Westy, (maybe you could use your real name and fill out your profile information)
You still completely miss the point so I'll try to explain it in words that aren't too complicated.
If you paid £250 a year to use the NCCA logo and had NOT been on their training courses, you could be an untrained idiot running around ruining carpets under the banner of being an NCCA member.
But having done the courses and not choosing to pay the annual membership, you are considered vermin in the eyes of NCCA.
It is a fact that the majority of experienced, long-established and skilled carpet cleaners in this country are NOT members of the NCCA. That's because they are also sound businessmen and recognise that the NCCA gives them nothing in return for their money.
Until this industry gets a pre-requisite qualification, nationally enforced by law, without which you can not trade, this argument will rage on.
In the mean time I'm quite happy making a nice profit out of running my business in the way I see fit and ethical (I'm an affiliate member anyway, not that I give a rat's ar$e).
You've missed your vocation, you should have been a warden in WW2
"PUT THAT LIGHT OUT"