Re: FN-FORUM: new UK website regulations

date posted 15th January 2007 12:57

webmetric wrote:
>> I'd half agree with that, but if you're a sole trader working from home,
>> do you really want all your home address details on the web?
>>
>> and as a limited company, not selling from the site, will a VAT
>> Registration number help? or encourage VAT fraud?
>>
>
> There are reasons for and against both of those... for instance I'd be more
> likely to deal with some one who had visible contact information than some
> one who didn't (all else being equal) but I don't see what that needs to be
> legislated. Surely you can let the market decide that one? If you don't have
> details on display and you're not getting enough business then you're going
> to add them or go under. Common sense really.

It's legislation to protect fools i think.

People buying from a website and then going back with a problem to find
there's no contact details at all...

better to make it a crime to buy from a dodgy looking website than to
make it harder for genuine business. (dodgy businesses will still have
no contact details....)

like a lot of legislation it allows the law to take action if it finds a
criminal, but does nothing to prevent the crime in the first place.

;o)