It seems that ADC have closed their doors for now at least and disconnected their telephone lines, if anybody has information please forward as soon as possible as i am sure you would agree we want to stop this compant taking peoples hard earned money literally for nothing.
Would samanta hall, jackie21, and cawilliams please get in contact with me at funsome123@hotmail.com, I do have some news that you might be interested in
Monday, 20 October 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Very Important Update!
First let me thank all the people that have posted on this blog it is a shame that we have had to meet like this as we have all lost money to this so called organisation, I have been looking through the internet and have found additional information as a warning to anybody that is thinking of using ADC, ADC Manchester, Asian Debt Collectors, and variations thereof, I too pestered for our money back only to be phoned by Mr Muhamed himself when he threatened to kill me and that of my family if I didn’t stop calling.
I have found that the company is linked to a multitude of businesses in and around Manchester some of which have either been investigated by various authorities or there are a string of other complaints such as ours, please do take a look at the additional links which have been found on the web all of which I must add are at the top of the google search engine, I only hope that people do a search first on the internet so they know what they are getting themselves into before they part with the hard earned money.
To confirm this blog relates to ADC of Manchester 577 Cheetham Hill (quite and appropriate address) Please take a look at the additional links below and please do spread the word of your experiences at this so called “business” It would also be interesting to know the name of the person that represents ADC an older gentleman greying hair wearing black trench coat, anybody know his name?
Anyway please do take a look at the following links, there is some interesting information in the (MEN) Manchester Evening News take a look!
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/showthread.php?t=19879&page=2
http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/6052/companyname/Adc.html
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/privacy_and_electronic/notices/adc_final.pdf
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/columnists/article.html?in_page_id=19&in_article_id=431532&in_author_id=5 (Please read paragraph UPDATE 1)
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Update
Update, spoke to a more reputable debt collection company in Manchester tonight, I didn’t even have to mention the company they already new about them, it appears that they already have a string of county court judgements so if you have the same problems with them my advice is don’t bother taking them to court save your money and put it to a much better use, I have decided to cost their company the £2350.00 they cost me. Please do watch this space. By the way if the company wants me to stop contacting them its simple give me the money back.
It seems we are not the only ones
Was looking through the internet earlier and found the following post http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/6052/companyname/Adc.html it looks as if they have been busy, if you know of any more complaints about this company please feel free to add them. Dont Forget! Dont send them any money!
Thinking about debt collection, then think again!
Its simple, or it should be a person or business runs up a debt with you, you haven’t got the time to chase the debtor so you try and find a suitable company to collect the debt on your behalf.
Its not that simple, believe you me, we experienced just that scenario we kept on receiving faxes from a Manchester based company saying that they can collect a debt or you will get your money back we finally gave in and requested a meeting, mistake number 1, we set the appointment on the 24th of January and received a call from their representative to say that he couldn’t find us which meant that we had to go looking for him a few miles up the road, now at this point the alarm bells should have started ringing but we thought poor sod doesn’t know the area very well and went to the rescue. Very pleasant older gentleman listened to our problems intently and said they he had to make a few phonecalls which he did, he called his head office and gave the name of the debtors to an associate and requested a call back, in the meantime we talked about the weather waiting for his return call which came a few moments later, he had a smile on his face, he said we have found some information on this person and it looks as if they have some considerable funds available in a few of their accounts. Well we were pleased it all seemed justified they have the money in their accounts they owe us so by a simple calculation it was worth paying the money to get the debt recovered. WRONG WRONG WRONG, mistake number 2 and mistake number 3 all rolled into one, yes the company portrayed a level of professionalism in finding out this information but this is where we started thinking with our wallets and not our mind.
“We can collect the debt from the debtor”, we said but this is a seasoned professional that ignores, letters, phonecalls and even court dates, don’t worry he said we will personally go down there and collect this money for you, we have a team of professional debt collectors that will recover this money for you, Great! Where do we sign, and that’s where we should have stopped but instead we didn’t, we agreed a price and made a deposit based on the information he received from head office that there was money available in the debtors name. We will require all the paperwork sent to our office along with the balance, I said I will get this to you by the end of the week.
In the days leading up to the end of the week I started making a few checks about the company, they were a registered company they had a consumer credit licence so things looked quite good, so we compiled the 5 years of paperwork and couriered to them along with our cheque. A few weeks later we phoned for an update only to be told that the file hadn’t been set up and it would take an additional week, ok we thought, not a problem, Then we rang in to receive the first update, oh we went sent them a letter we are waiting for them to respond, a letter I said they will ignore that when are you going to visit them, oh we need to send them a letter first.
This was how it went on week after week, phoning in for an update, all we heard is that they had sent them a letter, we were getting frustrated and kept on asking when are you sending in an actual debt collector? Started seeing the pattern yet, we have, the final straw came when the collection company wanted more money to take the person to court, this is when the penny dropped and we realised that we wasn’t going to see any of the money we had either paid to recover the original debt.
Phonecalls, faxes, phonecalls faxes even emails that immediately bounced back, all to no avail they had our money and that was that, even them ignoring their own terms and conditions didn’t seem to sway them they had our money and that was that.
So if you are thinking of collecting a debt, think wisely, don’t fall for the tricks of the trade that were used on us, it was a costly mistake, we cant even recover the documents as they cant seem to find them, a bit strange that as the paperwork was included with the cheque and they managed to find that all right.
Please feel free to contact me for the complete horror story, for legal reasons we can not divulge the company at this time not until the have at least appeared on BBC Watchdog.
My advice, choose carefully, choose very carefully ask for companies details that they have collected from in the past, don’t take anything at face value because that is what it is face value and nothing else.
This lesson cost £2350.00 so save yours and don’t make the same mistakes we made.
You have been warned!
Its not that simple, believe you me, we experienced just that scenario we kept on receiving faxes from a Manchester based company saying that they can collect a debt or you will get your money back we finally gave in and requested a meeting, mistake number 1, we set the appointment on the 24th of January and received a call from their representative to say that he couldn’t find us which meant that we had to go looking for him a few miles up the road, now at this point the alarm bells should have started ringing but we thought poor sod doesn’t know the area very well and went to the rescue. Very pleasant older gentleman listened to our problems intently and said they he had to make a few phonecalls which he did, he called his head office and gave the name of the debtors to an associate and requested a call back, in the meantime we talked about the weather waiting for his return call which came a few moments later, he had a smile on his face, he said we have found some information on this person and it looks as if they have some considerable funds available in a few of their accounts. Well we were pleased it all seemed justified they have the money in their accounts they owe us so by a simple calculation it was worth paying the money to get the debt recovered. WRONG WRONG WRONG, mistake number 2 and mistake number 3 all rolled into one, yes the company portrayed a level of professionalism in finding out this information but this is where we started thinking with our wallets and not our mind.
“We can collect the debt from the debtor”, we said but this is a seasoned professional that ignores, letters, phonecalls and even court dates, don’t worry he said we will personally go down there and collect this money for you, we have a team of professional debt collectors that will recover this money for you, Great! Where do we sign, and that’s where we should have stopped but instead we didn’t, we agreed a price and made a deposit based on the information he received from head office that there was money available in the debtors name. We will require all the paperwork sent to our office along with the balance, I said I will get this to you by the end of the week.
In the days leading up to the end of the week I started making a few checks about the company, they were a registered company they had a consumer credit licence so things looked quite good, so we compiled the 5 years of paperwork and couriered to them along with our cheque. A few weeks later we phoned for an update only to be told that the file hadn’t been set up and it would take an additional week, ok we thought, not a problem, Then we rang in to receive the first update, oh we went sent them a letter we are waiting for them to respond, a letter I said they will ignore that when are you going to visit them, oh we need to send them a letter first.
This was how it went on week after week, phoning in for an update, all we heard is that they had sent them a letter, we were getting frustrated and kept on asking when are you sending in an actual debt collector? Started seeing the pattern yet, we have, the final straw came when the collection company wanted more money to take the person to court, this is when the penny dropped and we realised that we wasn’t going to see any of the money we had either paid to recover the original debt.
Phonecalls, faxes, phonecalls faxes even emails that immediately bounced back, all to no avail they had our money and that was that, even them ignoring their own terms and conditions didn’t seem to sway them they had our money and that was that.
So if you are thinking of collecting a debt, think wisely, don’t fall for the tricks of the trade that were used on us, it was a costly mistake, we cant even recover the documents as they cant seem to find them, a bit strange that as the paperwork was included with the cheque and they managed to find that all right.
Please feel free to contact me for the complete horror story, for legal reasons we can not divulge the company at this time not until the have at least appeared on BBC Watchdog.
My advice, choose carefully, choose very carefully ask for companies details that they have collected from in the past, don’t take anything at face value because that is what it is face value and nothing else.
This lesson cost £2350.00 so save yours and don’t make the same mistakes we made.
You have been warned!
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