For the Record - Pedal Me and some very odd figures

Pedal Me is about to launch on Crowdcube - raising £150k at £1.5m. We have been involved in a unpleasant and wholly avoidable Twitter spat with the start up. So we thought we would put the record straight.

First of all we were asked to comment on this company by the guy who wrote this piece in Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/10/25/smile-inducing-cargobike-taxi-service-crowdfunds-to-capitalise-on-growth/#578499b4da74

He suggested we contact the company which we did. We never heard back from them. We offered free advice with no strings as we always do. We knew this sort of business was not one we wanted to get involved with. Its just a wild guess but they may have asked CC about us.

Based on the facts as given in the opening page of their own CC campaign - namely that the revenue for 12 months YE Sept18 was just £19k, we made some comments for the article. 

Peddle me were not happy when these comments were published. Claiming in tweets that we had spammed them for cash we were essentially rip off merchants who had only made the comments because they hadnt employed us. They then told the author that their revenue was now £19k a month. Clearly had we known that or had the author even known that, then the article would have been very different. 

Now the article has been changed and the campaign is about to go live. 

So just in case you come across any rogue tweets or comments that they didnt delete, you can rest assured that we do not rip people off and that we would never have taken on Pedal Me as a client. We do not, as anyone who knows us knows, take on clients we cant help. This is a lifestyle business run by enthusiastic, well meaning amateurs, not an investment.