MSE News: Scottish and Southern Energy guilty of doorstep mis-selling

backfoot

kevin52 wrote: »

They should fine the Directors individually, or give them ASBOs, or bar them from being Directors.

:rotfl:I love this, it's so appropriate.

On a very bad day,this has cheered me up. :T

angelo_mysterioso

I'm currently doing doorstep selling for SSE and I can tell you that all sorts goes on! There is definitely a culture of people pushing it as far as they possibly can in order to get results. Paying people by results causes them to behave in ways that they wouldn't normally contemplate, they become corrupted, essentially.

What the company has been found guilty of is very minor compared to what goes on.

Mis-selling in the past has made people more sceptical. Salesmen are trying to get around this problem with more mis-selling.

t0rt0ise

Nobody has to been to my house since I moved to London. I'm gutted. I want to play too.

bigsteve

A couple of weeks ago I got door-stepped by a guy with an Eon badge.
Immediately he told me that I could save £50 per quarter in Electricity.

After I asked him how he knew that, because he did not know which company I was with (apart fom Eon) there ensued a little bit of shouting. I gave him a flea in his ear and told him what he was doing was illegal and said to him not to come back, and close the gate after him.

CharlieBilly

I agree it aint customers of these companies fault the fines should be on there CEO of the companies and possible any profits

kevin52 wrote: »

'SSE is due to be sentenced on 27 May. It is likely to be fined.'
How will that hurt them? They will just increase prices to their customers to pay the fine.
They should fine the Directors individually, or give them ASBOs, or bar them from being Directors.