Hello everyone! I'm about to post my first post after lurking here a while. Sorry it's so long.

I received a letter a month ago from CRS, but ignored them as I don't think I should pay for what they say I must..

.but let me rewind the clock and tell you what happened.

October 2008 my family and I drove up to Scotland and had a lovely week's holiday,

coming back I got flashed speeding (71mph in a 60mph zone)

I paid the fine as i knew I was guilty.

1st Week of December I get a letter from JB Debt saying you owe our clients, Premier Cars £71.73.

Pay up NOW or else you'll be drawn and quartered and go to hell

and your credit rating will be shot, or whatever the standard letter says, can't remember, threw it away.

I search on the internet and find Premier Cars is actually National Car Hire, the car hire place for our holidays...

I phone to know what you mean I owe you money, I paid for the whole trip and insurance beforehand.

Woman who answers the phone doesn't actually know why I owe the money....

but does mention it's normally for parking or speeding tickets...

(Penny drops in my head, but I keep quiet, it's an admin fee!)

She promises to phone me back.

She phones 2 days later saying stuff has been archived and will get back to me as soon as possible. Never does.

I move house, change jobs. Still have Royal Mail sending me mail from old address to new address.

26th June receive letter addressed to old address (dated 24 June) from CRS:

"We are instructed by JB DEBT - NATIONAL CAR LTD in connection with your oustanding debt of £71.73

you can make payment blah blah blah"

19th July receive another (undated) letter addressed to old house from CRS:

"It has come to our attention that due to a corrupted data file our approved Outsource Mail House produced and sent out letters dated 10/07/2009 (eh? I didn't get one!) with incorrect balances printed on them.

Blah Blah Blah... the correct amount is £71.73

We look forward to receiving your firm payment proposals by return blah blah blah"

Now,

I do not think I should have to pay this £71.73.

Should I send them a letter asking them for evidence?

I'm not going to give them my new address, will let them continue sending to my old address.

Any advice? Thanks!

ignore!

dx

Thanks. they will probably just keep on selling the so called debt on.

lol, I received the letter today in the post as mentioned in the 1st post.

The mistake they had made was that I owed £7173 instead of £71.73.

Nearly gave my wife a heart attack when she opened the letter.

Ignore the clowns, if they cant even get the balance right then thats their problem.

"corrupted data file" - my ar*e

Point taken Just a quick query. Can they just continue selling this "debt" on so that I will get harassed for 6 years or will it eventually be left?

it wont end at 6yrs either

my mrs still gets chased for a debt from 1984!

it really matters not how many letters you fire off or if its gone statute barred either.

that is certainly not something they even bother checking.

load the lastest aquired database in the mail merger and fire off demand letters, seems to me how they work

dx

Thanks guys. I'm glad they don't have my current address or mobile number, that would be a nightmare with them phoning 20 times a day.