I have also been seeing red over the subject of a certain publishing company much talked about at present in knitting circles. This company once published quite a good knitting magazine but was hopelessly badly managed in financial terms by the owner. Heavily in debt they offered a sock club with patterns and indy dyed yarn at £96 for 6 bi-monthly installments but despite this large injection of cash still opted to put themselves into voluntary liquidation when an unpaid bill owner took out a CCJ against them and won. Thus walking away scot free from over £230,000 of declared unpaid debts. Then the owner's husband set up another publishing company, paid a pittance for the 'good will' of the first company and started the whole sorry saga again. Sadly this is 'just' legal in the UK.
Having got that off my chest I shall go to bed and leave any readers that I might have to decided for themselves which side to sit on.
P.S. I made it all the way through Lent without buying yarn and celebrated yesterday with 4 skeins from Nimu Yarns that I am assured are already on their way to me - excellent customer service is the usual in the knitting world making the situation described about even more indefensible in my opinion.
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