01214563336

I think Ebeneezer must be busy with his life assurance and debentures (dentures?) :

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/psca-holdings

Companies House Number: 06508564
Incorporation Date: 19 Feb 2008
Latest set of accounts:Filed on: 08 Feb 11
Made up to: 31 Dec 09
Previous Company Names

INHOCO 3458 LIMITEDChanged 18 Jun 2008

People connected with the Company

NICHOLAS JOHN NEWLAND Particulars Changed as director on 19 Feb 2010 (Document)
NICHOLAS JOHN NEWLAND Appointed as director on 30 Jun 2008 (Document)
JEFFREY KEVIN TURNER Appointed as director and secretary on 16 Jun 2008 (Document)
GORDON WARRENDER Appointed as director on 16 Jun 2008 (Document)
WENDY YILMAZ Appointed as director on 16 Jun 2008 (Document)
JOHN ALFRED COOLING Appointed as director on 16 Jun 2008 (Document)

Charges / mortgages against this Company

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC ASSIGNMENT OF LIFE POLICY - OUTSTANDING on 30 Jun 2009
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC ASSIGNMENT OF LIFE POLICY - OUTSTANDING on 30 Jun 2009
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC ASSIGNMENT OF LIFE POLICY - OUTSTANDING on 30 Jun 2009
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC DEBENTURE - OUTSTANDING on 03 Jun 2008

Registered Address History

100 BARBIROLLI SQUARE
MANCHESTER
M2 3ABChanged 16 Jun 2008

Are these fabricated or genuine testimonials? Are those listed aware of this thread?

Thank you for your call

In my opinion many of these publicservice.co.uk testimonials appear to good to be true

I note that the company's record of making dishonest statements is in the public domain:

http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudication ... d/CS_39449.aspx

This does not inspire me with confidence and the description scam artists come to mind.

I have requested that our switchboard block all calls from your known numbers and we will certainly not be conducting and business with you.

BTW: Which Director of PSCA International Ltd are you?

NICHOLAS JOHN NEWLAND ?
JEFFREY KEVIN TURNER ?
GORDON WARRENDER ?
WENDY YILMAZ ?
JOHN ALFRED COOLING ?

I wish to use your postings as an example of how not to conduct business in our next training session.

They have changed this telephon number.

the new number is - 0121 455 8820

Call blocker - loving your work!

Is it worth contacting trading standards about these calls?

Can TS do anything?

I work in communications producing both publications and events for local authority and central government attendees. As you will all be aware industries can be damaged by 'one bad apple in the basket', this i can wholeheartedly say is PSCA. The clients (who are long term investors) become more and more tentative after having dealings with PSCA, some even blocking the numbers due to the persistent and aggressive nature of their staff, more so it seems that when questioned about the policy they are selling against the knowledge is very limited for a consultative sell, this generally as a result of lack of research. In a way my heart goes out to the sales staff of PSCA as their methods are a result of their hierarchy (Mr Warrender et al).

Every dog has its day. PSCA will have theirs soon. I hope the reputable companies (like mine) who's  image is being damaged by this bunch of charlatans will join forces to remove this industry damaging bunch of amateurs who have their staff working in a sweatshop environment by bullying and greedy managers.

Rant over....

I can't stand this company?! I had one call ages ago a woman called Rosh Williams, I couldn't understand if they wanted a general chat or actually try an sell me something! It was like speaking to a drunk

"Hello Darlings, yes I've got the Queen on the other line... she says she's heard of your company and she's interested darlings."
"Who me? But I only employ 200 people!"
"Yes but, Darlings! ...she says she wants YOU!  she said your IT sstem facilities in the Catering sector are simply THE BEST!"
"Why?"
"You tell me why darlings! You've worked with other royals have you not?! In Monaco, Spain, Germany"
"Germany doesn't have any Royals"
"Yes let me just put you on hold, I just need to check something with her... Liz?! *click*
(No hold music)
"Yes... hello? Well I've just had a word with her and she says it's now or never Darlings. We've interested parties coming at us left right and centre... are you in?"
"What am I actually getting?"
"Darling when working with the Queen one doesn't ask questions!"
"Ok ok, send me an email.."
"Can't Darling I'm in the airport!"
"Oh, well just send me something from your Blackberry?"
"Darling my plane is almost here and my blackberry's broken.... are you saying you don't want to work with the Queen?!"

Everyone that works within this industry should be ashamed of themselves, there are a ew of these companies saying they can do the same thing but never ever do! A couple of the worst have been mentioned on this forum. All a bunch of lying, cheating scum bags which ever way you look at it. Oh well, looks like they may just get their comeuppance with the lack of money in government and people shying away from working within the public sector. I know i won't be looking! I hope they are all on their [***] by christmas and have their houses taken from them. More than a good chance that my wish will come true.

Inarticulate caller battling to be heard over the radio which was playing "Gordon is a Moron". Not impressed

used to work for PS and I would like to say this. They do have a sales process that most people will view as a hard sell. and the staff genuinely do not work with computers on thier desk. the reason they can send and email is because the person asking for an email is trying to fob the sales person off.

"sounds good, send me an email, and call me back on thursday"

Im sorry but your fobbing off the sales person. were trained to know when your trying to f*** us off so we challenge your objection.... you do the same thing when your sellling your own products or service to your potential clients.. you try and guage weather they are genuinely interested or just bieng polite.

i hear someone complaining that we butter you up for 50 mins and then hard sell.

this works....

if we said " hi im calling to sell you advertising" you would hang up immediately. so we do a fact find. this is to get rapport with you and get information about your needs so that we can use it against you when closing later. we lead you into saying that you find it difficult getting your message across to the nessessary people in the public sector so we can present our product as the solution!

basic sales.... you do it yourself when ure trying to sell your stuff to your clients....

and about the making a decision now thing.......

its common sense. if we pitch for an hour of our time and your proper interested and you have bought into the need and see the sense. why think about it... what your saying is you want to think about not doing it. you talk yourself out of it. thats why we push you into saying yes now. coz if its not now its never going to happen. we know that.

yes we try all the tricks in the book to get past the receptionist.... duuuuuhhh. you absalute idiots.. you employ and train receptionists to fend off sales calls. so we call them gatekeepers.. we get around them by baffling them with important political talk and sometimes we go thru to your accounts department to try and bully the untrained admin girls to put us through. us sales people are ALWAYS better than you..... we are more intelligent than you.... we earn more than your managing directors.

Sales makes the world go around. if it wasnt for sales people you wouldnt even be in business yourself. salespeople have sold you the stuff that got your business where it is today. were trained to make you buy...

I invite anyone to work for PSCA for 1 month. even all you managing directors and CEO's. yes you have got your business to where it is today but your not the best you can be until you have sold a pcsa pruduct.

after working for PSCA international I am a lethal salesperson. i can sell anything. i can push people into buying. i can draw information out of you and use it against you so you are in a corner and feel stupid saying no...

BUYERS ARE LIARS.. so they train us to square up to you in battle. we challenge everything you say to get us of the phone. when you are on the phone to us we see it as... YOU HAVE MY MONEY.. YOU HAVE MY 10% COMMISSION. AND IM GOING TO GET IT OR IL PRESSURE THE S**T OUT OF YOU UNTIL YOU CRY  TO YOUR MUMMY!

your not proper salespeople or business people until you have been trianed by psca and endured at least 3 months there.

Hey Dude if you're not still working there... why is everything written in the present tense? And you can't even be bothered to do a spell check. Sales people are the most intelligent people! ...Love it!

Aparently a salesperson was having a sandwich and coffee with andrew langsly yesterday and he said that he wants our company to present to high profile NHS boses.

This lady has been calling us on and off for several months, she is very rude and as yet not been passed to any of the directors. Now i've seen this site I know not to worry about being rude back and ensuring she doesn't get through.

Keep calling me. Looked them up. Seem to be muppets up north. Waste an inordinate amount of time [***] their way through calls. These [***] need retraining to work as hand car washers although they'd probably mess that up as well. How do clowns like this survive???

PSCA HOLDINGS LIMITED
EBENEZER HOUSE RYECROFT
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
STAFFORDSHIRE
ST5 2UB
Age
3 years
Registered in England/Wales
06508564
Nature of business
7415
Holding Companies including Head Offices

Directors
JEFFREY KEVIN TURNER (54)
2 RUSCOE AVENUE, ELWORTH, CHESHIRE, SANDBACH CW11 4QJ
Position:
3 Years
Appointment date:
30/05/2008
Type:
Secretary
Occupation: ACCOUNTANT

JOHN ALFRED COOLING (58)
14 BISHAM GARDENS, HIGHGATE, LONDON N6 6DD
Position:
3 Years
Appointment date:
30/05/2008
Type:
Director
Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR

NICHOLAS JOHN NEWLAND (63)
MANOR FARM, OXFORDSHIRE, CURBRIDGE OX29 7NT
Position:
2 Years
Appointment date:
25/06/2008
Type:
Director
Occupation: DIRECTOR

JEFFREY KEVIN TURNER (54)
2 RUSCOE AVENUE, ELWORTH, CHESHIRE, SANDBACH CW11 4QJ
Position:
3 Years
Appointment date:
30/05/2008
Type:
Director
Occupation: ACCOUNTANT

GORDON WARRENDER (44)
THE PADDOCK, BELLAPORT ROAD NORTON IN HALES, SHROPSHIRE, MARKET DRAYTON TF9 4AY
Position:
3 Years
Appointment date:
30/05/2008
Type:
Director
Occupation: SALES MANAGER

WENDY LORRAINE YILMAZ (48)
94 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, STAFFORDSHIRE, TAMWORTH B77 3BU
Position:
3 Years
Appointment date:
30/05/2008
Type:
Director
Occupation: CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

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PUBLICSERVICE.CO.UK LIMITED
Registered Address
EBENEZER HOUSE
RYECROFT
NEWCASLTE UNDER LYME
STAFFORDSHIRE
ST5 2UB
Age
9 years
Registered in England/Wales
04521155
Nature of business
2213
Publish journals & periodicals
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PUBLIC SERVICE REVIEW LIMITED
Registered Address
EBENEZER HOUSE
RYECROFT
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
STAFFORDSHIRE
ST5 2UB
Age
12 years
Registered in England/Wales
03831674
Nature of business
2222
Printing not elsewhere classified

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PUBLIC SERVANT LIMITED
Registered Address
EBENEZER HOUSE
RYECROFT
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
STAFFORDSHIRE
ST5 2UB
Age
8 years
Registered in England/Wales
04930968
Nature of business
2212
Publishing of newspapers

The above post should say that Gordon Warrender is the Chief Executive.

Warrender is the person at PSCA of any real consequence, he owns most of the shares and is the evil genius behind their sharp practices.

He would probably like being described as an 'evil genius', as he considers himself to be quite the thing.

No Gordon, you are driven and motivated, yes; but you are still underneath a scumbag who doesn't stand for anything in life other than your own enrichment at the expense of honest decent people who believe the lies your morally bankrupt salespeople tell them. You have never done an honest day's work in your life and therefore you are a scumbag.

you really dont have to have a brain to be in sales, and really you are who to actually generalise??
X-men? yes well obviously intelligent and so unique, I must say you must be very educated to come up with such an original name im impressed!!

‘Anthony Snag’ of ‘Public Services’ rang my company a little while ago and engaged a ‘decision maker’ (an executive) in conversation re a forthcoming conference.  The conversation progressed to a sales pitch where the executive was asked if they would like to mount an exhibit at the conference – the cost, £12,000.

Public Services (PS) www.publicservices.co.uk is a publishing company that has a variety of other services (including running exhibitions and conferences).  www.publicserviceevents.co.uk.

Thankfully, the executive took some advice before progressing and this gave some time to check out A. Snag.  I ran a brief background check on the company and it took very little time to uncover some unsavoury details.

Firstly, I wanted to find out what other people had experienced with the company and entered the telephone number into ‘Google’ hoping to get a hit on ‘Who Calls Me’ – I did.

More information came from Telepest www.telepest.co.uk

0121 456 3336     0131 555 3970     0161 832 7387     0178 266 7340

Telepest also gave some other names used by PS including
PSCA
PSCA International / Public Service
Public Service Review Journal
Public Service

Progressing to Companies House website and later Companies in the UK www.companiesintheuk.co.uk
which gave the address, phone, fax and company number (a match for the company website)

The company has previous names – PSCA International Limited (changed 8 March 2011)
Public Service Communication Agency Limited (changed 25 April 2003)
Ever 1887 Limited (changed 20 December 2002)
Also,  PSCA Holdings Limited www.companiesintheuk/ltd/psca-holdings
PSCA Holdings Limited also has a previous name – INHOCO 3458 Limited
Chief Executive – Gordon Warrender.

A business sale report of 4 June 2008 states that PSCA International, the magazine publisher with offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh has undergone a management buy-out supported by the Royal Bank of Scotland.  PSCA International has a turnover of £12 million.  http://www.business-sale.com/acquisitions/art ... lish-29608.html

Go to Google search and enter PSCA International (with a space following) and one of the options that will appear is ‘scam’.  This will take you to http://psca-international.blogspot.com

Where a link will take you to the ASA website where a complaint against PSCA international was upheld www.asa.org.uk/Asa-Action/Adjudications/2005/ ... d/CS_39449.aspx

A simple search for people who have worked at PSCA raised numerous hits – the common link to almost all of them was the word ‘sales’ in connection with their employment at PSCA.  Mr Snag however, was not found online.

Conditions for staff working at PSCA have been described as ‘a sweatshop’.  An ex-employee claims that top salesmen earn £15,000 a week (Gordon Warrender denies this and says that the top salesman only earns £11,000 a week).

In our case, we did not take up Mr Snag’s kind offer.  

Given the above, would you have done?