repairs4you

[blokes]

Good evening all,

I have been contacted by repairs4you in Birmingham I think! About doing cooker repairs for them, anyone know anything about them?

Cheers

Steve

[admin]

Re: repairs4you

Hi

The address given is part of an industrial estate and not an actual property.
Address:
Office
66-14 George Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B12 9RG

closest to the name is at office 67 15 George st.

But the registered office is different again B11 1DS which shows up next to home appliance warehouse or total solutions & co.

Hmm. have they supplied any other company details ?

Bryan

[blokes]

Re: repairs4you

Thanks for the reply.

The only details I have from the email is :

Repairs4you LTD
Montgomery Business Centre
Unit C, 272 Montgomery Street
Birmingham
B11 1DS

Ill reply to there email in the morning and see what I can find out.

Steve

[bagman]

Re: repairs4you

Have received the same, I’ve replied with a few questions.
Will let you know what they say.

[Jackal]

Re: repairs4you

Before going further I would suggest you get a look at their accounts or get a credit report on them before going further.

Their accounts make interesting reading and not in a good way.

Jackal

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[blokes]

Re: repairs4you

Thanks Jackal,

I take a look, I have emailed them with some questions so Ill see what they come up with.

Steve

[blokes]

Re: repairs4you

Email Recieved today:

This is how we work.

We pay £45 per repair completed and we supply you with all the parts,
which are sent to you in advance by post. We mostly cover fan oven
element replace and We diagnose the problem over the phone. Payments to
the contractors are made via bank trasfer (faster payments) at the end
of each day. the first time we pay you it may take longer but therafter
should show immidiatly after transfer is made.

In regards to the bookings we always send you an email before repair is
booked in to let you know date, time, make,model,postcode, and what type
of repair it is. if you are not available on that date or for any
reason do not want to carry out the repair, we then refer it to another
contractor in that area.

The repairs we carry out are mostly general public who book with us and
we send engineers out to do the repair. Customers pay after repair is
done via our payment line while engineer/contractor is at the property
and then once paid a receipt will be issued via post or e-mail to the
customer.

At this stage I cannot guarantee a work load but once we start working
with each other and know how each one of us works we can increase
business with each other.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me
on 07891299425 or 0121 2590424 alternatively you can email me
sales@repairs4you.co.uk.

Kind Regards
Sonia Raymond
Repairs4you LTD
Montgomery Business Centre
Unit C, 272 Montgomery Street
Birmingham
B11 1DS

Sounds like there just starting up to me!

Steve

[Jackal]

Re: repairs4you

Ok perhaps I come from a different perspective but here is what I see.

I have obtained a copy of the companies accounts which show the following:-

Company commenced business on the 1st February 2011 with the principle purpose of the business being the repair of computer equipment.

The companies account cover the period 1st February 2011 to 31st January 2012, in other words a FULL 12 month trading period.

The companies accounts show turnover for the FULL 12 month period to be £9327 (Thats Nine Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty Seven Pounds). Does that sound like a full on decent business or sound like a hobby, I know what I think.

The cost of Sales (Parts) amounted to £1224 so not a lot then.

Administrative costs (salaries, stationery, rent heating lighting etc.) amounted to £7937. Of which, if you read the notes which accompanied the accounts, you will notice involves payments to the sole director of £4000.

That leaves just £3937 to pay for everything else, staff salaries, web adverting space, rent on the property, which if you delve deeper into the interweby shows up as a 250 square foot run down, back street sh!te hole belonging to the local council whom seem to be using it as a dumping ground.

This all means the pre tax operating profit amounted to just £166 for the full year.

Taxation of £33 reduced this to just £133 for a FULL 12 months trading of this business. So from the accounts it makes a net profit margin of just 1.4{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of turnover.

Other than money in the bank amount to £5628, the company according to its accounts has NO assets whatsoever, no stock, no debtors, no computers, no furniture, no nothing. Before you think well that’s £5628 cash in the bank, you need to consider the £5494 worth of debt the company already owes to its creditors leaving just £134 available.

If the sole Director is taking 43{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the turnover as his salary (£4000), how is he funding himself? Could you live on that sort of salary for a full time job? How is he funding his employees assuming he has any and if not, is he working this full time or as a hobby, how is he funding the property he is working from and how is he going to fund any expansion? I ask these questions because I cannot see how he can legally be doing it.

So now I look at how he wants you agents to work.

Basically, if I am reading your post correctly, he thinks he can diagnose over the phone the fault of the cooker. He then purchases the parts from someone and ships them to you as the agent so you can call to simply fit them.

You then turn up and fit them and once the unit is working the customer then pays him., When he gets the payment, he pays you same day.

To do this he would be better than any engineer I have ever encountered in 25 years of this trade. How many of you can diagnose EVERY repair over the telephone so you send just the right parts to the engineer? Not many. What happens when the reported fault is dead. It could be anything.

So now you turn up armed with a part that doesnt fix the customers fault. One presumes she isnt going to pay for that but if she is, send her my way would you!

So if he isnt being paid, are you going to be? I seriously doubt it, not by these guys anyway. Someone is fast going to run out of cash doing this, and this lot only had £133 after 12 months of trading.

My other man had a saying. If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish and tastes like a fish then its a FISH.

Given the above, to me this looks like a scam, smells like a scam and tastes like a scam. I certainly wouldn’t be extending credit to these guys and would want my fee up front of doing any work, not after if I were going to do this but its your choice.

Regards

Jackal

[admin]

Re: repairs4you

:eeek: web site looks naff….! give them a big miss , a bit like the other shower of sh!t, go local. 👿

just build up your own customer base,

you can stay at home and earn nothing, dont need to drive around and do it for them

canufixit

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