WEBSITE OFFLINE
Unfortunately, Steve Gregory of Leicester Balloon Company has still not paid us for the design of this website so we have taken the extraordinary action of taking the site offline . . . again!
We are aware that Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company are in a great deal of debt but we believe he has been in this position for some time and therefore shouldn't have instructed us to create the site if he has no way of paying for it.
We have successfully gained a CCJ against Steve Gregory at Leicester Balloon Company but the bailiffs at Leicester County Court where unable to enforce the warrant as Customs and Excise already have 'dibs' on much of Steve Gregory's property.
We are also aware of at least eight other suppliers that Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company has failed to pay.
We can also confirm that Leicester Balloon Company has 5 CCJs against them totalling more than £4200; only one of which has been settled.
Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company quote Champions UK, Avon Cosmetics, Ramada Jarvis Hotel Leicester (formerly Grand Hotel), Next, M&S, Manchester United, Leicester City F.C, Nottingham Forest F.C, BBC, Central TV, McDonalds, NSPCC, Donnington Race Circuit, Hilton, Café Royal, Tesco, Asda, Willie Thorne, Dennis Taylor, Matalan, Sainsburys, Leicester Tigers, Dickie BIrd, William Roach (Coronation Street), Paul Nixon (England wicket keeper) as satisfied clients. I do hope such big names had more joy doing business with Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company than we did!
Incidentally, Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company also claim to be members of NABAS, The Balloon Association. We have contacted NABAS and they confirm he is not.
If you would like to chat to us about Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company please drop us an e-mail to leicesterballoonsowememoneytoo@googlemail.com
12th Feburary, 2009.
After a period of receiving small amounts of money from Mr Gregory, he has failed to answer our e-mails or letters again and has still not settled his account. We have no option but to take his site offline yet again.
22nd July, 2008 Update.
Mr Gregory has finally got in contact with us demanding that we take this page down as it is not correct. He claims that he doesn't owe Customs and Excise money; as we were told by Leicester County Court. I will, however, be taking the word of Leicester County Court over Mr Gregory.
I would also like to thank the numerous people who have e-mailed us to say they are having or have had similar problems with Mr Gregory. Your support is very welcome!
14th August, 2008 Update.
Mr Gregory has again been in touch now stating (following legal advice) he is going to sue us because the information above is 'liabless' [sic] and 'slanderous'. We tried to explain the slander laws do not apply here as they relate to false statements injurious to a person's reputation made ORALLY and that libel (a false publication that damages a person's reputation) doesn't apply as everything on this website is true.
Mr Gregory also claims that his company ". . . are prepared as we have always been - to offer payments on an installment plan and via the courts if need be." and yet, to date, we have not had a penny.
14th August, 2008 Update 2.
Mr Gregory has offered to pay his outstanding invoice by installments spread over the next three months:
"Remove it [this website] for 7 days and on the 7th day as you said a ( goodwill gesture ) of £100 will be paid via my mastercard - failure to do so will result in it going back on - followed by £100 14 days later and the remaining balance split over 2 months."
We agreed and decided to give Mr Gregory a last chance sending him a clear schedule of payments that he accepted.
21st August, 2008 Update.
Seven days later we received an e-mail from Mr Gregory stating that he had put money into his MasterCard account but it had not cleared (why didn't you just give us the money directly Mr Gregory?) and that he would be able to pay us the next day. Mr Gregory asked for our contact details so he could telephone us with the card details.
22nd August, 2008 Update.
No surprise that Mr Gregory never contacted us today as he promised. We have now put this site back online and urge other people that have been let down by Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company to get in touch.
leicesterballoonsowememoneytoo@googlemail.com
3rd September, 2008 Update.
Two comments received by people let down by Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company (details removed to protect identites):
"he took several thousand pounds worth of stock from xxxxxx and never paid."
"leicester Balloon Company have owed me money since December. Not much, less than £100, but still outstanding, nevertheless. he has a page promoting his business on xxxxxxx and has never paid for it, at one point claiming this was because he could not find the site even though I pointed out to him that everyone else had paid so presumably they had found it! I have sent a solicitor's letter which he has ignored."
8th September, 2008 Update.
Another comment from a disgruntled fan of Steve Gregory and Leicester Balloon Company:
"We were offered 2 large helium cannisters (should inflate 1600 balloons) rent free for £200 for the whole year. This was an incredible deal and naturally we accepted Steve Gregory's offer. And paid £200 cash. When the day came for our first balloon order for a wedding with a balloon arch and 10 table clusters we needed to inflate approx 50 balloons. We discovered that the cannisters we purchased had enough helium to inflate just 20 balloons! We then had to purchase another helium cannister which meant we were out of pocket just so that we could fulfill this order and unlike Steve Gregory not let anyone down!
Steve has not responded to any of my phonecalls to return the money he took DISHONESTLY from me. So if you are reading this Steve how about returning my money for the EMPTY cannisters you sold me?"
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