Recent content by raz0rlite

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    Payment Demand for Unlicensed Use of an Image

    That does put into perspective that £1 per day is a fair price. I actually negotiated a 35% discount, so ended up paying £1090 so I could move on and forget about it! In addition, the supplier that gave us the image without confirming that is was licensed for print only, will hopefully...
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    Payment Demand for Unlicensed Use of an Image

    We have recently received a payment demand for £1680 from picrights.com (on behalf of DPA Picture-Alliance GMBH) for unlicensed use of an image on our website. The image was taken down 6 months ago so was live from May 2019- Dec 2023. It was originally provided to us by a brand supplier, who...
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    Fixed Price Energy Contract Early Termination

    We moved business premises last August, at the peak of the energy crisis and had to sort out a new energy supplier on moving in. We found a rate online with Smartestenergy for a one year fixed contract, but when we contacted them, we we told that option wasn't available & the only options was...
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    Business Rates Valuation

    We have recently moved into new premises (warehouse & offices) with a rateable value of £17,000. The previous tenants used the space differently to us (well it was actually a Cannabis factory, but that's a different story!) and we are using most of the offices for product storage rather than...
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    Which couriers do you use and do you go direct or use an aggregator?

    Just to jump on this thread with our own query.... We send around 30-50 parcels a day on a next day delivery - mainly B2B. Around 20% of them are longer length parcels (1.77m long). We used DPD for nearly 10 years until they increased our longer length surcharge to £13 and since then have...
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    Terminated Franchisee

    Thank you for your replies. My contract does say that I have to deliver certain levels of income per annum but as I've not been achieving them in previous years I thought that 'working practice' might override the contract?! To transfer the customers over who pay a regular income I'll...
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    Terminated Franchisee

    Hi I have been a franchisee with a company of the last 5 years. It was a small company, flexible with great service and support levels. They recently sold out to a larger company, who immediately increased their prices and provided no customer support (let alone training in their specific...