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    Spread betting

    The main thing I have found with spread betting is you have to have some spare money around to top up your account if you get it wrong and need to bet the other way/bet the same way but for a larger number of points to cover your unrealised losses. It's a good idea to understand the margin, i.e...
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    Sage instant accounts

    I have been looking for accounting software which has an integrated stock system, and thought this might do the trick. I want something with a one off payment, not something you have to pay for monthly. I do however, notice a few comments on here saying they wouldn't recommend Sage. Has...
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    Ebay suspended me without any defining reason. Has anyone won the appeal before?

    what steps do they advise you to take via the link?
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    Retailer refused to sell goods

    I was all along at the point of not being 100% sure until the manager refused to sell to the man who was with me, saying that he regarded us as "one customer". This was after he had said their was a limit "per person". Plus it is so not the policy of this particular chain of stores to restrict...
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    Retailer refused to sell goods

    I have just had a look at this particular legislation. I would say this almost certainly applies in our case because we shop a lot with this particular retailer and this is the first time in several years of dealing with this particular chain of stores anyone has refused to sell us something...
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    Retailer refused to sell goods

    While I understand that the customer going into a store to buy something is an invitation to treat and the shop keeper then has to offer to sell the goods for the transaction to continue, the impression I got in this particular case was that the shop keeper didn't want to sell us the items (he...
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    Retailer refused to sell goods

    If you go into a shop and buy a large quantity of a particular item, and the retailer hasn't advertised any volume restrictions, are they within their rights to refuse to sell to you on the basis that they would rather keep the goods in question so they can sell them to their other customers...
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    Recommendation for help - employment law

    So if you have followed the correct procedures, regarding warning letters and the like, why can't you just sack him?
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    Recommendation for help - employment law

    We, to date, have used casual/contract labour, mainly because we don't have an ongoing need for people - just the odd piece of work every now and then. The locksmith downstairs uses casual labour. He has a couple of women who work a couple of days each a week for him. They just invoice him every...
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    Recommendation for help - employment law

    Fair enough. But if the procedure for dismissing the person/making them redundant wasn't followed correctly (didn't the OP say that the initial contact on the subject was via a phone call?) what is to stop the person claiming unfair dismissal? I realise that from the 6th of April 2012, the...
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    Investigation as to why foreigners are taking British Jobs.

    Fair enough, but at the same time, there are a lot of jobs that are just "grunt" jobs. Jobs which need to be done but which offer no "career prospects", no "opportunities for advancement" and which arise from time to time as opposed to needing to be done all year round. British workers, in my...
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    Investigation as to why foreigners are taking British Jobs.

    Ah, they've been here so long the British way of working is rubbing off on them, perhaps?
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    Investigation as to why foreigners are taking British Jobs.

    What surprises me when I work with Polish people is that they are always so cheerful. What's with the incredibly good mood all of the time? They don't seem to "do" grumpy or miserable.
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    Unemployed with lots of regulation or employed with little or no regulation?

    Well, that's why I said there's a significant part of the working population who would be unlikely to offer their services to us. It's just my opinion, but "job security" and "small business", especially in the long drawn out recession we are in the midst of, don't go together. Even the owners...
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    Commercial lease ended - Landlord is holding on to my property!

    With forfeiture, if you pay the outstanding rent you would likely be able to get full possession of your items back. It sounds like the landlord has cancelled the lease and taken possession of your items by impounding them, i.e. simply holding them at the property, until either the outstanding...
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