Two Illusions and a “Wanna-Be” (Part 3 Final)
Strategy Director KwikChex.com
Developer and founder of KwikChex.com: industry leader in Reputation, Reassurance and Resolutions of business services. An online resource that allows the public to quickly and easily verify the reputation of a company or a website.
He has helped important international companies to increase sales by creating strong and well-differentiated options.
Creativity and technical innovation in the service of communication strategies: this is Chris Emmins, guest of BTO 2012!
Chris Emmins
Strategy Director KwikChex.com
www.kwikchex.com
Firstly the investigator visited the KwikChex claimed addresses.
The entire report is provided below: -The Observations dated the 25th of August 2015
Address: KwikChex Ltd, 2nd Floor, Parkway House, 28 Avenue Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 5SL United Kingdom.
The property itself is a large three story building. The ground floor is occupied and currently being used as a shopping complex. The first and second floors are currently occupied by two local businesses.
There is a communal entrance to the left hand side of the building giving access to the first and second floor offices; there is a voice recognition system on the communal door.
Observation:
08:30hrs Agent on task at 15-17 St. Stephens Road, Bournemouth BH2 6LA, no sighting of the subject at this point.
09:32hrs Situational update, still no sighting of the subject.
10:00 hrs The Agent decides to make an attempt to enter the building in question. Agent finds multiple entrances to the communal building all of which are securely locked. The agent finally finds an unsecured door leading in to a solicitor’s office.
After enquiring about the company in question, the lady the agent spoke to confirmed she had never come across a company going by the name of KwikChex in her part of the building.
10:40 hrs The agent then made best speed to the other side of the building to try to speak to more companies within the communal building. After speaking to a lady in unit one of the property occupied by the company Martin and Co, the agent was again assured that the company in question was not operating in the building.
10:41hrs Agent spots a post man delivering mail to a number of Businesses within the building. The postman confirmed that the company in question was previously and is still receiving mail within unit 5 of the communal building.
10:42hrs Agent visits unit five of the communal building, to find a number of letters on the floor of the entrance to the unit’s first floor due to the reflection of the door window the agent was unable to confirm the name and address in the letters. The agent also finds lots of document boxes all boxed up on the ground floor.
10:46 hrs Agent made his way to the rear of the building to try and gain more info. The agent finds no sign that the property is currently being occupied.
11:56 hrs The Agent moves to second location at 2nd Floor, Parkway House 28 Avenue Road Bournemouth Dorset BH2 5SL United Kingdom.
11:58 hrs The Agent speaks to a representative of Bright Blue Day, who confirms that the company in question does not operate on the second floor of the given address and never since Bright Blue Day started its occupation of this building back in December of last year.
12:03 hrs The agent confirms that there is a company by the name of Amuzo currently occupying the second floor, this is the only company on second floor, this confirmed by a representative of one of the company’s within the building.
12;30 hrs Agent off task.
Observations overview: It is to be noted that the company in question is not currently operating from any of the locations visited in today’s observations.
When the investigator asked whether Mr, Emmins or KwikChex was in the building the post man replied they had never heard of them. The stack of mail suggests that mail is also not being forwarded on.
So where are KwikChex?
Legally and that what is important if you want to issue proceeding against them you need to serve them at their registered office at 2nd Floor, Parkway House 28 Avenue Road Bournemouth Dorset BH2 5SL United Kingdom. It’s irrelevant if they get the summons or not they are registered there.
Where is Mr. Emmins and his staff?
Clearly not as the registered office! Therefore on the 8th of September the TCA called the office of “Amuzo” twice and asked to speak to Emma chatwood or Chris Emmins the person at the other end of the phone said –“Who?”
When we repeated the request she confirmed that she did not know them or had ever heard of them. We explained they might not work in the “Amuzo” office and may be occupying another office on the same floor. The lady explained that Amuzo were the only company operating on the 2nd floor.
The TCA investigations unit therefore carried out other avenues of enquiry and established that Council tax and business rates departments did not register KwikChex at the two properties either. As part of our duty we told them that they were and had been doing so for a while and indeed their letter headed paper confirm that.
Where is KwikChex?
The TCA recalls that Mr. Emmins had set up a so called food compliance website when we first investigated them and could have recommended a restaurant close to his home.
After a detailed search of the web site we located the following comment on the internet.
Chris Emmins’ Betsy List
Worldwide
Living and loving the “foodie life style”! Follow me to discover my favourite restaurants and dishes! We did and we checked out other website he posts on. We located a photo of one restaurant and snap shot it
A restaurant is located in this photo it’s called Can Floures
A quick check of restaurants of that name on the same coast as the others he visited in Spain came up with this photo.The same restaurant but from a different angle.
From this we get an apartment where the other shot was taken from white railing and curved balconies.
When we follow the street view map to the front door we have identified the street and the number of the apartment shown below.
From this we get conformation of “names and addresses” of who occupy flats (in this building) from white pages:-
Hallelujah
Mr. Christopher Anthony Emmins
Esplanada Del Port, 12
17300, Spain
Tel 972354234
Parenthetically
Blanes is just down the road from “Lloret del Mar” which is known as the culture vulture capital of Spain.
The TCA is only a very small enterprise and clearly if we can find this information, I am sure the RDO and of course its directors could have if they wanted to.
So if anyone wants to attend his trading offices you need to go to Spain. Mr. Emmins the well established and world renowned reputational manager will welcome you with a cup of “non dom” Tetley tea.
TATOC’S Involvement.
The entire venture was supported by TATOC under the Chairmanship of Harry Taylor. They offered to assist the RDO and that offer must have been put to the TATOC board of directors for advice and impute as well as recommendations. If done, someone with half a brain would surely have discovered this illusion. If the board was not consulted why not and why did the board not ask “why are TATOC becoming embroiled in a “squeeze” relationship with no facts”. Or do TATOC just “cat nap” on the RDO lap.
So now we have the RDO and its squeeze commissioning a company registered in the UK who operates out of Spain doing the same job as Mindtimeshare SL.
Do you the consumers reasonably expect that the Industry will help you and treat you fairly? TATOC governance can only be described as slapdash!
Therefore vice versa either or the RDO and TATOC created the “Timeshare Task force” (TTF) and the “Business Check” (BC) KwikChex created the many websites in support of the RDO and TATOC’S wishes.
In reality these two suggested entities TTF and BC do not exist – they are figments of the imagination and just titles to support a baseless foundation.
To suggest therefore that “you are or someone is” working with the Timeshare Task Force/Business Check and assisting them is weird, they are inventions and don’t spark reality and whoever is saying these things is spinning a pretence.
Created pretences are wrong as they steal unearned credibility. They try to express great strides and mammoth efforts where as in general reality such efforts and great claims can turn out to be lacklustre, nonexistent, and harmful and could suggest a professional relationship which is imaginary.
Therefore the entire information on the 3 sites “Timeshare Task Force”, “Business Check” and KwikChex all comes for the company KwikChex. The controlling mind of that company is Mr. Emmins. He is the conductor of the triad of websites. Most internet enterprises and credible entities have a single web site (emphasis on a website) the fact that there are 3 can be classed as littering the web.
The web sites and the management of them come under the remit of KwikChex who are fully aware of the RDO/TATOC mission. That mission appears to be “check the credibility of other companies”, “prepare criminal evidence” and “reputational manage” what is, a mottled industry.
“Timeshare Task Force”
It was announced that the objectives of this department were to assist the police and law enforcement agencies in getting rid of crooks. They also stated they would instigate carry out private prosecutions, assist trading standards and help others.
The operation has been running for a 3 years now and should be evaluated as whether or not the services preformed give value for money. Or indeed whether or not there is a fulfilment of the representation made has in truth materialised.
What is not covered by this department and KwikChex is the immorality which is perpetrated by some of the RDO/TATOC membership on Consumers. Equally they do not with serious intent investigate possible members of the RDO OR TATOC. “He who pays the piper calls the tune as they say”.
Equally, the RDO and/or KwikChex could prefer to investigate one company which is damaging the RDO members in preference to another who could equally be acting dishonestly but in support of the RDO and its family of critters. It is abhorrent to have this important aspect subject to the blight of preference and preferred action selection.
Before you take any of the advice from the websites, Consumers should have in mind that some companies are promoted with statements and slants whilst others are admonished with innuendoes and smears.
Until this site becomes independent it only serves the “god confusion” and stinks of “fit ups”
No private prosecutions have ever occurred and the enterprise merely reports to others what it believes to be wrongful acts. Many allegations levelled by the TTF KwikChex and Emmins flounder.
The TTF does not advertise any expertise in anything, claims no affiliations, no crime detective accolades and receives no real partnership agreements. It has no mandate, no lawful assent and its administrator manages the task according to the wants and wishes of it paymaster general TATOC and the RDO.
It does not publish its per-action instruction or targets, yet makes much that it has reached its target and/or is on a track. The target and track is not disclosed, so Consumers have no idea what the goal was, what the track consists of, or the projected target was set at.
“Business Check”
This again reeks of grandeur and great expectations. The website is again financed by the RDO and supported by TATOC. It’s controlled by KwikChex and serves their purpose. Their claimed purpose is to check out the people, firms, organisations and entities that operate in or are associated with timeshare. Including but not limited to the legal profession!
The legal profession – in truth – have their own “Professional Associations” and are not and ever have been in subjection to the timeshare industry authority or Emmins and his cronyisms. The legal professionals, firms, partnerships and entities are employed by Consumers who seek legal advice on issues they are troubled with. Aware of their legal rights and after considered independent advice those Consumers can action a course of events which could involve legal action and/or challenges against the very members which funds the RDO and its starlight cronies.
Therefore, if you consider the reverse analogy, if the RDO berate someone who opposes the RDO and its membership the victim could be the best legal firm to employ. On the other hand the RDO could be quite right in its determination that consumer ought to stay away. This Business Check “War cry” bows only to confusion.
The reality and advice dished out by this website could again a purposefully serving a miserable meal. Consumers on occasion are faced with confusion slants and fettered innuendo. The non consensus, self styled and non consensual untrained investigations look designed to confuse.
What is shocking and very apparent is that in respect to the legal profession many independently regulated professionals have been the subject to smears or slants and these words appear to have been engineered for a very particular purpose. If that purpose is wrongful and intended to dissuade Consumers from getting legal advice, it could be classed as racketeering.
Many legal companies have saved the content, produced by KwikChex, held meetings and are preparing legal actions. When you consider another purported business check sites financed by the RDO (like “Mindtimeshare”) they do the same. They carry out scant investigations and level heavy libellous statements. None of which are aimed at the RDO/TATOC or its members.
We were a great admirer of the “Mindtimeshare” website (as were others). That changed all changed in an instant, when we innocently became involved in the possible breaching of a “penal notice” which the present Director of “Mindtimeshare” knew about and was flagrantly breaching.
Finally the enterprise/war cry holds a ridiculous belief that everyone has to comply with the demands of business check. The TCA certainly do not and neither have many who operate lawfully. In short the TCA will not be in subjection to a disreputable industry and bogus and fake regulatory body headed by KwikChex.
Kwik Chex “the Knight in Tin Foil”
As stated KwikChex are the chosen Queen Bee and “Boo Radley” of the TTF and BC. After the Supreme Court’s judgement which came out of the Spain, KwikChex have now decided to add another string to their iffy bow and have underway an advertisement bent that they are now available to pursue resorts for selling unlawful contracts.
Having spent a considerable amount of time attacking some legal companies and recommending none, they now believe they have a proven service to offer and whist being the “Flashman” puppet of the industry.
Again we have in reality an unqualified company seeking to assist in matters they are not trained in. They are paid by the very organisation whose members were fertile in the selling of these dodgy contracts. Who side will KwikChex be on when the “fundamentals” are argued and the negotiation takes place?
Mr. Emmins, the directing mind of KwikChex, claims his company undertakes legal commissions and works free of charge for Consumers. KwikChex is a company and has the company classification of a “profiteer”. Being a director of the company his first duty is to that company. The company needs to have at least an intention to make money, as acting outside his director remit opens up vicarious liability claims in the event his company became insolvent.
Clearly permanently offering a free service generates zero income and is not in the best interest of the financial stability of the company Mr Emmins purports to Direct. Acting in contravention of this principle will land him in big trouble again and if the liquidators arrive.
Mr. Emmings could in the alternative have in mind that he could invest in a new income stream and offer “a free service” so as to demonstrate that he can finance a 3rd string in the company underfunded knackered bow. That new string being “a legal service operation” has to be financed from existing company reserves. Those reserves are valued in the KwikChex Accounts as being £16,000.
That sum is an unholy sum to operate such a business and/or legal business stream.
Clearly neither KwikChex nor Mr. Emmins would be dense enough to flout the above principle. Equally he would know that the company does not have the funds to finance the alleged free service.
In every other timeshare related operations KwikChex is funded by the RDO. Clearly KwikChex do not advertising other funders which strongly infers the RDO is currently the only funder and is accordingly funding this new KwikChex legal work.
So it’s reasonable to say that if you engage with KwikChex you are asking for financial assistance from your opponent who will pay his servant. Where will his loyalties lie? You or his boss.
KwikChex stated recently:-
“As part of the Timeshare Task Force activities”. “As part of the Timeshare Task Force initiative.”
These suggest the nonexistent enterprise “timeshare task force” has others who deal with the other parts of its activities and initiatives.
The RDO created both pseudo departments, however, only acknowledging that KwikChex manage it. If now they only accomplish part of the works, the Consumers have no idea who does the other part. The other partner is secret and not for public consumption.
Secretive pseudo bodies controlled by silent organisations which are self serving are generally and rightfully mistrusted.
KwikChex stated recently:-
“Regardless of funding, there is a considerable degree of independence in terms of content published on the Mindtimeshare and Timeshare Task Force sites”.
KwikChex do not give the meaning of “considerable” and therefore we can only give it its real and transparent meaning- it’s not fully independent.
Therefore not knowing which is independent of the industry and which is not contaminates the entire content. Again, as the industry is paying for the entire work on Mindtimeshare and KwikChex related sites you would be excused for thinking KwikChex and Mindtimeshare SL will do and write what they are instructed to do.
To be involved (as they say they are), with prosecution authorities, trading standards and ASA is beyond my thinking when you take on board the investigations are not free from bias, not independent and are being perpetrated by industry pillion rider who is no stranger to allegations of grubby practices.
When asked who owns and controls mind timeshare KwikChex said:-.
Information on the ownership of Mindtimeshare is available on their website and can this be checked impartially http://mindtimeshare.me/about/
That is a fiction. It’s not available and is clearly just an introduction of a-back link-on the forum.
The following statement is heavily avoided by KwikChex when you consider the simple question was:-
“do you (Mr. Emmings) control Mindtimeshare”.
The answer given was:-
“KwikChex has never in any way controlled the Mindtimeshare resources”
Resources
[a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively].
Clearly KwikChex have some control Mindtimeshare as if they did not and had nothing to hide they would have said:-“no we don’t control the site”.
KwikChex says:-
“Our primary engagement with TATOC is in close cooperation with them regarding consumer complaints they receive alleging Consumer Protection Regulation breaches. Such Consumers are advised that we may be able to assist and that such assistance is free of charge.”
They work in close co-operation with TATOC. In reality TATOC share its information received on its charitable help line with KwikChex. TATOC is another industry sponsored site.
TATOC has canvassed for and has received charitable status and now is collating information and sending it to KwikChex. It all beggars belief!
TATOC clearly just collect data and then pass it to the RDO. If TATOC believed that they existed to collate the information about scammers and cold-callers, you would imagine they would do something about it themselves as they clearly have had the initiative to set up procedures to assist Consumers with scammers.
TATOC select the RDO who funded KwikChex as the recipient of the data they collected. Is TATOC fulfilling its charitable duty? Clearly TATOC must believe that they are incapable of doing the work themselves, yet they have given the task to KwikChex. In doing so, they do not pay KwikChex, the RDO do! In reality TATOC is a agent for the RDO
The key word here is advice. Are KwikChex qualified to advise, is that advice independent and reasonable. Do TATOC send Consumers to anyone else for advice which is not funded by the RDO or industry players?
Why are they not sending Consumers to regulate and licence solicitors and qualified legal advisors?
This is what you are given by the Timeshare industry and its cacophony of Websites
RDO members – they are in close cooperation with TATOC again sponsored by the timeshare industry. Both attend each other’s conferences, have private meetings, take money off the resorts, support each other’s ethics and principles and promote each other. This is again is done for a purpose.
Neither RDO nor TATOC or any of its regurgitating pillion websites ever openly investigate the practices of its members and appear never to have published any internal investigation admonishing anyone who supports them. They habitually batter others and berate many who seek justice for timeshare Consumers.
The latest despondent rapture is helping Consumers obtain purported justice from non RDO resorts like MGM/Petchey Leisure.
For more information regarding this article or assistance in any other timeshare related issues please contact the TCA on 01908 881058 or email: info@TimeshareConsumerAssociation.org.uk