| Reading lots of the tangents only make me more confused. If it's a legitimate UK LTD -- not just "registered over the internet without meeting the legal director requirements" -- it can get a bank account. To get the money that's collected so far, sounds like the poster needs to do one of the following: (1) Get Apple to change the 'company name' to match his legitimate bank accountholder name. I can see why Apple wouldn't want to do this, especially if they've already associated tax IDs and so forth with the sketchy LTD. (2) Get the bank to change the accountholder name to match the intended target of Apple's payment. I can see why a bank couldn't do that, changing a personal account to a corporate or DBA accout, due to policy and regulation. (3) Create a new entity, with a proper bank account, and then convince Apple it is the legitimate successor/acquirer-of-interest in the old company. This might offer the greatest odds of getting the original monies back, but only after sending lots of documents back-and-forth to prove everything's on the up-and-up. In the meantime, I would say the top priority is to redirect the current stream of interest in your apps and money to some new targets where things are done right from the get-go. Ignore sunk costs and stop collecting more money where it may not be retrievable. Set up a new developer account and bank account the right way from scratch ASAP; rerelease your apps there and do something with the old apps that directs people to the new home. One final thought: maybe Apple can mail a check to the LTD at its official address? But that again assumes it's a real LTD, that can transact legal business, with the poster as an officer. It seems like that may not be the case -- the poster has bought a broken, useless fiction over the internet, and then told Apple to pay that fiction. |