Well I suppose you have to admire their nerve...................

[MedDreamer]

This months MBM has a full page advertisement from Opal Marine in which they have a "Let us sell your boat" box. The text in this box starts something like "We have had a great year for selling boats.................................."

I wonder if there are a lot of ex Peters Opal clients/customers/suppliers who would perhaps disagree with that sentiment.

I understand that this company has been set up by people who were part of Peters Opal (even if they didn't sit at the "top table") and as such I would have thought they could have a bit more sensitive and circumspect.

 

[happyboater69]

Actually seems to be registered in cambridge at companies house and if you do a search on the owner he comes up as 600 odd in the Times Rich List.

I'm sure some of the employees are the same but you can't blame them for the actions of the Peters Plc board.

 

[MedDreamer]

So who exactly is it that has had a "great year for selling boats"?

 

[stelican]

I believe some were on the board

 

[Major Catastrophe]

[ QUOTE ]
"We have had a great year for selling boats.................................."

[/ QUOTE ]

It is that kind of statement that the Advertising Standards Authority would be interested in.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

They did have a great year selling boats. They sold loads of new boats, took loads of deposits only they forgot to deliver some of them. They sold loads of brokerage boats only they did'nt pay out some of the owners. Sounds to me like a great way to sell boats. For them that is

 

[Questor]

The word on the grapevine about 3 weeks back, was that they've sold just one boat so far, and that was one on brokerage. However, I must stress this was only on the grapevine and therefore could be bollox.

 

[mjkinch1]

What strikes me as odd is how you get to be number 600 odd in the rich list? and who tracks this? So at a dinner party you can go "oh I had a good year last year I moved from 735 in the rich list to 649", or a particularly bad year, "I moved down 99 places, now equal with Basil Brush for position 836"

Fascinating the things people keep track of.