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foster123

:T Good to see that somethings finally happened to the cowboy outfit lets hope the criminal justice system does the right thing:T

trisontana

BASFORDLAD wrote: »

Ive looked and couldn't see anything for last few days

I wonder if the local newspaper will admit that it's been fooled by printing something {Removed by Forum team} told them without doing any background checks.

Anyone who has read the excellent book Flat Earth News will recognise this as a piece of "churnalism". This is when a newspaper prints an unchecked publicity blurb or press release as "news", because it's easier and cheaper than doing some good old-fashioned, pounding the streets, reporting.

The moral of the story is for newspapers not to believe anything that anybody tells you, (especially when it's to advertise their company) until they have done some basic checks on that company or person.

yorksrabbit

Re the Southend paper: it's only possible to speculate, but from something {Removed by Forum team} said awhile back, there was an "original article" none of us have ever seen but which may well have been some kind of GCsPCs Press Release, perhaps tied in with the news of his company's sponsorship of the Southend football ground scoreboard.

Given the standard (or lack of) {Removed by Forum team} prose, it would likely have been impossible for the paper to simply print it, so an interview would've had to be arranged. The Echo isn't a free sheet, so won't shove any old PR rubbish into its columns anyway.

Tom King, one of the Echo's reporters, interviewed the teenage tycoon, and a photographer took some happy snaps at the football ground. King even got a back-up quote (that now seems eerily ambiguous) from Southend United's commercial manager: "When you do business with {Removed by Forum team}, the first thing you need to do is suspend disbelief.”

Either the Echo's editorial staff operate a lineage pool via which they flog off stories to the nationals, or their published story was picked up by a local news agency which rushed out to find {Removed by Forum team} and do a words/pix package itself for selling onto the nationals for up to £500 a pop.

After which, of course, it all unravelled, as reported by Alex McNally, a different staff journalist, in the same paper in late February.

The Echo may now feel it's looking a bit stupid, though a mature Editor would realise the paper will look even more stupid if it fails to report the latest development.

trisontana

OK, I concede that given {Removed by Forum team} poor communications skills, the piece was more or less an original piece of journalism. Even so I still think a few basic checks would have revealed the truth about the whole shambolic operations. A quick glance at the mess that was his website should have rung some alarm bells, and made the reporter question how such an amateurish set-up was supposedly pulling in thousands a week.

superfran_uk

Oh this story is just...

I'm going to Benfleet today, shall I call in on lovely {Removed by Forum team} and co??

yorksrabbit

superfran_uk wrote: »

Oh this story is just...

I'm going to Benfleet today, shall I call in on lovely {Removed by Forum team} and co??

I know it's a gag, but sherioushly though. . .

Keeping well clear of any kind of approach to {Removed by Forum team} & Co at this time is advisable -- not because of misplaced sensitivity, rather an awareness that the Crown Prosecution Service, for all its impressive-sounding title, ain't always that impressive.

At all.

The police can make every effort possible in whatever matter comes its way, but after their work lands in the lap of someone at the CPS that's it.

And if that lap happens to belong to some pimply jobsworth who can barely read, then -- as an earlier poster on this thread has already reported, where an eBay scam was concerned -- Justice isn't served in any way.

A defence has already been publicly rehearsed by {Removed by Forum team} in his local paper (and elsewhere) along the lines of I've been unfairly harassed / unfairly persecuted / unfairly criticised and, ironic or not, it could yet be the case that some brief or other decides to cite this thread and that on DS in support of {Removed by Forum team} argument. . .

. . . In hope that by selectively quoting some of the more, um, inflammatory posts, the CPS won't have time / won't be bothered enough to actually read through both threads in their entirety, but will instead conclude that yes, a vicious campaign to "wreck" the business of {Removed by Forum team} & Co has indeed been perpetrated and that really, this is an instance of someone being more sinned against than sinning.

About the only posts likely to be non-controversial at this time will be those from Dan, who previously advised that all charges against {Removed by Forum team} had been dropped (before, er, any charges were ever levelled) and Serena of Newcastle, currently enjoying the sixth month of her ownership of the wonderful Sony Vaio laptop with which she was presented by GCsPCs.

Come to think of it, Serena will be an excellent character witness.

superfran_uk

Ummm yes, it was not in the least bit serious. Just a strange co-incidence that I stumbled upon this thread on the same day I was heading there!

magic8ball

Good News for any {Removed by Forum team}fans missing their daily T&C fix, looks like the percorsof1.co.uk site has been updated and is 'Coming Soon'.

underlay_guru

Anyone else interested in more 'How not to sell' websites?!? :laugh:

Simply type in a product (e.g "Sat Nav") followed by "Powered by Cubecart" into Google.

.....The web is full of BODGED-UP and WONKY Cubecart-format shops with stupid layouts and crazy T&C's. Enjoy!:dance:

trisontana

I can see where the blessed {Removed by Forum team} got all his ideas from now, The contact page on one site is exactly the same format as the one used by {Removed by Forum team}, including a "legal" email address and a "sponsorship" one.

http://www.etelectronicsstore.co.uk/contact-us/info_2.html

Look familiar?