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03-28-2002, 07:39 PM
Just a little note for anyone thinking about 49 Pence.com & co.uk.
We had dealings last summer with them and had to threaten legal action PLEASE READ THIS ITS QUITE FUNNY!.
One of our accounts half uploaded a Green Day MP3 I spotted this and stopped the transfer of MP3.
Mr Butler the single employee of 49 Pence suspended the account said he would contact a "Paul Fuller QC" over copyrighted material. We telephoned Temple Bar in London and asked a solicitor friend to check the legal representatives register for details on "Paul Fuller" he told us he did not exist anywhere in the UK. We put this to 49 Pence and he told that Paul Fuller did exist and worked in his town of Sevenoaks in Kent. So we telephoned every solicitor within 5 miles on Sevenoaks and again they had never heard of any Paul Fuller QC. We then asked 49 Pence for this Paul Fuller’s office number, 49 Pence refused and he told us even if we rang the number and did not even say a work 49 PENCE WOULD HAVE TO PAY LEGAL FEES!! LOL!. Anyway we proved that his petty threat of legal action was false and we turned the tables on him because he was now breaking the law.
We then asked him about his "About Us" page which you can still read on www.49pence.co.uk. He states that 49 Pence has done work for BA. We asked him about this and he confirmed that yes 49 Pence had in fact done work for BA in 1996. So we telephoned BA and asked them to check records surprise surprise no record.
By this point we were getting sick of 49 Pence so we decided to telephone them. Whilst speaking on the phone we asked if the phone he was on was a Mobile "No" we were told. After an hour and a half call we spent £25 on a MOBILE PHONE CALL we later found out!.
With still nothing resolved and 49 Pence now deleting our account and KEEPING OUR PAID DOMAIN NAME we felt we should ring a telephone number we found on another one of Mr Butlers web-sites. We were shocked to find ourselves speaking to his MUM & DAD who told us "Ed works from his bedroom, he has a mobile phone and we keep out of his business he is 18 now and makes his own decisions". So if he worked for BA in 1996 he was only 13!!! LOL!
The next morning we get a very subdued E-Mail from 49 Pence confirming our domain would be released - We think mummy and daddy had a go to be honest ;).
We got no refund and are shocked to see them still trading under false pretences.
So if you were thinking of joining them and have managed to read all this I think we may have giving you something to think about.
We had dealings last summer with them and had to threaten legal action PLEASE READ THIS ITS QUITE FUNNY!.
One of our accounts half uploaded a Green Day MP3 I spotted this and stopped the transfer of MP3.
Mr Butler the single employee of 49 Pence suspended the account said he would contact a "Paul Fuller QC" over copyrighted material. We telephoned Temple Bar in London and asked a solicitor friend to check the legal representatives register for details on "Paul Fuller" he told us he did not exist anywhere in the UK. We put this to 49 Pence and he told that Paul Fuller did exist and worked in his town of Sevenoaks in Kent. So we telephoned every solicitor within 5 miles on Sevenoaks and again they had never heard of any Paul Fuller QC. We then asked 49 Pence for this Paul Fuller’s office number, 49 Pence refused and he told us even if we rang the number and did not even say a work 49 PENCE WOULD HAVE TO PAY LEGAL FEES!! LOL!. Anyway we proved that his petty threat of legal action was false and we turned the tables on him because he was now breaking the law.
We then asked him about his "About Us" page which you can still read on www.49pence.co.uk. He states that 49 Pence has done work for BA. We asked him about this and he confirmed that yes 49 Pence had in fact done work for BA in 1996. So we telephoned BA and asked them to check records surprise surprise no record.
By this point we were getting sick of 49 Pence so we decided to telephone them. Whilst speaking on the phone we asked if the phone he was on was a Mobile "No" we were told. After an hour and a half call we spent £25 on a MOBILE PHONE CALL we later found out!.
With still nothing resolved and 49 Pence now deleting our account and KEEPING OUR PAID DOMAIN NAME we felt we should ring a telephone number we found on another one of Mr Butlers web-sites. We were shocked to find ourselves speaking to his MUM & DAD who told us "Ed works from his bedroom, he has a mobile phone and we keep out of his business he is 18 now and makes his own decisions". So if he worked for BA in 1996 he was only 13!!! LOL!
The next morning we get a very subdued E-Mail from 49 Pence confirming our domain would be released - We think mummy and daddy had a go to be honest ;).
We got no refund and are shocked to see them still trading under false pretences.
So if you were thinking of joining them and have managed to read all this I think we may have giving you something to think about.