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    Norwich Boy
    SRM Marketing are a horrible company. I was called by a genuine sounding lady who invited me for an interview. I went to the interview and it was the biggest joke interview I've ever been to! An American loser tried to dazzle with a very poorly constructed 'sales pitch'. I'd actually advise to go just because its ever so amusing.
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    Jeremie
    I went for an interviw in norwich, loads of people there, inteview was easy, got through to 2nd round, only to find out it was good to door sales....

    I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and gave it a go.... we went to a residential area nearby and were door nocking from 1pm-8.30pm (bearing in mind its dark by 6pm in the winter..... out of about 80 houses we knocked on, only 4people signed up, one being an old lady, poor thing, it felt like SRM were stealing from her!!

    Anyway, needless to say,  I decided not to go back for the next day of training..... I wouldnt open my door to a stranger at 8pm in the pitch black.... would you?

    And with a 4/100 success rate, it really isnt worth the hassle. job prospects seem ok but realistically they cant promote everyone into this 'fabulous' lifestyle....

    Also they have a really strange motivational group meeting before you all go out on the field... chanting and skipping round the room.... makes you wonder if they are on drugs - myself and the others on training just wanted to get out of there - ASAP!!!


    Complete scam, I wouldnt bother if i were you!
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    Jeremie
    Norwich boy - I absolutly agree....

    Funny thing is, when i was taken to my 2nd round of interview, I was taken out to 'starbucks' instead of doing the day of observation because the manager was 'too busy', and I even had to pay for my own drink..... if the manager is meant to be earning 3-5k a week she could at least have bought me a drink no?

    Their offices are a shambles too!!

    Oh and when I went back on the monday to start, the receptionist looked like shed just got out the shower, no makeup or anything, unlike the previous days when they had loads of people on interview/
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    chris
    Dear Christopher




    Thank you for your recent job application. We have reviewed your application and would like to invite you for a preliminary interview.

    We are holding interviews this week so if you could contact us on 0161 200 1115 between 9am and 6pm we can arrange a date and time for you to meet with one of our managers.
    Thank you for your interest in G Force Marketing Ltd!

    Kind Regards,




    Millie Cossins




    G Force Marketing Ltd

    Dickinson House

    20 Dickinson Street

    Manchester

    M1 4LX

    Tel: 0161 200 1115


    www.gforceltd.com
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    Anonymous Ex-employee
    SRM Marketing

    My name is -----------.
    10 weeks ago I decided to change career. I put my CV on as many job application websites as I possibly could. The idea was to get a job straight away, bearing in mind today’s current employment climate.
    I was surprised after not only having visited every single Employment Agency in Norwich and expressing a desire to get into Sales, when SRM Marketing called me and invited me in for an interview. Especially considering I was essentially “fobbed off” by every single one of these Agencies for my lack of knowledge in Portuguese or Turkish, I think that is a pre-requisite of visiting any Agency nowadays.

    Anyway, I attended an interview on the Tuesday, where an American by the name of Christoph Grizzard interviewed me and gave me a very brief but succinct outline on the layout of the company and what I could expect to achieve if I were “selected” by them.
    I went home and spoke to my Family about this position and they were ever sceptical. I decided that once again, they were wrong and I attended my second round interview the following day, with a guy named “Alan” whose surname I remember, but it’s pretty un-pronounceable and has a lot of letters in it.

    The second round interview was demeaning to say the least. I arrived at the offices and forms were cast into my hand which I was told to promptly fill out and return to the lady at the desk. I could hear a hell of a lot of cheering and clapping going on behind closed doors, and every effort was made to ensure I did not see what was happening. I was pretty excited about it though, after having spent 5 mundane and boring years in the my previous employment, the chance to work in a lively and invigorating atmosphere appealed to me immensely so I was very careful about passing judgement on the “Happy Clappers”.

    Alan collected me were he was introduced as “One of the companies’ top representatives” and this is where we left the office. Alan walked very fast and we met a colleague of his named Gareth. We walked through Norwich City Centre and ended up in North Lakenham, an area I knew very well as I grew up there. From there it was pretty plain sailing. I was tasked with writing down as many forms of advertising (Direct/Indirect) as I could and I had the whole day to complete this task. When Alan knocked on his first door I stood there in absolute astonishment as I had absolutely no idea that was what he was going to do. I immediately disciplined myself in my own mind, and reminded myself not to pass judgement as I was extremely excited to be on the “Management training program” interview, and not the mere “Sales Program” interview that Alan had clearly pointed out to me before we left the offices.

    As the day wore on I was left unaccompanied for anything up to 2 hours where Alan went off and did his thing with the doors, which suited me down to the ground as it gave me ample time to lean on a council dust bin and work on my business plan, another task that had been set. Alan turned out to be 20 years old, but he did look a lot older. I didn’t let that sway me because although it was a first, being interviewed by someone barely out of puberty, I thought that he really must be the best of the best.
    At lunchtime (4.30pm in door knockers’ terms) we sat down for the Lunchtime breakdown which got me hooked. Essentially I was informed that in 6 months I would be a manager and earning £100,000 a year. Happy days I thought to myself. I’ve made it.

    At 7.50pm we strolled back towards the offices, and my “top” representative had completed no sales. When I asked how much he got paid he merely grunted and suggested I save that question for my 3rd round interview which he had been delighted to approve me for.

    I was taken back to the same waiting area and a clipboard thrust into my hands where I had to complete a “test” based on what I had learnt throughout the day. I completed it and immediately I was taken in to see Christoph Grizzard again for the 3rd round interview. He was extremely excitable and genuinely seemed to be a happy go lucky kind of guy, and I was genuinely pleased to be in his presence.

    At the end of the interview I was excited as hell and I thought I was made when they offered me the job. They used all the right sales techniques on me…. Greed, Fear of loss, Selfishness, the lot. And it worked a treat.

    I started work the next day and this is where I was informed for the first time that I would be paid commission only and Self-Employed. This was bloody daunting considering I had been in the army and had never previously dealt with anything to do with money. Let alone my own!!

    I was trained by Alan that day and it was long and arduous. The day started at 10am and at the end of it I returned home at 11.30pm. I was still excited, though on my 3 days training package I saw 1 sale made. 1 sale in 3 days, ridiculous, especially considering this was commission only.

    I voiced my concerns to Christoph who informed me that I could separate myself from the people who interviewed me and trained me and show every single person in the office how it is done. On my first 5 days solo I completed 15 applications, at the grand total and worth £22 each. I was promptly promoted to “Accounts Manager” and told that I would now be responsible for bearing the illustrious company name while interviewing and everything else.

    Looking back it was easy to see how blind I was to the whole situation, but at the time I thought I was in dreamland, I thought I really had made it.

    I then proceeded, within the company to go away to several of the other offices and see promotions of other members of the groups. A person from Manchester was one, and London Old street the second. The disturbing part of this was that I was one of 2 drivers in the whole office and therefore I had to not only work 84 hours per week, but drive for anything up to 6 hours each way on the Saturdays too. It was severely taking its’ toll on me!!
    I started asking myself questions when my car was absolutely trashed with rubbish, chocolate on the seats, cigarette burns in the roof and other such the like. I also wondered how, if these guys earn as much as they say they do…They could not afford to get the train anywhere?

    I was the first Rep from Norwich to be in the “Top 10” in the country list. I was there for the 5 weeks running up until I left the company.
    At that point I really was earning good money. I was taking home £600-£700 per week, but something to understand is that I was the best, not just good, the absolute best. The only person that was beating me regularly IN THE COUNTRY was another Manager, and they just adapt and adjust their figures to suit them so that people like me have the drive and determination to try harder and be as good as them.

    To get to assistant manager from accounts manager you need to have 4 first generation “leaders” on your “crew” coupled with them also having trained and promoted a “leader” too, and that’s as well as maintaining the amount of applications you can do in a week.
    An interview is not an interview, IT’S A RECRUITMENT PROCESS. It doesn’t matter whether you can’t even speak English, because to the person interviewing you, you are just another number which will eventually get them promoted if they do a good job of hooking you.

    The only problem with this was that I am awesome at sales, which is coupled hand-in-hand with being good with people too. Therefore at the time I left the company I had 7 people in my crew. A feat not anywhere close to being matched in the Office, (which by this stage was over 40 people strong, and still is to my knowledge).

    My only concern over everything I achieved with SRM Marketing is that I feel that I misled the people I interviewed, and coaxed them into a job that nobody in their right minds should want. It was completely unintentional because it was what I thought I knew to be true, and in the end it all turned out to be lies. I found them all out through a tangled web of deceit and covering up for each other, but I got there. Unfortunately for SRM Marketing they messed with the wrong person. I took the time to learn the Company structure absolutely inside out and I am currently talking to someone in a comfortable chair in a senior position of a National Newspaper.

    Since I left the company I have been inundated with text messages from people within the company calling me a quitter and everything else. The only thing I regret that I didn’t do in the Company is punch someone before I left.

    If you like to earn a quick buck or two then this is the job for you. Don’t be a fool and fall for the management program bollocks, it is fake.

    Even then, you don’t get paid for the first 3 weeks so maybe “quick” was the wrong term to use there. Either way, since I joined the company I was fed lies and deceit. And now its my turn to get some revenge.

    2 weeks ago SRM invested £50,000 into advert placements on Reed.co.uk.

    Why would a company with a reputation like they think they have need to spend that much on advertising?

    SRM works on a pyramid sales basis.

    For every application you do, you receive £22. Your assistant manager receives £11, your Manager Receives £15. (And what is it they did, to help you get that sale exactly?)

    There is no basic wage at any stage of the company.

    Unlike they told me on the company breakdown, as an assistant manager you still only get commission on what your team earn, and of course through knocking on doors yourself.

    Their client (which shall be here on in known as TT) is being taken to court for deliberately misleading customers.

    I wonder which Marketing group helped that process begin then.

    Want to know more about this company and whether you should turn up for that interview tomorrow?

    Why did I leave? So close to management? Why did I leave when I was earning good money?

    Because I cannot rip people off. I can’t tell lies and I certainly cannot mislead people I am supposed to be working with into a dream of some management opportunity which does not even exist.

    Are you a fool? A complete no brainer who has been unemployed for 10 years and couldn’t do anything else apart from lie and deceive people?

    Good effort, apply for it.
    • Caller: SRM Marketing Ltd.
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    Jeremie
    Ex-employee - I totally agree with you, and they are completly spamming every possible job website they can!

    If an article does get published, i'd love to read it, post on here when you know more!
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    Anonymous Ex-employee
    Will do :o) Let's just see what happens next!
    • Caller: SRM Marketing
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    Alex Norwich
    I was invited to an interview with SRM Marketing at 2:30 yesterday. I was pretty dubious about the whole thing because of the huge number of adverts they have posted on every single job site. None of them were particularly well written, and despite the months of advertising they have done, they are still looking for "20+ people for immediate start" - never a good sign. I had a quick look on their website and was, again, worried. It's really badly written, it's designed by Vistaprint (one of their free designs) and says they are based in Nottingham. Odd, very odd. Anyway, I didn't think much about it after that because I was pretty busy.
    So I headed to the library (in the pouring rain) and printed out a CV and a couple of bits to add to my portfolio. I found the office, eventually, and climbed the delapidated staircase to the first floor. The only sign that anyone had been there in the past 100 years were the A4 printed signs saying "SRM Marketing" and "Interviews". I walked into a small room with a dirty carpet and some awful music playing loudly on the radio. There were loads of chairs around the edge of the room and a desk and phone in the corner. Bizarrely no computer - how did they even get my application?! There was a girl sat there who said she'd been waiting 10 minutes and still hadn't seen anyone, but, as directed by another shoddy printout, we dutifully began filling in the application forms sat on the desk. I just wrote "see CV attached" in most of the boxes and left it at that. Eventually baby-faced Simon appeared and invited me through for a "chat".
    The main interview room was much bigger than the first, but pretty empty. There was a desk with a chair on each side, and a "Talk Talk" poster on a stand. Simon looked through my CV quickly and asked how I felt about working to targets (I said it's good as long as they're achieveable). He spent a good ten minutes telling me about all aspects of the company, I didn't follow much because he was speaking so damn fast! From what he was saying I got the impression that it's going to be a sales job, but when I asked him what the job is he started drawing arrows on the back of my CV. I was told that from entry level to a senior management position managing 50+ people would take just 6 - 10 months for the right candidate. I couldn't help but wonder where these people are, what they are doing, and how the alleged FTSE100 customers hired them to design marketing campaigns.
    And that was it. My 'interview' was done and I was barely given the chance to talk. I was told to expect a call later if I was succesful. I left feeling incredibly bemused, and wasn't surprised to receive the call inviting me to a second interview for today. Simon told me to dress smart, but wear comfortable shoes because I'll be on my feet most of the day (I'm going to be there 12:30 - 8:30 apparently!) when I asked him what I'd be doing he said  observing one of their campaigns, I pushed him for what he meant by that and was told I'd find out when I got there.
    I'm going to be emailing Reed now and directing them to this site, it's appauling that such a supposedly reputable company are hosting these ads.
    • Caller: SRM Marketing
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    K
    Hmmmm ive recived a phone call today....
    Think i will be giving it a miss! lol

    cheers peeps
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    anonymous
    My daughter went for an interview with Primus today .  She came home,  went straight to the website and asked me and her dad to take a look as she was suspicious,  especially as she had been invited to an interview with Gforce as well,  which turned out to be the same company.  One look at the very poorly designed website and we got researching.  Thank goodness we did and is she going to be walking her socks off tomorrow in the cold, for absolutely nothing - ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE.  Thanks to all before us who have contributed to this site and good luck finding a proper job.
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    Gazzer
    These guys have started their dodgy promotions in Norwich Beware!
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    Surprised
    I applied for several jobs via reed and other recruitment websites yesterday morning & by 5.30pm got a call from SRM Marketing in Nottingham asking me to go for an interview.(Great I thought but a bit too soon for my liking) Luckily I missed the call and after looking at their poorly designed website I decided to hold off on calling them back. I said to my mum I'm a bit wary and the website is awful. They called me again today & I decided not to answer....I'm pretty glad I did after reading the stories on here!! Glad I stuck with my gut instinct!

    Nottingham isn't overly close to me so I won't be wasting my time and money on getting there if there has been so much response to their way of doing business.

    My ex-boyfriend used to be a door to door seller (he thought he could sell ice to eskimos) and even though he made some sales and got commission he still never had enough money to do things. It's not a job, it's a joke.

    So thank you to everyone who has written on here, very helpful.

    Ex-employee - hope you get something published cos this needs to be made more public and I can't believe reed - a supposedly respectable recruitment agency - are letting door to door selling being advertised as a proper job!
    • Caller: SRM Marketing Nottingham
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    Sam
    I had an interview with SRM marketing in NORWICH after recieving a phonecall from a lovely sounding girl called Becca. She said she would e-mail me the details, but oddly enough, the email was already in my inbox when she said that. 1st slipup! I visited the website linked in the e-mail, and noticed it was very low budget, the second thing i thought odd.

    But i thought nothing of it, and went along to the interview. I found the office, a tatty place that had clearly not been used for anything in years. The only thing relating the building to the company were the print-out signs for 'SRM Marketing' stuck on the inside of the windows. I walked into the office and was greeted by a friendly girl who i can anly assume was the same girl who spoke to me on the phone. Over the racket of a small radio on the windowsill, she asked me to sit down and, after about 5 minutes (almost like she forgot), handed me an 'application form' to fill in, which was clearly done very quickly in microsoft word. This seemed very odd to me, and set alarm bells ringing. Surely a national company with 30 offices would have their company logo on the application form? Besides that, i didnt see why i had to fill in the form after already being selected for an interview... But I sat and filled it in.

    Shortly after i had finished, Simon the manager invited me into his office for the interview. I immediately felt unsettled by the fact that he looked younger than me, and I'm only 20! Something about him just didnt seem quite right to me. But eager to make an impression, i shook his hand and he invited me to sit down. The office was very large, and completely emptymapart from his desk and a chair on each side. I asked if they had just moved in, and he mumbled something about them moving down from Nottingham.

    He looked very quickly through my CV, and i began explaining my work exp and qualifications, which include 4 years worth of studying business. I asked him what the business was about and what the role i was applying for would involve. He immediately started explaining it to me... without actually telling me what the business did. He somehow managed to use a shedload of business terms and 'buzzwords' without actually relating them to what the company did. And it wasnt until i got home afterwrds that i realised: 'that guy had literally no idea what he was talking about'.

    I gave my dad a quick call to talk to him about it, he instantly told me to be careful because he thought it sounded like a scam. But i reckoned i would go to the 'observation day' (which they rather enthusiastically invited me to) and ask the guy some very testing questions. Fortunately for me, i found this website whilst trying to do some more research the night before. Thanks to everyone who posted! Somehow i dont think they'll be seeing me tomorrow... and i have sent an email to Becca (if that is her real name) expressing my... displeasure, shall we say.

    If you have had an interview with these people, or have one lined up, DON'T BOTHER. These people are a waste of time, unless you really want a job selling 'services' door-to-door on a comission only basis. You will get better pay for the work you do in a supermarket. And you will probably earn more money, too.

    Also, the whole thing about the strange team meetings where they dance around and chant, and the people who heard cheering from behind closed doors, it just screams 'cult' at me. Straaaange people.
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    stop them
    why do they do this to people? Im currently in part time work looking for full time employement where i can use my degree in advertising and marketing, these companies or shud i say company abuse their right to advertise their jobs on websites. when i type in marketing or advertising graduate scheme into totaljobs or reed, i know i dont type in graduate scam! but yet these companies keep coming up!! its sales, or specificly door to door sales which if its their company they should be proud of advertisng it like that but by hidding it they only get people complaining about them. if you cant trust the employeer why work for them. This is how poorly and desperate they are for people to work for them, I was asked to attend two interviews on the same day for two different companies in the same building!! Primus and G force. they should stop adding tags of relevent words to job search engine's so this way we dont have to spend hours filtering thru 100's of these "unwanted" jobs.
    • Caller: jl acquisitions
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    rayza
    I havnt had much luck with interviews so when i got a email from EA Worldwide Acquisitions And Aspire i was over the moon.......till last night and my girlfriend stumbled across aload of forums say how s**t they wer....damn i was angry.....i sent them a nice email last night(it was a template of what to say back to there preliminary interview, i found it on 1 of these forum lol) it was just basicly slaggin them off but in a nice way...uno 1 of them 1s lol....well today around 11 i got a reminder of my interview time today which was 4pm after i just told them they can stick there interview?its just a process....anyother company would check there emails but no neways after i got the interview reminder i just went in to 1 and said....


    I am not coming to your stupid interview, you mug people off by brainwashing them into thinking they will be earning 100k in 2years by selling crap door to door? thats a joke your company is a joke.....your company is the type of scum that lets down england i think you should pack your crap up and f*** off back home....I dont even know any of you that work in that s**t hole but i can tell you now i actually hate you all.....you are snapping people up to work for nothing so your grumby little hands can rake in the bacon.

    your a SCAM

    take your interview and stick it where the sun dont shine

    Thank you and goodnight


    i got an email back from Stacey kahoe asking what is the scam? and how i should not listen to the people from forums becauses its all lies....i fort do 1

    so i told her she doesnt no whats the scam? robbing decent english people and told her dont reply back to me

    DO NOT GO ANYWERE NEAR

    EA Worldwide Acquisitions
    14-20 Shand Street
    Lower Level
    London Bridge
    SE1 2ES
    0207 234 3560

    OR

    APSIRE
    1 Bath Street
    LONDON
    EC1V 9LB                                                                      
    Tel: 0207 017 3866

    Oh plus she said they wer taking legal actions against all these forums HAHAHA what a joke
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    Jen
    | 1 reply
    Tell me about it - i'm a graduate in the same position - went for an interview at SRM marketing in norwich not knowing it was door to door sales - its a disgrace!!
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    Dave
    Urgh. I can't believe I didn't find this site the other day.

    Sunday: Application sent.
    Tuesday: COME FOR A PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW IN MANCHESTER ON WEDNESDAY!!!
    Wednesday: Arrive for interview after lengthy train journey. "Hello, I'm here for the interview". "What company?" "JL Acquisitions." "Take a seat and fill out this form [name, address, all the stuff that's on my CV]". Then I get taken upstairs to "not her usual office" (i.e. a bare office with a couple of document boxes scattered around). Brief chat about my skills and the company ethos (I had no idea what she was talking about. It was all a load of marketing fluff. And TBH I was distracted by the amount of concealer she was using to cover the spots on her forehead). "If you're one of the 6-10 successful candidates, we'll phone you at 6.30 tonight." No call at 6.30, but I did have an email when I got home inviting me to the second round of interviews on Friday, as well as "meeting clients and customers".

    Honestly, I did think there was something fishy about the pisspoor website when I checked, but I just assumed it was a new company that didn't have that many clients to show off. Plus I was so giddy and excited about getting an interview.
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    JBurton
    Yes guys and girls. I'm afraid what these people are telling you is true. I went to a Gforce interview in Mancheser last week. I even attended the second "observation" day which turned out to be door to door sales in Accrington. The lowest circle of hell is reserved for people who make me walk around the wet and cold of Accrington for EIGHT HOURS!!!

    When I got back, I spoke to one of the the girls, told them I needed time to think about it, and got the hell out of there. At 10.30pm. That's a day of my life I will never get back.

    Seriously, it's not worth it.
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    Kirsty
    Thanks guys for posting this!
    I sent my CV with a covering letter on Wednesday night (2nd December), after seeing the advert on the reed website. I thought they seemed a bit eager when they rang me early yesterday morning to arrange an interview for this afternoon. Then after seeing their website, like something out of a kids spy movie, I thought I'd best google them, and found this. Thanks for saving me from a wasted trip :).
    • Caller: G-Force Ltd
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    Employee perdm
    | 7 replies
    Ok all of u.....I think you all are just wasting your time posting useless comments on the net about Primus UK, SRM Marketing etc. When you research you should do it properly. All of these are under the umbrella of perdm which is teh mother company and these are campaigns from locations that is why there is Primus UK in different cities. Does Accenture, Citibank etc have a different name in every city. If you apply to Citibank in US and UK and if you get a call from both do you call it a scam?

    BTW I joined in July and I am an Assistant Manager now in the same Primus UK and I for one am glad to have a job in the recession unlike all of you who are sitting here and writing [***] on the net for people willing to put in  honest work. About not knowing anything about marketing all the managers here are Masters and maybe if you deflate your ego a bit you might just be able to progress in life. COMMISSION: I started on commission and never made less than 400 pounds a week and now im on a basic like within 5 months which is like 40,000 a year.

    Some of you got a call from the same number ok here goes - If you start a business and to break even you are sharing the office with another business, then how does it make any sense to use two landlines. Were the people who called you the same? I mean did the same person call you from both companies? Think if you use your brain maybe if you used in the interview you would understand more.

    Ok so how many of you have worked abroad? Forget that how many of you have travelled. This is a US based company and the work culture and atmosphere is like that but I guess im talking to people who have never left their cities oops sorry towns!

    So a scam huh? Who does Talk-Talk, Opal, Miller Pattison, Scottish Power, Argos, Burlington, Citigroup etc work with? UMMMM....yup these so called scams. But oops none of you have ever worked!!!!!!! How would you know?

    So go on loads of people are needed or who else will shop all day and wander aimlessly in the town centre calling people about how they escaped a SCAM!!

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