Alex Polizzi - The Fixer

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snuffy

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283 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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Did anyone notice that the guy whom the programme was about tonight looked in his late 40s or so, but he claimed he left school at 12 ?

That would make him at least 127 since the school leaving age was raised to 12 in 1899. Some people do talk toss.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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I quite enjoyed the program, though a fairly well trodden genre. She comes across well and switched on. Business owner inevitably following own counsel and no one else's

8Ace

2,681 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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snuffy said:
Did anyone notice that the guy whom the programme was about tonight looked in his late 40s or so, but he claimed he left school at 12 ?

That would make him at least 127 since the school leaving age was raised to 12 in 1899. Some people do talk toss.
Unless because gippo?

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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8Ace said:
Unless because gippo?
Maybe he just played truant for four years?

snuffy

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9,662 posts

283 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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And what about the £45k he spent on a bottling machine that was 7 months late and did not work when it did arrive ? Surely you would have taken the supplier to court instantly ? Seemed a bit odd to me.

farbbm

306 posts

189 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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snuffy said:
And what about the £45k he spent on a bottling machine that was 7 months late and did not work when it did arrive ? Surely you would have taken the supplier to court instantly ? Seemed a bit odd to me.
I agree, can't believe he paid it all up front and where was the company based on a housing estate? Looked like it when he visited.

bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Halmyre said:
8Ace said:
Unless because gippo?
Maybe he just played truant for four years?
Or home schooling.

skeggysteve

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216 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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farbbm said:
snuffy said:
And what about the £45k he spent on a bottling machine that was 7 months late and did not work when it did arrive ? Surely you would have taken the supplier to court instantly ? Seemed a bit odd to me.
I agree, can't believe he paid it all up front and where was the company based on a housing estate? Looked like it when he visited.
Just watched the programme and I think the bottling machine supplier refuse permission to film (no surprise there!) so he was filmed nearby.

I don't understand why he didn't just get legal asap - his wife said something about getting trading standards involved, very odd.

eastlmark

1,654 posts

206 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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surely you spend £45K on a piece of machinery, someone would come along to install and set it up for you.

Zad

12,695 posts

235 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Both points crossed my mind at the time too. Very odd. Maybe the bloke hadn't had a contract? It is pretty fundamental but he seemed rather naive all round, despite his previous highly paid job. The programme seemed to hinge around stopping him spending money, then miraculously went on to say how wonderful it was when he bought his 2nd bottling plant, and got some people in to re-brand the product. Quite why they didn't just contract out the bottling to a third party (maybe another mini brewery with their own under-utilised plant?) I dunno.


snuffy

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283 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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eastlmark said:
surely you spend £45K on a piece of machinery, someone would come along to install and set it up for you.
I thought that as well.

Also, he said he'd bought stuff, vessels etc, off ebay, so he was happy to buy used equipment. So why not buy a small second hand bottling machine to start with and then you can always buy a bigger and better one if demand increases ?

He claimed he had a high paid job in pharmaceuticals sales ( he used another term but I'm sure it was sales ) so that's why it's odd he was so stupid when it came to running a business etc. And he had his wife looking after the finances but she said she did not really understand what she was looking at.

droopsnoot

11,817 posts

241 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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My usual pub had their "Royal Hunt" on draught on Saturday night - very nice pint, I thought.

Sausages tonight. On the programme, that is, not for tea.

oddball1973

1,178 posts

122 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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Finding her condescending and rather unpleasant within 30 seconds. Bet she's as much use at as that fktard Mary Portas

DSLiverpool

14,673 posts

201 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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For a loss making heavily invested company they don't have a bad standard of living - more over egged crap no doubt

snuffy

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283 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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How can you spend £70k on a chopping machine and then say you're never even made £150k a year ?

2.5pi

1,066 posts

181 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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Kids are lazy entitled little fkers aren't they

DSLiverpool

14,673 posts

201 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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They seem to have had it easy first time round but struggling second time, they seem amateurish in the extreme and the whiff of Tim nice but dim is evident

snuffy

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283 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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"a sausage roll" ? What a prick.

torqueofthedevil

2,068 posts

176 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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Love her she's great. Probably just made more of an impact on the daughter than her parents ever have

Zad

12,695 posts

235 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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I often wonder how on earth there are any businesses left trading in the UK, let alone profitable ones. Dad looks like the ex-army type who gets things sorted by bluster, and inherited it all from his dad. Whereas I suspect daughter has an eye on marrying another Tim Nice But Dim and getting an allowance from dad, in return for giggling and fluttering her eyelashes again. Son just seems to like driving around in the Disco and saying how wealthy he is. Meanwhile dad is happy to stand by and do nothing.

What they need is to ship the daughter off to uni (I'm sure that somewhere will take her on £9k a year, it bypasses a multitude of problems) and with the money they save from that, get in a manager with real marketing skills who knows how to sell a sausage, and how to cut through the bullst from the son.