Trade bodies failing to protect consumers

[Intrepid]

Trade bodies are supposed to protect the consumer but they reneage the minute the company goes under !
the work is done when the company was subscribed to the trade body yet the minute theres problems the trade bodies refuse to honour 6 year warranties because the company has been dissolved

how can they get away with this ? It means all these trade bodies paperwork and promises are worthless , they find every which way but loose to wriggle out

what are consumers supposed to do ?

[meellis]

It is obviously hard to comment on your post without understanding the trade body involved and how they are responsible for the warranty. Most trade bodies have a responsibility to oversee that there members adhere to all current working practices and standards as applies to each trade. In my experience they can only act on complaints and their powers are limited to either make the tradesmen correct mistakes or expel them from the organisation which might be a requirement for them to actually carry out the trade. As for legal powers then the only weight they carry is expulsion or the threat of or being a professional witness in a case for the legal system to act upon usually through a body like the health and safety executive for instance. As for underwriting warranties then I am unsure which trade bodies would do that, the only one that springs to mind would NHBC. If the company has been dissolved then a trade body probably hasn't got any powers at its disposal because it cannot expel a company that no longer exists.

[MIKE770]

Trade bodies? self esteem organisations - and just Quango!s, useless