CVO International (http://cvointernational.com/) is a company based in Hungary, with offices over mainly Eastern Europe. I worked for them, as a contractor, at their office in Holborn, London during the summer of 2006.
I spent a week travelling up to London and communicating with various people in the Company; Jacque Field in London, Paul Toms in Nottingham, Gabor Korosztos from Keystone (another contractor), Grahame Howells in Hungary as well as several others.
I setup a VPN and provided various other services. All work was done to a very satisfactory level.
This is one of the final emails I got from CVO International:
Hi Karl I will contact Grahame about this and come back to you as soon as I have a response I apologise for this delay and understand the difficulty it may have caused – with kind regards Jacque Jacque Field Group Managing Director CVO International London WC2 6AA Tel: +44 207 681 6517 Mobile: +44 7711896012 www.cvointernational.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Karl O'Meara [mailto:*SNIP*] Hi Jacque, I tried to call you today but just got your voicemail. I'm worried because my outstanding invoices have not been paid. I'm a one-man band with a small family and simply cannot afford to do work and not get paid. I request and require these invoices to be paid immediately. Thanks Karl |
There is no quibbling about any work here. I was told by Jacque (verbally while in the office) that Grahame Howells - the Finance Director was quite 'difficult' to get money out of. This observation was to come to pass. I never recevied any money from this company.
At the time my baby boy was just 3 months old and I was relying on my clients to pay me. Grahame Howells is obviously far too interested in himself to bother paying small fry like me.
I would highly recommend to anyone considering working with any of these CVO people - DON'T!