Help...Has anybody heard of a company called Vardis?

SpeedyExpressCouriers · Mar 3, 2007

Has anybody heard of a company called Vardis? We believe the are scammers, we have been contacted 3 times within the last 3 months from companies claiming to advertise for the Police Magazine.

They claim to work with The Foresters Fund For Children and would like us to advertise in a magazine that they will publish in our local area.

This company is based in Merseyside and we do not see the point in publishing a small magazine in our area as it is very small.

Can anyone help?

Bathead · Mar 3, 2007

Have you checked out:
http://vardis.co.uk/home.html

My experience is that a salesman selling advertising space in a publication is after one thing only - your money.

PI Guy · Mar 3, 2007

have a look here http://www.redcardinal.ie/security/14-02-2007/forresters-fund-for-children-vardis-scam/

atmcouk · Mar 3, 2007

Domain name:
vardis.co.uk

Registrant:
Andrew Lownsbrough

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Registrant's agent:
Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = FASTHOSTS]
URL: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 03-Jul-2004
Renewal date: 03-Jul-2008
Last updated: 26-Jan-2007

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns1.livedns.co.uk
ns2.livedns.co.uk

WHOIS lookup made at 13:23:54 19-Feb-2007

PI Guy · Mar 3, 2007

there are only 3 entries for that name in the electoral roll for the whole of the uk

mumper · Mar 4, 2007

I dealt with Vardis when I advertised in the Foresters' Fund for Children Handbook a couple of years ago. They produced my ad and on the two ocassions I had to contact them they were quite hard to get hold of, but I didn't have any other problems with them.

lanman · Dec 20, 2007

I can't post url's yet (how crap is that!) so put "vardis into google and go to the link at " b l a g g e r dot com ".

There is a mine of comments and info about this company there.

PI Guy · Feb 18, 2008

they just called me today trying to sell me advertising space on a calender. I told them who and more importantly what i do for a living and he couldn't get off the phone fast enough.

Write My Site · Feb 18, 2008

SALINV said:
they just called me today trying to sell me advertising space on a calender. I told them who and more importantly what i do for a living and he couldn't get off the phone fast enough.

I bet he couldn't! LOL

helensauce · Feb 18, 2008

We had a call last week from someone claiming that we had advertised with them last year and would we like to support them this year again. They had the name of the managing director and nothing else and it is definitely not something we would have knowingly done so they weren't sent off with a flee in their ear but they did sound quite convincing.

lajlaj · Feb 18, 2008

My advice is steer well clear! http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/4739/companyname/Vardis.html

Also:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_method=full&objectid=19116016&siteid=89520-name_page.html

They ring here regularly and they have been known to say that we have agreed to ads when I know for a fact I haven't. I now tell them I'm recording every phone call they make to me and surprisingly they have stopped ringing.

compuclean · Feb 18, 2008

Yeah, they wanted me to advertise with them once too.

Foolishly, I went along with it for a while, then they sent me a proof of the ad (images they had obtained from my website, and Comic Sans font - aaaargh!) It was awful, so I phoned and cancelled. They were not happy, were abrupt and put the phone down on me.

They still invoiced me about three hundred pounds, I called them (mulitple times) and EVENTUALLY managed to get the invoice nullified.

I was highly surprised when they sent me a copy of the magazine, with an ad for CompuClean in it!

They then called me again the following year, when I stated in no uncertain terms that I was not advertising with them, they again took the huff and put the phone down.

In summary: STEER CLEAR!

Mass Appeal Designs · Feb 18, 2008

I have worked for 2 similar companies in the past designing magazines for 'Emergency Services' and the like, i used to design the adverts and the publications (if they actually decided they were going to design and print them), if anyone needs any advice just pm me

Nicksyb · Feb 18, 2008

I think these people may have contacted me with regards to a childrens charity publication.

I was a bit confused as they called on my Beauty Business phone and started saying after my support last year would i be interested in helping this year. :| my beauty business only opened about two weeks previously!!!!

That and they were calling from a mobile number. It confused me totally so I hanged up on them, but they keep calling back.

HelenSH · Feb 18, 2008

I remember OH having an ad for the fire service mag? would it be. The next year they ran one and charged him saying he had asked for it when he hadn't, they then started threatening him to pay it. All went quiet obviously when we ignored it, cant for the life of me remember what they called themselves though.

Lasting Designs · Feb 18, 2008

http://vardis.co.uk/industry_issues.html :redface:

Ian J · Feb 19, 2008

atmcouk said:
Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

I have a friend at Nominet and have asked him to look at the website to confirm that it is a trading company then to opt the owner's address into the public record.

This normally takes a couple of days

May 23, 2008

Software_MS said:
Has anybody heard of a company called Vardis? We believe the are scammers, we have been contacted 3 times within the last 3 months from companies claiming to advertise for the Police Magazine.

They claim to work with The Foresters Fund For Children and would like us to advertise in a magazine that they will publish in our local area.

This company is based in Merseyside and we do not see the point in publishing a small magazine in our area as it is very small.

Can anyone help?

Yes, they are con men!! do not agree to anything over the phone or you are liable. I had to pay them £190 or i would have been black-listed.
Please just put the phone down as soon as you know who they are.

servandman · Jan 27, 2010

what can i say i have had some problems with this company and i have been seeking legal advise from citizans advise they have had a few people ask about this company and about the way they are taking the mik out off small buinesses and soul traders theataning to take you to court for small amounts off money so most people will just pay it to stop ccjs but the art work they did for me was wrong and incorrect but stilll want paying

sarah@GLB · Mar 22, 2010

VARDIS dont trust them. they asked us if we would like to advertise in a book to help bullied children. they sent us the proof of the ad they designed but it was terrible so they were told we didnt want to advertise with them. they agreed and we thought no more about it until we recieved an invoice for £300 from them. we rang saying we werent paying because we had cancelled the advert but they still keep ringing saying we have no choice but to pay because it is for charity and they can be very abusive when on the phone

yorkshirejames · Mar 22, 2010

sarah@GLB said:
VARDIS dont trust them. they asked us if we would like to advertise in a book to help bullied children. they sent us the proof of the ad they designed but it was terrible so they were told we didnt want to advertise with them. they agreed and we thought no more about it until we recieved an invoice for £300 from them. we rang saying we werent paying because we had cancelled the advert but they still keep ringing saying we have no choice but to pay because it is for charity and they can be very abusive when on the phone

Ignore them don't pay them. I've written an article about these types of companies - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQT/is_2008_Oct/ai_n31337111/

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