Sterling Green

madelinex

My friend was contacted by this company - a cold call. She's in a bit of debt at the moment and they made all sorts of promises to her. They really did the hard sell. They suggested she pay them £300 per month and they would sort out all her debt. Some friends advised her against signing up with them but unfortunately she had given them her debit card details. She phoned them up within a couple of days to say she didn't want to go ahead. They took £300 off her account and are refusing to return it. At first they said it was a mistake and that they would return it but they are now refusing and failing to return her calls. She has never signed any contract with the company, nor has she recieved anything in writing.

They seem like an absolute bunch of crooks. £300 is an awful lot of money when you are in debt and her mortgage payment for the month hasn't gone through.

Has anyone else had these sort of problems with Sterling Green?

confused76

good grief that's awful! sorry i've never heard of them...hopefully someone else will see your post and reply

elfieb

I know of Sterling Green, but only because they are based where I live, and seem to advertise for staff on an almost daily basis!
Like any fee paying Debt Management company, they are essentially scam artists, as they dont do anything that you couldnt do for yourself, or that NDL or CCCS could do for free.

My advice would be to demand the money back, and failure to do so will result in you taking your story to the local press.

tintan123

i have just, rather rashly, subscribed to a plan with sterling grteen, and have given them my debit card details. they are about to take £600 out of my account. does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can do to extricate myself from this commitment, it was actually my credit card, any suggestions?

alastairq

empty and close your account, first thing tomorrow?

Then open a new one?


or..go to a cash point tonight?

curly04

cancel your card

tell your bank you have lost it

that the only way they can't take any money

jrtjules

We had a phone call from them on Thursday night and despite my initial hesitation, after my husband then spoke to him too, we ended up giving over details of our cards to make the initial £500 fee. We were due to receive paperwork on Saturday morning. Its Tuesday and we have received nothing and yet money has been taken from our bank account!!!!!!

Am watching the clock here til 9am so I can phone them!

A lesson to anyone else ....tell them to f*** off if they phone you!

k2nga

I had a similar experience of this pressure selling when i was contacted by Baines and Ernst and it still makes my blood boil that these companies are allowed to act in this way. I stupidly did the same and got taken for £450 and i was later told that i would have never got an IVA as i had recently lost my job and they knew it. I tried to contact them loads of times but never got the money back these companies are crooks and why people like me hate IVA's with a passion. They offer the world and can often deliver nothing.

Please if you get one of these call do yourself a massive favour and call either the CAB or CCCS that way you know you are getting advice from a charity that does not have any financial gain from the advice they give you.

Sunnylooloo

Just had two calls from them - one last night my mobile is shocking at home so it got cut off and then just had another one here at work - he started off by saying you spoke to my of my colleagues a month or so ago (yeah right!) and I was just ringing..... I said I am not interested please take my name off you list, as I was putting the phone down I heard he say - what you don't want help with your deeeeeeeeeeeeebt..... click burr!

Have no idea where they got my number from!

curly04

if they phone again just tell them to F off

bat-out-of-hell

you should have given him the url of the warnings page of you know where:p