Comments on: The Skills Centre – Tony?

By: martin

martin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:39:10 +0000

in ireland gary would be carefully wached for a couple of weeks
and a bomb placed lovingly under his nice wheels
and if he was very lucky he would have another set of nice wheels where his legs used to be

By: DanielG94

DanielG94 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:47:34 +0000

anyone seen the train 4 trade skills ad? someone shud submit that

By: mysterious woman of mystery

mysterious woman of mystery — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:41:36 +0000

@Dan – as I understand, if you took the loan out with Barclays through the skills centre, they have an obligation to continue your training, whether with the skills centre or with an alternative training provider. When the skills center went bump, other training companies purchased the client lists and were planning to continue the training although I understand this will take some time. Most courses may be held in the same centres as before, as the Skills Centre subcontracted all their training anyway. Unfortunately your chances of getting a refund are pretty much nil as the company are no longer trading. My advice would be to get in touch with other people who have been stung and kick up as much fuss as possible – the more of you get involved, the more likely you are to change something.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:47:48 +0000

@Dan Don’t stop paying the loan. That will only destroy your credit rating, the finance company has no control over the product. The only kind of complaint you can raise against the finance company is if you have been missold the finance, but that is extremely unlikely. Your best option is to raise a formal complaint via trading standards, and look on the internet for forums for people who have been stung this way, they will be able to help you better… Good luck with it all and I hope you get things sorted.

By: Mary Pinder

Mary Pinder — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:01:47 +0000

@Dan

A word of wisdom for you: Don’t beleive everthing these shitty adverts tell you.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:59:07 +0000

Hey im doing a course with the skills centre, ive done 2 weeks of the 6 which is costing me 10.5 grand and its awfull,ive been mis-sold to in many ways and just know im gonna end up with phoney qualifications and even phonier skills (they give out the answers to exams if people dont know) i cant seem to get hold of the skills centre to complain about it so ive taken up the complaint with the barclays partner finance people who supllied the loan, only they dont seem interested in helping me either. so now ive made the decision to just stop paying the loan and stop doing the course, but barclays will probably sue me now i dont know im just the little guy. but if anyone knows of anything i can do to get me out of this mess, any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. thanks

By: rik o shea

rik o shea — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:42 +0000

anne the man (infamous cross dresser)?

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:01 +0000

2inch bore LOL

By: rik o shea

rik o shea — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:28:23 +0000

LATEST COURSE FROM THE SKILL CENTER:
ive just signed up for their city and guilds colonic irrigation course ,course materials as follows;
1. acme turbo shitsucker mk1, with suck and blow option for rapid emptying of shit tank.
2 .industrial 2inch bore pipe for use with above.
3 .adjustable sphincter adaptor (to ensure airtight seal).
4 500 litre shit tank.
5.acme arse spreading tool for troublefree fitting of sphincter adaptor
6.pebbledashing tool for external rendering of property, contents of shit tank sufficient for average 3 bed semi.
7.has been fully tested and approved.
8.satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

By: Daniel newton

Daniel newton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:21:09 +0000

I have just setup another website http://www.tvs-worst-ads.co.uk its forum based and you can start your own advert threads, there’s not many members cos i have just set it up today but i hope its a success! you can make your own threads on ads!

By: burntwaffles

burntwaffles — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:34:45 +0000

By: JTV

JTV — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:20:36 +0000

pipe down mike, it was only a joke. Maybe the tvs are for advertising the jobs that dont really exist because we are in recession.

By: Simon Breadbin

Simon Breadbin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:23:27 +0000

I’ve seen their advert. There’s this guy right, and he comes out of a shop and accidentally bumps into an old workmate. The guy is busy sending a text message though and although he mutters an apology, he fails to notice his by now very observant ex-colleague, observing him from over the copy of the Observer he was reading. The ex colleague is presumably loaded and has tons of girlfriends or something, I wasn’t really paying attention.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:18:32 +0000

Coming out of the job centre? Since when does the job centre have a shit load of TV’s in the window?! Those are some good observational skills JTV. You should attend the observational skills centre

By: JTV

JTV — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:33:21 +0000

Was Tony comming out of the Jobcentre when he bumped into Gary? And Gary was simply rubbing it in. “im my own boss, and ur out of work. HAHA!”

By: Smithery Baggins

Smithery Baggins — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:52:07 +0000

“Nice Wheels”

“Tar mate, I’m my own boss now”

“err I was being sarcastic, your drivng a van with Gary Electrical writen on it, your wheels are shit!

By: JTV

JTV — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:44:23 +0000

just as i thought. they go into “administration”, as the goverment looks at companies and not people. They will now be free to start yet another company with a fresh clean slate. even though the same crooks are in charge. This is sick. When will people wake up?

By: Bigdave

Bigdave — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:37:06 +0000

Alice…Im happy to hear that you got yourselves out of that sticky situation.
BUT, i do have to worry that if you had a £10000 loan taken out on the strength of this ad, youll soon be investing every penny you both own in a gypsy tarmacing consortium.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:14:12 +0000

Here is my Skills Centre story. My boyfriend decided it was time to do something about his lack of qualifications. We saw the ad in question on Tv one day, and a week later a salesman came round. My bf was worried that his poor math skills might mean he’d find the course too hard, but the salesman kept assuring him that he’d have no problem. To be fair, we were stupid and naive, and without checking it out at all, my bf signed up to the electrical course. We took out a loan for just under £10000 to pay for it. A month later, the course materials arrive. I had a look at them, and begin to worry, as they seem pretty poor quality and also involved a lot of complicated maths. After many frustrating evenings, we came to the conclusion that not only was the course incredibly complicated for someone who was a complete beginner, there was simply too much maths for my bf to handle. I got an A* maths GCSE (don’t mean to brag) and even I was struggling. So we then wrote a letter tot the Skills Centre, saying that we felt we were missold the course under the Supply of Goods and Services Act, 1982 (found it on Google). We asked for a full refund. After 2 months, (and a couple more £174 monthly payments), there was no reply, so we rang them up, and were told that the loan had been written off, and we would get a full refund of the repayments we had already made! Today we heard from Barclays, confirming we would get a refund. Result! We also rang the Skills Centre a couple of days ago, and were told that they had gone into administration. Looks like we had a lucky escape. Looking back, it is now obvious to us that there are much easier and better ways to get qualifications.

By: JTV

JTV — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:29:02 +0000

Dont worry MB we havent seen the last of Gary and Tony. They will be back as “Neptune Skills”. If they had gone bankrupt, that would have been another story.