Craig McAlpine trading as Home Cuisine Ltd

With regard to the above client we have been chasing payment for goods supplied for a number of months and, despite referring the case to a debt recovery company, we have been unsuccessful in recovering the amount due to us.

We are concerned that other members of the association may be put in the same position as we have found ourselves in, therefore is there anyway you can advise them of the situation we have encountered with the client?

Just to give you a bit of the background – up until the start of 2008 he had been paying his bills regularly but towards the middle of last year the regular monthly payments stopped and we received a couple of cheques for lump sums which did not fully settle his bill. We have tried to contact him by telephone and letter on numerous occasions but without success – we spoke to him at the start of the year and he advised he had been on holiday and would be paying us, but payment has never been forthcoming so it does appear that he never had any intention of paying the full amount of his debt.

As he trades as Home Cuisine Ltd he cannot be pursued personally for the debt and we have found out that the original company of Home Cuisine Limited was struck off and dissolved in October 2008. However, the company has since been incorporated again (under the same name) in December 2008.

It may be that other members have had dealings with him without experiencing any problems but in the current climate we thought it advisable to alert you to our situation in the hope that others do not find themselves in the same position as us.

If you need any more information please give us a call.
Kind regards.
Carole Glynn
Findlay's Of Portobello
116 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1AL

0131 669 2783
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