Filby Driver Training

Fake Reviews
Today I received a repeat email from someone offering, again, to sell me fake reviews.

I've blurred their details for obvious reasons, but it does cast a very dark shadow over the whole review system.

In 16 years of business, across Facebook and Google I've had about 100 reviews. Not many for 16 years, but each and every one is genuine and verifiable.

As with any business, you take on a client, you get paid for doing the work and most of the time it ends with a "thanks" and a handshake for a job (hopefully) well done. That's all I hope for, a happy client.

If someone is kind enough to go the extra mile and leave a review, it's always appreciated.

What I will never do, however, is pay someone, who in turn pays other people, to post fake reviews on my Socials. It mis represents a business and decieves the public.

How can deceiving the public with fake reviews be good on any level?

How, on earth, can someone I've never met and never worked for post a "genuine review?"

I'm old school and believe in doing things properly and with integrity.

Maybe, though, this is how business is conducted these days? Sound bites, poor quality promotional videos and fake reviews.

Personally, I'd rather people call me through recommendation or because they have read my genuine, verifiable reviews.

And people wonder why the service they receive bears no resemblance to those promotional videos and hundreds of 5 star reviews?

When you invest your time, trust and money in someone, integrity is everything.

Following his first time pass today at Isleworth Test Centre, Tanzif has kindly popped a 5* review on Google.

"Darren is great instructor and an even better person. Gave me the confidence I needed to pass my driving test today.

The lessons were always something to look forward to. Darren doesn't rush you into learning new things but takes you step by step so that you are confident in what you are learning and ready for the next topic.

As a person with low confidence it was great to have an instructor that was calm and patient with my driving learning. Darren had no issue with explaining things over and over which helped me learn better.

I also enjoyed chatting in lesson about anything which made the lesson even more fun. NO lesson felt like a waste, either improving my driving or learning new skills. So I would HIGHLY recommend to learn to drive from Darren Filby.

Once again THANK YOU Darren for your lessons."

Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks - BBC News

Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.