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  1. This topic was closed on 10 March 2019. If you have a problem which is similar to the issues raised in this topic, then please start a new thread and you will get help and support there. If you would like to post up some information which is relevant to this particular topic then please flag the issue up to the site team and the thread will be reopened. - Consumer Action Group
  2. This topic was closed on 2019-03-08. If you have a problem which is similar to the issues raised in this topic, then please start a new thread and you will get help and support there. If you would like to post up some information which is relevant to this particular topic then please flag the issue up to the site team and the thread will be reopened. - Consumer Action Group
  3. Did this come off in the end? I am having to do this over phone at moment as they don't much respond to emails or letters!!
  4. Found email address for CEO office [email protected] and got both an email and call from complaints team within couple hrs they would try and get it looked into in next 24hrs .. Watch this space!
  5. Thanks, I couldn't email virgin as email add I was given over the phone bounced back! Does anyone have one that works?!
  6. Hi there, just looking for advice before I try to take on the delightful virgin media, I have heard they are tricky! Last week i checked my credit report with experian and equifax before I apply for a mortgage. I was surprised to see virgin media on there for my internet contract, I didn't realise they could record data with CRAs for your internet service but I suppose it makes some sense as I had 12month fixed contract. In any event, I was concerned they have recorded 3 late payments entries against me earlier this year and have now been told this will hinder my mortgage app as they are within the last 12months! What i am cross about is that virgin media failed twice to set up my direct debit properly which meant I fell behind with payments! The first time, they took the wrong amount out of my bank account on a direct debit, I had to file an indemnity claim with my bank and Virgin told me to cancel the direct debit and set it back up again! I went to set it back up again a couple of weeks later and this time they wrote down the wrong sort code so the direct debit was never set up correctly! What resulted was late payment fees galore, I had some of these refunded but it seems unbeknown to me they had still marked late payments with the CRAs! What makes me doubly cross is when I settled the account finally a few months later determined to leave them all together . . They talked me stupidly into moving the internet with them to my new address and taking out a new 12month agreement which we are now halfway through, paying on direct debit without drama! I feel so mad I want to ring to cancel the whole thing with them tomorrow! I tried to call them to discuss the whole thing when it materialised on Friday but was on the phone to not terribly helpful agents in India who accepted virgin had made mistakes but refused to remove the late payment markers. Eventually one mildly sensible American agent agreed it should be looked into and gave me an email address for consumer underwriting services... I sent an email that bounced back as a wrong address!! I have now written in to complaints team and raised dispute with experian and equifax . . Any similar experiences or further advice ?? Is there an ombudsman or regulator I can defer to if no satisfactory response?? Thanks S
  7. Gutted, I am going to try my luck anyway with complaints procedure and ombudsman etc. I think I may have an argument as they did not even acknowledge my payment plan even though they invited me to make one with them which I did. A default must be designed for someone not making any effort to pay? Additionally having looked at the information commissioner guidance on defaults I may have an argument given there lack of communication re whether or not my payments are satisfactory? I think also they don't have to provide a regular default notice if I have read everything correctly and a simple final demand letter is sufficient for an overdraft... still they need to comply with the guidance I think??!
  8. I should add original overdraft £830 not &130! Typo sorry!! Tired and stressed!!
  9. Hi there, I am back on here for advice after long absence.. The cag forum was fab years ago helping me with the thorn in my side of HSBC!! I left Hsbc around 2009/2010. I had number of debt woes but with help and consumer credit counselling service have been solvent for a number of years now.. However I recently tho obtained my credit file prior to making a mortgage application, only to find a rogue default placed by HSBC! Given passage of time and various address moves I have lost all my old paperwork including account numbers. After 1.5 hrs yesterday and couple of cross letters this week I have finally got to bottom of this but need advice what to do next.. In short, on October 2009 HSBC said they were removing overdraft of £830 in 30days. I had to repay in full or give repayment proposals. It seems by 29th October 2009 I paid £150 and agreed repayment with their collections team at rate of £100 per month. Sadly it looks like I must have agreed this over phone as no apparent paper trail. Hsbc confirm however I continued to make repayments at this rate for next 5 months. However they decided to issue a "final demand" letter in March 2009, seemingly ignoring the repayment plan and giving me 18 days to respond!! THANKFULLY there IS a paper trail of my response WITHIN the 18 days, where essentially I confirm my payment plan in place and that I have not been told it's unacceptable! I continue to make repayments.. By this stage there is only approx £300 of original debt left! HSBC never respond to my last letter which they confirmed. Instead, they pass this to metropolitan in April 2010 and and marked me as "default" to credit agencies. They appear to have completely ignored the repayment plan put in place with both their own collections team at outset and indeed ignored my letter outlining the plan in response to their final demand. All of which seems grossly unfair! Incidentally I satisfied the account with metropolitan who have marked it satisfied by December 2010 HSBC have said they have raised a complaint and will "investigate" ... I don't trust that will be much good. Is there Anything else anyone suggests I do? I am desperate for all the old paperwork as I have none of it, I am very stressed as the default is a bar to my mortgage app. I am already teeing up ombudsman and information commissioner complaints and have marked disputes with experian etc All ideas welcome!!
  10. hi andrew and thanx for comments! If the copy agreement materialises i will check it for sure!! Keep ya'll posted
  11. there was no previous default (although i only checked about a year ago!) but it was marked as arrangement to pay ... i dont know if it still says that on credit file as i pay over the standard repayments now as i have been trying to get rid more quickly... I suppose potentially they could then default me if i stopped paying on basis of their non compliance with my request? Anyway.. am jumping the gun.. I sent first letter off so will see if i have any response ...
  12. Thanks very much! I am sending off a letter today... I sense i will have something of a battle though as even if they have lost the paperwork i have acknowledged the debt to them by making repayments for past 4 years... It would be hard surely for me to then suddenly cease paying and challenge enforceability? Would it affect my credit rating if i did as well (altho credit rating is already bad n only just starting to repair itself from passage of time!)
  13. Thanks for this, I think mine is a fixed sum credit?? It was unsecured loan from northern rock.. ?? Do you mean that if they do not provide then it is legally unenforseable even in court ( your post says enforceable!) I will get that first letter off.. i am particularly concerned as not sure even as to the accuracy of the outstanding balance and havent got the original agreement anywhere as it is a debt that is now about 4/5 years old!
  14. Hello ... Wondering if there are any thoughts on this... I watched a panorama programme last night which talked about how it is possible to get unsecured debt written off due to banks being slack with their paperwork.. I have been debt busting for 4 years.. a few years back i got in to terrible debt (27k) and with help of CCCS and by working hard at it i am now down to a mere 9k:) and the majority of that is an unsecured loan from northern rock! I am interested to know whether there are ways to get it written off (that dont involve IVAs/bankruptcy etc as dont need or want that route) by checking on their paper trail etc.. Notably i dont actually have a copy of my original loan agreement etc! If so- what (if any) are the implications of doing so? I have paid them almost half of it back ... there is only the last 8k to go... and anyway to speed it up would be fabulous:lol:! At moment i am just paying back extra installments on top of the monthly payments ... Any ideas as this is fresh territory for me
  15. Ombudsman complaint forms submitted yesterday! Will let you know once i receive updates!!
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