Mobility Scooters

Be very careful when deciding where and how to buy a mobility scooter in the UK.

Adverts have been appearing for sales professionals in the national press, offering a £5,000 signing-on bonus and potential earnings of more than £150,000 a year. For selling you a mobility scooter!

Having had Polio as a child, I needed a mobility scooter for years, but couldn't afford one through Motability, the government-accredited charity that was set up to help disabled people get mobile by making the most of their benefit money.

I thought: "They must be the cheapest way to get one, and if I can't afford one from them, there's no point in looking anywhere else."

Wrong! Take the Shoprider Cadiz – a very reliable scooter capable of 8 mph, allowed to travel on the road if necessary, and with comfortable suspension. The recommended retail price is £2,625, but if you shop around you can buy it for less than half at £1,255. However if you use your benefit money and go through Motability the cost over three years increases to £3,831.

That's THREE TIMES more than you need to pay. Buyer beware indeed.

As a result of my discoveries, I have set up www.mobility-scooters.info to give independent advice, and anybody with any information about mobility scooters is invited to send in their experiences.

S Darrington.

With this message we want to inform you that ISdAC International Association has established a user database online. In this database we want to bring together people with varying disabilities who want to act as test users, in case ICT producers and/or web designers want to have their products and websites tested by experts regarding their accessibility and user friendly

Because we will be able to guarantee a better feedback to suppliers and Web designers with a large database, we are constantly looking for as many people as possible with a disability who are willing to register to our database.

You can find more information about this database through the link on the homepage of our website, www.isdac.org. You can register yourself by filling in the application form. Also, if you know any person that might have an interest in this, please feel free to pass this message on. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us on Xavier@isdac.org . Remarks about our website and database are also always welcome.

With kind regards,

Xavier Du Chateau
Administrative assistant
ISdAC International Association
c/o IGL
Boddenveldweg 11
B-3520 Zonhoven

Tel. +32 11 819465
Direct phone +32 11 720012
Fax +32 11 271622

Xavier@isdac.org
www.isdac.org

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