qsl tender scam

I own a medium sized media agency. One of my team signed up to what he thought was a free trial and subsequently received an invoice a month later. QSL have been unhelpful and rather agressive in seeking payment even after cancellation.

We design and build websites and in our experience their sign-up tactics are highly dubious in relation to the law. As such we are currently actioning a campaign to expose them and fight back. Our internal PR consultant is putting together a well researched article which will be published in multiple online and offline channels; so if you want to get involved please do get in touch. Contact my personal email

qsl tender scam

I cannot believe this company. We have been posted a bill of £600.00 for service’s which we havnt not used. Alison Cooks who was extremely rude on the phone said it was in my name and I had to pay this amount. I said “Somebody has used my details, gone into my email and signed me up for it, this is clearly a security breech. Oh and another thing do you have anything with my signature signing up to your service?” Answer I got was ” Thats not our problems, you have a security breech on your side, which is not our problem.”

I logged into the account, and found tenders which were not even in London so they are you could say they are selling invalid goods. 

Can any one help me fiight them. I am willing to pay for someone’s time and help with this matter, instead of paying QSL scammers

qsl scam

The people at QSL must be quite amoral. Not wrong – because their Ts&Cs probably do stack up, but amoral – and they know exactly what they are doing.

In our case as a new business we signed up to a number of free tender websites including QSL to see how they worked. Like other users we got an invoice out of the blue 2 months later:
- Not a single customer service call in the meantime (unlike every other website).
- Barely clicked on by us (which makes the lack of customer service even more mystifying – do they not care that people don’t use the product?).

The invoice had attached to it a screen print of the page where one signed up to it – has anybody ever heard of that?? They know in advance that their customers will not understand why they have an invoice.

Since then they ignored emails – and worse pretended that they had not received them.

Life is too short so we paid up from personal funds as the business does not have the money – but they make my blood boil! AVOID IT!!!

qsl the tender list scammers

Signed up for the Free Trial, as per the google link. Was impressed with the initial setup but this was just for research. Used the service for about a week to see if anything of interest dropped and realised this wasnt for us.

Hay presto the boss pulls me into the office wondering why a £580 invoice has hit the desk. This was after nothing from the QSL site to me warning that the subscription was ending and a charge would follow.

On calling the company (opening hours 9-5 but answer phone not turned off untill after 9.30). I spoke to a woman involved stating there was an issue only to receive a well prepared speach on T&C’s. I will accept that i should have read a little deeper but again i dont think you can get any close to a scam than this, The option of a free trial is that you get to trial it then if you are happy you Buy the service. As per the people below i will be reporting this to trading standards and i hope that more people will follow in this.

More QSL scams, they keep on scamming

Yes the T&C clearly state that Free Trial will end and automatic subscription will occur but when using a free trail you do so, as i did, in good faith that you would get a genuine opportunity to opt out.

During the free trail i received 0 tenders of interest or relevance to me, my sector and geographic coverage.

I called to see what could be done when the invoice surprisingly landed on my desk but was totally blanked – Natalie took no responsibility, showed no empathy and was adamant that a full years subscription was mine. To me that is as close to a scam as you can get. Sorry.

Another unhappy QSL customer

I have had similar experience with QSL as described by the people above, and now I’ve been summoned to appear at a court. Today I spoke with “Consumer Direct” about QSL, who have subsequently forwarded a complaint to trading standards. They also added that the more people who complain to them about that scumbag company, the better. Consumer Direct can be contacted on                         0845 404 0506            . If you do ring them, it might be useful to mention the reference number I was given for my complaint: SE4368599.

I will be reporting this on other scam warning websites so that more people will ring about them. It’ll also be nice if anyone from QSL notices this, too. I honestly don’t know how they’ve managed to get away with this for so long.

qsl-tenders – Scam found

A year ago my friend and I had been recently made redundant and so we wanted to explore working freelance. To help us with this we set up a limited company in my freind’s name. I subscribed to a couple of free website to receive tenders, whcih included QSL. None of the free e-mail bulletins that we received were useful, and so after a while we even stopped checking them. I completely forgot about QSL as their emails were going into our junk mail and I did not recall reading anything about having to pay a full year’s subscription. Just a couple of months ago my freind received an email from them demanding for her to pay the £600 (the full year’s subscription). My friend explained that we had not received any of their email and that they had gone direct into our junk mail. 

Anyway, to cut a long story short, now QSL are taking my friend to court in October and demanding a payment of £900. I feel very bad about this, as I was the one to sign up for these e-mails, though neither of us have used their services. The company is in her name, though she has me down as her associate on the website, so legally she’s is one responsible for payment.

They’re obviously a ruthless and devious bunch of individuals who are using this misleading way of signing up for free e-bulletins to extort money from people. I feel so angry, but I do not know what my legal position is. I wonder if anyone who has had a similar experience would be inetersted in taking action against them jointly? We might have a better chance acting together. We need to stop these people from carrying on conning unsuspecting people in this way.