Caporegime
How is it legal to ramp up prices (or even continue to sell) for one last burst of profit knowing you about to go into admin, that should be a jailable offence in my view.
I assume that they were trying to show prospective buyers that there had a customer base that was willing to pay and could still do sales and be in a position to carry on trading. Guess it wasn't very convincing though.
Agreed it is a shady practice though.
What annoys me more though is that there have been concerns about getting their license renewed for quite a while now, but the mainstream news outlets (BBC News et al.) didn't really start reporting or putting it on the top of the pile until maybe Friday afternoon. I imagine a lot more people would have not booked if they were more aware of the issues they were in.