A BRAND NEW SOLUTION TO AN AGE OLD PROBLEM'

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Neil & Lynne Marsden

The well-publicised horror stories and behaviours associated with 'Cowboy' or 'Rogue Traders' have a wide-ranging impact upon all of us.

Official counter-measures and legislation have limited impact upon the activities of this minority group, and in response they have become nothing short of experts in the art of deception, changing business names, trading addresses and phone numbers.

To the Consumer they inflict financial hardship, heartache and abject misery, and to the truly Professional Business they become the brush with which every one of you becomes innocently tarred.

Check1st.com was devised by Neil & Lynne Marsden following several consecutive personal encounters with these so called professionals, experiences that left them totally devastated but equally determined to create a system that prevented other innocent members of the public from having to endure such trauma.

"A totally unique collaboration between the discerning public and the honest professionals, working together to eradicate Rogue Trading Practice and Inferior Workmanship!"

Check1st.com is not yet another directory or trade validation site, in fact we don't claim to validate anybody, instead we provide an open forum where members of the public can share their honest and factual accounts of their experiences at the hands of the registered businesses listed upon our site. These accounts are then published for the world to see and followed up with a highly visible feedback score allowing the potential client to make informed decisions about who they do business with.

The real punch to the Check1st concept is that a business that presents a cumulative feedback score of less than 75% Positive is immediately and automatically suspended from the site, if they 'put the job right' only then can their advertisement re-appear.

In developing the Check1st concept we knew that we needed to provide an affordable, safe, reliable and secure system that protected the Public and the Business User alike, and now, more than 2 years into the project we feel that we have a remarkable solution that more than surpasses these original objectives.         

"A chance for the consumer to return to 'Old Style Values' and a golden opportunity for the true professional to stand out from the crowd and be judged solely upon their own performance."