Steps to take if you have been ripped-off by a copy-cat government website

hpuse

OlliesDad wrote: »

• Your decision to make yourself into some sort of consumer champion is what annoys people

You have a point there, OlliesDad

do you want to here what annoys me most here...

People nagging a copycat customer who mistakenly bought copycat services saying they agreed to T&C's on a website that is designed to dupe the unwary...

Big question is - being Consumer friendly annoys people? Then there is something wrong in the fundamentals...

OlliesDad

hpuse wrote: »

You have a point there, OlliesDad

do you want to here what annoys me most here...

People nagging a copycat customer who mistakenly bought copycat services saying they agreed to T&C's on a website that is designed to dupe the unwary...

Big question is - being Consumer friendly annoys people? Then there is something wrong in the fundamentals...

I didn't say that consumer friendly annoys people.. I said becoming a self appointed consumer champion is what annoys people.

The real big question is - is giving false information to people in need of help being consumer friendly?

hpuse

OlliesDad wrote: »

I said becoming a self appointed consumer champion is what annoys people.

To be brutally honest - I am not a consumer champion,

I admit I show no compassion to trade friendly, i.e I don't show any mercy on posters who post here their ' trade customer service' type message over here. They keep repeating to ill-stricken consumers that clicked the link of dodgy copycat companies with dodgy T&C's are right to dupe the consumer and they are doing nothing illegal it is entirely consumers fault for not reading T&Cs.
I can count at least a hundred times the above message repeated by majority of posters posted in this thread.
That does not make me a consumer champion? does it?

hpuse

For the last 24 months - the pic below summarize what was happening in these forums and thread...

I can now proudly say that it is now a THING OF PAST !!!

gik

hpuse wrote: »

To be brutally honest - I am not a consumer champion,

I admit I show no compassion to trade friendly, i.e I don't show any mercy on posters who post here their ' trade customer service' type message over here. They keep repeating to ill-stricken consumers that clicked the link of dodgy copycat companies with dodgy T&C's are right to dupe the consumer and they are doing nothing illegal it is entirely consumers fault for not reading T&Cs.
I can count at least a hundred times the above message repeated by majority of posters posted in this thread.
That does not make me a consumer champion? does it?

hpuse wrote: »

For the last 24 months - the pic below summarize what was happening in these forums and thread...

I can now proudly say that it is now a THING OF PAST !!!

Explain these two posts in simple normal language.


Passport renewal copycat sites are still on the first google page.

hpuse

Surrey County Council’s trading standards department feeds information to the National Trading Standards Intelligence Team on copycat websites, and national funding has led to these websites being less prominent via search engines. Any traders found to be deceiving consumers face investigation.

http://news.surreycc.gov.uk/2014/07/01/triple-the-victims-of-copycat-websites-in-surrey/

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

hpuse wrote: »

Surrey County Council’s trading standards department feeds information to the National Trading Standards Intelligence Team on copycat websites, and national funding has led to these websites being less prominent via search engines. Any traders found to be deceiving consumers face investigation.

I will now correct hPuseless' last post, for the hard of looking, his link does not work. I wander why!

Victims of Copycat websites in Surrey have tripled between January and May 2014, from around 50 in the whole 2013, to 150+

Unfortuatle during the same period, hPuseless has been inactive in his means to stop this from occurring!

Corrected Link
http://news.surreycc.gov.uk/2014/07/01/triple-the-victims-of-copycat-websites-in-surrey/

Those engineers at Google are doing a futile exercise!

hpuse

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

I will now correct hPuseless' last post, for the hard of looking, his link does not work. I wander why!

Victims of Copycat websites in Surrey have tripled between January and May 2014, from around 50 in the whole 2013, to 150+

Unfortuatle during the same period, hPuseless has been inactive in his means to stop this from occurring!

Corrected Link
http://news.surreycc.gov.uk/2014/07/01/triple-the-victims-of-copycat-websites-in-surrey/

Those engineers at Google are doing a futile exercise!

hahaha....futile exercise that turns the back to passport copycat SEOs.. ;-)

did you read what was highlighted in red, BoP.? Once again for you....

Any traders found to be deceiving consumers face investigation

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

hpuse wrote: »

hahaha....futile exercise that turns the back to passport copycat SEOs.. ;-)

did you read what was highlighted in red, BoP.? Once again for you....

Any traders found to be deceiving consumers face investigation

The main essence in the Surrey Trading Standards report, is that they have seen threefold increase in victims this year. There is no report of any service provider being prosecuted as a result of their, yours and those engineers at Googles efforts.!

hpuse

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

The main essence in the Surrey Trading Standards report, is that they have seen threefold increase in victims this year. There is no report of any service provider being prosecuted as a result of their, yours and those engineers at Googles efforts.!

Fear not! (as your signature says). Facing investigation and getting prosecuted is all together a different matter, BoP :rotfl:

Re: engineers@google, See the image snippet below. The graph tells a lot, it points to a lot something...I would say passport renewal SEOs are "losing hopes" on Google and soon going to be a thing of past.....