Terms and Conditions of Sale
1. GENERAL
In these terms and conditions of trading “Anco” means Anco Storage Equipment Limited. “The Customer” means the customer to whom Anco agrees to supply goods. “Goods”
mean any goods supplied by Anco to the customer. These terms and conditions shall apply to all contracts entered into between Anco and the customer unless agreed to the
contrary in writing by an authorised officer of Anco. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by Anco (the supplier) these conditions which supersede any earlier sets of conditions
appearing in the supplier’s catalogues or elsewhere shall override any terms or conditions stipulated incorporated or referred to by the buyer whether in the order or in any
negotiations and all guarantees warranties or conditions (including any conditions as to quality or fitness for any particular purpose) whether express or implied by statute common law otherwise are excluded and hereby negatived.
2. ORDERS
All orders are subject to the availability of the goods and to written acceptance by Anco. Any prior indications by Anco by telephone facsimile E-mail or verbally shall be provisional only. Limited stocks means that certain goods may only be available on a first come first served basis. Anco shall not be liable for the unavailability of any goods whether for delivery or for collection.
3. PRICES
Catalogue, prices lists and other advertising or promotional material are intended to provide an indication as to the price range of the goods offered by Anco and no variations shall give rise to a claim against Anco. Anco reserves the right to pass on to the customer any increases or decreases in the cost of providing the goods that occur between the date of quotation and delivery. All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT at the standard rate.
4. MANUFACTURERS SPECIFICATION
The customer recognises that Anco is only a distributor of the goods. Although Anco will try to notify the customer of any variations in specification of which it is aware the customer accepts that Anco cannot be accountable for the consequences of any such variations made by the manufacturer or any shortage of supplies.
5. DELIVERY
5.1 Dates and times quoted by Anco for delivery run from the receipt by Anco of a written order. All dates and times quoted are estimates and any delay in meeting delivery dates will not give rise to a right to cancel the order or a right to any form of compensation or damages.
5.2 Offers for goods ex-stock are subject to the goods being unsold at the time of receipt of the customers order.
5.3 Unless specifically included in the quotation, prices quoted do not include delivery, any delivery charges incurred by Anco will normally be passed on to the customer, subject to any scale charges employed by Anco at the time.
5.4 Anco reserves the right to make part deliveries. Any request by the customer for Anco to delay or split delivery may result in a stockholding charge and any additional costs
incurred by Anco being debited to the customer.
5.5 The customer must check the goods before use or resale and in any event within the time limit specified in clause (11), no liability can be accepted for the consequential loss
arising from a breach of this condition.
6. PAYMENT
6.1 Unless agreed to the contrary in writing all invoices are payable by cash or cheque before shipment of the goods or against a pro-forma invoice whichever is the earlier. If the customer is an approved account holder invoices are payable within 30 days of the invoice date. Any right or set-off in favour of the customer and against Anco is hereby excluded.
6.2 If the customer fails to make payment as provided for above Anco shall have the right, in addition to any other remedies it may wish to pursue to charge interest on overdue accounts at the rate of 2% per month until payment is received.
7. FORCE MAJEURE
Anco shall not be liable for any loss whatsoever suffered by the customer in the event of cancellation of the agreement to supply the goods if the supply of such goods would be illegal, contrary to manufacturers conditions of sale or impossible for Anco to perform.
8. INSOLVENCY
In the event that the customer is declared insolvent or compounds or makes any arrangement with it’s creditors or has distress levied against its goods or assets or has a receiver or liquidator appointed Anco shall have the right to suspend deliveries until payment has been made goods already supplied and for all outstanding orders.
9. TITLE AND RISK
9.1 Risk in the goods shall pass to the customer at the time of delivery to or collection by the customer or its agent whichever is the earlier.
9.2 Legal and beneficial ownership of the goods shall remain with Anco until it has received payment in full for the goods. Until that time the customer accepts that it holds the goods in a fiduciary relationship as Anco bailee and will store the goods so as to identify them as the property of Anco and keep them free from any charge or encumbrance.
9.3 Even before title passes, the customer may sell and deliver the goods to a third party but only on behalf of and to the account of Anco. Until Anco has been paid in full for the goods the customer shall be liable to account to Anco for the proceeds of sale and shall keep such proceeds, including the proceeds of any insurance claim, apart from other monies. Anco shall have the right to inspect any records relating to the customers dealings with the goods and the proceeds of sale.
10. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS
All liability for any loss of any nature including consequential loss arising out of the use or supply of the goods is hereby excluded.
11. RETURNS
11.1 All goods shall be deemed accepted unless rejected within 72 hours of delivery/collection of the goods. Notice of rejection must be confirmed in writing giving detailed reasons for rejection. No compensation, credit or right of set-off shall be given by Anco until the same has been received by Anco from the manufacturer, supplier or insurer as the case may be, Goods incorrectly ordered by the customers shall be returnable only at the sole discretion of Anco and subject to a return charge of 15% of the nett order value, and the recovery of the delivery costs for the original order.
11.2 Any goods being returned for any reason must be packaged in such a way that they are received in the same condition as when they were shipped to the customer, otherwise the amount of credit will be reduced to its resale value.
12. RETURNS PROCEDURE
Before returning any goods to Anco the customer shall notify Anco by letter facsimile or E-mail of its desire to return the goods together with the reason for the return.
13. NON DELIVERY
Non delivery of any consignment or part thereof within 14 days of the date of invoice from Anco must be notified in writing to Anco.