Internet Purchases of Services

[sjp1966]

I am not sure if this is the right forum, if not I apologise.

I wanted to try and find out where the law stands of buying services over the internet, i shall explain.

There is a UK company... well indvidual that does cookery courses, I emailed him at 16.02pm on 4th December asking him to book me on a course on the 11th December.

After thinking about things I felt that i didnt really have the cash for the course so emailed him at 19.49 on the same day saying that I cannot attend.

He replies saying that he will still need to bill me so I may as well attend, I reply politly saying that I am not going to pay for something I am not going to attend.

I wanted to find out where the law stands on this.

• there are no terms and conditions explaining anything at all on his website.
• I am UK based as is he.
• I have not paid any money or deposit at all

if anyone could advise i would be grateful. Do i still have to pay for this service even though I cancelled within a reasonable amount of time or is he able to essentially MAKE me pay for this service.

[Steward]

You can use Google to search the web using these links below:-

[cerberusalert]

See; The Office of Fair Trading: Distance Selling Regulations

[sjp1966]

thank you very much for that, most helpful.