Duetool- fraud

[ARW]

Beware of these fraudsters, years ago I bought some stuff off them, a few months later they rang with “great deals” I let the soulless man give his speech and hung up on him, a few days later £300 goes out of my account and a box of crap nuts and bolts turn up, all the sizes you don’t use.
They fraudulently kept my bank details, anyhoo trading standards sorted it.
Last week some jerk rang from “tool direct” for £300 you could get 2500 bolts with nylocks from m6-m12 along with £200 worth’s of tools, I could smell a rat. I let him ramble on and never asked or agreed to anything. A few boxes of screws turn up with an invoice for £430!
Refused delivery, do not deal with these numbheads

 

[Chae1]

Duo tool?

Used to be a annoying woman randomly visited from them. Was a calf being skinned one morning when she arrived. Think that put her off. Never saw her again.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Duo tool?

Used to be a annoying woman randomly visited from them. Was a calf being skinned one morning when she arrived. Think that put her off. Never saw her again.

Why were you skinning a calf- to make some broth like?

 

[Chae1]

Why were you skinning a calf- to make some broth like?

No, when we put a twin calf onto another cow, put the dead calfs skin on so it smells the same as its dead calf and adopt it quicker.

 

[deleted user 837354]

No, when we put a twin calf onto another cow, put the dead calfs skin on so it smells the same as its dead calf and adopt it quicker.

Oh I got you. I thought that might be why. Never seen it done with a calf, though I have seen it done several times by a wise old shepherd with lambs when I was a nipper though. Chap I do a bit for has such tame cows you can generally find someone to talk a spare calf without any issue. Thank you for the explanation.

 

[Cvx1170]

Its like a scene from predator

 

[Q65]

I fell for their sales pitch twice , the first bundle of stuff was quite useful although very cheap and nasty.
The second deal was based around some super duper drill bits, ( bigger sizes) . They were shite and got blunt almost immediately. When I got a follow up phone call I told the guy what happened I got a lot of promises of replacement bits and some more freebies, of course nothing turned up. This happened a few times over a few months, each time they promised they would sort the problem .
Then one day I got a call from a sales woman from duo tool, told her I wasn't interested in what she was selling because of the crap drill bit saga and she promised to sort it out. Imagine my surprise when she phoned back about an hour later............ well it was nothing compared to the surprise she got when she realised who she was speaking to! I wish I could have seen her face as she frantically back peddled and tried not to admit she had f. all intention of helping me out and I was just the next number on her list.
Still makes me smile ....
But to conclude don't touch them with a barge pole....... total con merchants!

 

[ARW]

After the first running with them they would still ring weekly and because it’s a Glasgow number the same as my bank I would answer, I would tell them to member contact me again, it did stop after hard words but it’s started it again!

 

[Lofty1984]

Just block the number

 

[BobGreen]

Are they still going ? Remember them when I was contracting. Must be 25 years ago. Yes everything was crap then as well

 

[jendan]

I fell for their sales pitch twice , the first bundle of stuff was quite useful although very cheap and nasty.
The second deal was based around some super duper drill bits, ( bigger sizes) . They were shite and got blunt almost immediately. When I got a follow up phone call I told the guy what happened I got a lot of promises of replacement bits and some more freebies, of course nothing turned up. This happened a few times over a few months, each time they promised they would sort the problem .
Then one day I got a call from a sales woman from duo tool, told her I wasn't interested in what she was selling because of the crap drill bit saga and she promised to sort it out. Imagine my surprise when she phoned back about an hour later............ well it was nothing compared to the surprise she got when she realised who she was speaking to! I wish I could have seen her face as she frantically back peddled and tried not to admit she had f. all intention of helping me out and I was just the next number on her list.
Still makes me smile ....
But to conclude don't touch them with a barge pole....... total con merchants!

They were selling at Carlisle mart last year,and i bought a cordless grinder of them,and a cordless drill etc thrown in for nowt.Seems ok and a decent deal.Never been bothered by them since.

 

[scrubbuster]

Funny this came up, 2 weeks ago I went into my workshop and there was a Duotool business card nailed to the board at eye level above the bench. Must arrived when no one was around and let himself in

 

[Pebd99]

I’ve got on fine with duotool. Gotten some good tools and good deals on grinding/cutting discs. They do tend to turn up at awkward times tho.