School Supplies & Services Reviews 42

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Spammers best avoid!
We get spam from them all the time and to me this shows this isn't an ethical company.

Also known as Educational Hub / Sky Blue Education
You don't have to dig very far to see that this company is scamming people. I read below they are telling people they are being 'targeted' for bad reviews. Ha, what a joke! I think people can decide for themselves whether to believe many reviews online, local newspaper articles about the company and three different company trading names with one director. They will take your money, make promises about refund guarantees and all of this is fake, you will never get your money back or any leads.

Don't do it! This company has contacted me several times to try and 'offer' my coaching services (National School Supplies Services, Schools Hub, Bluesky services etc). Each time they offer the earth but it's so unconvincing you can see the scam from a mile off. Do not part with your money.

1 star, because I cannot give minus 5!
Ordered no of items, including 2 chemicals. I made sure those were not marked as'for eductional establishments only' - still I was contacted that cannot ship it as sent a refund. Some items came after couple of week s a few emails. After more than two months and 5 or so emails regarding my order, almost half of my item were not received. My ultimatum was, refund or ship it. I got the refund as they were still waiting for two items to be back in stock. Receved refund for almost half what was owed to me. The worst online retailer, by far, I dealt with. This is why I'm writing the review, as the experience is so bad that I go to trouble to type in this review. Save yourself money and trouble and buy elsewhere - I'd get things quicker shipped ground mail from China, lol

This is a scam. They even had the cheek to call back up and ask if we wanted to renew. The lady sounds very professional and friendly, however when you ask questions, ie their company number, she hangs up

This is a scam
They said the have been running for over twenty years and now operate framework contracts for all building works undertaken to academy schools in the telford and wrekin area, taking over from the local authority. This is not the case, the majority of schools are still maintained by the local authority and there is no framework contract operated by The Education Hub.

We are Anthill debt collectors and they even managed to rip us off. We issued a claim against them and have now recovered all our money plus costs

Complete Scam

Similar to the other reviews, they tell you had good the website is and sell you a story. I raised concerns with the girl i was dealing with Charlotte who confirmed if no enquiries we would get a refund, she has now gone missing and no longer replies to emails or calls. Shocking service ..

Be Aware of this Company they take my money without giving any contracts

What a scam, i paid out £1200.00 to cover areas across the south and had nothing in 6 months. If you are going to sign up then DONT and if you have then contact trading standards.

Filed a complaint through Trading Standards and today received my money back
Trading Standards is definitely the route to go down
Contact Citizens Advice Bureau and they will set everything up for you

Took out a package of postcode priority member and tender notifications. Tenders are very good and the help to complete these is beneficial as I have never done rendering before.

Have sent a mail shot to the schools in my area through the company which has resulted in some interest by email from various schools, booked in next week to provide a quote.

Was also offered other areas but looking for some return on initial area before taking further areas.

so far so good, not produce any work as of yet but I have had schools contact me for work which I have quoted for which will hopefully turn into sales

DO NOT TOUCH THEM!
Complete and utter scam.
Over £1000.00 down because of their lies and empty promises.
Lesson learnt.

Now having read most of the reviews, I can only agree on a shared (scam) experience. The pitch! I was contacted by Educational Hub who stated they were looking for a Recruiter who was able to cover the NN postcode. She informed me they had a contract with all the schools and colleges in the area and Glue Resourcing would have exclusivity on all new vacancies. What a wonderful opportunity I thought! After several conversations, I then signed a contract to then be informed there was a £500 admin fee! I was surprised this wasn’t communicated in our initial conversation, however, agreed to pay it as I was told in the last three months, the NN area had 34 permanent vacancies placed covering Administration, Finance and IT. Fast forward, two weeks after commencement of agreement, no vacancies. I expressed my concern verbally to be told it was early in the contract and the job flow is normally quiet at this time of year (Jan 2022) Forward to 22nd Feb 2022, some six weeks now, called on several occasions to speak to my account manager with no calls returned. I then spoke to a colleague of my account manager who gave me the same pitch! Its early days and time of the year! I then asked to speak to the operations manager who surprisingly wasn’t available, however, he will call me back! Still no callback!! I then stated I wanted to cancel my contract and receive a full refund for services that haven’t been provided nor delivered upon. Apparently, I have to write a letter and send it by post with my reasons for cancellation!! Really. Absolutely shocking! This company is a sham and from reading the reviews, they do not have a contract with the Education sector! Update! Today 02/03/2022 I have received a reply to my letter stating I have signed a contract as such no refund, signed by the ops mgr who still hasnt returned my call!

SCAMMER !! I am a contractor on a site called rated people. they offered the job as electrical work that we specalise in EICRs ect - when i emailed the chap he called me and also motioned EV installation ( we are gov approved installers) but this wasn't mentioned on the add - he said we would get 121 schools in Liverpool and this work would be a guarantee and he said he would email me. Once getting the email something made me think this was too good to be true, and then i saw they wanted £500 from us, we are contractors and I've never had to pay to work for somebody !? So i thought i would do a quick google and low and behold here we are ! I have contact rated people as other electricians have bought this job to bid on and its not fair to do this to people who are trying to make an honest living ! STAY WAY

SCAM - Education Hub or School Supplies Services DO NOT TRUST.
Dissolved on 2018 but states they were finalists of the education awards.. One director but not PSC.
very dodgy, checked other schools in the area and informed that we are not the only supplier - absolute bull **** DO NOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE..
No financial accounts for previous years seen

These are nothing more than corporate thieves avoid at all costs. I paid £500 to be the exclusive contractor to all schools in Wolverhampton in my field of work. My friend also did the same for all the schools in Shrewsbury.

We was told that last year there was 45 breakdowns in the one area 3 months into this year not a single one!

After some investigation work I found all the schools were under contract to a to a large national blue chip company which undertakes all the work these were offering.

When I rang them up to question them about this they became very defensive, could not answer how it was ever possible I could get work through them and eventually hung up as they knew I had caught them out.

The reality is no schools use the educational hub for contractors it's all just a massive scam! I've given these many opportunities to get back to me and either refund me or justify their position which they won't because they carnt.

I've contacted action fraud about these crooks and passed all the relevant information over to them and I would suggest anyone else who has been ripped off by these do the same.

If your unsure just read all the other verified reviews from the other businesses they have ripped off below

Absolutely not to be trusted.
Took them to court last year for recovery of monies.
Not to be trusted at all.
If I lived nearer I would be making a personal call.
Must not be sent any monies as you will loose it.