Buy with Confidence Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Buy with Confidence website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Buy with Confidence (http://www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk/).

Buy with Confidence (https://www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk/).

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This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

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Official publications

The 'Buy with Confidence' scheme is a good trader scheme set up to help reputable local businesses and consumers. The scheme is run by a partnership of local Trading Standards Services in a number of County and Local Authorities, mainly across the south of England.

The 'Buy With Confidence' scheme was first launched by Hampshire Trading Standards in 1999. At around the same time, Devon Trading Standards initiated a similar scheme called 'CustomerFirst'. The two schemes aimed to help businesses in those counties comply with the law while improving consumer protection through a partnership approach. As the two schemes became successful they were also adopted by neighbouring Trading Standards Services. As a result, in 2008 the two schemes merged formally under the name and logo of 'Buy With Confidence', by which time over twenty local authorities were participating.

'Buy With Confidence' is the largest scheme of its kind nationally and continues to expand its geographical coverage. The 'Buy With Confidence' site is managed by Hampshire Trading Standards.