Shocking gararge.

[cal72]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Sky-Inves...

One mother, from Manchester, who wished to remain anonymous, claims the director of the garage threatened to rape her when she telephoned to get her daughter's car back.

[Eric Mc]

The owner must have been on a customer relations course.

[greggers]

Pretty bad, just shows people still need educating that paying for work up front isn't what you should do. The only reason places like this exist is because people have no common sense or are naive enough to think they are getting a good deal...

[g3org3y]

article said:

When Terry called the garage to ask for his vehicle back, he said he was threatened with "a good seeing to".

Gay.

[Soovy]

bds.

[Digga]

You see, no one gives a fk about business fraud these days, which is a shame because - as teh Sky video explains - companies based at this address (presumably run by the same shysters) have racked up tens of thousands of pounds of unpaid CCJs.

It's like the broekn window syndrome; let crooked directors get away with one thing and it easily leads to another.

I feel sorry for the members of the public being scammed but feel equally sorry for the (largely unsung) legions of businesses also shafted. Can you imagine a small firm or sole trader asking those bds for payment?

[Zod]

This seems like an ideal case for hiring a bunch of heavies to go in - not a course that I would usually advocate.

[hman]

They have been around as long as I can remember and no-one within a 40 mile radius goes near them.

Advertise cheap engine re-cons, stick 2nd hand engines in or tell you that they cant re-con yours so charge a surcharge.

tts of the highest order.

[Chrisw666]

Zod said:

This seems like an ideal case for hiring a bunch of heavies to go in - not a course that I would usually advocate.

That would be the only message the owners of that place would probably understand.

[Dangerous2]

i hope that some effective action an be taken against these people, who appear to be utter, utter, scum. (which is not something I normally think...)

("you can't have your £1000 back we've spent it on pizza")

[oldcynic]

Guam said:

We see cars butchered all the time by Cowboys in our industry and still we hear "oh so and so" is "X" Cheaper than you etc, people will risk even the most expensive cars to save fifty quid! You get what you pay for in most industry's but especially Automotive.

Surely the point of the article is that you don't get what you pay for - and in my experience paying more for repairs never delivers better workmanship. Personal recommendation and internet based research is about as good as you can get when seeking a garage.

If all other factors appear equal then of course the quoted price is a simple way to choose.

[Police State]

he needs all the publicity he can get...

Entrepreneur of the Year





The company currently trades under the following websites:
Mod note: careful of the name and shame rules - the company has been anonymous so far on this thread and it should stay that way.

Edited by Police State on Thursday 21st April 10:12

Edited by GlenMH on Thursday 21st April 10:39

[Silver]

cal72 said:

One mother, from Manchester, who wished to remain anonymous, claims the director of the garage threatened to rape her when she telephoned to get her daughter's car back.

Though presumably not anonymous enough to have a picture of her in the article? Unless it's been mis-captioned.

[Soovy]

oldcynic said:

Guam said:

We see cars butchered all the time by Cowboys in our industry and still we hear "oh so and so" is "X" Cheaper than you etc, people will risk even the most expensive cars to save fifty quid! You get what you pay for in most industry's but especially Automotive.

Surely the point of the article is that you don't get what you pay for - and in my experience paying more for repairs never delivers better workmanship. Personal recommendation and internet based research is about as good as you can get when seeking a garage.

If all other factors appear equal then of course the quoted price is a simple way to choose.

Same with insurance. Buy cheap, get sh t

[tinman0]

skynews said:

The company currently trades under the following websites:
Why should Haymarket have to spend the money?

Sky has quoted the websites, so it's in the public domain.

Tell the Haymarket lawyers to grow some balls.

Edited by GlenMH on Thursday 21st April 12:24

[BruceV8]

hman said:

They have been around as long as I can remember and no-one within a 40 mile radius goes near them.

Advertise cheap engine re-cons, stick 2nd hand engines in or tell you that they cant re-con yours so charge a surcharge.

tts of the highest order.

I was warned off this bunch of clowns about twenty years ago. I can't believe they're still around.

[Zod]

Police State said:

The company currently trades under the following websites:
Mod note: careful of the name and shame rules - the company has been anonymous so far on this thread and it should stay that way.

Edited by Police State on Thursday 21st April 10:12

Edited by GlenMH on Thursday 21st April 10:39

it's not anonymous - it's all over Sky.

[Dangerous2]

tinman0 said:

skynews said:

The company currently trades under the following websites:

Sky has quoted the websites, so it's in the public domain.

Tell the Haymarket lawyers to grow some balls.

are those the websites this company trades under then?

Edited by GlenMH on Thursday 21st April 15:51

[tinman0]

Dangerous2 said:

tinman0 said:

skynews said:

The company currently trades under the following websites:
removed

Sky has quoted the websites, so it's in the public domain.

Tell the Haymarket lawyers to grow some balls.

are those the websites this company trades under then?

Apparently so. According to other websites where this is published.

Edited by GlenMH on Thursday 21st April 12:24

[Digga]

BruceV8 said:

I was warned off this bunch of clowns about twenty years ago. I can't believe they're still around.

Which comes back to my point regarding these 'sorts' of companies and directors.

The low-level fraud thing, the whole phoenix company merrygoround is a breeding pool for this sort of scum. For every excusable and genuine company failure (and also resurrection) there are countless dubious or downright fraudulent ones.

The symptopm is sensational stories like the one we have here, but the root cause is something that none of the authorities seems keen to pursue.