Planet Fun, where are they gone?

thehomeofDob · 19-05-2007 11:56am #1

I've searched, and can't find anything mentioned on here about this, so I had to post.

My dad brought his bike in to be serviced there a while back, to the Planet Fun in Glassnevin, they never returned his bike. The shop seems to have disappeared, and they're not answering the phone. It seems they've moved to somewhere in wicklow, but the owners of the property they rented in Glassnevin aren't giving any info.
Does anyone know where they've gone to? The guards are saying to get a solicitor to get the info we need, but I'd rather not go down that route unless necessary.

Thanks for any info you can give.

mikemac · 19-05-2007 12:18pm

Thanks for the info.

I have a small claims court case pending against them and wasn't aware they had moved.
According to the companies registration office, they are still registered with the Glasnevin address. They were when I checked in March anyway.

Shower of gangsters, and mods-I'm willing to stand over this if you want to ban me

thehomeofDob · 19-05-2007 1:18pm

Yeah, I've heard it's near blessington they've gone to, we're looking into small claims against them as well. Or we could have a solicitor demand details of where they've moved to. Any more info guys?

Paparazzo · 19-05-2007 5:54pm

Well after CAB raided them I'd say yous haven't much chance of getting your money or bikes back!

thehomeofDob · 19-05-2007 8:20pm

Paparazzo wrote:

Well after CAB raided them I'd say yous haven't much chance of getting your money or bikes back!

Any info on this?

KTRIC · 19-05-2007 8:48pm

Yep, a couple of months ago CAB raided them. They opened afterwards but everyone has been avoiding the place like the plague.

When did your dad bring his bike in ? If you have no luck tracing them I suggest you speak to the CAB and see if they can help you. If the bike was there during the raid then the Gardai might have it.

http://www.garda.ie/angarda/cab.html

thehomeofDob · 19-05-2007 10:06pm

No, he had brought it in just over a month ago. So it would have been after the raid. We had no idea, otherwise we never would have stepped foot in the place. Still no idea where exactly they've set up shop?

Popeleo · 19-05-2007 11:28pm

Is their small place in Coolmine gone too? I had a warranty issue last year and I had to drop my bike there.
(Warranty now over, thankfully, as it'd probably be worthless now without waiting ages for the main distributor to act)

thehomeofDob · 20-05-2007 9:18am

Yupp, place in coolmine is gone afaik. My dad's been without his bike for over a month now, only a 50cc mophead, but none the less, he needs it.

saobh_ie · 21-05-2007 9:16am

Can you report it stolen? The lads have in effect disappeared into thin air with it...

subway · 21-05-2007 4:50pm

saobh_ie wrote:

Can you report it stolen?

afaik, if you willingly habd something over it becomes a civil matter to get it back

thehomeofDob · 22-05-2007 8:40am

We've already been to the guards, they sugested a solicitor.

bjmotors · 22-05-2007 1:30pm

i heard they moved to wexford, not 100% sure tho.

tk123 · 22-05-2007 2:24pm

they did me a good deal last year on my bike - I'm glad I never got around to going up to them a few weeks ago to see about trading it in!

thehomeofDob · 23-05-2007 8:26am

Right, here's an update. We've gone to the Guards in relation to the CAB. They say it's possible planet fun was raided, but they won't say any more than that. Is there evidence the place was raided? Was it in the paper or something?

bjmotors · 23-05-2007 12:46pm

it was deinitely raided. I used to work in the bike trade, and stil kinda do, but i do my own thing now from home.(im not gona mention the bike shop i used to work for as it is not relevant). it wasnt planet fun anyway.:rolleyes:

One of the lads i used to work with went up to planet fun to chase up on money he was owed on a bike (he imports bikes from japan and sells them to the bike traders) n when he arrived their were loads of people in suits removing what he said were boxes of files and paper. therefore being raided by tax people or whatever.

This was approx 2 months ago.

Also i heard that Eoin Doran(the original owner of planet fun) is bankrupt and planet fun had been taken over and run by a well know criminal who was shot and killed up in finglas a few months.

So there is alot of suspicious activity with planet fun. it would be very intresting if the papers were able to get some information and expose all of this.;)