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    efg loan default

    Hi All, thought id update everyone as things with this for me have only now reached new levels. A while back (Early December) the bank contacted me asking me to pay the outstanding £18,000. It took me nearly a month to get in contact with them, everytime i rang no one was there, in the mean...
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    Need some advice regarding Barclays and EFG Loan

    Thanks for your reply, the difference in payments and dates was mainly due to them not taking payment when they agreed to. I cant remember off hand the dates but i did look this up at the time and was confused. i believe i recieved the loan in the Jan, the paperwork i signed said payment would...
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    Need some advice regarding Barclays and EFG Loan

    Hi guys, looking for a little advice, in 2009 i borrowed £20,000 from Barclays to open my own petshop, we managed to break even within a year but towards the end of 2010 early 2011 a Large chain stored opened on our door step and because of this within 4 months we were forced to close. Any...
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    efg loan default

    interesting read i shall have to keep people updated on my case. i borrowed 20k from an efg loan through barclays and 10k through a mix of family and personal loans though the family. i have just booked an appointment with my local business manager to see what i can sort out. ive paid...
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    efg loan default

    we're going to be in much the same position later on in the year, we've just had a large chain store open 5 minutes down the road, we borrowed 20k through the efg scheme and 10k of our own money, im worried as to what the banks going to do if we have to close down the company.
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    My Shoppingbank

    had it today, women saying about some other ITV program, not GMTV, ive had a call from them before so i said ive had a simular call and am not interested. She told me i was mistaken and they had not called, but said they previously ran a website for GMTV, did make me question why they had...
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    Best ways to assistance personally?

    yes i agree, a lot of smaller businesses do fail because of that, many of the smaller businesses are not people business minded and dont plan enough. I think what gets me is when i pay my rates to the local council, it says the majority of it goes to fund local grants, none of which im...
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    Best ways to assistance personally?

    i hope there is, you'd think there would be incentive for people to do what ive done and start a business at such a risky time to help drive the recovery, i guess with the government all up in arms we cant expect too much just yet
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    Best ways to assistance personally?

    thanks for the advice, i knew it would be hard, and the key to this succeeding is us lasting out 12 months, both personally and business wise, the council have been very unhelp when i ever ring with regards to grants, the person dealing with it seems to always be on holiday, but i will try again...
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    Best ways to assistance personally?

    We started our business back in march, i knew it would put a strain on finances going from a secure job to now my partner doing full time hours and me taking home nothing as yet, but with bills going up we are finding our selves short, ive done reading with no aval and the local coucil have been...
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    epos or too much?

    hi guys, sorry for not checking this thread, i had some of my fixtures deliverd yesterday and getting them into the shop from pallets was not fun, anywho, the main requirements of the software would be some simple way to intergrate my webshop, the webshop software i use (tiger commerece) allows...
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    epos or too much?

    thanks for that, so maybe a good old cash reg will be easyier? ive just never got on with them, horid little price stickers or star price labels on everything just gives me the shivers
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    epos or too much?

    My new stores not going to be massive, and im at wits ends if to use an epos for managing my stock or if it will be overkill, as my shops going to be a petshop i looked at a solution by easitill.co.uk. they quoted me some very high amounts, for a simple master till, for just the software i was...
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    Forum?

    look at http://www.phpbb.com/ there is a few, others but for someone new to starting a forum phpbb is very flexable, the easyiest way... to get a forum up and running is by using a host that has it preinstalled, my host www.dream-hosting.co.uk uses cpanel (most hosts do) and fantastico deluxe...
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    Not owning .com domain of our website

    id only be interested in owning my .com domain should i start selling internationally which is unlikey, its finding theres a competitor with a very closely related name which is worse... i 100% came up with my company name one day driving to chelmsford, (Berrywoods Pets) looking on google some...
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