CAG doing something useful

peter_the_piper

Has anyone looked at the article? Rather long but if it tames the rogue bailiffs it will be useful.

trisontana

CAG have just removed a link to the letter chains on this forum. The reason was:-

"Recommending CAG members to other sites is a form of touting for that other site and thus contravenes CAG rules."

So no mention of "Links to non-commercial and free advice sites are permitted" as per their rule 8.3 then.

Kite2010

They are worried people won't visit CAG and instead visit this site, afterall they must get some money from adverts

trisontana

CAG have suggested that we should create a letter-chain list on their web-site. Why go to all that time and effort creating such a list when there is a perfectly good one on here which could be linked to?

Half_way

would that be this letter chain thats linked to over on pepipoo.com
http:// forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=53998 ? ( and that seems to re-direct to some other consumer advice site )
[edit]....
eek! just got the same not allowed to post links as on CAG! ( although hopefuly its because my post count isnt high enough - yet)

and to add, it looks like some of the mods over on CAG are getting a bit shirty ( typo?) and they have requested that all links go though the main site admin for what appears to be aproval, looks like someone could be busy then.

esmerobbo

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Has anyone looked at the article? Rather long but if it tames the rogue bailiffs it will be useful.

Its long overdue reining in some of these bailiffs. The programs on TV like "The Bailiffs" and "Beat the Bailiff" don't help because they don't point out what a bailiff can and cant do.

Specially Beat the Bailiff they show the punter what could happen if a bailiff turns up with a warrant and empties your house! They never say keep the house locked and don't let them in then you have beat the bailiff!
The one thing they have got in their favour is seizing your car!

As to CAG I once had a link to companies house webcheck taken down?:o

trisontana

Half_way wrote: »

would that be this letter chain thats linked to over on pepipoo.com
http:// forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=53998 ? ( and that seems to re-direct to some other consumer advice site )
[edit]....
eek! just got the same not allowed to post links as on CAG! ( although hopefuly its because my post count isnt high enough - yet)

and to add, it looks like some of the mods over on CAG are getting a bit shirty ( typo?) and they have requested that all links go though the main site admin for what appears to be aproval, looks like someone could be busy then.

They are really getting annoyed now on CAG . This from a moderator called dx when I asked for reason why we cannot link to this site:-

'i' dont have too!!

but as you seem to be stupidly pushing this issue having been politely asked to drop it twice now......

for this particular subject, we DO NOT WANT THE LINKS PUBLISHED HERE.

regardless of it being a free site!!

other links are quite ok.
though ideally all links should go via admin [not us mere siteteam] for approval

do we understand this now?

or are you going to continually question things....

please drop it

your sand timer is almost empty
i have far better things to do
than debate this with someone respected
like yourself

there are VERY good reasons why we do not want it.

dx

give_them_FA

There are VERY good reasons... but covered by the Official Secrets Act, apparently. Pathetic, considering from what I can see the principal posters there are very shaky on this subject.

peter_the_piper

I'm very disappointed, I started a thread on possible bailiff legislation, which I thought would be of use to all here. Instead all replies, bar a couple, have been about the rights and wrongs of CAG, I expected this from other parts of the forum but not here.

trisontana

peter_the_piper wrote: »

I'm very disappointed, I started a thread on possible bailiff legislation, which I thought would be of use to all here. Instead all replies, bar a couple, have been about the rights and wrongs of CAG, I expected this from other parts of the forum but not here.

Sorry for for hi-jacking the thread. I'll try not to do it again.