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Monday 18 March 2013

The Consumer Protection Guarantee.

Today's post will be something that I didn't really want to do when i started this website and that is to give a certain company more of a spotlight than others, there is no money changing hands and the people I'm speaking about have no clue that I've wrote this post but after finding out a little bit about these guys i felt i needed to shed some light on what they do and my feelings towards it.

The consumer protection guarantee:-

My feelings towards this company is of extreme frustration, I have had so many customers and friends go under because there has been no protection from people who have the stupidity of hiring a tradesman to do a large project and figure out once it's almost completed that they can't pay, my anger is directed at this company because they have taken this long to come up with this idea. It's not there fault by any means but so much built up frustration seeing close friends pleading for goods to go on there account to try and claw back there business on there next job but i cant help them because if i let them have the goods it would be classed as stealing, they can try small claims court but they end up with a bigger sum of money to pay for than the one there chasing from there customer, I'm having trouble putting my frustration into words because for so long it's been pent up.

We see so many articles and television programmes stating "cowboy builders" with a bald chap chasing after a dodgy bloke asking "why did you build a house without any doors!!?" that we forget that tradesmen aren't always the bad guys, have you ever seen a TV programme where the bald chap asks a customer "this respectable builder has spent six months on your property, has completed the job so why haven't you paid him!?" I'm taking a shot in the dark here but i guess it just doesn't make for good TV.

My whole point in this post is to shed the light on Consumer Protection Guarantee, I have a very emotionally attached past with my customers and not just because they spend money but because i have seen so many times there whole entire life come crashing down, we forget that the work they do is the same as everyone else, they do it to pay there bills, put food on the table and to support there loved ones, it's something i have great respect for and that i can relate to being a family man myself, i couldn't imagine what would happen if i lost my job with a huge debt and having to tell my family that i was in trouble and it may end up with my family losing everything we own, The consumer protection guarantee get there own post on my website because they help everyone, not just tradesmen but the customer as well, no more worrying if your customer will cough up, the consumer protection guarantee will give you protection for any project over the value of £2000.

They have my upmost respect for what they are offering and i hope it comes across in my post today, i hope that you all at least consider looking at the website because if you end up with a customer that can't pay, can your business afford to take that hit? why should it have to even if it could.

http://www.tcpg.co.uk/


4 comments:

  1. I operate INEA (The Independent Network of Estate Agents). After hearing about the CPG we decided to contact the MD.

    The system is good an honest and protects both consumer (home owner) and the tradesman. As such we now recommend that our management agents recommend CPG warrantied tradesmen to their landlords.

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  2. This is a great scheme and should be made compulsory to protect vulnerable home owners and decent builders who get let down by poor payers!

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  3. I think these are good replies. If only other trades could use this too, like Landscapers especially....!!

    http://www.tvglandscaping.co.uk

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  4. I belong to Tradesman connect and have been using the CPG an dto me I feel safe after doing exactly what the article above says done a perfectly good job then got knocked for 4.5K funny thing is nobody wants to know when the builder loses money, now I can see the money waiting to be paid to me before I start the job and get regular payments throughout the job and in the unlikely event of a dispute it will be sorted in two weeks
    Floyd Risby www.frisbybuilding.co.uk

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