SHERFORCE can they get away with this ?

[shammy36]

Hi All,
A friend of mine who is a self employed builder has a problem with sherforce,and iam so annoyed at what these people have done to him that im asking wiser heads here for a little help.

Long story short,he owed just under £2,500 to a trade supplier for materials part of which he disputed,anyhow after a bit of twoing and frowing it ended with a high court judgement against him.Sherforce turned up at his home on friday of last week and told him unless he paid the ammount owing they would be back to break in on tuesday.anyway he panicked,and after running around friends and family to borrow the money, sent a cheque to sherforce for £4,200

Sherforce has added £1,700 in fees I have got him to send them a Subject Access Request for a breakdown of fees,but what realy winds me up is that this guy made one visit to my friends home,told lies about his powers,and walked away with £1,700 for twenty minutes of Bulls**t

[tomtubby]

To date our business had responded to over 4,000 bailiff queries from members of the public, advise agencies, even police and bailiffs. Until March we had never received even one query concerning a visit from a HCEO.

Since March 25% of all queries are now concerning HCEO and I will say right now that I am staggered at the charges that are being made by these companies.

In the first instance a Subject Access Request MUST be sent so that your friend at least has clear proof of where any charges have been applied.

There is a legal process in place to challenge fees and there is also a complaints organisation. It is best to wait for the response to your Subject Access Request. We are assured by Sherforce that they will apply for a Detailed Assessment on anyones bill if they want to go this route and that Sherforce will not charge for this.

Finally, you may or may not be surprised that so many cases that we are hearing from concern builders and outstanding bills from one particular builders merchant. I have pm'd you with the name.