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. […]