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    • Monika the first four pages of the Private parking section have at least 12 of our members who have also been caught out on this scam site. That's around one quarter of all our current complaints. Usually we might expect two current complaints for the same park within 4 pages.  So you are in good company and have done well in appealing to McDonalds in an effort to resolve the matter without having  paid such a bunch of rogues. Most people blindly pay up. Met . Starbucks and McDonalds  are well aware of the situation and seem unwilling to make it easier for motorists to avoid getting caught. For instance, instead of photographing you, if they were honest and wanted you  to continue using their services again, they would have said "Excuse me but if you are going to go to Mc donalds from here, it will cost you £100." But no they kett quiet and are now pursuing you for probably a lot more than £100 now. They also know thst  they cannot charge anything over the amount stated on the car park signs. Their claims for £160 or £170 are unlawful yet so many pay that to avoid going to Court. When the truth is that Met are unlikely to take them to Court since they know they will lose. The PCNs are issued on airport land which is covered by Byelaws so only the driver can be pursued, not the keeper. But they keep writing to you as they do not know who was driving unless you gave it away when you appealed. Even if they know you were driving they should still lose in Court for several reasons. The reason we ask you to fill out our questionnaire is to help you if MET do decide to take you to Court in the end. Each member who visited the park may well have different experiences while there which can help when filling out a Witness statement [we will help you with that if it comes to it.] if you have thrown away the original PCN  and other paperwork you obviously haven't got a jerbil or a guinea pig as their paper makes great litter boxes for them.🙂 You can send an SAR to them to get all the information Met have on you to date. Though if you have been to several sites already, you may have done that by now. In the meantime, you will be being bombarded by illiterate debt collectors and sixth rate solicitors all threatening you with ever increasing amounts as well as being hung drawn and quartered. Their letters can all be safely ignored. On the odd chance that you may get a Letter of Claim from them just come back to us and we will get you to send a snotty letter back to them so that they know you are not happy, don't care a fig for their threats and will see them off in Court if they finally have the guts to carry on. If you do have the original PCN could you please post it up, carefully removing your name. address and car registration number but including dates and times. If not just click on the SAR to take you to the form to send to Met.
    • In order for us to help you we require the following information:- [if there are more than one defendant listed - tell us] 1 defendant   Which Court have you received the claim from ? County Court Business Centre, Northampton   Name of the Claimant ? LC Asset 2 S.A R.L   Date of issue – . 28/04/23   Particulars of Claim   What is the claim for –    (1) The Claimant ('C') claims the whole of the outstanding balance due and payable under an agreement referenced xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and opened effective from xx/xx/2017. The agreement is regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ('CCA'), was signed by the Defendant ('D') and from which credit was extended to D.   (2) D failed to comply with a Default Notice served pursuant to s87 (1) CCA and by xx/xx/2022 a default was recorded.   (3) As at xx/xx/2022 the Defendant owed MBNA LTD the sum of 12,xxx.xx. By an agreement in writing the benefit of the debt has been legally assigned to C effective xx/xx/2022 and made regular upon C serving a Notice of Assignment upon D shortly thereafter.   (4) And C claims- 1. 12,xxx.xx 2. Interest pursuant to Section 69 County Courts Act 1984 at a rate of 8% per annum from xx/01/2023 to xx/04/2023 of 2xx.xx and thereafter at a daily rate of 2.52 to date of judgement or sooner payment. Date xx/xx/2023   What is the total value of the claim? 12k   Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? Yes   Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No   Did you inform the claimant of your change of address? N/A Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? Credit Card   When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? After   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? Online   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ? Yes, but amount differs slightly   Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim. DP issued claim   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? Not that I recall...   Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? Not that I recall...   Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ? Yes   Why did you cease payments? Loss of employment main cause   What was the date of your last payment? Early 2021   Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? No   Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No   -----------------------------------
    • Hello CAG Team, I'm adding the contents of the claim to this thread, but wanted to open the thread with an urgent question: Do I have to supply a WS for a claim with a court date that states " at the hearing the court will consider allocation and, time permitting, give an early neutral evaluation of the case" ? letter is an N24 General Form of Judgement or Order, if so, then I've messed up again. Court date 25 May 2024 The letter from court does not state (like the other claims I have) that I must provide WS within 28 days.. BUT I have recently received a WS from Link for it! making me think I do need to!??
    • Massive issues from Scottish Power I wonder if someone could advise next steps. Tennant moved out I changed the electric into my name I was out the country at the time so I hadn't been to the flat. During sign up process they tried to hijack my gas supply as well which I made it clear I didn't want duel fuel from them but they still went ahead with it. Phoned them up again. a few days later telling them to make sure they stopped it but they said too late ? had to get my current supplier to cancel it. Paid £50 online to ensure there was money covering standing charges etc eventually got to the flat no power. Phoned Scottish Power 40 minutes to get through they state I have a pay as you go meter and that they had set me up on a credit account so they need to send an engineer out which they will pass my details onto. Phone called from engineer asking questions , found out the float is vacant so not an emergency so I have to speak to Scottish Power again. Spoke with the original person from Scottish Power who admitted a mistake (I had told her it was vacant) and now states that it will take 4 weeks to get an appointment but if I want to raise a complaint they will contact me in 48 hours and it will be looked at quicker. Raised a complaint , complaints emailed me within 24 hours to say it will take 7 days till he speaks with me. All I want is power in the property would I be better switching over to EON who supply the gas surely they could sort it out quicker? One thing is for sure I will never bother with Scottish Power ever again.    
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      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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I have just lost my army pension and brighthouse are demending the money otherwise they said they will come and collect the goods with a balliff.Does anybody know if they will do this or are they just bluffing me,i am willing to pay but just not yet until i get some cash together,can anybody advise me

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I have just lost my army pension and brighthouse are demending the money otherwise they said they will come and collect the goods with a balliff.Does anybody know if they will do this or are they just bluffing me,i am willing to pay but just not yet until i get some cash together,can anybody advise me

 

hi lee

listen my friend as ex army you should not worry about these people anyway after what you guys do for your country. However they can only take stuff back when they have a court order and if you have paid more than half they cant get that so it is a bad debt. The only stuff they get back is if they see a weakness and are let in to take it. If they come to your door heres a bit of advice....phone the police and tell them they have threatened you with violence and then take an injunction out on the shop and its staff and by law they cant come near you again. Failing that if they are coming send me a message and i will come and wait for them with you. lol

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I have just lost my army pension and brighthouse are demending the money otherwise they said they will come and collect the goods with a balliff.Does anybody know if they will do this or are they just bluffing me,i am willing to pay but just not yet until i get some cash together,can anybody advise me

 

Here's some HELPFUL advice unlike the poster above.

 

Calling the police and lying stating that the Collectors have threatened you with violence won't work. Brighthouse work with the police, and are quite often accompanied by them for "difficult" customers.

 

Now the situation depends on whether or not you wish to continue payments or not at all.

 

Eitherway you need to have taken out their store cover. You can either send back the item (therefore not incurring the 50% charge w/o cover) or request a Collect & Hold. They will remove the item from your possesion and when you are able to resume payments (within 1 year) you can do so. Your current payments are FROZEN and no payments for that SINGLE item need be made.

 

If you choose to cancel you will lose out on the money already paid however that is a loss you sometimes have to accept. When you go into a HP Agreement with Brighthouse you are actually RENTING the item until the time period is over THEN and only then does it become yours.

 

 

 

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Also in further reference to other posters

 

1. There is NO Brighthouse model for laptops - How ridiculous can you get?!

 

2. YES By LAW you get a Minimum of 1 YEAR cover on all purchased goods HOWEVER the Optional Service Cover lasts the WHOLE DURATION of your renting which is usually 2-3years / 100 odd weeks.

 

3. Also those saying you dont need to buy the Damage Liability Cover. Only if you DO NOT have Home Insurance. How would you like it if you lent out your Xbox360 to a friend and their home got flooded ruining your Xbox360?

Its the same for Brighthouse. You are renting THEIR product. Its not yours yet.

 

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If you truely HAVE been threatened by a collector notify your local store. They can root out who your assigned Collector was and the appropriate discipline can be actioned without jumping on the "I'm A Lawyer" bandwagon.

 

Sometimes asking works before shouting.

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Oh well another one bites the dust, I am living proof that Brighthouse's stuff just aint worth the paperwork or money no matter how desperate you may be. My whirlpool washing machine purchased 15th Nov 2005 costing £606.84 is deceased lol. I have never purchased a washing machine that could eat so many of my garments, the fact their engineer came and ripped out a part of the machine which he stated whirlpool told them it was ok to do...:eek: shocked me, and one whirlpool engineer told me that whirlpool would sack any employee advising the taking out parts of the washing machine. The machine suffered constant PF (Pump Failures) until it escalated to FH which can only be Total Failure....

 

The machine lasted a total of 3 years (barely scraping into its third) for that money I would have expected many more, and it was the 2nd engineer from D&G who may I add are a bunch of fools....thats D&G not the engineer lol. saw that the drum was bent, something I hadn't noticed but once you've been shown it its hard to miss, the motor which I had always considered to be nosey but when you get used to something you stop noticing it, apparently the machine needed a drum, barrel and motor priced in at over £400 to fix which D&G refused due to it being a new contract they cancelled my insurance policy instead....

 

Had Brighthouse not been such tight ar.....es (you can fill in the blanks) proper whirlpool engineers would have been used in the first place but as they wanted to keep costs to a minimum you also get service to a minimum...so it wasn't until a whirlpool engineer came and pointed out the problems with the washing machine that you can understand why the machine suffered so many failures from the time of purchase, but just like those that currently shop there, when your desperate and thats the only option available you do what you do, but I can assure you it wasn't worth throwing £606.84 away for.

 

I now own a new washing machine for way less than the one from bright house and my advice to anyone even thinking of purchasing from bright house....think warranty, you will have non once you finish paying for you item unless you take out their own and what they offer will cost you an arm an a leg and they will use their own engineer where possible which means that they will fix or ignore things that recommended engineers would not....hence that noisy washing machine I had grown to live with already had a dodgy motor and bent drum when I got it but was never commented on with their own engineers during their 3 separate visits....the bearings in the drum made the machine sound like metal was being spun at high speed rather than clothes in the machine which the whirlpool engineer figured the problem from just turning the drum but brighthouse own engineer aint gonna point it out if it means okayin a job where parts cost so much.

 

I am so glad I no longer purchase anything from bright house:p

I'm fighting back and ready to go :D who will be my first victim? LBL, Brighthouse.

 

..."If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

 

I am not here to insult or offend...just to offer advice and seek advice as all this is a learning experience, such is the cycle of life...for those that would wish to insult me for my thoughts or deeds...Stay Blessed for I know my heart is pure with no ill thought towards YOU. :cool:

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Hopefully Lefty will be along shortly as he may have some advice on this. The washing machine, IMHO, was not fit for its purpose, was shoddily repaired (numerous times) and did not last for a reasonable amount of time. The Sales of Goods (Implied Terms) Act may apply here. I'll send him a PM and get him to have a look.

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Hopefully Lefty will be along shortly as he may have some advice on this. The washing machine, IMHO, was not fit for its purpose, was shoddily repaired (numerous times) and did not last for a reasonable amount of time. The Sales of Goods (Implied Terms) Act may apply here. I'll send him a PM and get him to have a look.

 

Well that's what I thought clemma, but this isn't the first item with them I have fought over, and after a while sometimes just cutting your losses lol seem like the best thing....not everyone has the same luck and my friend who shops there still cant believe I have had the worst luck with the majority of the items I brought out of the five items.

 

Dining Table and chairs- the faux leather seats due to the style are all split,

 

Lap top- well I had a huge battle with them over that already as it literally fell apart

 

Stereo- had a battle with them over the replacement speaker they sent claiming to be brand new

 

Xbox 360- luckily microsoft took care of that!!

 

Washing Machine - deceased!!

I'm fighting back and ready to go :D who will be my first victim? LBL, Brighthouse.

 

..."If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

 

I am not here to insult or offend...just to offer advice and seek advice as all this is a learning experience, such is the cycle of life...for those that would wish to insult me for my thoughts or deeds...Stay Blessed for I know my heart is pure with no ill thought towards YOU. :cool:

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Hi

 

When you bought this machine was it new or QR?

 

PJ

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UNUS VIR OBVIAM ORBIS TERRARUM

 

Are you being harrassed by a DCA or Brighthouse. Click the link for OFT Debt collection guidelines. Chances are, they could be in breach of some part of sections 2 or 3 or both!

 

http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/business_leaflets/consumer_credit/oft664.pdf

 

 

I just give advice, I can't do it for you though!!

 

If you were helped, then please wiggle my scales, and you might get a wiggle back!!!

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They cancelled your insurance - that's a good one, will email all the insurers and tell them there is a get out clause - when a car has an accident, just cancel the policy.

 

 

LOL I know, but I haven't been too impressed with Domestic & General anyway so they probably did me a favour cancelling the insurance rather than agreeing to fix it lol

I'm fighting back and ready to go :D who will be my first victim? LBL, Brighthouse.

 

..."If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

 

I am not here to insult or offend...just to offer advice and seek advice as all this is a learning experience, such is the cycle of life...for those that would wish to insult me for my thoughts or deeds...Stay Blessed for I know my heart is pure with no ill thought towards YOU. :cool:

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Hi

 

When you bought this machine was it new or QR?

 

PJ

 

The washing machine was supposed to be knew but I wouldn't put anything past brighthouse based on my previous experiences with them. As you wouldn't expect a new Whirlpool washing machine to barely make it to it's 3rd year...and I have had a total of 5 repairmen three of them from brighthouse come out to look at the machine... and each time the repairmen came from brighthouse they barely did much and they never once inspected the machine, so the noisy motor was never mentioned by them though it was obviously loud, and as for the bent drum what can I say, because I doubt a drum gets bent from just washing clothes. or does it?

I'm fighting back and ready to go :D who will be my first victim? LBL, Brighthouse.

 

..."If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

 

I am not here to insult or offend...just to offer advice and seek advice as all this is a learning experience, such is the cycle of life...for those that would wish to insult me for my thoughts or deeds...Stay Blessed for I know my heart is pure with no ill thought towards YOU. :cool:

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Hi there, after a little searching, ive found that Brighthouse are owned by Caversham Finance ltd.

 

Caversham Finance Ltd trading as BrightHouse

Chiltern House

Marsack Street

Caversham

READING RG4 5AP

England

 

Telephone: 0118 946 6000

 

Hope this helps

be safe

JGG

 

:)

hi ive been having problems with brighthouse the number i phoned is 0800 526 069 the internal number is 01923 488 200 hope this helps :)

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hello i am having trouble with bright house at the moment the dudley store workers am very rude they am a brunch of (Edit) a couple of weeks ago they sent 2 blokes [bill & ben the flower pot men] trying to talk down to me but they soon left when my husband got bk??? all because the items that i add need repairing and they will not help me so i am not paying no more i will see them in court please let me now if anybody else is having problems with the dudley store cheers:-):jaw:

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3. Also those saying you dont need to buy the Damage Liability Cover. Only if you DO NOT have Home Insurance.

How would you like it if you lent out your Xbox360 to a friend and their home got flooded ruining your Xbox360?

Its the same for Brighthouse. You are renting THEIR product. Its not yours yet.

 

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wrong.......

 

if the item goes faulty then you are covered by SOGA

 

you DO NOT need any insurance and it is NOT compulsory under any HP rental agreement laws

 

its also against consumer law for the retailer to make it compulsory.

 

suggest the OP gets reclaiming mis-sold insurance

 

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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thank you to thebogmonster for head office number,

 

unfortunately another unhappy brighthouse customer. after my brand new fridge went into repair february 2010 with a fault on the gas canisters ( or so i was told ) i was given a loan fridge. which was delivered unwashed and in a really used state, i continued with payments and regular visits into the branch to see when mine was fixed, nearly 16 months later ive only just been told its beyond economical repair, and i can only get it wrote of :-x after numerous calls the the above number the regional manager finally got back to me, apparently my fridge was ready for delivery and i wasnt in. weird as they say its beyond repair :x waiting on him calling me back tomorrow again!!

 

im going to take this case to court if i have to, to get a new fridge that im STILL paying for as the fault was 8 weeks after delivery and wasnt due to misuse or in anyway my fault, just wondering before my appointment with CAB bureau, does anyone know what rights i have after 16 months of paying for the appliance and only just being told now, any help really appreciated thanks :)

 

:edit: just spoke to trading standards and there is nothing i can do apparently!! sooo angry and confused

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The Brighthouse service cycle should take no longer than 6 weeks! if what your saying on the time scales is correct this is madness. I have seen this before whilst working for Brighthouse, Demand a replacement fridge of similar age and Value to your original one when it first went faulty, if you have OSC ( Optional Service Cover ) it states in the contract that if your item can not be fixed it will be replaced with one similar age and value, in your case it was brand new.

 

Dont ring H/O direct call the customer careline number found on the agreements you sign and report it through them, it is all logged and reviewed weekly by the company directors, each Regional Manager as 24hrs to close the complaints down or they get it in the neck, if you stand your ground hard enough you will get what you want just so they can make the complaint go away.

 

Good luck.

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Have you had any luck with Brighthouse. my daughter has had the same problem with lap top. only she has finished paying. they sent it away to be fixed it came back to the store and has been sold to someone else. This has been going on since June. If you do happen to get the head office telephone number please pass it on to me. Thanks Rainie

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Just recently me and my partner got an xbox 360 from brighthouse, we only quallified for second hand goods, we opted for the insurance in case it broke we was told that in the event of it brakeing they would fix it for no extra fee.

 

well guess wot 6 months later it broke kept freezeing on the main screen....

so we went back to Brighthouse to which they replyed that they would take the old one stop the payments on it and give us another one, but the payments would start afresh so we would at the end of it have payed 1300 pound for a 250 pound console wot a joke!

 

My bit of advice to this how ever desprate you are DONT GO TO BRIGHTHOUSE!!!!!!!

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