The marketplace is full of different businesses, but how do consumers or other traders know which ones are trustworthy and will provide good customer services?

For over twenty years, Trading Standards Buy With Confidence scheme has sought to create a platform for local businesses, where anyone can find the trader they need.

Buy With Confidence is a national approved trader scheme and covers all types of businesses - from builders to vehicle sales to web designers etc.

The scheme is operated by Trading Standards, who have vast experience in consumer rights and how businesses should act within the letter and spirit of the law. All Buy With Confidence members in Bath and North East Somerset have been vetted and approved by local Trading Standards Officers and are monitored to ensure that they operate in a legal, honest and fair way.

Why is Buy With Confidence good for business?

The ‘Trading Standards Approved’ logo brings with it recognition of a job well done. Buy With Confidence is a signal to customers that a trader is open, honest and operates within fair trading law.

The Buy With Confidence scheme is also useful to businesses trading in areas that consumers use infrequently, or in sectors that have a mixed reputation. It gives customers peace of mind that they are dealing with a law-abiding, responsible business that puts the customer first.

Buy With Confidence applicants are thoroughly audited, criminal records are checked and references are obtained.

Once approved, businesses are listed on the Buy With Confidence website at www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk, where potential customers can search for a trustworthy local trader, no matter the type of service they require.

Benefits of Buy With Confidence membership

Members can display the Buy With Confidence logo and proudly claim to be ‘Trading Standards Approved’.

Membership can save money! Solicitors and legal advisors are expensive, but advice on regulatory compliance and other Trading Standards issues is included free with a Buy With Confidence membership.

The growing Buy With Confidence membership helps steer consumers away from rogues who give legitimate businesses a bad name, and towards good, honest, reliable traders.

Email: [email protected], 01225 396759 or apply online now at: www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk

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