FSB

[AHPP]

 

 

Membership | FSB, The Federation of Small Businesses  

 

Any members here? Anyone made use of the legal advice and various things that look ostensibly like legal costs insurance? Seems on the face of it like you get a lot of stuff for £147, which in turn sounds too good to be true.

 

 

[AHPP]

Nobody?

[Doug Tait]

No sorry, thought the FSB were the new KGB...

[spudulike]

6 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

No sorry, thought the FSB were the new KGB...

No, Front Side Bus....computing term and of major importance to overclockers!!

[Dan Maynard]

I am a member as we joined up in my engineering business. It does look like you get a lot but we haven't actually used many of the services, no.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I made the mistake of talking to one of their sales creeps at a trade show several years ago. 
 

Arranged for an after meet and he came to the house. He laid on all the patter about how membership was ‘essential’ for any small business. I asked him what he knew about ‘this’ business and how many small Arb businesses were subscribed. 
 

He had no idea. In fact, I don’t think he had much idea about any small business. He was just a salesman slogging his ass off trying to hit target. Lost all respect for him and FSB at that point. 
 

Several years after, I was on a job locally. I saw him stop his car and take a sneaky pic of my sign written vehicle. Dirty little sneak was still trying to grab leads. 
 

On the flip side, when we had a dispute with a builder who was a member of FSB, I contacted them to seek mediation and they could not have been less interested. (maybe that was ‘good’ for their member, but guaranteed I would would never be one)

 

On paper, it all looks very good. 
 

In reality, it’s just another QUANGO with flash c*nts drawing high salaries off membership subs. Follow the money Alex....