In November 2011 the trading name of WeDoTrades, EBH Web Limited, went into Liquidation. Many members of many forums including TilersForums.co.uk, UKPlumbersForums.co.uk and ElectriciansForums.co.uk claim that although they paid expensive costs to WeDoTrades, they never sore work come in from the website.
Penman and Sommerlad of The Mirror Investigations show an Electrician that WeDoTrades let down badly. The member of ElectriciansForums.co.uk, Malcolm Bramhall stated that he had paid £1,200+VAT and he was promised to get that amount back on profit out of work given by WeDoTrades who claimed they had a tie-in with Countrywide Estate Agents, a large concern in the property industry, although Countrywide were reported to have told the Mirror Investigations that they had a “very small” trial with WeDoTrades and “a decision was taken in September not to pursue a working relationship with this company”.
WeDoTrades is now a trading name of Silvercom Limited which use the same virtual office address to trade from as the previous EBH Web Limited. So watch out.
In a time when the economy is unstable a website that acts as a middleman charging to connect customers with tradesmen are less and less required. There are more tradesmen out of work, and less customers having work done. So any money the customer has spare should not be given to a middleman but either saved, or put towards the job and paid directly to the tradesmen for their labour and / or materials required.
We recommend customers to search the internet and avoid directories but try to find tradesmen’s own websites where you can see feedback from customers, pictures of their work, information about what work they cover, and the area’s they work in. We recommend getting three quotes, and references from them all, and check their references out before booking any one of them. Customers would then save a little money, and perhaps in cases like these, the tradesmen would too.
28 January, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Jo who commented on the Mirror article said “That is the face of karma! Becky, Paul and Di all ran WeDoTrades. Anything with the WeDoTrades branding stay well clear of. Lets talk about disgruntled staff Becky, could they be like that because you handed the business over to Madison Rothley owned by the sales director before you declared the liquidation? And those staff are owed wages, redundancy packages 4 months after you went bust. Those staff who you asked to go onto these forums posing as traders and write good reviews about WeDoTrades????? Lets not forget the poor traders who will probably never see a penny back of what they paid over. Love the pic and the article guys, well done!” – We can confirm that we had “customers” of WeDoTrades that did turn out to be WeDoTrades staff posting on our forums, posing as happy tradesmen.
11 February, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Hi Dan, I’m Jo who posted that comment on the mirror blog. I’m so glad wedo are now getting this publicity. The reason they failed was they did not market their business. They relied on winning contracts with estate agents. They did not generate enough jobs for the traders who were on average paying £1,200 pa. The two people involved in the demise of wedo and ebh web are now running wedotrades and wedo maintenance, nothing has changed. Please take Dan’s advise and source your own work. You are just paying for fuel for their jags, bmw’s! They are being investegated, so please contact trading standards if you did not receive the work you were promised. Check your contracts and any correspondence sent to you, your contract may have gone over to Madiston Rothley who were the legal owners of wedotrades at the time of EBH’s liquidisation. Madiston Rothley have not yet been liquidised, 4 and a half months after it stopped trading. These people should not be allowed to continue to trade!