Oh, the irony....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Oh, the irony......! Receives unsolicited mail warning of the dangers of 'cold calling' from Cornwall council which seeks (by unsolicited advertising paid for by the council tax payer) to coerce my business into paying an initial registration fee of £150 + £25 / month to be registered on the Trading Standards approved register. When I looked at this system 5 years ago I rejected it on the basis that the organisation supposed to be 'auditing' a company's suitability were ill informed, lacked current industry sector knowledge / experience, the documentation they were supposedly using to conduct the audits was out of date and irrelevant and that it presented a cash-cow, income generation scheme for the organisation administering the system rather than presenting any tangible advantage to the business owner or the consumer. So thanks for the unsolicited mail, I think I'll take the advice contained therein "...good businesses don't need to undertake this aggressive form of marketing..." and I'll be in touch shortly with a couple of questions: What authority do you have to access my personal data for the purposes of "aggressive advertising", are you aware of the restrictions placed upon you by the Data Protection Act 1998, is this a desperate attempt to get your mail-shots out before the General Data Protection Regulations take effect on 25 May 2018 and finally, how do you justify the expenditure of "public" money on the distribution of colour printed documents and leaflets in a very similar fashion to the aggressive, unsolicited manner which you are warning against?

[Khriss]

Splendid Kev ! K

[Stubby]

Don't sugar coat it Kev ........

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

That didn't go so well.....

[Mark J]

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26 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

That didn't go so well.....

Are they tories?

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

It's a democratic OUTRAGE Mark!!!  ???

 

The True Blues won the County, and the Bloody Libtards got the council!!!  

 

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/profiles-of-cabinet-members/

[Mark J]

It was purely the way that they deflected your reasonable questions that threw me.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

It was purely the way that they deflected your reasonable questions that threw me.

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Quite Mark.

 

I think young Deborah has a promising career in politics ahead of her.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

10 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Quite Mark.

 

I think young Deborah has a promising career in politics ahead of her.

Especially given the post discussion summary received by email!

 

”Solved” Well that’s a new definition of “Solved!”