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Saturday, 4 February 2023

MAKER & SON...THE CONRAN'S HAVE DESIGNS ON YOUR MONEY

 

This smug-looking couple should never be allowed to run a business again. 

In just three years they have cost customers, suppliers and investors tens of millions of pounds.

The Dame rarely does this sort of article but three of her readers have lost many thousands of pounds ordering their sofas from Maker & Son set up by Felix Conran, grandson of the late and very unpleasant, Terence Conran. Trust Pilot Reviews are just appalling.

Dressed in their aprons the duo gives the impression they were actually making the sofas: instead, orders were just passed on to manufacturers. Vast amounts were spent on marketing...not making.

Customers each paid several thousand pounds in deposits. Six months later no sofa and the bad news was that the company had gone under owing millions and customers would see neither their money nor their sofa.

The questions being asked are serious ones....

1. Why were deposits not ring-fenced to protect deposits

2. Were Conran and his father trading whilst Maker & Son was insolvent. 

Ironically, in 2018 when Wilcox and his son started the Conran restaurant chain went into administration.



8 comments:

  1. Reading the Trust Pilot reviews it seems the police should investigate

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  2. A friend paid £8,000 as deposit and was told it was being made....6 months later company goes under.

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  3. Has theft been involved

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  4. Sounds as if the entire thing was a con.

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  5. People should have gone to local maker Kingcome....why waste money on an in between company

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  6. A friend lost a £8000 deposit trusting Conman and his father

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  7. They pretended they made the furniture when it was all outsourced

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  8. Screwed by Conman5 February 2023 at 10:06

    Conman has never designed anything....oh, some weird unusable bag.

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