NICEIC Certification Scheme niceic

[GLENNSPARK]

When you mention a company name, and then the word scam, it's likely to eventually be pulled. As if the firm is still running, it's assumed it isn't a scam until somebody takes them to court to prove otherwise.

I fight your corner with posts, and it's really really hard to get me to pull a post about your company if I think it is a scam. And I do with many. Namely the firms who cold call and cold email you lot saying they have work in your area, they just need £300 a month to send that work to you, and then never do (or do and the value doesn't cover 300 + fuel and expenses each month).

Problem is, the moment the word scam is in the thread, not only the whole thread could be pulled, but I've had an instruction from court to block the company name from being used in any thread on the forum as a whole. And that means even more people are about to be scammed.

Like you, I'm not talking about NICEIC or any other firm specifically here. But as I'm asked in this thread I'll reply in this thread.

So be clever and say what is actually going on, instead of cutting corners and saying scam. And the same message will be put across, but the thread will last a lifetime.

The biggest reason for threads being pulled is defamation, and using the word scam defames a brand or company whether it's true or not. It's only really possible to use it once the firm has closed "that was a right scam I remember that". But even that's dodgy as if another still-trading firm gets mentioned in the same thread, then they could claim we're tarnishing their brand.

Hope you understand. Let's not argue this one eh?

lol...

amen Dan eh?....lol..

say no more....lol..lol..

 

[Rockingit]

In which case, generic use of the term 'the scams' or 'scams' holds no meaning as they are directionless. So I will continue to enjoy calling the scams just that.

 

[UNG]

In that case Dan will you be going through every other thread ever posted on here because I've seen it an awful lot mate
Message received and understood though, could you replace that word with the phrase "regulatory bodies" please as I don't want to be seen as anti NIC

A bigger miss representation if ever there was as it certainly something they are not engaged in the previous word is a better representation given the underhand tactics recently displayed at parliamentary committee and the subsequent meetings with government ministers to maintain their grip on the industry. Just a pity open debate is now being choked off on here with the new PC rules

 

[GLENNSPARK]

The NIC exists because the trade allows it to. It is the most recognised and accepted because it is the oldest and at one time it had standards which were hard to achieve and once a company was granted membership it was guarded very closely. That is the reason some organisations specify membership as a prerequisite for getting work even though the other scams present pretty much the same product.
Now anyone with a chequebook and a handful of qualifications can join, it is a parasitic organisation feeding from it's hosts-the membership. It appears to exist solely to provide a salary and pension pot to it's executive. Most of whom would not know how to hold a screwdriver let alone be able to perform in an on the job setting.
How they can then purport to be an upholder of trade standards is beyond me

wrong.

ECA is...