Bleak outlook for Time and Tiny customers

Customers of Time and Tiny Computers are signing an online petition asking for an official government investigation into the collapse of the computer giant.

With no prospect of people getting their money back for undelivered goods after the Granville Technology Group (GTG), which sold the Tiny and Time brands, went bust last month, Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans and Burnley Labour MP Kitty Ussher have also called on the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the company.

The complex business set up of GTG means administrators Grant Thornton, said it is still unclear who actually owned the Tiny and Time brand. It is also not clear what legal links Granville has with businesses such as VMT, the company that manufactured the computers for the Group.

This has lead to unsubstantiated reports that VMT is not affected by GTG’s collapse and will continue to produce plasma and flat screen TVs as well as notebooks and PCs.

Asked about these reports, Simon Rothschild from Grant Thornton UK said:. " It's too early to say [if there is any truth to these rumours]. But there's no real likelihood for unsecured creditors getting a refund."

The only ray of hope for some Time and Tiny customers concerns anti virus software. Granville had a licence agreement with Kaspersky Labs which enabled it to pre-install Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Anti-Hacker with a one-year licence.

Kaspersky said it will honour valid licences from GTG's customers, despite being owed money by the computer manufacturer.

Any customers wanting to contact Kaspersky Lab can call 0870 0113461 or email info@kasperskylab.co.uk. The helpline number for all other enquiries related to Granville Technology is 0870 830 3288 or people can email enquiries-time@gtuk.com

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