BUYERS BEWARE

[Pippie]

Being one of the directors of the Czech company being spoken of here, I'd like to add some balance to this story. One of the members indeed had the correct version of the events. Trans Global Timbers s.r.o. in the Czech Republic opened a mill early last year to start producing products we had already been supplying to customers in the UK. Our hope was that we'd be able to offer those products at significantly more competitive prices than we already had been doing. We could never have foreseen the turn of the economic climate world wide with Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. This impacted our company on various fronts and the hiccoughs that are usually associated with start ups were multiplied many fold. Raw material prices started escalating and production costs and problems hit us on every front. We tried to deal with the problems as they came up, and with some time we might well have succeeded.

Please bear in mind that we personally invested heavily in this startup too, with loans because we believed in our commitment to the quality of the product we'd be supplying. Earlier this year, the bank foreclosed and took the machinery that we required to produce the products.

We have never run away from creditors in the past and the idea that we would choose to do so now, is ludicrous. However, we need time to establish ourselves in order to rectify the situation. Our history of trading since 2012 will bear testimony to this as will our actions of rectifying matters such as these

For the record, we DID communicate with all the people we owe/d products and money to. Our records will testify to that. However some people, like the person posting this, chose not to believe us and rather than verify all the facts of the matter, has chosen to malign the intentions of the directors, and all the companies they represent, rather than just stick to the facts of the matter. Slandering and maligning companies that the writer of the original post had no dealings with, is not only in bad form but highly unethical. 

I thank those members with good intentions who chose to question the wild statements being made to this post and acted with integrity. The world needs more people such as yourselves.