I own a newsagents/off licence in Leeds in April 2006 we put it on the market with RTA, we paid an up front fee of £750 + vat. My Wife initialed all the monetary obligations on the contract with the representative but he never mentioned the withdrawl fee and never asked her to initial it… Read Article →

My very good friend was persuaded to sign up with RTA, having had several telephone calls asking to speak to the company owner and offering to sell his company. Because he wanted to sell, he arranged an appointment for RTA’s representative to come to see him. RTA’s man arrived, asked lots of questions, looked at… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/02/and-welcome-back-to-the-column.html 22nd FEBRUARY, 2012 After a brief absence, it’s time to welcome back RTA “business sales specialists”. We revealed last summer how the firm’s manager Ceri Edwards admitted its contracts were “draconian” and “heavily weighted in RTA’s favour”. Previously we’ve told of clients whose businesses were not sold but RTA still demanded huge fees. Now… Read Article →

http://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/advice/retail-advice/dear-jac/build-up-your-energy/224899.article 6th JANUARY, 2012 Despite what anyone in government ever says, there will be more rules and regs to comply with come April. One you need to know about, if you decide to put your business on the market, is an energy performance certificate (EPC). I became aware of this after two retailers contacted me… Read Article →

We’re draconian admits manager of RTA business sales firm http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011/06/yes-we-are-draconian-admits-ma.html JUNE 29, 2011 We’ve already had a few run-ins with Paul O’Reilly, boss of what claims be Europe’s largest privately owned business sales agency, and now things have turned particularly nasty. O’Reilly wrote to one unhappy customer who’d seen our stories to tell him: “What… Read Article →

Businessmen, please beware RTA Business Consultants 22nd March 2011 on NoodleIt.com http://www.noddleit.com/nod/i6875 The Federation of Small Businesses, who we are part of, are warning their members about using RTA (Business Consultants) Limited – they have RTA listed in their ‘scams library’! Small businesses are losing large sums of money by attempting to sell their businesses… Read Article →

Reported : 16th May 2010 Story reported in The Grocer by Jac Roper “As I write this Jaswinder Singh Dhesi and his wife Sukvinder Kaur are celebrating in Tamworth following a court victory with business transfer agents RTA (which the Daily Mirror’s investigations team says stands for ‘road traffic accident’. Just Google to read all… Read Article →

Reported by Jac Roper, The Grocer http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/articles.aspx?page=independentarticle&ID=200589 12 June 2009 Sukhvinder Kaur and her husband Dhesi Jaswinder have been having a serious barney with business transfer agents RTA. She writes: “In March 2006 I put my shop on sale through RTA. I had also paid them an advertising fee up front. However, in August 2008… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/12/we-nail-that-rta-sales-pitch.html DECEMBER 16, 2009 Our old mate Paul O’Reilly wasn’t pleased to hear from us. “You will obviously be aware that I have always found your tactics distasteful and you do nothing more than emphasise this view with your latest approach,” said the boss of RTA (Business Consultants) Ltd. His outfit claims to help people… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/04/rta-business-consultantswant-2.html APRIL 15, 2009 Fancy £26,450 for not doing anything useful? That seems to be what commercial estate agents RTA Business Consultants want. We’ve written before about this lot taking fees from people wanting to sell their businesses, and who then get no offers. But we’ve not come across anything like this. Ken Bryan paid… Read Article →