Consumer Protection Agency !!!!

[Hoga]

Be Aware of the Company "Consumer Protection Agency !!!!!!!!"
Anyone who applies will get accepted . For 500 GBP a year You can be Agency approved Plumber,Electrician or any other trade you like .

[Tony]

Hi Hoga,

I had a quick glance over this site, they do have standards for their members are you saying that these are not enforced?

Best regards,

Tony

[marty]

Tend to agree with above i applied recently did not proceed with contract because i had my suspicions. would like to hear from other tradesmen experiences, i might be wrong?

[dave the trade]

They do check you out, and their service works, better than a lot of other stuff thats out there.

[Tony]

Dave, could you provide more details? Tony

[dave the trade]

more details of what tony? how i was checked or how it works

[Tony]

I guess people reading this would want to know both and most importanly whether they get any business. The "Trading Standards Fair Trading Award" is interesting as this is a certificate for individuals I thought.

[selina]

I have to agree with Dave on this one, i am quite a sceptical person, and didnt want my husband signing up to another load of advertising or 'trade membership schemes' with no real propsepects of getting a return for our money.
we contacted them and they explained everything, most of their checks seem to be electronic, i know this as they wrote to me asking why we had a CCJ registered, it turned out id forgotten when applying and had to explain it was a unpaid parking fine! (they asked for proof just in case i was lying)

We've been with them for 5 months and have have been pleasantly surprised. The improtant thing is that they are not an advertsing servive, the work seems to come because our customer trust us, Not sure if all our new customers check us out, i know 2 have for definate, as they said they did. For the money it seems worth it. I think for hoga to say they dont check you is a bit of an insult to the good traders like us .

[kris1anne]

Thats interesting - have to say though as someone using tradespeople I dont care if you have a bad credit history or not - I care that you will do a good job and not rip me off and I would prefer to know exactly what checks you are asked to undertake. For instance, do you have to provide evidence of your qualifications and viable references. I wouldnt be interested otherwise.

[selina]

Yes we are a good company and we wont rip you off, they didnt do a credit check, the CCJ issue was to make sure we havent been taken to court by our customers. qualifications for builders are not mandtorie, but the guys who do the gas and electric work are, and yes they did check our references