brightassessing wrote on Jun 10
th, 2012 at 9:04pm:
I dont know where you are getting your address details from but it is obviously incorrect and or/ out of date, we have never ever been based at Sunderland. If you want the correct information about us then go to companies house, a government site not some dodgy website called "a very nice man", or "who is brightassessing.com" neither of which have anything to do with our company, these are dodgy sites that list info on what you are searching to get hits and which obviously provide the wrong information anyway.
I have provided a link to the source information. Every domain name has a "Whois"; this being the registration information.
Example domain names are
saynoto0870.com,
google.co.uk and
brightassessing.com. Thus, "Whois brightassessing.com" is a look-up of the registration information for that address. The Sunderland address is the registered address of the domain brightassessing.com. As this is your company's domain name, please don't come out with the tosh that it has nothing to do with the company. Perhaps you need to speak to the person within your company that deals with the registration of your domain name. They will be able to explain what the Whois is and why this address is recorded on it.
No one here has suggested that the company is or has ever been based at the Sunderland address. a very nice man quite clearly quoted it as being sourced from the Whois record.
brightassessing wrote on Jun 10
th, 2012 at 9:04pm:
For the record we do not make 40p a minute on our number we make 0p a minute. I have published our direct number and it makes no odds to us which nunmber you call, and we will even call you back.
No one has suggested that you "make" 40 pence per minute. The cost to ring your number can be up to 40 pence per minute.
All users of 0845 numbers benefit from a sudsidy from callers of around 1.5 pence per minute and
this is by design. The current Ofcom consultation proposes that all users of 084 numbers declare their Service Charge which is what this is.
Any revenue that users of 084 numbers are paid by their provider comes from the Service Charge. Thus, the amount that a user's provider keeps is the Service Charge less any excess, which is paid directly to the user. You have confirmed that your company receives all the benefit from the 0845 number in kind, and therefore that there is no excess. This isn't of interest to me; your company is benefitting from the 0845 number and how it happens is irrelevant. I don't particularly object to it doing so; what I believe is that it should declare the fact and as Ofcom has proposed it should do (in the form of the Service Charge).
The fact that, for a surcharge of 1.5 pence per minute, some telephone companies charge an Access Fee of around 38 pence per minute shows how innefficient such a transaction is. Again, the Ofcom proposals are that originating call providers will have to declare their Access Charge. This will hopefully bring these excessive charges down.
If your company does not receive any benefit from the use of the 0845 number, then that is even worse than receiving revenue, if indeed receiving revenue is regarded as "bad".
All calls to 0845 numbers incur a surcharge on their termination rate of around 1.5 pence per minute and any user which does not derive an appropriate benefit is therefore gifting this money to their provider on an unearned basis.
This is why users of 0845 numbers should declare the Service Charge. If they wish this to be gifted to their provider, then that is a matter for them. The fact is that this money is flowing from callers (via their providers) and should declared. We wouldn't have it if a shop put products on its shelves without declaring the cost, so why should phone calls be any different?
The non-geographic number range where no benefit is derived from callers (via their providers) is 03. If Bright Assessing wishes to take no benefit from its callers, but doesn't wish to publish the 01789 number, then why does it not use a 03 number?