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 Credit Check
Author:Ian
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 10:37
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Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Hi All,

Can anyone recommend a credit checking organisation i can check limited companies against?

Cheers

Ian

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Damien Sullivan
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 12:11
Views:36 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Hi Ian,

I would be more than happy to give you a free trial of our services.

Drop me an email and I will give you a username and password for the creditsafe website.

Regards

Damien

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Andy
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 12:55
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Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Ian

I see that you already have a reply from Creditsafe direct, however I was going to post that we use Creditsafe. To be fair it is the only credit checking system that I have used so can't compare it to any other, however I do know that it has been very useful for us and I would certainly recommend that you take up the trial offer.

Andy

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Graham
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 13:41
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

I use Checkit UK. Does much the same thing as credit safe but are a little cheaper.

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:interestincredit
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 13:48
Views:33 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Hi,

What sort of ball park figures are we talking for a service like this.

Is it a few hundred quid or are we talking thousands?

Its not something i would need very often but it looks like a handy tool to me


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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Graham
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 15:30
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Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Phone them and get a quote

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Tom Atkinson
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 16:53
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Hi Ian,

There are lots of credit checking organisations. The question to aks is, "Are their numbers of any use?".

I would not recommend any company that is not recongnised by credit insureres so whoever you chose, do find out which insurers rely on their numbers.

If not I'll charge you less than anyone else and give you whatever numbers you like. :-)

Seriously, my favourite is Graydons. They are big, respond quickly to the market and are recongnised by vitually every credit insurer (not AIG though who do their own - soon to be AIU after the Fed bail out ?) although many like Dun & Bradstreet who are probably the most well known.

Hope that helps. Tom.

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Andy
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 17:09
Views:37 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

interestincredit, we currently pay £420 per annum for a 'Mix Freedom Package' which is up 49,999 limited company/plc searches plus 49,999 non-limited company searches plus 49,999 director searches.

As each of these works at out at around 192 searches per working day of the year, this is effectively unlimited searching, or it is for us anyway.

The package also includes 2,000 'Risk Trackers' where you can monitor a company and if any of the information held on that company changes, you receive an email to notify you.

Hope that helps.

Andy


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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Roy Snart
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 19:02
Views:42 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603


We use

http://www.wyseassist.com/

The reports are pretty good - at least as good as the ones we used get from D & B.

riskdisk.com is also pretty good.

Roy


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 Re: Credit Check
Author:interestincredit
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 19:09
Views:37 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Thanks Andy,

Very helpfull, at that kind of rate i may investigate this further. it could save me money in the long term.

I dont know why, but i thought this kind of service was always silly money, it always was in the past anyway

Thanks again

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:Hazel Jeffrey
Date:Tuesday, 21st Apr 2009 19:44
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

Have yo say Creditsafe is the one we use and never had any problems.

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 Re: Credit Check
Author:sarah
Date:Wednesday, 22nd Apr 2009 10:05
Views:39 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=182603

you might want to check out a product that Barclays do - you dont have to be a customer of theirs. Its called Credit Focus - from memory it was something like £10 per month so very cost effective

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