Absolutely furious - threatened with an unlimied fine for trying to do the right thing.

having applied to have the company set up by Mr Banjo closed as it is just a nightmare, I have now received this information.

As the company is required to remain on the register, the proposed strike off action has been discontinued.  The failure to file accounts within the statutory time allowed is a criminal offence but I will defer any prosecution action for 28 days from the date  of this letter.

If the company record is not brought up-to-date by that time, the directors may face criminal proceedings.  Conviction for this offence will result in a criminal record and a potential unlimited fine for each document not delivered on time.

Please note that this deferral of prosecution action does not extend or alter the original statutory filing deadline.  As the accounts are already late, a civil late filing penalty will automatically be incurred when they are received and accepted at Companies  House.  The amount of the penalty increases with the length of delay in delivery and is separate to any criminal proceeding being considered against the directors.  Failure to comply with the filing requirements of the 2006 Companies Act in consecutive years  will result in the penalty being doubled for the current year’s accounts.


So whilst I battle trying to make sure that I am getting the right information to Companies House - which I have been trying to do for several weeks, Mr Banjo who has the company money in his account - seems to be untouchable.    Curse the day I met you Mr Banjo. 

No movement on Mr B.

I have in front of me a repurchase contract note for £3000, it is partly how I funded a small bit of fun, that turned into a nightmare a couple of years ago.  My stepfather wisely says do not risk money you cannot afford to lose,  but this time as I had suddenly inherited or was about to inherit some money, I thought yes open your purse for once have a bit of fun - your friend and future employer is buying an auction property he is asking if you want to have a share just to see how the process works why not.   He set up a company, explained that owing to a conflict of interest, it was better if my name was on the document, and having a limited liability seemed sensible as any monies from the property would be more protected.  Little did I know.  That move by him,  saved me a lot but ....  He opened the company account. We both, in theory, put in £6000 each and with that money he paid the deposit on the property - and that left money in the bank for other expenses connected with the sale e.g. the auctioneer, finishing work on the flat. My boss was going to pay for the solicitors - except that he did not.    My boss had arranged the loan, but it turned out he had used my name, even before I had come on board with the deal, so once I contacted the company and found all this out, the loan was removed.The company failed to buy the property.  The hotshot, who had shown me pictures of himself with Beyonce, and with his children and his famous nephews, who showed me the house he had bid over half a million on,  who showed me his successful businesses, the man who claimed to be doing God's work,   as he was working in Nigeria with farmers to bring e business to their efforts, the man is only listed on the net in connection with anti fraud methods, turned out to be ... well not what he seemed. Needless to say,  I have never seen  the money again, nor has the auctioneer and I had to pay the solicitor.  Luckily I was protected from his actions to a certain extent by the creation of the business but I am still waiting to hear if it has been wound up, but as I have failed to get the accounts in on time (how do you do accounts for a company that you have no access to its bank account)  I risk being fined £100 a day for non compliance.   Most days one has moved on, but when you come across a document that reminds you of your foolishness it is annoying, especially as I would like that money back.  So Mr B how about it?

Mr B is still in theory being investigated by the police, but they do not even bother to reply to my emails, Companies House do not care if a company was set up potentially to cover odd goings on let's say, they just care that there paper work is done,  Action Fraud, said the case was not traceable even though that was not the case - so there is no incentive for people like Mr B to change.    Meanwhile when I tried to find out more about the person,  via the net,  I was at risk of being charged with libel by him!

I am lucky, luckily I did not leave my job, despite having taken up his offer of work, I panicked that I would not have the skills to do it! and apologised for letting him down so it could have been much worse, but if anyone recognises some of my story and thinks that something similar has happened to them if we can all get together then maybe some action will happen.

Blogger and AirBnB

One of the things in life that annoys me the most is the many in theory reputable companies who are virtually impossible to contact online. Instead they have in built systems that send you round and round and round.  Given that many organisations even when you do get in touch reply to a question you have not asked so necessitating more and more frustrating communication you can see why they might hope that no one will get in touch at all and of course if there were no problems with these organisations then that would be relatively fine, but in my sad experience even the best organisation can be useless at times.  Blogger for example has a life of its own, it regularly will not allow me access telling me that I do not have the right account, and I have never worked out who to contact about the issue or how to resolve the issue and that might have spared the world this blog as I almost gave up on it, but as I can get onto the site as often as I cannot get onto the site, I can stil use it.

AirBnB is a new issue. Having joined so that I could go on a trip that ironically was then cancelled, I have decided that I also ought to just see if being a host suits me. So I  advertised my flat for just a week at the end of July/beginning of August.  When I revisited my site just to add pictures, to my surprise my availability had increased, but luckily no one had tried booking. I reset the calendar and so when I got a request for the booking immediately assumed all was okay and texted the enquirer back to that effect, however, I then realised that the date he had asked for was a date I knew to be incorrect as I am away then.  When I got home I discovered that according to AirBnB I was now available not just for one week but for the whole of August right the way through to October.  So my first potential guest I have had to turn down, which is not very encouraging but worse I have struggled to find a way to resolve the calendar problem as there is no direct way of contacting A ir BnB that I can find. Initially I sent a feedback message as I could not find a contact us button but I have had no reply to that, I also went on the community site, but have not had a response as far as I know, but I do not know how to check.  I went on Facebook to see if anyone knew, but no and tried to follow the instruction video online to find the contact us button, but I still have not found it, so this is why I am hoping someone might pick up this blog message and help me, otherwise I will give up on AirBnB as it is costing me more in lost work to search for answers on their site than I have earned as I have not had any visitors so far and need to know that it is easy to resolve any issues, which based on my experience so far is not the case. AirBnB have loads of fans so hopefully one of them can help.



POSTSCRIPT - I finally found an administration email and contacted that, and they replied - but had not understood the problem, but I then re-iterated the problem and they have given me a contact number should the problem arise again and that way they can investigate - so that seems hopeful and gives one more confidence in the organisation.