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Offline Jaxcat

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Plumbing Franchises
« on: August 06, 2012, 11:04:12 AM »
How thorough a check do these franchises do to ensure the people they have operating them are properly licensed.  Does anyone know?  Anyone know how Blue Cross operate as a franchise and how thorough they are?


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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 12:56:04 PM »
Jax, i guess anyone can own a franchised company whether they are licenced or not but why not make a few inquiries to Blue Cross to find out,cheers
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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 09:28:59 PM »
They don't seem too phased to hear that they have sold a franchise to a "plumber" who is driving around in a van, advertising himself as a plumber, but has no licence, no exemption no nothing.  Have informed customer that we got called to that they can lay a complaint with the PGDB.  I am just astounded that they appear to do NO checking - nothing even as basic as visiting the pgdb website that takes, what, all of two seconds?

I just wondered if anyone on here had anything to do with them, or had heard anything about them.
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2012, 01:16:57 PM »
hi Jax, it`s all about `money` if they can sell a product that is their job done, `ching,ching` they would deem that the purchaser has the qualifications, in fact the purchaser may be qualified but has employed a non licenced guy to do the work,cheers
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