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Re: Suspension of English factoring services
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lugnet.market.services
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:42:27 GMT
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Why just England? What about the rest of the UK?
:-)
Scott A
> It pains me to let you know that due to a serious imbalance of payments, and
> excessive currency risk, I have to ask for a suspension of factoring services
> for deals involving english sellers and non english buyers.
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> This is due to all my factorees in the UK having excessive credit balances with
> me and having been burned on currency exchange too badly, so not being keen on
> me sending them USD at this time.
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> The only exceptions are:
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> - deals already in progress
> - deals involving the Collins family as direct participants as they are not
> concerned by exchange rates since they're coming to the US on holiday soon and
> want the USD to use while they're here.
> - deals in which an english BUYER wishes to buy something from somewhere else.
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> This suspension is in effect till further notice.
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> One way to lift it would be for someone to contact me privately with a cheap
> and safe way of moving a large sum of money from the US (in USD) to the UK (in
> sterling) and having to pay very close to the interbank rate for exchange
> rather than the retail rate we normally all pay.
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> Right now it seems like all my UK factorees are doing is constantly emitting
> checks to UK sellers who have refused to become factorees themselves because
> they don't want to be bothered with the work and don't want the exchange rate
> risk (Hello to one particular big seller, you know who you are, since I just
> about quoted word for word your note to me declining my request that you become
> a direct factoree), and in the process my UK factorees are getting burned by
> exchange rate costs and losing money. That's not fair to them.
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> Note also that if we don't have some German buyers turn up soon, Germany isn't
> too far away from being suspended as well, the imbalance there is nothing short
> of ridiculous and Horst has been very very patient with my sending him 400 a
> week, week in and week out (while getting accusations hurled at him of exchange
> rate profiteering)
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> ++Lar
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