[wynne jones]

Get on Watchdog about it and see how many TACCA plugs you can get in before Anne tells you to be quiet.

one step ahead of ya wynne, first thing i did was email annie. 


not had a reply though

Always thought you were an opportunist. 

Yep, why pay for prime time when you can get it for free. All you need is a good enough story. Alternatively bung an MP a couple of grand and skies the limit.

[Carpet Dawg]

Post it on the tacca website.

Make sure you put a read counter on it and social share button counters i.e. facebook likes, twitter tweets etc.

Send them a link to the article.

[John Kelly]

Police arn't interested. We get fraud attempts all the time don't even bother to report them now. Its pathetic. In the papers today, Romanian bloke who was putting fake fronts on cash machines, estimated the gang got away with 3.5m. He got 18 months suspended and 150 hours community service. Its an absolute joke. If we'd done that we'd have got 10 years min.

[Dave_Lee]

Sounds like the rep didn't plan on being there long. As far as I am aware the reps from Yell now Hibu, haven't been commision paid for some years now, they are on a salary only.
Dave.

[derek west]

well ive just seen the attempt at my signature 

i feel relaxed now. i was worried that the signature would look similar but it is way off. so do i contact a solicitor or wait for them to see what there next move is, they have handed it over to there fraud team apparantly and i have to wait for there outcome.

[formb]

I had a similar experience. It was through email though, they send you an email and you reply, filling in certain parts as confirmation. I did reply but only to tell them I didn't want the additional advertising. They sent me a 'copy' of the confirmation I had sent them, it wasn't the same as the one in my outbox. I phoned them and told them if they didn't desist in asking for money from me I'd contact the police (not that they would be able to do much).

That was this time last year, they never asked for the money again.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Forgery is a serious offence if I were to forge the queens £50 notes I'm sure I would be straight to jail do not past o and do not collect £100.

I would continue with hibu and push for ...... Compensation as you've not been able to sleep on your bed of nails at night just incase you pricked your conscience.

Shaun

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Derek

I think you should go on the attack.

They have attempted to defraud you, not the other way round.

Write or email telling them of your intention to report them to trading standards and to seek damages for all the hassle.

Cheers

Doug

[Mike Gwilliam]

My opinion is this is quite serious as you could very easily have lost a grand but more important is the stress it has put you through.

there are many options but going to a lawyer who has experience of fraud is what i would certainly do. Perhaps a free 1/2 hour consultation to see where the land lies.

Hibu have a lot to loose if something like this gets exposed.

Also perhaps they did not investigate your concern about the bill.

[derek west]

Hibu update.

Stood my ground yesterday, they sent me a letter asking me to send them a sample of my signature so i called them and told them i would not. They said well in that case you will have to pay the bill. I then told them that i have been in touch the action fraud and they told me that you have to prove i didn’t sign it, not the other way round, so they said we are doing, that is why we need you to send your signature, i told them that i don’t have to send my signature and that if you are investigating the issue you will see that you can obtain my signature from past records and also you could contact the women who took my order and ask her direct if i signed it, they said she didn’t work here anymore and we have no way of contacting her, i said well you’ll be stuffed in court trying to prove i signed it then won’t you. Anyway they still insisted that i send them a signature so i gave them an ultimatum, phone me with an apology and a quashed invoice by 4pm tomorrow (now today) or i will file a fraud complaint and then you will be dealing with the fraud squad and my ID number instead of me.
The phone rang today at 4pm. And i no longer owe them any money.

[John Kelly]

They rang me this week and I told them to get lost.

[wynne jones]

They employ monkeys without morals, what do they expect. That type of business is dead. Most have moved on to sell 'free' boilers with Nev's shower in Taffe land.

[Jamie Pearson]

Well I had this years visit from Yell/Hibu.

The same lady we have had for years. Went through all the call logs, clicks and conversions and renewed our book advertising and yell.com sponsored listings again this year.

They aren't all bad and some areas obviously work better than others for this type of thing.

They ain't all bad. I have a mate who is a sales manager for British gas and he was genuinely horrified by some of the tricks the door to door guys coming to him from other providers would pull. It's was so bad that the door to door canvassing is now finished with and they are all on appointment based sales.

[jim mca]

Jaime

You must be jocking British gas are that underhand they have the cheek to call there self Scottish gas and think we don't know and as for underhand I do believe they were fined for there sales forces tactics Eon are still selling door to door so its not banned they packed it in as they were getting to much bad publicity 

[Jamie Pearson]

Yeah he is Scottish Gas.

He was their top sales guy 2 years in a row and was doing it properly.

They made him a team leader and he couldn't believe the strokes they would pull.

Putting cardboard in between the NCR forms then signing folks up for everything once back in their car was probably the mildest one.

Out of the whole door to door team they only kept on him and 1 woman from East Kilbride.

[Kinver_Clean]

Yellow pages, yell, hibu or whatever they want to call themselves share price has gone from a market leader to virtually zilch.
They took on several billion in debt buying foreign pages companies and that has zombied. They are desperate and any respectable sales agent ( are there any?? ) have left and won't touch them with a barge pole.