Tarquin - Trader Saga - do I publish again?

I think what you do next depends on what your priorities are. As I see it these are your three main possible objectives:

a) Get your £46K back.
b) Have no more hassle over this.
c) Put Tarquin out of business.

If its a) then keep doing what you are doing now and keep the pressure on.

if its b) then put everything in the hands of your lawyer and take a holiday.

If its c) then publish now and risk waving goodbye to your £46K.

If it was me I'd stick with a), follow up with b) and when I had every last penny in the bank go with c).
 
Perhaps i'm being a bit too 'ideal world' here but i wouldn't be too quick to push Tarquin to go skint.
I'd focus more on getting my money then putting the saga behind me.

My reason being that if Tarquin go bust then there will no doubt be a good number of people who are not directly involved in this but who would lose their jobs because of it.
Plus perhaps some other local businesses that may suffer.

Dont get me wrong, the guy(s) at the top sound like they deserve all they get but it tends to be the 'little guys' that suffer.
 
I think the advice I am being given is probably right. I wish it was not .... but it is.

What I really wanted was for the agreement to be executed as per the agreement and then I go away - no more publicity .... end of story.

When someone is simply refusing to honour an agreement - not even disputing what it states just simply stating they will not accept it, it is a bit difficult not to get mad. When you have a recording of their voice making promises that are immediately broken the very same day and you have the written evidence of them being broken .... its a bit difficult not to get mad. It seems that some people think they can just flout agreements and carry on their own way regardless of what they have signed up to ........

What i can say at this stage is to describe how I did the Drumbeat roll back.
Basically I bought Drumbeat back for £300k having sold it to them for £350k. It was agreed they would sell her without fees and would check her over to make sure all is working, anodes including engine anodes replaced etc. Then if after 2 months she was not sold for £295 asking £280k bottom line, they price drops £10k, then the following month another £10k after which they must pay me the £20k on the spot because it was then clear that i bought her back well over market price.

One customer who offered me via Tarquin a Sealine in partX and a £100k, I soon got him up to £130k - that was easy because he had already offered that when they owned the boat!! So after understanding that I was being passed on reduced offered, somehow they had managed to lose about £30k in the translation, and after evidence that the service on Drumbeat, as agreed had not been done I called down my own people from Swansea, serviced her, advertised her myself and sold her all within 2 weeks.

This was also after correspondence whereby I was pointing out that the very fact at that stage they owed me £190k that they were not able to pay and some of that stretched out to December, I wanted the deposit of any sale they did not to go into their client account but into an Escrow account that allowed them to draw out on their signature only if the money was going back to the buyer - they refused any solution other than they controlling the funds via their 'client' account. I did not trust this so add this to the reports from customers viewing the boat and I was left with no choice but to act - which I did. It got them off a £20k hook. however that in itself is just water under the bridge. I have mentioned it as background as to how I structured a deal whereby they had to sell Drumbeat without fee and how the market price was to be arrived at by actually testing the market.

OK …. I will hold fire on the issues that have really angered me. Its a very black and white issues that leaves no room for interpretation. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
They're post dated, so they'll be all fresh on the day presented, not in the slightest stale (though possibly a bit rubbery)
 
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Drumbeat, as agreed had not been done I called down my own people from Swansea, serviced her, advertised her myself and sold her all within 2 weeks.


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2 weeks! What happened to your statement as per a recent thread which I can't be bothered to find that the bottom had fallen out of the market for larger older planing boats? Obviously your buyer was'nt too bothered by the red diesel issue either
Congrats anyway. I hope she's gone to a good home
 
I sold Drumbeat for £280k. She was a good example in good nick and was priced about £95k down on what was being asked for the same model elsewhere.

I boght her back for £300k and sold her for £280k so I lost £20k in a few months!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I think the entire used boating market at present is very much a buyers market - it just that some of those trying to sell do not know that yet hence they do not become sellers /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I must say that I could have got more for her but I was desperate to get out of Emsworth and cut another rope to Tarquin. I tend to associate the place with hell and have developed a nervous twitch everytime the place is mentioned. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I do not seem to be the only one as whilst I was there selling Drumbeat in sailed Trader 64 hull three that was orginally delivered to the middle east - Dubai........ it will probably appear at SIBs. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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When someone is simply refusing to honour an agreement - not even disputing what it states just simply stating they will not accept it, it is a bit difficult not to get mad.

[/ QUOTE ]Well, you've been lucky running a business apparently not affected by these behaviours.
I've seen that happening in a number of fields, where either you manage to live with that, or you should get mad every other week...
It's a rather frequent state of affairs, sadly.
Not meant as a justification, of course.
 
I have been in business a long time with all the twists and turns but have yet to come across a point blank refusal to abide by a written agreement when there is no dispute or different interpretation. just a total refusal to abide by the terms of the agreement.
 
Hi Paul, You are fully aware of my take on TC - As they clearly are aware that they owe you 40,000 (set aside the 6k for the time being) you should take a charge for that amount against the companies assets - only to be released when the cheques are honoured. Your solicitor should be charged with contacting trader and organising it - they cant refuse as they have already agreed that they owe you that amount by issuing the post dated cheques. - that should flush them out -if they are going to renage on those cheques in dec would it not be better to find out now - before the boat show!!!!!!!!!!
 
Yes Drumbeat is having some work done there at my expense for the new owners - Tarquin were unable to finish the work on her because the Trader 64 had just arrived from their csutomer in the Middle East and needed work and a new Trader 42 also needed some electronics etc. At least that is why I was told that Drumbeat could not be worked on.
 
Hi just back from southcoast too, we were moored opposite drumbeat sat night in a phantom 46, snow tiger she looked really well someone was playing about with the stern thruster for some reason.
 
fingers crossed for you. have read with interest every detail of this disaster. seems to me tarquin are very much going the same way as peters.
 
NO. Agree 100% with Deleted User, get the 40k in the bank first and then get legal about the 6k. For the moment Shhhh! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
 
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