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Post by davee39 on Apr 7, 2014 17:22:48 GMT
It must be Easter. Big carrots closed March 2012 AND THEY'RE BACK! But are they real? the site is ©2014 Bigcarrots They have both bigcarrots.com/ & bigcarrots.co.uk/There are LISTINGS!, pages of them, all zero filled, The pitches show all the literary skills of a 6 year old Watch out Funding Circle, Big Carrots is out to eat your lunch |
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Post by yorkshireman on Apr 7, 2014 19:02:55 GMT
It must be Easter. Big carrots closed March 2012 AND THEY'RE BACK! But are they real? the site is ©2014 Bigcarrots They have both bigcarrots.com/ & bigcarrots.co.uk/There are LISTINGS!, pages of them, all zero filled, The pitches show all the literary skills of a 6 year old Watch out Funding Circle, Big Carrots is out to eat your lunch
Headquartered in Chelyabinsk with branches in Bucharest and Sofia no doubt.
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Post by batchoy on Apr 8, 2014 8:05:20 GMT
There are LISTINGS!, pages of them, all zero filled, The pitches show all the literary skills of a 6 year old And numerical skills of an even lesser age. I wish I could take a turnover of £50k pa have costs of £36k pa and still make a net profit of £28k working just 2 days a week. Did you also notice that all the auctions end in 4 days time at about midday on the 12 th April
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Post by valerieb on Apr 8, 2014 8:30:24 GMT
Suggest we wait for the Big Bunches of Bananas site based in a Banana Republic.
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Post by batchoy on Apr 8, 2014 9:14:29 GMT
They don't appear to exist as a limited company though they refer to themselves as Bigcarrots.com Ltd, the Information Commissioner registration number does not appear to be in the Information Commissioner's database, no reference to the FCA and the domain names are registered at what appears to be a Church Hall in Cheshire and to a Limited company that I can't find.
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Post by j on Apr 8, 2014 9:42:27 GMT
They don't appear to exist as a limited company though they refer to themselves as Bigcarrots.com Ltd, the Information Commissioner registration number does not appear to be in the Information Commissioner's database, no reference to the FCA and the domain names are registered at what appears to be a Church Hall in Cheshire and to a Limited company that I can't find. Sounds more dubious by the minute!
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Post by JamesFrance on Apr 8, 2014 14:12:21 GMT
I presume someone forgot to take down the web site when the business closed. Some dates probably auto update.
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Post by batchoy on Apr 8, 2014 14:24:16 GMT
I have found the company, it was dissolved on the 15th January 2013
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Post by easteregg on Apr 8, 2014 18:10:10 GMT
I contacted the owner of the site several months ago when the site reappeared. I believe the site was resurrected as it was in the process of being sold. The data appeared to be test data. As well as no longer trading, the site is not registered with the FCA. Really this should have some warning as it could appear, to an uneducated lender, like a real site.
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Post by uncletone on Apr 8, 2014 18:22:48 GMT
Oh. You mean I shouldn't have invested that twenty grand? If only somebody had said....  |
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Post by mrclondon on Apr 8, 2014 18:47:39 GMT
The "Way Back Machine" web archive has several snapshots of bigcarrots.com through 2013, including this one from last July which is remarkably similiar to the current site. |
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Post by mikes1531 on Apr 8, 2014 19:48:45 GMT
The "Way Back Machine" web archive has several snapshots of bigcarrots.com through 2013, including this one from last July which is remarkably similiar to the current site. Thanks for digging that up. Another thing to look out for would be to go back to the website tomorrow and see if the opportunities still show as having 4 days left to run. Or what happens when these opportunities reach their 12/Apr/14 end date. PS. Davee39 said the "pitches show all the literary skills of a 6 year old". Having looked at one of them, if I were a 6 year old... I'd feel insulted!
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