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Trading Standards Orders Dot-com Shake-up
News The Institute of Trading Standards has warned UK Internet businesses to clean up their customer service reputation and online security record or see Britain's Internet industry fall behind competitors from abroad.
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
Trading Standards Condemns Internet Shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Jenny McCruden, lead officer for National Consumer Week at the Trading Standards Institute argued "the...
[October 12, 2000, 12:50]
News Burst: Trading Standards Condemns Internet Shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Officers from the Institute carried out a survey of e-commerce sites, and found that 38 per cent of orders...
[October 12, 2000, 8:11]
Ezesurf Hit By Trading Standards Investigation
News ISP Ezesurf is under investigation from the Institute of Trading Standards Administration, it emerged Wednesday. The Dundee-based service provider is currently being investigating by trading standards officials.
[August 30, 2000, 16:39]
Online Cons Slipping Past Trading Standards
News The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) has admitted it does not have the skills or funding to police e-commerce shopping, and is calling for an increase in government and industry resources to boost consumer confidence online.
[June 21, 2001, 8:43]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback ASA and Trading standards - what a farce So much good did us all complaing to the ASA and the trading standards about the way that Daily Express and MKM promotions handled peoples requests both in the Cruise and the Flights Fiasco.
[May 5, 2005, 19:16]
Seven Arrested In Car Boot Software Swoop
News Police and Trading Standards officers have arrested seven people as part of crackdown on software counterfeiting. Operation Carter, involved representatives from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), Staffordshire...
[October 19, 2005, 15:35]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Trafford Trading Standards Tel: 0161 912 3845 trading.standards@trafford.gov.uk Tell them your problems, Dates Destinations. Rise Travel come under Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council boundaries.
[September 8, 2004, 8:28]
Unmetered ISP Dragged Into Court
News Criticism of unmetered ISP IGClick mounted Tuesday as it emerged the ISP is under investigation from the Trading Standards and is about to be taken to court by a group of angry users. Bexley Trading Standards Office confirmed it is currently...
[November 21, 2000, 12:57]
Software Fraudsters Escape Raid
News Trading Standards officers seized £1.5m of counterfeit goods during raids at Wembley Market in London during November and December, the Department of Trade and Industry reported earlier this week. We had targeted some software stalls that we were...
[January 6, 2006, 12:30]
Another Flat-rate ISP Bites The Dust
News Leicestershire Trading Standards office said it has received hundreds of calls from customers who lost their Internet access with no warning from the company. A Trading Standards representative said that despite early problems with the ISP, when a...
[April 19, 2001, 15:09]
Ebay Software Pirate Faces Sentence At The Old Bailey
News Lewisham Council Trading Standards and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international anti-piracy organisation, conducted a joint investigation into 23-year-old Bilal Khan's activities and discovered that he had been running an illegal...
[July 4, 2003, 10:30]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I took the case to my local trading standards and mine (along with many others) is now part of a criminal prosecution being prepared by trading standards for these incidents, I advsie anybody who has had the same experience to get in touch with...
[March 15, 2005, 16:24]
OFT In The Hunt For Scammers
News Over 20 trading standards departments in the UK are taking part in a worldwide campaign that involves 53 consumer protection agencies from 21 countries. Trading standards officers will examine the sites for signs of any intent to deceive users.
[March 2, 2006, 15:40]
Tiny PC Owners Hit By Warranty Row
News Owners of Tiny PCs who bought a technical support warranty on their credit card have been urged to contact their credit card company to obtain a refund, after news emerged of a row between the credit card industry, Trading Standards officials and...
[March 27, 2002, 15:02]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback So today I've contacted Trafford Trading Standards, I suggested anyone else who has problems to do the same. Contact Mark Lloyd Fair Trading Officer, Trading Standards office, 9d Croftsbank Road Urmston Manchester M41 0LL.
[January 25, 2005, 12:31]
Tesco Puts Broadband In Trolley
Talkback I would also keep plugging away at Kent Trading Standards contact: David Warren) tsadvice@kent.gov.uk, david.warren@kent.gov.uk or trading.standards@kent.gov.uk Kent County Council, Trading Standards, Invicta House, County Hall,
[April 20, 2006, 1:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We have received a letter from Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards (LACOTS) - Environmental Focus Group, telling us That many of our Members are likely to be in breach of the EC's Packaging And Essential Requirements...
[July 31, 2001, 16:48]
Tesco Puts Broadband In Trolley
Talkback This group of course would still encourage people to post about their experience with E7even on public boards such as this one, report to Ofcom and consumerdirect/Trading Standards if they want to, as well as taking part in the discussion group...
[March 31, 2006, 6:56]
EBay Fraudster Jailed
News Hurley's key-cutting and engraving premises by Trading Standards officers and the Metropolitan Police. Councillor Paul Smith, Croydon Council cabinet member for public protection and crime reduction, said in a statement: "This is a magnificent...
[October 4, 2005, 17:30]
