Clothing Collection Scam

Whyme?_3-2 · 15 May 2007 at 1:45PM

Stop the junkmail by registering with the mail preference system. Cant remember how you do it, just know you can. It will save lots of hassle, reduce waste and hopefully force the RM to stop accepting to post them (unless they are delivered by hand from the little thieves of course)http://img.moneysavingexpert.com/icons/icon9.gif
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vivatifosi · 22 May 2007 at 11:35AM

I telephoned Companies House about a collection company that has been collecting in my area. The company is called Seabeach Ltd. It was collecting locally as of last week. If you look on the Companies House website it says 'Active - Proposal to Strike Off'. I asked Companies House whether the strike off was voluntary or mandatory and they told me Companies House had petitioned for Strike Off and this went in the London Gazette in April. Their annual return is nearly a year overdue and apparently they have no named director or company secretary.

I have complained to both Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Agency as there is no right of redress with this company and even if they do meet their stated aim of sending clothes to the Third World (unlikely) I don't see how they can collect things and do all this in the limited time they have left in existence.

On a wider level Clothes Aid has pointed out that the bags that they collect for Great Ormond have been stolen by some collection companies see:http://www.clothesaid.co.uk/bogus_collectors.html

And MP Jo Swinson proposed an Early Day Motion at the end of the last year to give greater teeth to the organisations fighting these people, see:
http://edmi.parliament.uk/edmi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31696&SESSION=885

Please, Please, Please Martin, make this your next campaign, this time they aren't our millions, they are charities, and how scummy is it to steal from them?

Kimitatsu · 23 May 2007 at 10:36AM

Many of these are scams, however if you have clothes to dispose of (including bedding shoes bags belts etc) then try contacting your local school and see if they run a Bag2school collection. This is a proper charity that promotes recycling of clothes to the third world and pays the school PTA (which are usually charities themselves) for the collection. For small schools especially this can be a big boost as these companies pay about £250 per tonne, a large amount to some!

You will probably find as well that if you cannot get the stuff there yourself then someone will pick it up for you.

It does come to somthing though when you have to make this much effort to prevent the scammers!!

DKLS · 25 May 2007 at 12:58PM

Drive past your local rag mill, I can pretty much guarentee, the owners will be driving a Aston/Ferrari, there is big money in this business.

Dave_Brooker · 27 May 2007 at 11:05AM

Col.Mastard wrote: »

Is this really a Scam?

As I gave them some unwanted cloths recently

It's not a scam as such, as on the leaflet it will admit somewhere that they're a business.

Apparantly due to cheap chinese clothes there's not much money to be made by charities collecting clothes anymore.

But as you say they were unwanted clothes, so they did you a favour by collecting them, and it's better that this stuff gets recycled/exported rather than just ending up in a landfill somewhere...

Suzi.Q_3 · 27 May 2007 at 8:43PM

Whyme? wrote: »

Stop the junkmail by registering with the mail preference system. Cant remember how you do it, just know you can. It will save lots of hassle, reduce waste and hopefully force the RM to stop accepting to post them (unless they are delivered by hand from the little thieves of course)http://img.moneysavingexpert.com/icons/icon9.gif
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We get loads of these leaflets, they're all hand delivered unfortunately.

Uncle_Fester_2 · 6 June 2007 at 3:57PM

DKLS wrote: »

Drive past your local rag mill, I can pretty much guarentee, the owners will be driving a Aston/Ferrari, there is big money in this business.

And it seems to be within the law aswell

trisontana · 6 June 2007 at 7:07PM

On TV the other day it showed that one charity (which collects for Great Ormond Street) is so fed up with unauthorised people stealing their full collection bags, they have equipped two people with motor bikes to follow the vans to see where they end up. This has resulted in several arrests and convictions, and the charity getting a lot of their stuff back.

Col.Mastard · 7 June 2007 at 6:51PM

I got one asking for Furniture today!!!

dangeroussports · 7 June 2007 at 6:59PM

What did you give them?
I need to get shot of a double bed (not a good buy from Debenhams last year, I got the offer from the Grabbit board).

Cant be bothered to sell it on ebay, might put it in hte paper as a freebie.

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