I just cant resist a challenge and Survation the automaton tele pollster has tried to convince me that all things are above board. Their CEO Damian Lyons Lowe sent me this comment to help me re-assess my evaluation of Survation.
28 February 2011 03:58
Well no Damian not really? You see you say "If you wish to contact us the details are clearly listed on our website."
However, I beg to differ! There are no such details on your website. So after a little bit of research I did manage to turn up an address kindly provided by Dellam Corporate Information Limited.
It also provided quite a few additional details as shown below.
Company Information Private Limited Company
Company Number: 07143509
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Date of Incorporation: 2 February 2010
Registered Office: 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY
Accounts Accounting Reference Date: 28 February
Category: No Accounts Filed
Next due date: 2 November 2011
Annual Return Next due date: 2 March 2011
Additional Information SIC: None Supplied
In their 'About Us' section Survation say this 'Survation have been conducting research surveys since 2007'
Strange that especially as the Date of Incorporation is 2nd February 2010 and that,as a company,they've had no accounts filed (so that means a short term of trading).
Very strange! Very strange indeed! You might have fooled the Mail on Sunday young man but you ain't gonna fool the professionals.
Tell us the truth Survation? Who are you really?
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Moving Forward Together with Enis Dalton
and the British National Party.
1)"automated phone pollster"
All the telephone interviews in this survey were made by our team of human experienced interviewers.
2) "a company whose website is registered in Arizona"
Survation are a UK limited company, registered in England & Wales Number 07143509 We are in no way trying to "hide" our identities despite how our domain name is parked. If you wish to contact us the details are clearly listed on our website.
3) In our press release accompanying the survey results - which I am happy to send you, we stated that "It looks possible that UKIP (or even the BNP) could beat the Lib Dems into 3rd place behind Labour and The Conservatives."
4) Twitter and Facebook are not used as collection mechanisms for our by election polls, rather we used information from the barnsley electoral register in the appropriate wards.
I hope this helps.
Damian Lyons Lowe
CEO
Survation.