Hi Punta.IT I sincererly hope you didn't sign up with TIC as I did....I am having all sorts of problems of trying to get my money back from them WITHOUT SUCCESS!!!! Here's my story;
OH MY GOD! Has anyone had any dealings with TIC Limited (The Investors Club) based in Mayfair, London??
I was contacted them back in 2005 regarding a mill conversion in Morley, Leeds and I was sucked into buying one with vendor/developer discount. I signed up the agreement and paid a non-refundable finders fee of 3.5%.
Since then the club has had issues with this development and pulled out of this one and TIC tried to get me to look at another development this time Amersall Road in Doncaster. It was much lower entry into this development which meant that what I had paid for the Leeds one more than covered for the entry into Doncaster plot. This was 2007. So I progressed with this one, with mortgage TMB. Since the credit crunch last year I got an email from TIC stating that TMB were doing an audit if ALL outstanding mortgage requests. Since then they told TIC that ANY deal where a developer deposit would not be honoured. So this meant that my deal would not be progressed.
TIC then assigned another mortgage broker Cobalt Capital to source another lender that would agree to vendor deposits. TIC later wrote back and stated they were struggling to source such a lender and asked for more desposit from me. I obviously declined and demanded my money back. They turned round and said that the finders fee would not be returned but the remainder would. This by the way was in Feb 2008. After numerous calls to the account manager, financial director and so on I had no joy in trying to get back my money.
On the 17th April I wrote to them giving them 7 days to refund back my money but to no reply, nothing!
Yesterday I rang the Consumer Direct who were very sympathetic and suggested write one more time stating that this is a final reminder and further legal action will be pursued by the Trading Standards. Also contacted my credit card company of the situation.
After that I tried to ring the TIC office once more time and got a dead line, rang the main number, same dead line, went onto the website www.ticltd.com and got a DNS network error, such site does not exist.
Has anyone dealt with this company before and if so, what success have you had?
What else can I do???
Frustrated and furious, Stuart