BOSSES selling agricultural machinery have promised not to make misleading statements when selling their goods.

Alan Farrow junior, a director of East Yorkshire Machinery Ltd based on Hull Road, Shiptonthorpe, and Duncan Sharp, a sales director at the same company, both made the vow to York County Court.

The pair were already known to trading standards officers, but other complaints were received from small businesses in the UK, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

Customers complained the goods were very poor quality, not fit for purpose and not the same as described in either the advert or the sales negotiations.