Courier Business Stuff

They’re also apparently in the same building as us – and the other business centre behind us. Odd how the management of the business centres have never heard of them though…….

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£400 headlights from Manchester to London – tried to pay for the headlights and the delivery using stolen credit card details from a bloke in Eastleigh. Take care.

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Never dealt with them – except to tell them to F*** off every time they ring. They’re an obvious con though – trading on the back of their links with the ‘Verification Association’, which is actually a limited company owned by the same people.

And then there’s all this stuff.

Posted under Advertising, Courier Scams

It’s www.ufindus.com and it seems a bit dodgy to me.

I don’t know what it was like in your region but they blitzed the North West with television advertising last year (or maybe early this year). At the same time we received loads of sales calls from them explaining what a fantastic service it was, how it had generated such fantastic brand-awareness with their television advertising etc.

I’ve not seen one of their adverts for at least 6 months now and their sales calls (thankfully) seem to have dried up. A cynical person might believe that they’re targetting each TV region in turn, and hassling companies into signing up with them on the strength of their TV advertising. Once they’ve attracted their target number of mug punters in the region they could then move on to the next region.

The thing is everyone knows Yell & Thomson – but the fact that you couldn’t even spell ufindus demonstrates that they have some way to go to generate the level of brand-awareness that they would like you to believe they possess.
 

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It’s just a notice of charge issued on behalf of whatever shonky private company controls the car park at Oxford services.

I think they’ve got long-term and short-term parking at Oxford? If you park in the long term you’re meant to buy a pay and display ticket.

Send the solicitors a letter – “According to my records I could not have been at that location at that time. If you have evidence that I was and that I had agreed to this charge please send it to me and I will assess your claim. If you fail to do so I will assume that your claim is entirely spurious.”

Nobody’s going to jump through hoops, provide all the details requested within a reasonable time and take you small claims court 150 miles from where they’re based for the vague chance of gaining £80.

Posted under Courier Scams, Parking Tickets, Tolls, Charges & Fines

Sorry Ian but this has been around for 10 years and is exactly the MLM crap that Chris was warning about. Google for it and turn up pages like http://www.fuelsaving.info/ethos.htm and http://tinyurl.com/mug72 .
If it was really possible to produce 30% fuel savings don’t you think that Shell & BP would already be selling “Super Economy Derv” at a 20% premium. Don’t you think that Europe would have declared its use compulsory to lower emissions?
 

Posted under Courier Scams, Vans

Barrington House were turning over £3.5 million a year with their charity calendar scam – so that’s over 100,000 companies that fell for it each year and there were at least 5 other companies running similar operations.

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