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I think you are looking in the wrong place. Try www.cvsuk.com terms and conditions where you will find all sorts of tricky wording

Your points are duly noted. But it does bring up an interesting question; do you have to be devoid of integrity to work at CVS, or do they train you to put your integrity aside?

Your question is duly answered. Integrity is regarded by many people as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of ones actions. Integrity stands in opposition to hypocrisy described as the  practice of claiming to have higher standards and beliefs than is actually the case.

Like for instance posting sarcastic comments regarding something you probably know nothing about ANONYMOUSLY on websites about integrity.

I periodically have a look at this site purely for the unbelievable posts and wonder how the site moderators simply allow folks to use the site as their own personal soap box to spout tosh..(and that goes for both sides of this frankly ridiculous dispute). This is meant to be a consumer site to give a simple warning about who is calling.....this site is B2B and is used as a blog.....perhaps because it is not really moderated and American it gives the opportunity to say anything you like.....

You nailed that one. Site used to be a useful forum for a fair exchange of comments to share info on unknown calls. Guess moderators have no interest or resource in who-says-what, or we'd all have avatar & have to login. They make money from adverts and click-thrus (which keeps it free) but beyond that, it's like the Wild West ... shame really. Like you, I only visit occasionally for a laugh or when the odd call gets past my phone safeguards.

At last before the idiots pounce on me a comparable post! I don't actually get the constant debating that goes on with smatterings of personal comments and outrage. Normal folks give a bad review and move on....reputable sites only allow the one review and then you have to prove who you are and that you have had dealings with the company! This site does not afford this simple way of checking its real! And if you moan about them like this...they remove you!!!!

This isn't a review site. It deals with the activities of telemarketing companies and unless all of the posts here are somehow false, CVS is involved in telemarketing. Reading through various easily verifiable facts are put forward about CVS, that don't show them in a favourable light . Various moans are put forward in response and complaints that these comments couldn't be made in England. But if it is honest opinon or fact then they could be and no action could be taken against the posters because it is not breaking any law. That is evidenced by the articles written by the Telegraph on CVS which don't make good reading and have not been removed.

This site is actually for folks to warn other folks of calls they may get from a telemarket CONSUMER company......it should just offer who the company is and maybe a comment as to whether they are reputable or not. Instead there are reams and reams of speculative opinions. One article in the Telegraph is about the extension of the contract which while dubious it actually follows that CVS must have got a reduction for the folks to then try and get another couple of years out of them. The second was about one company who a couple of years after CVS acted for them had a visit from the VOA and their rates were adjusted to their true figure.

The site says nothing about being telemarketing from businesses to consumers. The first article was indeed about CVS trying to get an extra 2 years money out of businesses than was implied by their contract. That is not the behaviour expected of a professional firm or an RICS Regulated firm.  The second article was about CVS making reckless and frivolous appeals and focused on the Glamorgan Archives, who after CVS appealed saw their business rates increase massively. That is not the expected behaviour of a professional firm or an RICS Regulated firm and further quotes in the article highlight that this reckless appealing was CVS policy.  The Government also indicated in the first article that they are bringing in legislation to deal with the issues highlighted in the articles.

I'd book a doctors appointment if I were you love. You strike me as borderline bi-polar at the very least. By the way which of the 40 odd names YOU have used is your real one?? Before you criticise others why not show you have the courage to be different?

Utility bill helpline Mrs is a scam.  They have a history of ripping people off for rating appeals.  Www.uk-consumer-complaints.blogspot.com

You are so right. They have no contact number so believe they will avoid these sites. Gary davies has been envolved in ratings companies that have cheated and scammed and then disappeared. Now he pops up with a company pretending to help but in reality is scamming from a different angle. People are so stupid to believe for thirty quid a month you are gping to get a proper service. Its a small amount per month and enough of them give him a profit for really doing nothing...

We are a scam. I have just left the company cos it sicken me to con all these unassuming folk. Come on if thereis no contact number why would you sign up.......gary davies and the rest of them are laughing their socks off and horrible bosses

I am always concerned when I see businesses vocally criticising other businesses operating in the same industry - the reason they discredit competitors (possibly decently reputable companies in their own right) is usually to persuade you to sign up to their services at the expense of other companies - because it is firstly very poor business practice, and one usually finds problems closer to home.

I am therefore going to investigate www.utilitybillhelpline.co.uk to look at their own bold claims, and test the trustworthiness of their company using information already in the public domain.

On their website, they use the following contact address: Coopers House, 65a Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch, Essex RM11 3AT
This is their Registered Address as required by Companies House.  However they do not publish their actual trading address.  Why would a company not wish to provide this?
The Registered Address is a building used by Haines Watts Group which is an Accountancy firm - and presumably their accountants - so should you have a complaint against Utility Bill Helpline Ltd, you would not be able to physically find them.
They do NOT provide a telephone number, NOR an email address, so contacting them could prove problematic.
The Company Director as recorded at Companies House is Mr Gary Davies.
Gary Davies has a string of dissolved companies behind him which have been G DAVIES CONSULTANTS LTD (which was struck off after going into voluntary liquidation) and BUSINESS RATES HELPLINE LTD (which is showing as dissolved with a First notification of strike-off action in London Gazette (Section 652).
At the same home/service address provided to Companies House, Mrs Carron Davies, and Mr Marcus Reece Davies were Director and respective Company Secretary of DUNCAN REGENT ASSOCIATES LTD which was dissolved after being struck off after going into voluntary liquidation and was also a Business Rating Appeals Company which has been reported to be a SCAM COMPANY.
There is a lot of unhappy clients here http://www.unknownphone.com/search.php?num=01204388189 who claim they were RIPPED OFF.

Already there seems to be a string of Business Rating Appeal Companies who appear to have misled and lied to companies, running off with substantial Up Front Fees.  The very thing Utility Bill Helpline are alleging other companies are doing before telling us that they have amazingly managed somehow of getting up front fees back to companies who have been ripped off by other companies!!!!!  How?  And then claiming to have saved them thousands of pounds through their own appeals?!!!!  Is that really a likely story?  When DUNCAN REGENT ASSOCIATES LTD and the BUSINESS RATES HELPLINE LTD seem to have developed quite a negative reputation of their own doing?  It doesn't convince me I'm afraid.

It is deeply concerning that the Utility Bill Helpline Ltd, also seems to be very much centred upon offering the services of Business Rate Reductions and would definitely occur to me to be a very large red flag.

This company has a LOT of Testimonials which name Companies which Gary Davies claims have misled and lied to consumers, and defrauded.  Having looked at the evidence, there are a tremendous amount of similarities between the 'customer testimonials' which lead me to form an opinion that they are fake.  Remember this is only my own opinion.  However, if they are fake, then please be wary of the comments they have made in relation to other companies in the same industry to them, because they may be lies.

Trading Standards will be asked to look into this case, and it will be up to Gary Davies to substantiate his Testimonials.  If they are indeed false, this constitutes 'canvassing business away from a trade or business' which is a criminal offence, by means of false representation (which is another). Not a concern when the whole thing has the potential of being a scam; locking customer's into costly and lengthy contracts on unfair terms.

If you trust this company or any of it's Claims and fantastic 'Testimonials' on their website, then look at the facts before you believe what you are told.

Merry Christmas from all at CVS. Just one more annuity bill to go. 28 day payments terms don't forget.

Guess who's in the news again:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/1 ... rates-bill.html

Rocking the boat with a speculative no-win-no-fee appeal lands an Imperial War Museum facility with a 12x increase in business rates? This can't be right, surely. Even by CVS standards, that'd be a stonker of a [***] up!

I understand CVS are finally smelling the coffee. 40 staff to be made redundant next month with up to 40 more by the end of the year. Senior management team also to be trimmed back to 5. This after scaling down all field sales in the south of England last year. Tough times.

If you read the decision of the Valuation Tribunal http://info.valuation-tribunals.gov.uk/decisi ... 068556%2F036N10
it doesn't inspire confidence in the staff that CVS employed to conduct the appeal, let alone the fact that they appealed it in the first place.  If you look at paragraph 2 the CVS valuer indicated it was worth £38,250 and then, oops, it should have been £74250. He was also arguing that building costs fell by half from 2001 to 2008. I will have to try that one on our builder when he quotes for the next extension. Embarrassing.

The appellant’s higher valuation suggested a rateable value of
£96,000, however if someone had a sum of £5.6 million to invest in the building plus an
additional sum to achieve the land, they would expect an annual return on that investment
of significantly more than £96,000, otherwise they would invest their capital elsewhere.
Consequently, the Valuation Officer’s valuation of £325,000 rateable value was far more
realistic. This assessment which took effect from 12 March 2013 was upheld as being fair
and reasonable. The appeal was therefore dismissed.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Mark Rigby, Tony Dardis, Jason Clarke, your boys took one hell of a beating!!!!

The "beating" was taken by the Imperial War Museum. CVS's T&C's absolve them of liability when they make an appeal and the client's rates go up,