Peter

The worst buying experience of my life.

Trader Nick Malpas appears to use 3 different business fronts. NM Cars (Bristol), LCM Automotive (vehicle sales), LCM Automotive (Bristol) Limited. I recently discovered that NM Cars is promoted as a separate business from LCM Automotive. I believed I had been buying from LCM Automotive, but now understand that Mr Nick Malpas had processed the payment into the account of the NM Cars business. When I tried to present company details for a Civil Court Claim against LCM Automotive for mis-selling and other issues, I used details from my invoice. However, Mr Malpas sent instruction to change the business name to LCM Automotive (Bristol) Limited. However, it is a legal requirement that Limited liability companies are indicated as such on invoices. There was no indication of a Limited company on the car sales invoice. Further the official government details as registered at Companies House indicate that LCM Automotive (Bristol) Limited, has nature of business as 45200- repair and maintenance of motor vehicles, so according to Companies House, it suggests that LCM Automotive (Bristol) Limited do not do car sales. Additionally, there are different VAT numbers on separate invoice documents for LCM Automotive (vehicle sales) and LCM Automotive (Bristol) Limited. This also suggests that the two companies are separate. I asked the legal representative for Mr Malpas to give an explanation of why he appeared to persist in giving me what clearly looked like wrong details but have not had an explanation in response. How can it be that, for the one transaction, three different business names are being crossed over. What is going on?