The Beginning of another EPIC SAGA OF COMPLAINT

[tamaranth]

Some of you will remember my dealings with $FinancialMisadviceCo, culminating in a paltry settlement because I opted for closure over vengeance justice.

One of $FinancialMisadviceCo's last pieces of misadvice concerned property investment in Estonia. I was a little concerned about the advice I'd been given, but $OverseasPropertyCo were always helpful and provided quite a bit of backup when I was dealing with $FinancialMisadviceCo.

$OverseasPropertyCo -- henceforth $OverseasImaginaryPropertyCo -- were saving it up.

This, by the way, is the first email -- well, the first one containing actual information -- that I have received from them in over a year.

Dear client of [ImaginaryDevelopment]

Further to the final court decision regarding this development and the contractors I can confirm that the courts have ruled against the contractor and they must now refund clients who they have received deposit payments from.

Due to the complexity of these issues the Law firm acting on behalf of $OverseasImaginaryPropertyCo in Estonia have agreed to deal with clients directly regarding the process of deposit recovery.

Clients are now able to register with the Legal firm and begin the process of application. Please note that the Legal firm will agree terms with you regarding their services.

In other words:
- it's not going to be built
- you're on your own, ha ha
- and you have to pay some potentially-dodgy overseas legal firm to get your money back.

Well, no.

I have all my paperwork: I paid my investment to $OverseasImaginaryPropertyCo, who are Isle of Wight based (maybe they have confused it with the Isle of Man, which has a rather different legal status?): I have communications (though not many) from $OverseasImaginaryPropertyCo assuring me that they will look after my interests: I have located other disgruntled clients, who seem to be pursuing a class action: and ...

o the shame

... I have emailed the Daily Mail's 'Money' team, who have been promoting $OverseasImaginaryPropertyCo* and are apparently quite good at investigating misconduct.

Am considering hiring myself out as a kind of canary. Watch tamaranth pick an investment / camera / financial advice co / car rental company / eBay seller! And then pick a different one!

*I know this because my sister gets the Mail, OK?

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Oh, gah!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's about it.
Next, I shall write a short story in which giant robots / the monster from Cloverfield / mutant feral kittenz devastate the Isle of Wight ...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Didn't they do that with Triffids already?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's like housework: you scour everything heartily, and x years later it's all to do again.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

UNLEASH THE NICKY CAMPBELL!

Unless it's against the Geneva Convention.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

They're not in Geneva. They're in Newport. So that's all right then.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

How tiresome. Does madam require any assistance with Nuking Them From Orbit?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Nah, the Isle of Wight is pretty easy to spot. That's the diamond-shaped one at the bottom, right?

And nuke-from-orbit is clearly the only viable option.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

funnily enough, I was just on a trip with one of the This Is Money/Financial Mail team, Tara Evans - I didn't get an email for her, but feel free to phone up or use the general women@financialmail.co.uk, say you're a friend of mine and I think it's a good story for them (and I hope her muscles have recovered from the skiing...)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

getting an address failure on that email address ...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

sorry - I shall to try to scope an address for her; if you don't hear back from me it's cos I can't reach her myself

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

BASTARDS!