Rogues is the word to describe the people behind Elite Phones and Computers Limited of Eccles of Greater Manchester who have been exposed by the BBC Watchdog programme and slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading claims. The company repairs gadgets, laptops, tablets, phones and games consoles saying it make repairs quickly from […]
Month: January 2020
Thousands left high and dry as Woodford closes fund
The Oracle of Oxford is no more following the closure of the Woodford investment fund last year although the man at the centre of the scandal has walked away with millions of pounds. In contrast the thousands of ordinary people who put their trust in his so-called Midas touch when it came to investments have […]
I lost £180,000 when firm went bust
If only they had checked out FX Premier’s background Hundreds of investors lost a total of £11m when the Premier FX currency firm collapsed in the summer of 2018 soon after its sole director and owner Peter Rexstrew died. The case continues to be investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) more than 18 months […]
Beware Rogue Builders!
Dodgy builder took £60 off mum and never did the work! Picture: Kent Online After Shelley Weeks’ husband Wayne died of cancer she decided to invest the lump sum from his pension into improving the family home in Coxheath. She paid the building firm Trigon Property Care owned by Christopher Hook £60K to construct an […]
Self-publishers beware!
Self-publishers beware of this man: he’s ripped off authors and printers alike. Last summer Neill Stuart Malcolm John was banned by the Insolvency Service from being a director of a company after he ran a string of bogus online printing companies that ripped off self-publishers. Scores of wannabe authors and dozens of printing firms were […]
Christmas nightmare: avoiding rubbish ‘Lapland experiences’ by checking out the organisers on CheckaCo for £3.85
Every Christmas hundreds of families have their hopes crushed by visiting rubbish Christmas Wonderlands. Those places that say you can enter a land of snow and ice, a land of magic and Christmas mystery filled with reindeer, presents and sparkling lights. When the reality is a rain-soaked car park with a few stalls, a naff […]
My kitchen nightmare: how I lost £500 to defunct firm – others have lost thousands to cowboy companies
If only we’d known about CrediCheckCo! Harry Mottram reports A few years ago, I put a deposit for a new kitchen with a local kitchen company who went bust after I had placed my order along with a deposit of £500. I never did get my kitchen and as for the deposit – you guessed […]
Narrow escape from taking job with failing company
I was talking to a friend of mine before Christmas and she was telling me about a really close call her daughter Maxine had in November last year. Maxine is a sales executive in the industrial valve industry based near Manchester, and is quite well known in her trade and with some loyal long-standing clients. […]