Author: Olly

  • Commercial Support Services – Spam Calls to Register My Commercial Meter?

    I have moved my business premises again, and in order to inform customers, friends and colleagues alike – I did a blog post about it on my company website. Additionally, I posted a link to the article on my business social media. I did all this for two reasons;

    1. I did it to inform people, and keep my business blog and socials up to date
    2. I also did it because that’s also what we did when we moved into an older office of ours, and it was at that point we got targeted by “sales brokers” for commercial energy.

    It’s like they scour Twitter and stuff for “moved office” and things like that… Anyway, I posted it all and then got on with my life…

    A day or so later, I got this email from my PA service;

    Oh deary deary me.

    I called them, obviously, and I got the SAME spiel as I did when I first made contact with the broker last time.

    • Emergency rates
    • Not on the best pricing
    • bla bla

    I didnt give them ANY meter references, I didnt even confirm my exact location and yet they were able to magically find my meter and told me they were able to save me money. The chap I spoke to (forget his name, but he was a cocky shitbag) could only go over gas and not electricity, but we can only assume where the conversation would have gone if I had continued to feed them fase info.

    Now, I am not suggesting they are SCAMMERS as such, but like we have covered before in other (currently deleted) blog posts, its their wording, approach and sales tactics that are scummy. They scour the web for anyone moving a commercial business and jump on them to try and hopefully catch someone off guard and steal the energy contract over to one of their mates energy businesses.

    My advice to you if you have been contacted by someone like this is do your OWN homework, look these businesses up, do they look legitimate? Do their websites look legitimate? google their business name and check reviews;

    Tip: Often these kind of shady brokers use really generic names, so that when you search for them you dont find anything. EG Commercial Support Services is so generic, and searching for that on its own doesn’t find anything bad – but if you wrap it in speech marks and add SCAM or SPAM to the end of the search query, you find lots;

    And as always, be scam wise! Be on guard!

    If you havent expected the call, then assume they are up to no good and hang up.

    There is no meter registration department, commercial energy works pretty much the same as domestic and when you move house you dont take a contract off the first scam call you get in your new home, do you?

    Please comment below if you have got anything like this yourselves.

    Share this article with your connections so they know not to fall victim to these scummers.

  • Free UK Link Bio Page System – Linktree Clone

    OK, so if you’re like me you dont like to have silly usernames on stuff. Olly23o2869786 isn’t an easily rememberable username for a twitter account, for example. So when I went on a popular Bio page creator and couldn’t get anything like the username I wanted – I decided to make my own link bio service.

    Thats what you would have done too, right?

    Anyway while I was eating my breakfast I found a script, thought of a name and boom – LinkVine was born.

    I also added some domains I had laying about on there too, and bought a few more for shits and grins.

    Full domain list;

    • linkvine.uk
    • linkpile.uk
    • lnkdn.uk
    • lnkz.uk
    • freelinkdirectory.co.uk
    • afol.uk
    • cruisesites.co.uk
    • maxxd.uk
    • bizlinks.uk

    More coming soon!

    Got a spare domain you wanna keep but dont use? Let me know and add to the system! 🙂

     

  • Are you Happy?

    Happiness.

    Yes, its the first word in a dance song released in 2001 that still gives me goosebumps when I hear it. It’s also something that some of us spend our entire lives in the pursuit of.

    A lot of the books and podcasts I listen to talk about happiness and all of them come to the same conclusion. Happiness is something we are in full control of. It isn’t something earned or attained by going through steps or achieving “things” – its a state of mind that we choose to be in, or not.

    We are 100% responsible for our own happiness.

    Life isn’t cruel or unfair to us.

    We allow the pressures of “life” to influence our moods and feelings, which often materialises as feelings of unhappiness & sadness.

    However, accepting that “Life” and “Happiness” are things we control isn’t easy – we dont like to admit that the bad situation we are in is our fault. Sure, a kid doesn’t ask to be abused, or a wife doesn’t ask to be beaten up – but in many negative situations, the victim often has options but we cling onto things hoping that people will change.

    Instead, we put up with the situation, the relationship, whatever – and it’s usually due to one reason.

    The sunk cost fallacy.

    Basically, as humans, if we have invested a lot of time or money into “something” – then we dont want to let it go. Whether that’s moving from iPhone to Android, or getting out of a Toxic marriage – if we have dedicated £1000’s or decades to the “thing” then we feel that we have to stick with it, even if it’s making us miserable deep down. We all do it, with memberships, relationships, habits, rituals.

    Being human is hard sometimes.

    Choose happiness. Don’t carry negativity – its heavy.

  • NEW DAY CARDS SCAM – Debenhams Card – SCAMMERS

    Another day, another scam.

    This time my father was on the receiving end of it, and I actually tried to deal with this correctly via way of an official complaint. But, this was thrown back in my face so – i’ve been forced to approach this slightly differently.

    NEW DAY CARDS

    New Day Ltd

    I guarantee you will have seen – perhaps without noticing – an advert from these charlatans either on the TV or online, advertising branded debit cards/store cards… debt, basically.

    It seems their whole business model is to;

    1. Get people into contract for “stuff”
    2. Charge them a monthly fee
    3. Make it confusing what they are actually paying for
    4. Make it really hard for people to ring and find out what they are actually paying for
    5. Be aggressive in terms of chasing and enforcing monthly payments
    6. Send generic letters to people when their raise concerns or make complaints
    7. And more….

    And they seem to be doing fairly well too, based on this data on Companycheck.co.uk;

    New Day Ltd Net Worth Finances

    “Thats a lot of money you guys have scammed, New Day Cards!!”

    Let’s look at some of the brands that have been duped into working with the New Day Cards Scammers;

    New Day Cards - These Companies Partner With Scammers

    Oh dear.

    So the following brands see no issue with associating themselves with SCAMMERS;

    • Amazon Platinum Cards
    • Debenhams Cards
    • House of Fraser Cards
    • Laura Ashley Cards
    • Burton Menswear Cards
    • Dorothy Perkins Cards
    • Evans Cards
    • Miss Selfridge Cards
    • Outfit Cards
    • Topman Cards
    • Topshop Cards
    • Wallis Cards
    • Argos Cards
    • AO Cards
    • Pulse Cards

    Not a good look really is it, guys?

    They also run their own cards under a few of their own brands;

    • Aquas Cards
    • Marbles Card
    • Opus Cards
    • Fluid Cards

    All sound so nice dont they! But you will end up with a sad face and probably bad marks against your credit if you dont pay them the fee for “something” each month that enables you to “do something” – but dont bother asking what that “something” is, because they don’t know! Alright!?

    Sorry that I’m unable to be more descriptive here – but after multiple calls and attempts at speaking with New Day Cards Ltd even they were unable to tell me what the cards or the monthly payments were for – I know, astounding, right?

    I was first made aware of these crooks when I was trying to help my dad move into a new rented flat. The application brought up that he had a bad mark on his credit – huh? My dad has always been squeaky clean.

    On further investigation, it was because he had failed to make a payment in 2020 during the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown. Historically, he had made these payments each month by physically visiting the store and making the payment in person. No standing order or direct debit. And as the stores were all closed – he couldn’t go in, and ended up with a bad mark on his credit!

    When I asked my Dad what this payment was even for he said “oh its a store card or something”

    No, it’s not a store card. It’s a DEBT card, tied to a store, that apparently gives you *some* kind of benefit *somewhere*

    Anyway, we are MONTHS into this saga now, they send REPEAT letter every month claiming my dad owes them £9 or something – this is despite me speaking to people multiple times and having the account suspended at the highest level…. yet they still chase the money!

    I escalated the case and they “looked into it” and found they were in the right somehow because my dad did sign up to it and that’s that. No consideration as to whether or not he understood what he was signing up for at the time, but hey-ho.  I am ignoring all their letters and stuff now as its essentially harassment at this point.

    I wonder if anyone else has had as much fun with New Day Cards Ltd as we have?

    Comment below!

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