Weald Farm Orders

[nosmoking]

Just a thought. How is payment made to this crook? If it's done through Paypal then there is a refund procedure similar to fleabay rules surely! Also if the payment is made by credit card or now some debit cards your protected. Doesn't help the ones that's been fleeced up 'til now though. All the disgruntled customers should meet there at a given date and time and sort him out with local and national news people in tow. Makes my blood boil, GGRRRR!

 

[greatbritishhoney]

Be very careful about getting the press involved - we will all get tarred with the same brush.

 

[drstitson]

"If it's done through Paypal then there is a refund procedure similar to fleabay rules surely"

problem is most if not all of the purchases were made >45 days in advance so paypal protection no good.

Trading standards and small claims court are the way to go.

 

[Winker]

Thanks GBH,link removed.

Now you just have to delete the link in GBH post...

 

[greatbritishhoney]

Now you just have to delete the link in GBH post...

If you look at my post you will see that I altered the link so that it would not connect to his site - therefore no extra traffic and no link.

 

[Winker]

If you look at my post you will see that I altered the link so that it would not connect to his site - therefore no extra traffic and no link.

I never clicked on it, i though you just blanked the name and the link still worked...Silly Me

With that level of attention to detail William may offer me a Job

 

[Chris B]

From tomorrow's edition of the Billericay Bugle:

"Weald Place Farm Wine is born from my obsession. After the loss of my beekeeping company in the recession of 2011, I decided to go back to drinking and to specialise in the beverage that I had been obsessed with since being a young boy - wine.

I know that some people do not approve of the importation of grapes into the UK. To these people I would like to say, if they can come up with ways of producing grapes of the quality and quantity that we at Weald Place demand, for an economic price, then I will always buy British. However, by 2012 we will be offering our range of grapeless wines - made by William only from the finest Essex springwater."

Personally I'm slightly dubious, but good luck to him.

 

[drstitson]

i also understand that, when he is able to tear himself away from his blackberry, answering emails and maintaining an active presence on social networking sites, he has been known to raise the dead (for a small fee, in advance, via paypal).

 

[TREVOR HILL]

just looked at his web site and all hes done is change the word bee for wine and have an anual recetion

 

[Tom Bick]

The thing that amuses me is despite this thread he still continues to link this website on his links page. I don’t know him but me thinks perhaps he lives in a sort of bubble.

 

[Mike a]

At least if you order wine from him and its late arriving, it could of slightly improved with age..

 

[psafloyd]

From tomorrow's edition of the Billericay Bugle:

"Weald Place Farm Wine is born from my obsession. After the loss of my beekeeping company in the recession of 2011, I decided to go back to drinking and to specialise in the beverage that I had been obsessed with since being a young boy - wine.

Personally I'm slightly dubious, but good luck to him.

I find this worrying. So, that's a printing business, a beekeeping business and a wine business in three years? Will he set up a new business every year?

His beekeeping business in 2011 was stillborn, so making it sound like it was lost is disingenuous.

I do not believe the recession was the cause of the failure, but a lack of due business process. Even if he couldn't get additional funding, he would have known this long before he started as the banks havent been lending since 2008.

What expertise does he have to produce wine? What equipment? My journo's bullish*t meter is telling me this guy is essentially a talented self-publicist but a poor businessman. And a serial failed businessman.

I just hope he is finding this himself and not raising working capital from mugs. I hope his mother isn't bankrolling his fantasies.

All the more reason for people who suffered at his hands to report his past behaviour to trading standards.

 

[psafloyd]

Anyone who obsessed about wine would not want to make what is British wine from foreign grapes.

The more I think of it, the more it looks like a hare-brained scheme for someone detached from the realities of business.

Good luck not to him, but anyone partnering him.

 

[oliver90owner]

psafloyd,

Does one leg feel as though it is being stretched?

RAB

 

[psafloyd]

psafloyd,

Does one leg feel as though it is being stretched?

RAB

Yes it did, but I couldn't imagine any member of this forum would mislead us.

Having been ripped off by supposed professionals a couple of years ago, it is a beet noire for ms...

 

[Chris B]

psa, I do apologise. But I think you need to get your bullsh*t meter serviced.

On the other hand, folklore has it that Langstroth used champagne crates for his first hives. There would be a certain poetry about William redeploying his poly nucs as wine crates.

 

[psafloyd]

psa, I do apologise. But I think you need to get your bullsh*t meter serviced.

On the other hand, folklore has it that Langstroth used champagne crates for his first hives. There would be a certain poetry about William redeploying his poly nucs as wine crates.

No, Chris, my BS meter has been on since I saw the first article on this guy. Anyone who says they are setting up a business from scratch in a field in which they are inexperienced is setting themselves up for failure. Which is why I didn't buy off him, despite having what I wanted and unlike all the others, being almost on my doorstep.

The old adage holds true: if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

 

[MuswellMetro]

psa, I do apologise. .

well if it was true, then he would not be the only beekeeper on here ,who has ventured into Alcohol production

would he Chris


by the way, you make a nice bottle of honeybeer

 

[oliver90owner]

Chris from Bromsgrove, after tomorrows edition of a local rag was a bit of a giveaway....

 

[Hombre]

Deceitful, dishonest and disrespecting

With, no doubt, pants on fire.

Likeable my bottom. He is a slick and slithery user of the goodwill and cash of others. Looking for a sympathy vote at every turn and nothing is due to any personal lack of competence, business acumen, straightforward honesty or consideration for his customers.

He's not been living on fresh air for the last year, with an acknowledged last £300, his lifestyle has been financed by the established or upcoming beekeeping fraternity.

My advice to anyone who is over 30 days late with an order is to contact Trading Standards NOW


Make that Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06
or http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Consumerrights/index.htm