who're doing the complaining. There is frequently no other option.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Risky?

Shit! Thats my bank, what have they been up to?

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Risky?

RBoS & Aberdeen Asset Managers are bankers or holders of company paper to Atlantic Telecom. Very nasty smell and many people hurt. The private (non-institutional) shareholders decided to do something about it:
http://www.aquariusweb.net/cats/
There are many others eg Equitable Life:
http://www.equitablelifemembers.org.uk/

 

[Guest]

Re:institutional shareholders

the common line is they are "in it together". But banks and fund managers can't rip into a compnay cos they don't agree with them. Otherwsie they'd get no help from others in which they invest, so net result would be negative. Two sides, as they say...

 

[ParaHandy]

Re:institutional shareholders

Pension schemes & others have for some time been demanding exactly that. There are too many cases appearing where honesty and ethical behaviour have not been apparent in either banks, fund managers or the managers of the cpy. See Enron – Icarus at
http://www.motleyfool.com/news/foth/2001/foth011130.htm
This lot have got through $30bn of our money. Banks can over-react when their loan book is suspect which in turn has an impact on Small Medium Enterprises which is the typical size of business for our marine industry. The phoenix characters who rise from the ashes of one disaster are the first to go and we need to be careful……..that’s all.