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Hi.
We want to share our experience with a firm ufindalocal.comso that they are exposed and no other businesses get ripped off by them.
They started by cold calling to sell their advertsingcompany. Having told them loads of time we were not interested, we finally gavein due to their hard selling and agreed to advertise for one year for £280.
A couple of months passed and we received a call to say wehadn’t opted out of the following years advertising and therefore owed them£8000+VAT!!!! Shocked we told them we did not agree, but they pointed out it isin the small print of their invoice which indeed it was. We were told that ifwe agreed there and then they would reduce it to £3999. In a panic and againafter their aggressive hard sell reluctantly agreed just to get the price downas we weren’t sure of our legal position.
After seeking advise we decided to then ignore all callsetc. Luckily we had changed banks so the previous card details were no longervalid...if they had been they would have charged the £3999 to that account.
We then received an invoice via recorded delivery. Weignored it.
Yesterday we received an email stating we owed them themoney and if we did not pay they would take us to court. We replied statingthat we had taken further legal advise (which we had) and that we were notpaying them and we were going to report them to the Department of Trade andIndustry. After a couple more emails of them trying to call our bluff theywithdrew their invoice and told us we did not owe anything.
If anyone else has been fooled into this please do not paythem anything. We are reporting them to the DTI and have also informed papersetc and hope that they are exposed for the scam artists they are!!