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Yep, I have fallen for this boiler house scam. Craig Cooper has every excuse under the sun not to pay me back my investment. The latest is that he has Chrone's disease.
Originally contacted by a guy called Dominic Banks using all the boiler house techniques, which I fell for.
How do I get my money back, and who can I report this man and company to? Any help and advice gratefully received.

Thanks :)

Hi Brian could you let me know how you are getting on as we too have been involved with this company and are looking into what we can do.

I invested about 10,000 with craig cooper  in crimson fine wine and diamonds I have known him 5 years
he also worked for Bordeaux wines I cant believe what I a reading

another company to watch out for is hammer propertys 0870 7543344 a rip off company for business rates.....

The comments made by Messrs Hammer Properties are interesting.
Firstly the terms and conditions
"Our charges for the complete service total £500 plus VAT with only a £75 deposit to formulate and lodge the initial Appeal in order to ascertain a valid acknowledgement from the Valuation Office. Should the Appeal be returned by the Valuation Office as invalid, then the deposit will be returned in full. In event of the appeal coming back as valid the balance of £500 is payable."
Basically for an appeal to be "valid" you just have to know the rent on the property and be able to sign your name. So 99.9% of appeals are automatically valid. So Hammer are basically charging you £500 to make an appeal (an A4 sheet of paper or online for free), but with clever wording to make it not look like that.
The next issue is they only make an appeal where their "Survey Dept" believes there are reasonable grounds. Problem is they don't mention employing any Chartered Surveyors and with "50,000" clients you would need at least 50. Suspect that what they call a Surveyor is a salesmen paid part commission out of the £500.
There website states the average success rate on appeal is 23.5% but that is a falsehood.
If their "Survey" department thought there were reasonable grounds then what of their "success rate?" No mention is made of this because it is the last thing they would want to mention and if they misrepresent it the data is available from the Valuation Office website to prove otherwise.
It would seem that they have made around 15,000 rating appeals on the 2005 rating list and only agreed 940 reductions. That is less than 7% which is quite appalling given that the basic level of "competence" is a 1 in 3 success rate. see www.leaseholdersunited.com top 150 Rating Surveyors
What it may reflect is that once they have made the appeal they actually don't bother to contact the Valuation Office. This is further supported by going to the Valuation Tribunal website and looking at how many appeals are "dismissed"
2300 of their 2005 appeals have been "dismissed" by the Valuation Tribunal for lack of prosecution. Anyone can check this fact by going to
http://info.valuation-tribunals.gov.uk/Decision_query.asp?Mode=3
Then entering in IG1 2QY into the Agent Postcode Box
Clicking ALL DECISIONS radio button and then clicking search now.
In the end Hammer Properties have developed a fantastic business model which is charging you £500 to go online at www.voa.gov.uk and make an appeal on your behalf, which you can do for free in 5. All legal and above board but dressed up as somethingelse by a clever sales patter.
Any businesses needs to read the RICS Rating Consultancy Code of Practice (search for it on the web) and don't employ someone who doesn't provide it with their contract.
I have known "of" Hammer Properties for some years and they are well known in the industry and by the Valuation Office. It has also got to the stage that having paid £xxx up front for someone to make a rating appeals is known as having been "hammered".
Please everyone "avoid". If you can't afford a proper Surveyor, then do it yourself.

Be very aware of a company called stanford barclay on 0203 697 5746 evidence in cold calling speaially in graphine.read the F.C.A report on this product.
They say there office is 40 bank street canary wharf E14 5NR. Same address as jubilee diamonds
who have now been put into compulsory liquadation,, but they just use it as a mail drop.

there registered address is 100 new bond st london which is a businees centre for mail or rented offices. The have one director a Mr Billy Stevens....this blog needs to go on the page where there blog is...40 bank street you can rent an office by the hour from servocorp...they know how to  charge like a wounded bull

city diamond exchange 2007 002 1144 they say there offices are in knightsbridge basil st... this is just a virtuall office by the hour there real office is 25 floral street WC2 E9PS which is behind covent garden tube..will never trade a diamond on for you
and over priced diamonds to pay for there staff a high commision on sales...will take a credit card payment or deposit which makes it easier to get your money back from the cc company

I bought wine from crimson fine wines can you help

His posts asks that you email him.

Watch out for a company called be fancy ltd its nicholas jacobs of compulsary liquadate jubilee diamonds scamming customers again in coulred diamonds.

call him on 0207 038 8299 ask for your money back

Hi Mark

Did you manage to get your money back?

Hi Peter

Have you managed to get your money back?

Crimson Fine Diamonds do not answer their phone-so everything is fine then!!

Any room in the tower for these low lifes.

Send him to the Tower or Iraq!

Diamonds 18 months overdue-may pay them a visit !

I doubt any address you have for them will be nothing more than a mailing address - this is how these scammers seem to operate.

i have purchased four diammonds from crimmson and wish to know the best way to proceed to recover my money back as i now am aware the value is a lot less thanks.

people do actually buy this

are you still helping people trying to get their money back from crimson