New Company

[AndyP]

For anybody pursuing Mr Sum be aware that on 8th April 2014 the first notification of "strike off" of SUMPOD LTD was published in the London Gazette.

On 20th March 2014 a new company SUMPOD COMMERCIAL LTD was incorporated at the same address as Sumpod Ltd.

I don't know the significance of the first of these events but phoenix like re-incarnations of companies is one common way for crooks to avoid paying their debts.

Good luck everybody.

[jason]

Sumpod website appears unchanged

[CPH007]

Yup I suspect there are many reasons.

You never new company might send what you ordered and when you ordered it for!!

[AndyP]

Sumpod Ltd was dissolved on 22 July 2014.
Sumpod Commercial Ltd was registered with the same address and director on 20 March 2014.
Sumpod Global Limited which was registered on 12 February 2014 with 3 directors one of which was Mr Sum was renamed to Imagipod Limited on 15 August 2014 which was 2 weeks after Mr Sum ceased to be a director.

[AndAgain]

I wonder if anyone actually received notice from SUMPOD Ltd (or an appointed liquidator) that they had applied for voluntary dissolution? As a Creditor, you certainly should have been notified. Far be it for me to suggest Mr Richard Sum flouted the law, but it is in fact a lawful requirement for all Creditors to be recorded, notified and possibly invited to any creditors meeting .... theres plenty of reading material out there on this.

It might be that Mr Sum didnt follow due process and in which case he may (as an Officer of the Company) be personally liable for previously undisclosed debts and/or is forced to have the company, SUMPOD Ltd., reinstated while the assets are re-assessed. In short the law doesnt allow for a silent (or otherwise secret) dissolution of a Limited company, the penalties can be quite severe, they include custodial sentences. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1948/38/section/328/enacted (- also worth clicking on the next several provisions)

Having said all that, if your original paperwork or emails didnt include the salient details that your supplier was 'Limited' (including mention of the word(s) SUMPOD Limited and especially company registration number) then in fact you were either purchasing from a sole trader - (Mr Richard Sum personally), or the Limited company was breaking the law. I can only say that my pro-forma included no such details and I wasn't on the creditor list, either way, Mr Sum is liable.

So, anyone who is still owed money should make a formal seven day notice for the amount due, if you are told the company has been dissolved and you didnt receive notification, there has been a crime committed - if he has any sense, he'll settle as soon as he can - personally I don't care what's the trigger for him to do the right thing, he should just do it. I appreciate some people have business difficulties and things can go wrong, but I dont believe this to be the case here and I for one have got a bit fed up of his lies, games and/or malicious emails.

[Guest]

Well, well... he's closing Sumpod Commercial now and reinventing himself as Machpro3d Limited

Shall we give this one 8 months?... just long enough to steal some money?

[jason]

Well the sumpod website is "gone".

Just hope no one needed any support.