Help, I've lost money to SEO company

[Felix Da Housecat]

Hi there,

I was contacted by www.assuredwebdevelopments.co.uk and they said they could optimise my site and build me a 3 page mini site to increase my ratings with google, now here is where it goes wrong.

Not wanting to give them the full lot in one go they offered me a 2 stage payment option, I paid £176 on the 8th september and since then I've had no contact from them, no responce to emails and the phone line seems dead.

All I got from them was a 3 or 4 words at the bottom of my site saying optimised by AWD, yeah really worth £176 my **** I've since changed my login details for my site.

I've spoken to my bank (was paid via online banking) and they said it's not fraud due to me sending the money to them and thus there is nothing they can do.

What can I do now, they seem to have vanished off the face of the earth and don't seem to have annoyed anyone else, so am I the first?

Over to you guys.

Any help would be great.

 

[reflux]

Same lot as detailed here?

http://www.canyoutrustthem.com/inde...omments=&search_company_name=&search_country=

 

[shifty_uk]

Website looks as fake as Katie Prices knockers.

 

[Stelly]

Website looks as fake as Katie Prices knockers.

agreed, hope you get your money back dude.

Stelly

 

[Rroff]

You gave money to a company that contacted you? sorry to be harsh but when in the history of the human race has that ever gone any way but badly?


Hope you paid on a CC so you can hopefully get the transaction reversed.

 

[Hamish]

Here are the company details from companies house

Name & Registered Office:
ASSURED WEB DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
22 PARLIAMENT STREET
STOCKTON ON TEES
ENGLAND
TS18 6LS
Company No. 07331667

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 30/07/2010

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
None Supplied
Accounting Reference Date: 31/07
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 30/04/2012
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 27/08/2011

 

[unwashed potato!]

stop positng a direct link i'd say as this will help with their seo

shame you didn't do a check on them first. did you look at any examples or previous work? a good example would be their site which has such terrible seo it's crazy

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

Well it looks like I may well have to just write off the money but will give anything ago to try and get it back.

Maybe he is not a shop so can't give refunds.

 

[PMKeates]

Do a Companies House WebCHeck for 07331667. The director's particulars are on there.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

SEO ( Search Engine Optimisation ) is nothing to do with the redesigning your site, more to do with META tags etc that you won't see on the frontend.

 

[Greebo]

Doesn't look good. Even trying to buy something, paypal says they can't take payment.

 

[Edrof]

What people say about Assured Web Developments...


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I lolled.

 

[unwashed potato!]

SEO ( Search Engine Optimisation ) is nothing to do with the redesigning your site, more to do with META tags etc that you won't see on the frontend.

sure...

 

[lookitsjonno]

i hear of this from unsuspecting victims all the time dude, say bye to your money and move on...

 

[Sagalout]

Doh, you gave your FTP details to a company that built their own site with "Mr Site Takeaway Website at www.mrsite.co.uk" :/

One of our clients was approached by a similar company. Luckily he ran it past us first so we could put him straight.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

oh and dear....you got screwed, well done.

 

[gord]

Awesome, an SEO company that uses index.html, page1.html, page2.html etc for the URL structure!

Unfortunately it looks like you've been done.

 

[The IPB]

My eyes broke and I didn't see properly. oopops.

 

[Morgoth]

Oh Felix...