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Hi , I'm new here , I have a problem with my licensing office. They are charging £32 for what is no more than two sheets of printed A4 sticky vinyl . They do not make these themselves, this work is contracted out. I know that the last printing company that held this contract invoiced £12+vat for a pair of stickers .
How much do you guys pay for a pair of door signs ?
Are the council allowed to profit in this way ?
Are there any legal implications in what they are doing?
The office won't allow a driver to approach the printers directly and other printing firms in the town have been "told" not to do any of this work ,
Any experiences? Any comments ,please , surely what they are doing cannot be right or lawful ?!

It is only licenses that they are not supposed to make a profit on.

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Grandad,

The company I am with now charge £ 5.00 a side so I would say there taking the p@ss.

Mugs normally get MUGGED OFF looks they regard you lot as MUGS .............................What you gonna do about it

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They are taking away my freedom of choice and trapping drivers into paying what they want to charge , surely they can't have it both ways ?? They gave me 4 points on my licence for not displaying one door sign .

That's it ,I'm not a mug ,and won't be mugged off, that's why I'm on here to find out what I can do about it .

£16 a pair here and the fecking things rip the paint when its time to take em off so everyone puts em on magnetic backing

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Tried magnets , used to take them off when not working, still went missing that's why I'm in this situation

I regard workers who fail to organise themselves until their attacked as MUGS!


What can you do ??????? easy join a Union along with other drivers get organised arrange meetings draw up your complaints met with THE POLITICIANS NEVER EVER THE COUNCIL OFFICERS its the Politicians that take the decisions threaten THEM WITH civil disobedience, press campaigns, etc . do not try to appear reasonable they arnt their exploiting you the Drivers remember this .

Do not try to appear be REASONABLE they arn't get stuck in don't take prisoners



ORGANISED YOU NEGOTIATE ......................................ON YOUR OWN YOU BEG

APPOINT A SPOKESPERSON TO DEAL WITH THE MEDIA ENSURE THAT THIS PERSON ONLY EVER MAKES STATEMENTS IN LINE WITH YOUR AGREED POLICIES

change your avatar SCAB IS SURELY NOT APPROPRIATE

BE LUCKY TT

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I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN NOBODY'S SUBJECT http://www.republic.org.u

F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

You know, I really hate it when this happens but I have to say that I have tried the reasonable approach and as TT says, they aren't.

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Grandad,

Is there any real leverage, certainly not in striking ? I'm all for unions but it still comes down to one person negotiating , and if the licensing office is being unlawful, surely that's all it would take , and this is what I want to know , but I agree , 200 people shouting make more noise than me

It not necessarily being unlawful but maybe unreasonable.

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Grandad,

... and then on the barricades, comrades!!!

grandad on his best.... I was going to say exactly the same...

"my" company provides all stickers (magnets) for free but when you loose them you've to pay £15 each, so that what they charge you is not that bad, mate... don't drive too fast you won't loose them...

Your talking about magnets he's talking about stick ons.
One of the reasons some drivers prefer magnets is they can take them off when there using the car for personal use but the problem with that is in my area at least it a condition of your vechicles license that all plates and door signs are permanently attached.
I know this as I had a written warning for not having my door signs on when I was doing the supermarket shop.