GCs PCs - DO NOT BUY FROM [Removed]

dacouch

Do you mean George Agdgdgwngo

Brooker_Dave

dacouch wrote: »

We have not heard from [Name removed by Forum Team] for a while

He's got a new website to build I suppose.

dacouch

If we could keep [Name removed by Forum Team] busy on here reading our messages and then composing his long winded nonsensical replies then we could hopefully distract him from making a new website and ripping other people off.

BASFORDLAD

chance would be a fine thing, him and his dad are proberly creating thier next scheme as we speak

yorksrabbit

dacouch wrote: »

If we could keep [Name removed by Forum Team] busy on here reading our messages and then composing his long winded nonsensical replies then we could hopefully distract him from making a new website and ripping other people off.

Best to leave the [Name removed by Forum Team] alone at this time. The family has lost so much in the past 14 months they are surely nearing bankruptcy. Here are the true facts:

Everything was great in 2007. The website was set up for just 50 pence. It made £800 in its first month. But then Christmas came and PayPal, in anything but the festive spirit, froze the company's account.

£20,000 was lost:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091235/Schoolboy-runs-400-000-electronics-empire-home.html?ITO=1490

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/search/3942271.Updated__Schoolboy__16__is_mobile_phone_tycoon/

But 2008 got off to a good start with Essex Trading Standards taking time out of a busy schedule to read through every word of GCPCs Terms and Conditions and approve them (posts #71 & #88, this thread.)

As this is the first recorded case of a public sector undertaking providing a private sector consultancy service free of charge, GCPCs actually saved itself a small fortune.

But afterwards the company again began incurring heavy losses, first because of fraud and then through high operating costs due to paying between £100 and £150 for every fraud check (post #70, this thread.)

At around the same time, GCPCs' bank account fell into the hands of Nigerian fraudsters. It was bad enough that this happened once. But then it seems to have happened again. (Also post #70 this thread, though the phrase:

This was due to GC's PC's losing its bank account due to fraudsters in July 2008 and had once again recently been struck and this was a host we were not willing to take

isn't in English and so may have been written by a different Nigerian fraudster who intercepted this MSE post.)

With losses mounting after the theft of the company's bank account not once but twice, and £100-£150 fraud check payments draining the company's finances, disaster then occurred on the domestic front.

£11,000 was stolen from the family home:

#3 http://forum.echo-news.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4

By now the combined company and family losses were possibly approaching £50,000.

After Paypal's dreadful behaviour in 2007 it might have been thought that Christmas 2008 would be better. Instead:

"the business was also hard hit by a heavy theft of stock this month" (December) See:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/search/3942271.Updated__Schoolboy__16__is_mobile_phone_tycoon/

This may have been the theft of two valuable consignments of mobile phones referred to in

#3 http://forum.echo-news.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4

unless yet another instance of great misfortune.

But costs turned astronomical earlier this month when it was discovered that one national newspaper after another, as well as the local Press, had completely misquoted most of what GCPCs Managing Director [Name removed by Forum Team] had said. The issue centred upon:

"Now the company makes more than £30,000 a month, comfortably giving it a six-figure annual turnover. He said: 'So I can say that in two years, I've built up a company with a six-figure turnover on the back of 50p'."

This scurrilous nonsense was either printed directly in newspapers ranging from the local Press to the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. Or it was edited down by The Sun to a few paragraphs for a readership which cannot absorb any text exceeding 100 words, ideally of one syllable with a very big picture.

Although Essex Trading Standards was yet again providing a consultancy service free of charge at the start of this month (#71, this thread) the savings made are as nothing compared to the costs arising from this:

"the press has lied on multiple occassions and we are taking legal action as this misrepresents our company." See #202 at:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=30640099&highlight=#post30640099

And:

"we are now taking legal action against the newspapers for deformation."
(#197: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=946227&page=8)


GCPCs legal adviser has previously been identified an 'independant trained solicitor' (#88, this thread) though working on a part-time basis.

Her / his services are inevitably more costly than those provided by an untrained solicitor who is actually working full-time for someone else, so GCPCs has faced some heavy costs here even if the advice apparently given is questionable. For example:

* Trading Standards departments exist largely to read and approve the Terms & Conditions of the 326,000 UK businesses currently trading online;

* all British adolescent males are protected against age discrimination under New South Wales (Australia) legislation;

* you can definitely take newspapers to court for deforming yourself and your property, especially where such deformation results from tons of newsprint falling from a great height.

A barrister has therefore been needed to advise on High Court actions that at minimum will result in £300,000 costs per case, per newspaper.

Even though this cumulative £1million-plus in legal fees will be won back by GCPCs because of the strength of its case, nevertheless a £10,000 fee will already have had to be paid to GCPCs' own barrister merely to begin the actions.

As if this isn't enough, yet more expense is piling up due to the company's relocation to London (#249 at:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=946227&page=10

So. Do the math.

GCPCs isn't earning and never has earned anything like a six-figure-sum-on-the-back-of-a-50p-investment.

Everything arises from a terrible misunderstanding when [Name removed by Forum Team] posed for photographers at Southend football club ground to explain that he was not a mobile phone tycoon and after years of trading had still not managed to even qualify for VAT registration.

(As that's hardly a story, the Press then went on to make everything up.)

Totalling all the costs and losses listed above – they must now be close to £100,000 -- it's obvious that unless GCPCs gets up and running again soon, bankruptcy will overwhelm.

This then is an appeal to leave [Name removed by Forum Team] alone so he can get on with another 50p website. Unless of course it’s a quid this time.

Butlers1982

I have prior permission of the mods thank you very much 'butlers1982'.

Which mod gave you permission then little boy? or wait, is that another lie? whats the weather like in your world today?

savemoney

Yes its a lie. Also yesterday they were found out to have set up yet another web site and it was quickly removed by [Name removed by Forum Team] or his Father when found out, all this was mentioned on digispy

My guess is because of the bad publicity which was warranted they want to move on from this, what they fail to realise is that others haven't moved on, and people dont like being ripped off or defrauded and there past is slowly catching up on them

Butlers1982 wrote: »

Which mod gave you permission then little boy? or wait, is that another lie? whats the weather like in your world today?

BASFORDLAD

[Name removed by Forum Team] has stopped replying on this and digital spy now:(
either he realises he cant win, hes to busy building a new site, hes been raided or hes at school

Antispam

It was me who found this out I believe

Mark posted Sunday 19.48 at http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=30664399&postcount=314

I sourced it at 19.00

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=18587699&postcount=202

Arteller wrote: »

Quote from Mark Foster at DigitalSpy:

"Just did a search at Companies House: The sole Director of PERCORSO FORMULA ONE LIMITED is.....drumroll....David Cooper!!!! or should I say David Odegwango Cooper"

magic8ball

yorksrabbit wrote: »

Best to leave the [Name removed by Forum Team] alone at this time. The family has lost so much in the past 14 months they are surely nearing bankruptcy. Here are the true facts:

An excellent summary of the situation.

You missed the bit about Google Checkout banning him in April 2008, because he had had too many complaints, and he owed them over £3000 though.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-uk/browse_thread/thread/7f475e492e422318?pli=1

Also, the latest catastrophe to befall poor Gazza is that some scammers, possibly the Nigerians again, set up an identical site to his original one at the new URL of www.impulsetechuk.com. They copied his original site right down to the fact you could still log in with the same customer details, and the domain was falsely registered in his name - all this to steal his customers and discredit his good name - they're pretty smart those Nigerians.

Luckily [Name removed by Forum Team] was alerted to this pretty quickly and so he immediately got the domain registrar, 1&1, to take down the site, which was not actually hosted by them, but with coincidentally, DK Hosting (same as www.gcspcs.co.uk). They did this in minutes - they're damn efficient at 1&1, I'll say that for them, although they've not yet corrected the false registration details.