Crown Curreny: In Administration!

[MarkE]

Some very bad news here people, thousands of Holiday makers will be set to lose their travel cash as CCE go into administration.

Taken directly from their website, ADMINISTRATION

Updated: 4 October 2010

ADMINISTRATION

Paul Clark and Matt Bond, of MCR, together with Harold Sorksy and Stella Davis of SPW (UK) LLP were appointed Joint Administrators ("Administrators") of the Companies on 4 October 2010. Paul Clark and Matt Bond are licensed by the Insolvency Practitioners' Association, and Harold Sorsky and Stella Davis are licensed by the ACCA.

The affairs, business and property of the Companies are being managed by the Administrators, who act as agents of the Companies and without personal liability. The role of the Administrators is to deal with the business and assets of the insolvent estates.

CURRENT STATUS
The Companies operations are suspended whilst the Administrators assess the position.

The website will be updated on a regular basis.

In addition, the call centres will be reopened shortly and the operators will deal with your queries as far as possible. Please be advised that the message that the call centre operators provide to customers will be in accordance with the Joint Administrators.

Should you have any queries, please email crowncurrencyexchange@mcr.uk.com and the Administrators endeavour to respond to your query as soon as practicable. Please note that the Administrators understand that there are in excess of 13,000 customers and an immediate response will not be possible.

For and on behalf of
Crown Currency Exchange Limited
Crown Holdings (London) Limited


The Joint Administrators



You may get a swifter reply by calling MCR on 0207 487 7240.

[simonwebb74]

That is bad news. Thats where I got all my travel money from last year!

Is anyone on here affected??

[Sam]

Yep me.

Should have had the money come yesterday for our trip this Sunday.

We ordered just over £3000 which of course has now gone. I'm not really holding out any hope in gettting it back, but we'll fill in the forms and hope for the best.

As you can imagine, I'm a bit devasted as we saved hard for this trip and didn't want to go into debt. Now we're have to put everything on a credit card and try to get it paid off as quick as we can. Looks like christmas is going to be a bit tight this year.

Hey ho can't do anything about it now. Fortunately I have a fantastic husband who has done a great job in putting it all in perspective. It could be worse one of our children could be seriously ill. At the end some of you guys have had to go through worse things.

We're not going to let it affect our holiday.

[Slowhand]

You sure have a great attitude to this terrible news Sam.
I would be hopping mad if it happened to me and I hope that you are still able to have a great holiday nevertheless.

[arkvilla]

It was looking bad on Friday:-

http://wdisneysecrets.com/forums/gen...-problems.html

I know some owners who have also lost money - thankfully we have never used them but lots of people do - so sad - people have saved hard for their sepnding money( or mortgage etc)

Sandra

[Disneybumble]

I am so sorry Sam As Slowhand said, I would be boiling. So well done to your hubby for putting a spin on it.

We used them last year no problem at all. It will be trusty M@S for me again.

[arkvilla]

We use XE.com to transfer our money over to our US account but for cash we use Thomas Exchange Global - their rates are very good

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates List & Information, Foreign Currency Selling Rates Comparison

Sandra

[Lisa1976]

Am so glad I have my Sun Trust bank account. I don't normally take alot of dollars in cash with me, probably a couple of hundred, the rest is sitting in my account waiting to be used when we get there.

I really do feel for the poor people caught up in this.

[Isafari]

Sam

[daveann]

this is so sad for everyone concerned