The Advertising Protection Agency

chulzers

katejo wrote: »

Is it actually in Cheshire, as we were given to believe by Trading Standards while dealing with them, or somewhere else?

Yes, it is in cheshire. The owner gives out a london address, as there is a list of people wanting to duff him up so he said. (Along with my other half now, as he was threatened and not paid for the work he did!)

sheraa

Hi, any advice from you guys. i got a call from a scam charity fell for it, then fell into the trap of TAPA then realised i made an even bigger mistake, paid TAPA for 1 year up front, then after 1 year was up. daniel asked to renew it, so i said no giving my made up reasons & he was ok with it now, today 3/4 months later, i get a call from Dave, who is trying to tell me i owe 3 months money, i said no because contract ended so he asked if i wrote to cancel, so i said i don't need to cancel a contract thats already ended, i said it ended in november or december then he said oh actually you owe 4 months, so i argued with him why was the his collegue ok with the fact that the contract ended & i didnt renew & also i said to him to send me a letter highlighting where it tells me i have to write & how much i owe, he said i'm not going to write a letter wasting our time and resources, so i replied good for you, you wont get any money then & hung up, hes then sent me an e-mail e-mail sayin they've tried contacting me & have left messages & that i owe money! (which they haven't) but not sayin how much or for what & a link to pay them some random amount lol

katejo

chulzers wrote: »

Yes, it is in cheshire. The owner gives out a london address, as there is a list of people wanting to duff him up so he said. (Along with my other half now, as he was threatened and not paid for the work he did!)

Have you seen this recent addition to the TAPA site? Claims made about an allegedly bogus text message to reassure their paying clients.
https://www.theadvertisingprotectionagency.co.uk/notice-board.php?id=35

chulzers

katejo wrote: »

Have you seen this recent addition to the TAPA site? Claims made about an allegedly bogus text message to reassure their paying clients.

Wow. No, I dont read it anymore after we had our issues. Always knew he was a scammer, but it wasn't until I saw this thread that reminded me!

katejo

chulzers wrote: »

Wow. No, I dont read it anymore after we had our issues. Always knew he was a scammer, but it wasn't until I saw this thread that reminded me!

Have you seen the discussions on Who called me under the 0844 357 3311 number? These have been active for a long time.

PhylPho

katejo wrote: »

Have you seen this recent addition to the TAPA site? Claims made about an allegedly bogus text message to reassure their paying clients.
https://www.theadvertisingprotectionagency.co.uk/notice-board.php?id=35

Page after page after verbose page of that outfit's website seems to have started life in Serbo-Croat and then been unsuccessfully translated into English. And as for this one-man or two-man band -- because that's all it is -- constantly referring to their scheme as "a practice" . . . hilarious! :rotfl:

This trader is not an "agency" in the generally accepted sense of the word. Not a "practice" in either the legal or medical sense of the term. It's just an outfit in Liverpool with an evident inability to communicate in plain English.

sheraa wrote: »

Hi, any advice from you guys. . .
hes then sent me an e-mail e-mail sayin they've tried contacting me & have left messages & that i owe money! (which they haven't) but not sayin how much or for what & a link to pay them some random amount lol

Yeah. The advice is dead simple. Send a letter to TAPA's address by Signed For and keep a copy of the posting receipt. Don't waste your time or energy on a lengthy epic; a few paragraphs will do:

Dear . . . . . ,

As you know, my 12 months' contract with TAPA ended on 15th November 2011. A new contract was not entered into.

Your continuing attempts to pressure me into paying to your business monies which it has not earned and which I do not owe appear to be consistent with the criminal conduct addressed by the Protection of Harassment Act 1997.

This Signed For (recorded delivery) letter is therefore sent to warn you that any further attempt to contact me by telephone, post, email or in any other way in pursuit of your false claim will be regardeded as criminal harassment. Action to deal with that harassment will be immediately taken.

Yours faithfully:


* I don't know the actual date of the end of your 12 month contract, so insert the correct information there.

For further information about the Act, go here:

http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/privacy/harassment-unwanted-letters-and-telephone-calls/protection-from-harassment-act-1997.shtml

Your metropolitan or County Council's Trading Standards section views possible breaches of the Protection from Harassment Act 1977 as a serious matter. So does the Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you are contacted again by anyone claiming to represent TAPA, do NOT talk to that person or reply in writing to that person. Do not come back to comment in this thread either, but instead contact Trading Standards via Consumer Direct and also your nearest CAB.

sweetcher

Please can someone tell me what to do? I have been sent a court proceeding Email and apparently they've sent it by post aswell.
They say I owe £69.85 even though I cancelled my account with them before the cooling off period according to consumer rights it is distance selling regulations 7 working days with the 8th working day as the last possible day to cancel the agreement or contract when sold something online or over the phone.(not 7 days as it says in their special terms and conditions)
To go to court for £69.85 is pathetic. But they seem adament I owe it and have told me to phone the 0844 number and pay it within 7 days or I go to court after that.
They are really persistent please can someone help me I have already been to Consumer Direct,OFT,Watchdog and citizens advice about these monsters (Chris Irvine and P Medhurst). I was stung for this back on 27th Sept 2011 before the ASA Adjudication ruling so surely they havent got a leg to stand on? But still they send out these court proceedings. I even have photographic proof of the signature for receiving my cancellation written letter on 06th October 2011 by a surname called WHITE
an with no response to my cancellation and no welcome pack sent in the beginning this all started with a cold caller precisely 8 days after I registered to stop nuisance phone calls, back then there was a link to their website saying it was a free service. And I now see they have had to add the charges on the front registration screen as they were misleading consumers. Hence the complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority in January 2012, both complaints were upheld as being falsely misleading consumers and I am a party to those Consumers that were mislead. So surely under the ASA codes and practices that have been breached I am under no obligation to pay them a penny?:mad:

sweetcher

:mad:

Weiserbud wrote: »

Ha ha ha ha!

TAPA have sent me a letter today threatening me with court action! Bring it on!

what was the outcome of this court claim?

sweetcher

katejo wrote: »

Did you initially contact TAPA as a firm plagued by charities demanding money or are you an individual who just wanted to block nuisance calls? I was threatened with court in the very first phone call but thet eventually gave up ringing me.

DID IT GO TO COURT IN THE END?X:mad:

sweetcher

chulzers wrote: »

My husband had a job working for these guys. The owner is nothing but a conman who threatened his staff. I know exactly the companys real address (not the london based one on the website) if anyone wants it.

PROPER ADDRESS YES PLEASE I'LL TAKE IT NOW? CHEERS :mad: