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By *nny OP   Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

are to go into administration.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes this is true

They have lost o2 contracts and vodaphone end their condract with them in december so now only do ee contracts.

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By *nny OP   Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

A risk of 5,500 redundancies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is my hire purchase with them written off then ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is my hire purchase with them written off then ?"

No because your agreement is with the service provider..i tried it already lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is my hire purchase with them written off then ?

No because your agreement is with the service provider..i tried it already lol"

Poo

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Wonder what money the bosses have been taking out. I'm assuming it's the lower paid staff with most to lose. Hope it works out.

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Glas

Better watch out or Scary Mary will be onto you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yes this is true

They have lost o2 contracts and vodaphone end their condract with them in december so now only do ee contracts. "

Think they've lost EE too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets"

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating "

Indeed

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating

Indeed "

So a bad company should be missed because the staff, who are complicit in the shady sales tactics, will lose their jobs?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is not a problem of a business running out of money. They have huge turnover and profits. But if they have boring to sell there is no business.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating

Indeed

So a bad company should be missed because the staff, who are complicit in the shady sales tactics, will lose their jobs?"

That's not what I said at all is it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a shame about the job losses and dilution of competition but they're not very good at all so this is no surprise

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Feel sorry for the staff...not a nice time to lose jobs...

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

I think the Dixons Carphone group will be happy. They can remove P4U from the stores and replace them with their Carphone Warehouse.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I remember radio rentals lol

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

It's been owned by a private equity group - two in fact - since the founder sold it years ago for 1.2billion.

It was bound to lose contract with suppliers eventually. Competition is too tight for the network providers to pay fees to what is effectively a broker when they all have their own network of high st shops.

It's why there are fewer insurance, mortgage and financial services brokers on the high st these days, and all the business is either done directly with the provider or via the internet.

It was the high st equivalent of go compare, compare the meerkat or money supermarket. None of which have branches.

The administrators may well keep the website but close the branches as they're too expensive to run.

Sad when jobs are involved - but as was said earlier - shops need products to sell in order to survive. And with no EE or Vodafone business to sell it's running out of products.

A

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think the Dixons Carphone group will be happy. They can remove P4U from the stores and replace them with their Carphone Warehouse. "

Yep nice little monopoly there. I wonder what really motivated all the providers to drop P4U

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset


"I think the Dixons Carphone group will be happy. They can remove P4U from the stores and replace them with their Carphone Warehouse.

Yep nice little monopoly there. I wonder what really motivated all the providers to drop P4U"

Money.

Why pay someone else to offer a service you can provide yourself?

Simple business sense.

A

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating "

I'm celebrating because this company tried to screw me out of nearly £300 so yes I'm happy they are going under

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sad to lose another big shop from the high street but that's business at the minute sadly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bollocks, just when I'd almost got that Phones-4-U hand gesture thing down pat too.

Back to doing Ted Rogers 3-2-1 thing for me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember radio rentals lol "

That's going back a few years!

It's a shame that yet another retailer will be leaving our high street. Another empty shop and another reason why people don't need to visit. Good luck to the staff that at find themselves out of work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

have noticed that our local phone 4 u shop used to have several display counters and now only have a wall display and large space in the middle - has been this way for a while

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My friend works at phones4u and had to go in early this morning for a staff meeting. Its looking that the branch in my town will seize trading today

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

P4U problem wasn't with Dixon carphone ... The downfall is more to do with mobile retailers setting up their own shops and them being squeezed out which is a shame as they were and still are making money... But if your product is selling phones and you can't sell them! Game over!

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

Just do a search on MSE for Phones4U and see all the problems that the networks have to sort out.

Vodafone, who normally are quite happy for people they recommend to rip their customers off probably weren't earning enough out of it.

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By *edro71Man
over a year ago

newcastle under lyme

P4u have indeed entered into administration. We were told this morning I a briefing at 9am. I have over 10yrs service with them and redundancy is nit guaranteed we have been told, neither is owed pay.

Lots of free time on my hands now!

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By *nigmatic1Woman
over a year ago

A seaside town near you!


"P4u have indeed entered into administration. We were told this morning I a briefing at 9am. I have over 10yrs service with them and redundancy is nit guaranteed we have been told, neither is owed pay.

Lots of free time on my hands now!"

Sorry to hear that...hope you manage to sort something out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Should've made better use of the Delorean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember radio rentals lol

That's going back a few years!

It's a shame that yet another retailer will be leaving our high street. Another empty shop and another reason why people don't need to visit. Good luck to the staff that at find themselves out of work."

the shop wont be empty for long. Will soon have a charity store trying to sell me my 70's clothes i donated to them back to me.

Either that or an east european store selling sour kraut type products to all the foreign fruit pickers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"P4u have indeed entered into administration. We were told this morning I a briefing at 9am. I have over 10yrs service with them and redundancy is nit guaranteed we have been told, neither is owed pay.

Lots of free time on my hands now!"

i was made redundant a few years ago - about 12 years service- there is a government fund for redundancy where the company doesnt pay out - you will get your money just takes a bit longer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember radio rentals lol

That's going back a few years!

It's a shame that yet another retailer will be leaving our high street. Another empty shop and another reason why people don't need to visit. Good luck to the staff that at find themselves out of work.

the shop wont be empty for long. Will soon have a charity store trying to sell me my 70's clothes i donated to them back to me.

Either that or an east european store selling sour kraut type products to all the foreign fruit pickers"

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

O o O oo


"Good riddance to a shite company and even worse advets

Not sure what their adverts have to do with anything but 5500 people unemployed and more emptiy shops in our towns is not a good thing so not sure why you (or anyone else) would appear to be celebrating "

That's not what was said though

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By *lttattoocoupleCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

They have EE till 2015 one of my good friends works there.

If your contract with p4u is on there own network which runs off orange you maybe able to get out of it

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By *edro71Man
over a year ago

newcastle under lyme


"P4u have indeed entered into administration. We were told this morning I a briefing at 9am. I have over 10yrs service with them and redundancy is nit guaranteed we have been told, neither is owed pay.

Lots of free time on my hands now!

i was made redundant a few years ago - about 12 years service- there is a government fund for redundancy where the company doesnt pay out - you will get your money just takes a bit longer"
what time scales are we talking?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"P4u have indeed entered into administration. We were told this morning I a briefing at 9am. I have over 10yrs service with them and redundancy is nit guaranteed we have been told, neither is owed pay.

Lots of free time on my hands now!

i was made redundant a few years ago - about 12 years service- there is a government fund for redundancy where the company doesnt pay out - you will get your money just takes a bit longer what time scales are we talking?"

because i had to claim 12 years it was a week for each - so about 3 months - got it all though - plus holidays and the month salary owed -

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