What do you think the following companies have in common?
1. MWG Aluminium Architectural Systems (Liquidation)
2. MWG (UK) Limited (Liquidation)
3. MWG UPVC Trade Limited (liquidation)
4. The Bi Folding Door Factory Limited (Liquidation)
5. Aluminium Window & Door Factory Limited (just opened)
6. Pear tree Developments Limited (Trading)
7. Bespoke Bi-Fold Door Systems Limited (just opened)
8. London Aluminium Systems Ltd (liquidation)
They have the same directors and owners running them, based in their head office in Coventry:
ALUMINIUM WINDOW & DOOR FACTORY LIMITED, previously known as MWG UK LTD, MWG AAS and MWG UPVC TRADE
UNIT D HERALD WAY
BINLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
COVENTRY
ENGLAND
CV3 2RQ
Company No. 08699212
Set up 20.09.2013
And their London showroom:
BESPOKE BI-FOLD DOOR SYSTEMS LIMITED, previously known as LONDON ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS LTD
4 PARKLANDS PARADE
BATH ROAD
HOUNSLOW
ENGLAND
TW5 9AX
Company No. 08706132
Set up 25.09.2013
This mob has a history of opening and closing businesses dating back to 2006.
My wife and I were unfortunate to be duped by the crooked charms of the infamous Manj Sanghera, when we were looking to buy a bi-fold door for our new extension. He is a very charming and assertive man who made us feel very comfortable with purchasing our doors from him. Once we had paid the £1980 deposit which he seemed extremely desperate to have paid all the charms and promises of a 4 week turn around soon vanished. I actually paid £400 pounds extra to have the door manufactured and fitted within 4 weeks.
However, upon payment of the deposit I was left with making phone calls every day to have a surveyor come out and measure up but no surveyor every turned up and our calls to Manj Sanghera went unanswered. When once he answered his phone all I can describe as a young boy answered the phone and asked us to call the production manager Imran.
After my first conversation with this Imran who I can only describe as being extremely rude and very badly spoken (English it appears is not his first language), I was fearful that I may never see any doors and my deposit was probably gone for good. Almost each time I spoke to Imran when I could eventually get through to him I was given lie after lie. However, when I pointed out to him that he was contradicting what he had told me previously he would then begin to get aggressive shouting in a high pitched tone.
We couldn't believe this had happened to us so I took it upon myself to do further checks and I came across these reviews on trust pilot, to which I also added my issues/concerns however the comments have all been removed.
http://www.trustpilot.co.uk/review/londonaluminiumsystems.co.uk
I have also come across these online:
http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/bespoke-bifold-door-systems-Hounslow
http://www.trustpilot.co.uk/review/mwgaas.co.uk
Now the new website:
http://bespokebifolddoorsystems.co.uk/
Before the comments were removed from Trust Pilot I contacted one of these customers and he/she told me that Manj had called all the customers and said Phil has run off with all the deposits that were paid. Manj said the doors were made but if they wanted them then we would need to pay MWG AAS the fabrication costs to have the doors delivered and fitted.
Later that evening this same customer received an email from Phil, saying not to pay Manj any monies. He explained what he had done and that he was no longer a part of the company. In support of this Scheuco, a multi-million pound company have confirmed that Phil is an innocent party and when the customer went back to Manj to let him know his games weren't going to work he stopped answering the phone.
Sadly stealing and defrauding innocent people is nothing new to Manj Sanghera, this man has a proven track record for fraud and theft and has served time in prison for this. Please view the links below to his criminal past.
In 2003 he was imprisoned for fraud:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IN+THE+COURTS%3A+Man+in+cheque+offence+jailed.-a0106106872
Again he was sent to prison for fraud:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/in+the+courts%3a+thefts+man+gets+five+months.-a071538786
Now I am no legal expert but I'm sure someone with a criminal record is not able to hold the post of a company director or obtain banking facilities when that person in the past has been convicted of credit card fraud. Would be great if someone could clarify this point.
I urge anyone who has any other information on him to come forward, we need to see him and his team of crooks put away.
I found a review where they applied for liquidation before his mum passed away. Any Trading after that were illegal.
Again we require this info to prove they have been trading whilst insolvent. I have tried to contact the lady who posted this review.
I also urge any historic customers to come forward from December 2011, and January, February 2012 when he last declared his companies bankrupt.
If you have any information please post it on to the Blog and let’s expose this low heinous thieving low life criminal.
An order was placed with MWG Aluminium Architectural Systems in Coventry in September 2013. I paid a 50% deposit and was told the turnaround for the bi-fold doors was 4 weeks.
ReplyDeleteI received no door, refund or apology! MWG AAS is now in liquidation!
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DeleteCan you believe this guy!!!
ReplyDeleteManj Sanghera has now opened up another company, he has rebranded the London Aluminium Systems showroom as ALUMINIUM AND UPVC SOLUTIONS.
Very clever, so now he has a web based company called bespoke bifold door systems trading from here and a showroom called aluminium and upvc solutions.
Another scam in the making.
The good thing is I will make sure I am at this showroom every day to get my money back!
Please can I ask if you ever got your money back? I think we're currently being scammed. Thanks
DeleteHi, I also had a bad experience of this company. I ordered BiFold doors in Dec 2011 paying a 50% deposit. I was served by Manj himself, and prmoised delivery in eight weeks. After a string of broken promises, incorrectly manufactured items and partial delivery. I eventually got my 50% deposit back in Dec 2012. I was lucky I had paid via Credit card company and got a refund under section 75
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for publishing such a detailed account of the level of fraud we are dealing with.
ReplyDeleteI also had a similar experience. I went in to the London Aluminium Systems showroom and placed an order for bifold doors with Jat Singh - apparently Manj's relative - back in April 2013. We had scheduled delivery for August 2013 which was slipped. I made numerous attempts to get a revised delivery date confirmed. Due to increasingly implausible excuses for non-delivery, I proceeded to do some research on the company. Online customer reviews, other suppliers/peers in the industry and even Schueco UK LTD all said the same thing – ‘do not do business with this company’. Schueco UK stated they are in effect running a sort of ‘Ponzi Scheme’ whereby they promise delivery in 6 – 8 weeks, and then deliver after 20+ weeks, if at all (and then often with faulty equipment), effectively using clients’ deposits as either working capital or profit. Schueco UK told me they had stepped in to help resolve delivery to several customers, one of whom received product 9 months late.
I'm really kicking myself as something in my gut told me things were not kosher, but they had a retail store which appeared legitimate in Hounslow and so I decided to take the risk due to their very attractive price.
Any advice on how to get my sizable deposit back - of course paid via bank transfer?
I really should publish Manj's increasingly loopy emails to me here...
Thanks for publishing yur detailed account - we were also victims of Manjinder Sanghera when he ran the Bi Folding Door Factory Limited. They of course went into liquidation after we were conned out of £3630 for some Bi Folding Doors (also paying more for quick installation as we were getting married and needed them fitted to secure our house before going on honeymoon).
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say they didn't arrive, Shueco confirmed they were never ordered and the company went into liquidation.
I have filed a report of our case backed up with all the written evidence we can and we're hoping this may result in a request for disqualification from futre directorship, but I understand they need lots of evidence for this. Has anyone else spoken to the liquidators to provide evidence? They were very sympathetic to the situation when I spoke to them...
I had the same issues when I placed an order back in Jan. 2013 and paid £14k deposit. 6 months later and after visiting his showroom in Coventry I launched legal proceedings. Same issues as others with calls not being taken. Weeks before the hearing I got all my windows and doors from Synseal, their manufacturer. It was a long and difficult road. I now have problems with the Synseal windows and manufactures wont help ! I was still one of the lucky ones.
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ReplyDeleteWe bought bi-fold doors through a 3rd party back in 2012 - the doors were delivered 4 months late and then when they were installed we discovered they were faulty - someone from MWG came out and spent a day trying to adjust them to fit ... would have been a miracle as they were different sizes! In then end they admitted they were faulty and said they would replace them ... that was last March (2013) - they told me they had them and were waiting to deliver, then that someone else had taken them .... blar blar blar, excuses excuses excuses ... then went into liquidation. I have doors that won't open ... do not really doors! I'm astounded that they can continue to pop up in different guises time after time!
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ReplyDeleteWe bought SMART ALUMINIUIM BI-FOLDS through London Aluminium Systems Limited in Hounslow.that was the last I saw of my £1980 deposit and have now given up all hope of ever getting that money back.I contacted SMART ,Citizens Advice and the Consumer Rights for help all to no avail.I placed the order on the 13th of Sept 2013 and from then on pretty much the same treatment received from all the other bloggers on this site.
Hi we too have been conned by this guy. He calls himself 'Steve' Bespoke Bi-Fold door systems Ltd. took a deposit 2100 and then the same lie after lie! you could report this to the fraud squad. The more people that report it the better chance of stopping this thief!
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You can report a fraud to Action Fraud by using our online fraud reporting tool, or by calling us on 0300 123 2040. I called them and they were very helpful.
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ReplyDeleteAs you can see above I have made comments and then deleted them again - always as a result of threats to take legal action by Bespoke Bifold Door Systems.
I did get my doors. They are installed. Work properly and look good.
My issue was that the contract said that supply would be in four weeks and it took 12 and an awful lot of complaining by me. And I visited their factory in Coventry.
I felt I had to hassle and threaten with legal action in order to get my doors. They were very late and I never received an apology.
I also never received warranty paperwork and I had to go direct to Reynaers to get a replacement door clip.
I was luckier than many who have written here
Hello I have had the same experiences as above with the London Aluminium Systems Ltd Company. I recently won a small claims but the baliff's are unable to find anyone.
ReplyDeleteI will be passing my evidence to the actionfraud as noted above
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