I own a small company specializing in instrumentation and weighing equipment based Montreal, Canada. I filled in the information on the ‘Free Update’ form and did not read the fine print carefully enough ( my bad ). I ended up paying 990 Euros to terminate the agreement in 2011 only to receive another bill in 2013.

Companies like EU Business Services and Waldberg & Hirsch are poster children for venality and deceptive business practices. The only worse fate would be to employed by them.

To top it off their on-line database of businesses is complete junk. Thanks to the comments above I know that I can safely tell them to “take a hike”, though I’ll probably phrase it less politely.

In order to avoid any legal implications that will arise from this outstanding issue and your company being charged a legal fee of EUR 300,-, the payment confirmation for the amount due – which is EUR 1124,- at this point – must be transferred as soon as possible.

Unless we settle your account, we will have to finalize your legal file by the 25/03/2013.

Be kind and send attached, by email or by fax, the proof of payment.

If you have recently sent the payment, please ignore this reminder and contact us for confirmation of receipt details.

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Don’t worry Be Happy…They are doing a scam….relex alll

LETTER – law
With reference to the provisions (i) of the Directive2oO6lLl4lECof the European Parliament and of
the Council of December L2,2006 concerning misleading and comparative advertising, which shall
protect traders against misleading advertising and the unfair consequences thereof, and (ii) of the
Czech Act No. SLgltgg1 Coll., Commercial Code, as amended, (hereinafter referred to as the “Czech
Commercial Code”) concerning Unfair Competition, Section 46, Paragraph 5, in conjunction with
section 55, I would like to inform you that the contract on the insertion under which you
repeatedly requires companies pay a sum amounting to EUR 995 per year is null and void:
According to Section 44, paragraph 1 of the Czech Commercial Code unfair competition means
“acting in competition or economic intercourse, which is contrary to good morals of the
competition and is capahle of causing harm to other competitors, consumers or other customers.”
This provision of the Czech Commercial Code also sets that:”llnfoir competition is prohibited.”
According to Section 46, paragraph 5 of the Czech Commercial Code, “ddvertising in the business
and for the purpose of economic relations, which offers registration in catalogs, especially as
telephone and other directories, through the payment form, invoice, offer of correction or other
simirsr manner, must contoin a crear and crearry expressed information that such advertising is
solely an offer to conclude a contract’”
According tO section 55 of the czech commerciar code, at contracts concruded in contravention of
the prohibition of unfair competition are null and void’
The form cal|ed .,W’RLD .’MPANY REGI’TER,
,,DATA coNTRoL” does not contain the clear
information that this sha,, be sorery the ott., ao conclude a contract on the insertion’ Given the
above mentioned provisions of the czectr commerciar code in the event that it actuaty sharl be
concruded a contract on the insertion on ,t,. basis of this form, this fact had to be crearry stated on
it. Because your practice is contrary to il’t” p’ouisions of-the czech commercial code and therefore
is prohibited, the coiir..t on the insertion ,t .tl u” considered as null and void’
Allegedly concluded contract on the insertion between you and the company G-HELP would have
been further considered as nut and voiJ uno., Sectio.n gg-of the Act No’ 4oltg64 coll” the czech
civil code, as amended (hereinafter ,.t ir.o to as the “czech civil code”)’ since its purpose is
Allegedly concluded contract on the insertion between you and the company G-HELP would have
beenalsoconsideredasnullandvoiduno”‘section4eaoftnt^t:^*:’J’i::?ffi’;:#i#lti;’:”J:1 ::il.*:,:::’iiTT;:,Hiffi.,.*;^ in error when she was taking the view that this was
some sort of a free register of companie’
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companv.
Further, prease be informed that according to the czech appricabre raw my crient is not authorized
to conclude or sign any contract in the name of the company, as is evident from the czech
commercial n”girt”|. ;drninistrated by the Ministry of Justice of the czech Republic’

And in regards to comment No.23 from Alan…it’s bollocks that a lawyer had to be present when signing an agreement..i sign agreements all the time!!

Thanks god i saw all your comments…. I was so worried and sad with World Trade Register,…. they continue to send us emails, fax and letter by post day by day… Now i am quiet..

Thank you All to share your experience with us.

Best Regards

Alexander

This sort of cowboy outfit can only keep going if people pay them, so if you are considering sending a cheque – my advice is PLEASE DON’T

Our trading standards office has sent me an email clearly outlining why EU Business Directory will not sue and why Waldberg and Hirsch have no legal mandate to recover monies. It is a confidence trick and works on people’s fear and desire to do the right thing. Something Ms Christine (or whoever it is) knows nothing about.

I am now blocking their emails and re-cycling their letters, confident that there is more chance of Waldberg and Hirsch receiving considerate business prize of the year than there is of me having to pay them a penny.

Originally i had thought it is scam when they wrote to me the first letter and email and i replied to them that they should immediately disregard he listing and remove it as I did not know which of the many volunteers did this without the notice of the community that owns the Ruboni community camp. This letter made feel like it is real. I was planning to go and meet my legal adviser but had to first look up on the internet. Thanks for this website. i was really stressed.

Ferdinand

I liked Victotia’s idea of going to BVI!

Ulf

Jacqueline

I was JUST about to call ‘Waldberg & Hirsch Global Collections Ltd’ to explain my case (and find a solution), that it is all a misunderstanding, that I signed a simple form from EU Business Services Ltd, World Business Media Ltd, or whatever they call themselves, truly and with good intentions believing it was a free service as there was NO mentioning of cost or payment. Then I thought I should look up their services on-line before calling, and I find this website – THANK YOU ALL! Now I feel much more relaxed, and I will do nothing.

Best wishes to you and your businesses!
Sofia

Find the funny side of it if you can!

they are just giving us the streess and killing our time what to do why they are after money that thaey know that our hardearned money how can we give them

FINAL NOTICE

is hereby informed that EU Business Services Ltd. has not received payment or confirmation of payment in the amount of EUR 1124,-.

One year description EUR 990,-
Late Payment Fee EUR 99,-
Administration Fee EUR 35,-
Total EUR 1124, - (excluding VAT)*
*No VAT is invoiced for E.C. customers. For customers (enterprisers) from the EU: “VAT moved to entrepreneur”.

Unless you govern yourself accordingly within the following days, the above-mentioned debt will be forwarded on the 02nd of April, 2012 to the following debt management and collection company:
Waldberg & Hirsch Global Collections Ltd.
Herengracht 518, 1017 CC Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Payment will be made to the following bank account:

Bank details:

Bank: UNICREDIT BULBANK, Sofia, Bulgaria
IBAN: BG17UNCR70001519985205
SWIFT: UNCRBGSF
A/c#: 1519 9852 05

Please state clearly your invoice number. Bank charges for sender.

In case of non-payment, EU Business Services Ltd. informs you that additional legal fee in the amount of EUR 300, – will be added to the amount already due.

Best regards,

Ms Anne
Account Manager
EU Business Services Ltd.
Phone: +31 208 080 789
Fax: +31 205 248 107

If the get a dept agency onto you, go to your local police station and report it.

If they bring you to court, they have to show up, tell the police and have them arrested at the courthouse.

As for the Police in Utrecht (or Madrid as their other aliases use) have no company locally to prosecute – only PO Boxes – for the authorities to “stake out” a Post box to see who is collecting the mail a felony must have been committed – or it must be a matter of national security.

Harassment doesn’t cut it.

One guy suggested something funny like sending a 12MB picture of a rubbish bin to all of their e-mail addresses every 15 minutes for a week…

I’m just trying to get back to work!

Why spend your hard earned money??? Like many here say – let them take you to court (so far I haven’t heard of anyone actually being taken to court) They can extradite all of us to the British Virgin Islands for a holiday!

What we did to combat the harassment was to report all of their e-mail addresses and associated URLs to our internet service provider, and to add them to the “blocked” list in our firewall settings -they may still be sending them but my in-box is no longer filling up with them!

We have never been contacted by phone, but what I would do would be to file a complaint with my telecom provider about the offending telephone numbers – if enough people do it they will take action. In the complaint be sure to clearly explain the nature and frequency of the harassment as well as any phone numbers you have identified with caller ID – if they are using an undisclosed number then make a log of the exact dates and times of the calls so they can be traced.

Good Hunting!

Thank you.

Let them take us all to court, all of us together!

Let’s look at the facts
1. They are using SPAM mail to trap more innocent subscribers
2. Their website have been blacklisted – see Facebook group
3. Their advertising and subscription form is misleading
4. You are unable to speak to a proper department / company when you call them
5. They don’t reply on legal written queries

I think MANY IBIZA companies get this letters! so somebody must have a connection with this SCAM PEOPLE

Like everyone else, we were invoiced about a week later. The emails and faxes continued almost daily for about a month. I made many efforts to contact a mythical “Ms. Alexandra” at the organization, but the email provided never worked. I faxed the organization many times and never heard back. Moreover, when I called their “call centre” number, I just got a facsimilie noise. I did all I could do to immediately let this organization know that we have no intention of paying their invoice and that we felt we were “tricked” into it. However, any attempt to contact them was never responded to (or didn’t work).

I too have now received a letter from Waldberg & Hirsch asking for Euro 1429 immediately or legal action begins in 15 days. I plan on ignorig it, especially in light of what I’ve now read above.

Curious, has anyone ever seen an actual copy of the EU Business Register or is it a mere front for this and doesn’t really even exist?

We would wish to advise your readers that our company should not be confused with either World Company Register or World Business Directory or EU Business Directory. We have no association whatsoever with any of them and wish to clearly state that we do not condone in any way the activities of these organisations.

It is free to use our service to search for company information and should you wish to order an official document on a company there is a small fee associated with that. We do not offer to include any company in a directory and charge fee for it.

If anyone would like further information I would be very happy to help them with their query.