Question about shops on The Apprentice

vyle

On The Apprentice, when they do their one-day pop up shop tasks, the public are buying their wares. Obviously, that means that they've entered into a contract with the apprentices.

So, should someone need to invoke the SOGA because of shoddy goods, who would they contact? The BBC? Alan Sugar? Seeing as they're selling some antiques that look like they're falling apart on tonight's episode, I can imagine some people wanting to return the goods...

Just a thought.

hcb42

it's not real

CoolHotCold

The company they've purchases from has gone into liquidation.

sjbrun

CoolHotCold is right anyway that they have gone so its not really realistic... but at 140 quid chairs thats only 10 chairs or so they didnt really sell much of the decent stuff and the rest was just car booty stuff that you can get in any charity shop which looks like it will just go in the bin where it belongs...

meer53

vyle wrote: »

On The Apprentice, when they do their one-day pop up shop tasks, the public are buying their wares. Obviously, that means that they've entered into a contract with the apprentices.

So, should someone need to invoke the SOGA because of shoddy goods, who would they contact? The BBC? Alan Sugar? Seeing as they're selling some antiques that look like they're falling apart on tonight's episode, I can imagine some people wanting to return the goods...

Just a thought.

Same as a boot sale ? Caveat Emptor

s_b

watching this tonight as i always do
and this was the first one of this series that was interesting
i thought of you guys
and soga
and how can i claim
etc:D
it was second hand tat tat tonight of course
so caveat umpar
you wouldn't get food poisoning see;)

McKneff

One of them women (dont remember her name) has the most awful grating noise when she opens her mouth to speak, it really makes me cringe............

hcb42

the northerner?

i am a northerner and she makes me cringe!

s_b

me too
is she from wigan?

vyle

True today was second hand stuff, but previous series you've had people selling kitchen electronics (junior apprentice with the donut makers), designer clothing, running restaurants (last series I think) and the ones who sold stuff at wedding fairs.

Surely if the parent company is still trading, it's not as if the company has folded :S.

I'm genuinely curious about the legalities, because it'd mean that a big company could set up a splinter company for one day, sell all their faulty stock and then close it and go "nope, not our fault, guvna." which kinda makes a mockery of the SOGA. Just change your company name every day and you have no legal obligations.

eranou

vyle wrote: »

True today was second hand stuff, but previous series you've had people selling kitchen electronics (junior apprentice with the donut makers), designer clothing, running restaurants (last series I think) and the ones who sold stuff at wedding fairs.

Surely if the parent company is still trading, it's not as if the company has folded :S.

I'm genuinely curious about the legalities, because it'd mean that a big company could set up a splinter company for one day, sell all their faulty stock and then close it and go "nope, not our fault, guvna." which kinda makes a mockery of the SOGA. Just change your company name every day and you have no legal obligations.

Wouldn't the teams on the Apprentice just be treated as private sellers though?

I doubt that their fully registered businesses with companies house etc.