New Trades Career

[Joh car]

I’m having no luck on this one at the moment, I’m in touch with hallmark solicitors but I’m going to seek others who can help most with our case. I think we all need to come together and make a claim with the same solicitors to make our case stronger as it looks like we are going to really struggle on our own, will anyone join me in the case to get us all cancelled? I’m prepared to take this on? Please message me

[thomas88]

I signed up for this last year, tried cancelling but of course was too late because of the cooling off period. Phoned up citizen advice but they weren’t much help to me, we all know it’s a scam and the fact they threaten by saying if you don’t pay your credit score will be affected. Well no it won’t because I’ve cancelled and mine is still the exact same. I’ve emailed them saying I’m cancelling the course as I was mis-sold the entire thing however they want proof that they were mis-sold however you don’t have to prove this, the company that sold you the product/training course has to prove that they did not mis-sell you it. I did this just over 4 weeks and still no response because the finance company is trying to get in touch with new trades career and they can’t get any information from them

, Hi Owen98, iv had the exact same response from the finance company saying that i cant prove it, Of course i cant prove it was all verbal over webcam and phone calls, they said i took too long to cancel, tbh I don't think I did. I was with-in 90 days of the contract, therefore I'm with-in my 90 day contractual period. Obviously this fell on def ears too.

so, did you actually cancel the loan agreement. iv got 3 years left, I could cry. I mean I'm happy for them to just finish it as it is, they have had enough out of me.

im in contact with the financial ombudsman currently, trying to get some sort of resolution.

# also the more evidence we have the better we have a chance of getting our money back, please do get in contact

[thomas88]

Hi, My boyfriend singed up to a plumbing course in Jan 2020 and he is in exactly the same boat. He completed 3 of the books and then got stuck so asked for help from his tutor (Ranj - who also turned out to be the sales guy who came to the house) in July 2020 and hasn't had response still to this day... He didn't know it was a loan and its not showing on his credit score either. We have reported this to citizens advice and trading standards and are looking into raising a small courts claim on the grounds the they have not upheld their side of the agreement. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO REPORT THESE PEOPLE!!. he has paid £2400 + £60 registration fee up until now and the total cost is £7800. It's defo a scam..

Hi, i have had the same issue here, except i was told i would get a tutor, not a team of tutors. I have written about it here > New Trades Career ( Green 360 Ltd ) and Renewable Energy course - LegalBeagles Forum

The finance company are NOT interested in helping me all though I have gone through Citizens Advice, im at my witts end, i am fed up of paying for a course that only offers on the basis that they assume you don't need any, what good is that....

has anyone actually taken them to court or are "we" as in us as a community going to do something about it. i just want to leave, they have had enough money now to cover their costs, so i don't understand why they cant refund the owed monies.

im happy to help anyone who wants advice, if we share knowledge we might get somewhere... "I'm assuming that we all don't need help"

[Joh car]

I would recommend you keep making the payments until you can find a way out BUT only pay a token amount, speak to citizens advise and get them to work on your behalf to come up with a payment plan that won’t affect your life, the reason you do this is because we all have technically signed a legally binding agreement. So we need to “look good” on our side of the contract and to make them “look bad” as they need to be exposed! If you go to court it will look better for you if you keep making little payments. Speak to the authorities for more help!! Report this!!

[Joh car]

Another company called ménage pontano limited, they don’t even have an official website!! Another big red flag!!

[Joh car]

Green360 limited (new trades career) have passed my data to a third party franchise who work closely with green360 limited so they can protect themselves!

I never knew about this either.

We all need to come together and report this all as one. We need to build a stronger case against these scammers!

I’m almost ready to take this to court.

[Rgibbo99]

Hi I’m a 21 year old who is pretty much in the same situation you were in with New Trades Career. I’m 10 months into paying £180 and haven’t even seem to have progressed much over the time I’ve done it, has anyone found out a way to get out of this contract.

[Saber]

Hello everyone I signed with the new trades career and know I started to have doubts, just wanted to ask if someone reach the practical. Cause they send me this health and safety test after 3 months of passing assessments, as a "pre_workshop test" and I'm trying to pass this test and everytime it's saying that I failed even though I'm sure I'm doing great on the test, and between attempts you need to wait 7 days, today was my second attempt, I contacted them by email cause the phone wasn't working, they said it's a computer generated test and we can't help you.

[eaviviox]

Hi, My boyfriend singed up to a plumbing course in Jan 2020 and he is in exactly the same boat. He completed 3 of the books and then got stuck so asked for help from his tutor (Ranj - who also turned out to be the sales guy who came to the house) in July 2020 and hasn't had response still to this day... He didn't know it was a loan and its not showing on his credit score either. We have reported this to citizens advice and trading standards and are looking into raising a small courts claim on the grounds the they have not upheld their side of the agreement. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO REPORT THESE PEOPLE!!. he has paid £2400 + £60 registration fee up until now and the total cost is £7800. It's defo a scam..

[haiden2020]

I AM IN THE SAME SITUATION..

YOU ALL NEED TO REPORT THIS TO THE FCA (financial conduct authority) AND REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL CITIZENS ADVISE OFFICE, THEY WILL THEN ASK TO REPORT IT TO THE TRADING STANDARDS DEPARTMENT.

THE MORE PEOPLE WHO REPORT THIS TO THE AUTHORITIES, THE MORE EVIDENCE THEY GET.

THEY NEED AMMO TO FIGHT THEM SO REPRT THIS IMMEDIATELY!

im stuck on a plumbing course with them and they guy who came to my house didn’t tell me it was a loan and made me rush through the paper work, basically in a nutshell.

I have 3 active cases at the moment, they need more reports of these people.

they also change their name to avoid detection.

DO YOUR RESEARCH

HI please tell more i am in confused but signed in with them

[Alex1234]

I am currently on the phone to the bank after being on the phone to Carnegie.. the only way I got their phone number was form a different company in Glasgow called Carnegie.. I need help getting out of this if anyone has any suggestions!?!!

[e36man]

Another thing that make me think these guys are straight up scammers is the fact the only website on the internet to say anything nice about them, doesn't have any info on any other company whatsoever. Big red flag, guys! Glowing reviews at https://www.trust-reviews.org/new-tr...areer-reviews/ Them and only them. trust-reviews.org has no reviews of anyone else, and is clearly a fake website!

[e36man]

Apologies for my poor formatting above!

Another question has occurred to me: does anyone know of anybody who has actually seen one of these courses right the way through to completion? Sure, their websites have one or two testimonials, but one can merely speculate as to their veracity.
From my readings online, there are complaints going back at least as far as 2015 about the practises of this 'tandem' finance company and training college operation.The same modus operandi - hustle people into signing up quickly, fudge the means testing paperwork, then continue to take money from the 'students' whilst refusing to release them from their contract regardless of circumstances.

I've yet to see anyone mention actually finishing the course and being awarded any qualification, anywhere. But I have seen plenty of people complaining about getting part way into the course and then not getting any further course materials sent, complete lack of communications from staff/tutors.Plenty more complaining about unavailability of practical sessions, and more still about the aggressive doorstep sales technique, massaged figures and downplaying down the apparent impossibility to terminate the contract for anything other than 'physical' reasons stopping one from completing the course. Even if you've not even started it and are no longer able to, offer to post them back their little document case and booklets, they're simply not interested in bending on this.

Put it this way - is the 'course' basically designed to be unfinishable? To be so annoying that eventually people want to quit, only to find they can't get out of the contract, then when they do, pass it over to the 'loan provider' to tighten the screw. Until I can see some convincing anecdotes from people who've completed an entire course lasting several years, I'm inclined to think the whole thing just a type of 'long con'

[e36man]

Hi all, I'm joining this thread to see what luck others are having, as I am in a similar position.

Long story short I paid off almost my entire course despite not actually starting it. When I signed up for it I was in financially better shape, I had lodgers covering most of my bills and had just started a job with the promise of flexible hours. First of all the work situation turned out to be very exhausting and totally inflexible for the first six months probation period. So I called up to try and cancel the course as I felt I'd be unable to do it properly. They told me I wasn't allowed to as the two-week cooling off period had long passed. So against my better judgement I decided to keep paying and hope that I'd find a way to fit it in round my work hours after the probation period at work ended. Then as luck would have it at the very end of my six month probation period I fractured my coccyx, because I was agency staff they just replaced me. So now I'm unemployed. I called again and told them I wanted to cancel, but they still refused. They said they might be able to make some kind of break in the payments if I provided them with copies of my bank statement etc to prove financial hardship, but I STILL wasn't allowed to cancel. So I still kept making the payments despite it being a real stretch on the household budget (and not just my personal finances any more).
Then all of a sudden the pandemic comes along, I also then broke my leg causing me to be incapacitated and unable to work. Also unable to deal with Tradestech harassing me by phone for the late payments over the Christmas period after I've already explained my situation to them over an over again, I just let the matter slide for a couple of months. I now have some some random debt collector 'ARC Europe' chasing me for the remaining £360 on an entire course I have not done and now cannot even start in the future. I feel like their refusal to let you cancel out of the agreement at any point if you've not started the course is incredibly unfair. I tried to cancel at least twice, fully accepting that it would mean losing the payments I'd already made. They've now had well over £2000 out of me for nothing other than a cheap plastic document case with a CD-rom and a few introductory pamphlets inside and now I'm in financial trouble with negative credit scores, threatening mail and unsolicited phone calls to deal with. I very much doubt I'll ever see my money back but I would dearly love for this all to go away somehow without me having to spend any more money that, at this point in time, I simply do not have.

[Goodgolly]

Anybody been successful with this as of yet? Any advice would be hugely appreciated!