Directa has been in news few times last year. Mainly small business owners are quite angry at Directa. They feel that Directa is cheating and selling so called directory services by phone, but price and delivered products are not what have been promised. People think that they agreed to pay 49 euro annual fee, but Directa sends them 10 times bigger bills, over 400 euros.
MTV3 TV channel had Directa in its news several times. Finnish police is currently investigating few hundred requests from angry Directa clients.
Huijaa.info web site was established by several business people so that Directa clients could have place to discuss issues they have with this company. Several other forums or blogs were censored before this happened. Web blog Lehmätkin lentäis (cows could fly) did not censor its comments (at this moment over 500 of them) even when attorney hired by Directa called the blogger.
Several Finnish blogs follow Directa case and have many posts about it. Huijaus blog and Pate Ylinen have both several items about Directa.
Directa Oy was established in 1999. Company provides contact information and directory services. MTV3 reported also about issues they found from past actions done by Directa managers and owners. Managing director Ville Komppa and sales manager both have been involved in charity organizations, but it seems to difficult to find financial information and where the raised charity founds went.
October 20, 2009 at 9:43 am
Thanks a lot for this post!
I have a friend who has just had the same problem with Directa, they are trying to charge him over 700 Euros, or 250 Euros for a cancellation fee. It’s amazing how they are still following these practices, even after investigations into their business. I hope the police soon closes this company down.
Your blog provided us with instant calmness, as we had no prior information of the already ongoing problems with Directa and thought even that my friend might be at fault.
Cheers,
Miguel