Thomas
30-Apr-15, 14:02
Today I had a bloke come to my door telling me there is a govenment scrapage scheme to swap in your old windows for new. He had a badge that just said "renewables" and his paperwork said the same. He arranged a time to measure my windows later tonight as I was just leaving.
They phoned to confirm my appointment and I tried to get some info about who they actually are, they said they were a company called "St Andrews".
After looking online and not finding much evidence of a scrapage scheme and not finding any information about their company (typing St Andrews Windows into google gave me obvious vaired results), I phoned back to cancel. I asked about the lack of information about this scheme and he told me it's not actually a govenment scheme but the money comes from the government (40% of the price is cut which was not mentioned to me earlier), and as for lack of information on their company they then told me they were a sistercompany to weatherseal, but I still canceled as I wasn't going to bother as it sounded right dodgy at this point.
Anyone else had any experiences of them today in Thurso? What were their quotes? Am I being maybe a tad paranoid? I read that some window firms give fake discounts to intice you to buy and this sounded like one of those times.
They phoned to confirm my appointment and I tried to get some info about who they actually are, they said they were a company called "St Andrews".
After looking online and not finding much evidence of a scrapage scheme and not finding any information about their company (typing St Andrews Windows into google gave me obvious vaired results), I phoned back to cancel. I asked about the lack of information about this scheme and he told me it's not actually a govenment scheme but the money comes from the government (40% of the price is cut which was not mentioned to me earlier), and as for lack of information on their company they then told me they were a sistercompany to weatherseal, but I still canceled as I wasn't going to bother as it sounded right dodgy at this point.
Anyone else had any experiences of them today in Thurso? What were their quotes? Am I being maybe a tad paranoid? I read that some window firms give fake discounts to intice you to buy and this sounded like one of those times.