Does anybody know anyone called Marianne?

by Dougie   on February 3, 2011

Let her know we are selling marianne.co.uk for £100 will you?

Todays price £80

Costa del Sol Golf web

Richard Allard con artist

Just got ripped off by:-
Costa del Sol Golf Holidays – www.costadelsolgolf-web.com

Every January we go to Portugal or Spain for a golfing trip. Usually there are about 12 of us. Terry booked it this year with the above and we were all getting a bit concerned when no vouchers or tickets for the accommodation or golf tee times turned up. Dozens of phone calls and emails went unanswered.

Richard Allard, who runs the “business” finally answered our calls only after we did a bit of detective work and managed to track down a relative (who must have got on the phone to him and said “sort it”).

He eventually told us that a rep he was working with over there had done a bunk with £25,000. “So?” That’s not really our problem. Seems he’s skint though and needed to go to the bank to borrow money to pay us back. He promised to phone every day to keep us informed. He didn’t.

So now we have to re-book the accommodation and golf (and we’re about £5,000 down between the 12 of us).

We have his address now, though, not just the phoney virtual office mailing address of Regent Street so at least we’ll be able to start a small claims court proceeding. Anybody else need it?
20 Holmfield, Fiskerton, Lincoln, LN3 4GD

The purpose of this is to make people aware that the website still appears to be trading.

My advice would be to not touch them with a barge pole.

Seems he also ripped off a party of four in Ireland. Luckily they found this blog and now also have his address.

We’ll post updates here.

We’d be interested to learn of other parties he has ripped off – maybe we can club together for the small claims court action. If you have fallen for the con trick also please ring 01253 290501

UPDATE
The police are now involved and want to hear from anyone else who has been conned. Let me have your details and Terry can pass them on to the officer investigating.

Family Portraits in Blackpool

by Dougie   December 31, 2010 Miscellaneous

From January 3rd to June 30th I’ll be setting up the studio and will be available for any family portraits. The cost for one A3 sized (20″ x 16″) full colour print, on museum grade paper, framed with mount costs £50.  This includes a sitting where up to 200 pictures will be taken and usually [...]

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Some new pics of Mia

by Dougie   December 16, 2010 People

If you would like a studio portrait of your loved ones and live local to Blackpool please get in touch.

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Spent an hour or two with Mark and Annabel

by Dougie   December 15, 2010 Chundering

If you would like a family portrait doing and live in the Blackpool area please get in touch.

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Phuket, Thailand, November 2010

by Dougie   November 27, 2010 Travel & Holidays

Brilliant chill out time again in Thailand Here are some of the piccies

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Just booked our holidays…

by Dougie   October 18, 2010 Chundering

Whooo hooo… I’m so excited. Going back to Phuket. We had booked a tour of San Fran and California…but all the time Thailand was yanking at my heart strings and…on reflection…USA versus Thailand…it was a no-brainer. So we’re going back to Thailand, yet again, simply because we KNOW exactly what we’re going to get… a LOT of [...]

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TripAdvisor – good or bad?

by Dougie   October 8, 2010 Chundering

Earlier this week we had a particularly scathing review on TripAdvisor from a couple who stayed a week or so ago.  Mistakes had been made and they were not happy with their stay with us and made the review. Unfortunately they went a bit over the top and marked us as a 1 out of 5 in [...]

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Havn’t had a rant for a while…

by Dougie   September 14, 2010 Chundering

So here goes.. I paid my car tax online today.  Nice and easy.  All checks about my MOT and insurance were made in seconds and the tax disc will be posted to me within 5 days.  Whoopidoo. Just after I pressed submit to wing my £275 to the Government I was presented with a “Congratulations [...]

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Another domain – Another plug

by Dougie   August 25, 2010 Chundering

Just to help  a little with the “link juice” with Google here is another domain we just put together Blackpool Estate Agents .com Its another premium domain that if we can get on the front page of Google should start producing significant income within a year or two.  So….now I’m an Estate Agent!

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