The IMPDA awards for 2008 are now in and counted.  This year there was great interest in the nominations  and a lot of categories were well contested.  With the results of the poll in,  it has been especially a pleasure to announce the award for the most significant contribution to Mobile - Dealers or industry. 

This goes to Jim Hyde Managing Director of T-Mobile.  The award was for providing services to the disabled.  This was a well deserved award and highlights the point that millions of disabled people need to have a section dedicated to them on not just T-Mobile but all network web sites.  The T-Mobile section was found to be easy for disabled to navigate with everything clearly laid out, and the option to call a dedicated advisor who could help them,

This is just what is needed as many these days ignore or do very little for this section of our community.  If anything it means that Jim and his team do look at all sections of the community, and go out of their way to ensure that they are catered for, and not just concentrate on the young teenagers but ensure that young or old well or with a disability help is at hand.

Chris Caudle Chairman IMPDA said " We are delighted for Jim and T-Mobile in winning this category.  With a recent berevement after looking after my mother for over 30 years I can appriciate any help that people do for the infirm or disabled, so i am personally pleased that this has been recognised by the voters in naming Jim the winner.  The IMPDA awards this year have been bigger and better than before.  We unfortunately had a problem with one category which was receiving votes from an automated system however that was quickly resolved and we have taken steps to ensure that the problem is not able to happen again.

I am delighted for all the winners and we will look forward to next years awards which will commence nominations next year.  for a full list of winners for this year click here

The voting for the IMPDA awards has now closed.

Votes are being counted and the results will be displayed here soon.

Currently an investigation is underway in the category of Best Mobile Magazine as reports of automated voting has been given to us.  The results for all other categories will therefore be delayed until the investigation into this category is complete.

Please check back for futher updates.

The IMPDA poll voting was closed at 6pm on Wednesday 5th November.  After the poll closed we were informed and made aware of a large number of votes which were appearing every few seconds in certain categories over and above that which was possible by human voting.  From initial investigations it appears that an attempt was made to increase votes using an automated system.  The IP addresses were logged by our system.

Chris Caudle Chairman IMPDA said " We can understand the competition and the eagerness of those who have been nominated for an award to be the one that wins, however many people not only dealers have taken the time to place their votes, and such an attempt to inflate voting by automated means degrades the awards and does a dis service to those who have voted in the proper way. This is something we will not tolorate and  further investigations are continuing.

In fairness to all those who had been nominated and genuine voters, if confirmed the votes cast by the automated IP addresses will be discounted, we hope that everyone will bear with us whilst the investigation is carried out and we will announce the winners as soon as possible."

The IMPDA condems and does not approve of any automation of voting in our polls.  All polls should be voted on by human hand.  In view of this investigation the announcment of the winners of the IMPDA vote will be delayed.   We appologise to all those who are waiting to hear the result, but the results will be published here as soon as we can.

This years IMPDA awards voting has now finished.  We would like to thank all those who took time to place their votes in each of the categories.  All votes from the forum and the site will be collected along with email votes and the winners will be announced in the next few days.  There has been a tremendous interest this year in the polls with some tight voting in a number of categories right up to the last minute. 

IMPDA members are be able to carry out AVS and CV2 checks with additional security to ensure ID and Banking information is correct plus a geographical check on fraud, at a far lower cost than many major players. 

The IMPDA has negotiated with Legatio a special deal for members. 

Apart from a start up fee of £150 (this is the same for major companies) we have arranged that IMPDA members will be able to do these checks for only 68p + vat instead of £1.00 + vat. 

In addition unlike most companies, we have arranged for NO, yes that’s right NO monthly charges.  Legatio also can also provide a number of other packages such as payment processing, but we are still in discussion with them on other packages, so that we can explore a way to give you all their services for a very low cost, far cheaper than companies such as Metacharge.