Question about shops on The Apprentice

Owain_Moneysaver

vyle wrote: »

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.

Yes, they could. And sometimes do.

It's not a case of changing the company name though, a new company has to be registered each time.

I suspect on the Apprentice that after the apprentices have made their misshapen pies, sour pickles etc, and left the factory for the night some little television elves magic up some legally-compliant product to be sold to the public.

Valli

Don 't slag the laydees off! We're having a sweep at work - we get two contestants each and I have two laydees...
dunno who - one might be Scottish...

having googled 'em might be Jayne McEvoy & Maria O'Connor

Having gone a bit further it appears I'm down to one!


*kicks cat*

Owain_Moneysaver

Valli wrote: »

Don 't slag the laydees off! We're having a sweep at work - we get two contestants each and I have two laydees...
dunno who - one might be Scottish...

having googled 'em might be Jayne McEvoy & Maria O'Connor

Having gone a bit further it appears I'm down to one!


*kicks cat*

Bad news is that you're down to none. Jayne got fired this evening.

paddyrg

Television LIES!!! And The Apprentice is an entertainment format. It is not in any sense a business show, it is the X factor in different clothes.

When they make up some piece of cr4p plastic nonsense and a DIY store says 'an initial order of 100,000 units' - anyone EVER seen whatever they designed? No, it never reaches the shelf. Genuine product design takes many skills over months and years, not a bunch of TV wannabe's in 24 hrs.

In this case, for secondhand tat, a researcher/producer would probably find the 'buyer' straight off, give them their cash back on the grounds that if they want to keep it with no comebacks they can (to save chucking it in a skip).

vyle

paddyrg wrote: »

Television LIES!!! And The Apprentice is an entertainment format. It is not in any sense a business show, it is the X factor in different clothes.

When they make up some piece of cr4p plastic nonsense and a DIY store says 'an initial order of 100,000 units' - anyone EVER seen whatever they designed? No, it never reaches the shelf. Genuine product design takes many skills over months and years, not a bunch of TV wannabe's in 24 hrs.

In this case, for secondhand tat, a researcher/producer would probably find the 'buyer' straight off, give them their cash back on the grounds that if they want to keep it with no comebacks they can (to save chucking it in a skip).

Noooo I'm not talking about the theoretical orders and money from business to business, I'm talking about the bits where they open a shop and sell stuff to the public.

I figured that they would be operating as a child company/branch of AMSTRAD or whatever it is Sugar Daddy runs these days and they'd be responsible for any problems that arose.

paddyrg

Yep Vyle, I reckon in that case it'll either be a question of a researcher giving the punter their cash back so it wasn't a 'sale' (ie full refund on the spot, so there is no obligation to refund/repair/replace down the line), or in the case of a secondhand tat stall just being the same as any other pop-up junk shop.

What I find hilarious is that this is presented as a show about business accumen when it takes 6 people 2 days to make £300 before you knock off the associated costs of doing business (phones, taxis, luton vans, fuel, accommodation, office space, designers, printers, fabricators, lawyers, accountants, premium storefront footage, etc). It has more in common with The Generation Game than real-world business!

vyle

And, of course, everything is laid on for them.

It becomes a case of:

"we've opened up some opportunities for you with suppliers so you can get their goods to sell from a prime retail unit that we've prepared. All you have to do is decide what you want and sell it and try not to kill anybody."

It makes it all look very easy.

getzls

McKneff wrote: »

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............

Is my wife on it? Wondered where shes been these last few months.:D

arcon5

paddyrg wrote: »

Yep Vyle, I reckon in that case it'll either be a question of a researcher giving the punter their cash back so it wasn't a 'sale' (ie full refund on the spot, so there is no obligation to refund/repair/replace down the line), or in the case of a secondhand tat stall just being the same as any other pop-up junk shop.

What I find hilarious is that this is presented as a show about business accumen when it takes 6 people 2 days to make £300 before you knock off the associated costs of doing business (phones, taxis, luton vans, fuel, accommodation, office space, designers, printers, fabricators, lawyers, accountants, premium storefront footage, etc). It has more in common with The Generation Game than real-world business!

Or they could just liquidate the company and have no further liability

paddyrg

arcon5 wrote: »

Or they could just liquidate the company and have no further liability

For the few hundred quid involved I doubt it's even worth forming the company in the first place.