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Good Evening All,

 

I have been reading through these forums for a while and decided to make an account after seeing how helpful everyone is in the hopes of extracting some valuable information from yourselves.

 

I'm 27 and got myself into some trouble when I was around 18/19, borrowed too much money until I couldn't afford to keep up repayments and then buried my head in the sand ignored everything for a year or so and then decided I'd sort it out.

 

Lowell had purchased my debts from numerous different companies and I had around 7 different defaulted accounts with them.

 

I now have two left having paid off five of the others,

I have paid them all in full and they now show as a Closed Account "Satisfied" on my credit file.

 

The two remaining accounts are now at the following amounts (approx.)

- £2700 (Default Opened: 13th March 2010)

- £1500 (Default Opened: 2nd July 2010)

 

Every single month the account is marked as "Default" on my file and is in the "Closed" section of Clearscore on the Accounts section.

 

I have just been reading up on settlements with Lowell (just Googled it this evening) and came across a term "statute barred" and am wondering if anyone could give me any advice on whether this would effect my situation or not? Or if anything else does? I'm truly clueless !

 

I am now in the position where I can probably pull together a settlement figure

but again I have absolutely no clue on where to start with this,

is there a procedure to follow or do I just ask them what they'd accept?

 

Is it that simple?

I'm frightened of being ripped off by them after reading up on them,

can I just ring and pay?

Should I have email communication of everything first?

 

If someone could point me in the right direction or give any advice I'd be really grateful.

 

Also,

do defaults dating back to 2010 as mine do(as closed accounts) hold much weight on my credit file?

 

I have read so many different answers in the past!

I'm going to save for a house after this debt is cleared and if anyone has any advice regarding that then that'd be great!

 

Kind Regards

Pat

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why have you been blindly paying a DCA on any debts without requesting they provide the signed agreement?

 

you do realise a DCA is NOT A BAILIFF

and have

ZERO legal powers..

 

I'm frightened of being ripped off by them after reading up on them,

 

bit late for that

I suspect each one you've sofar paid off you've already been cash cowed blind.

 

statute barring runs from your last payment

once a debt is defaulted, its removed 6yrs from the defaulted date regardless to payment

you don't HAVE to pay your debts off to get them off your file the default is STILL there regardless

 

infact, in 99% of cases you might as well have burned the money you've paid for all the good it does your score...

 

what type of credit debts are outstanding.

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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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Have you paid anything or acknowledged these last two debts if not they are Statute Barred, and Lowell cannot win a defended claim.

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Thank you dx100uk & brassnecked for your replies.

 

dx100uk;

 

With regards to everything you said you can see that I was ignorant to the situation, in my head at the time I acknowledged I owed the debt and thought a company would be honest?

 

I know a DCA is not a bailiff but DID think they could take further legal action if I did not pay anything and I was under the impression that if they could contact me that meant my default date reset to the date of contact even if I did not respond (I was being called about 900 times a day) - I now know that as false but that does not help now.

 

With regards to being ripped off,

I meant that in the way that if I rang Lowell up today,

agreed a settlement figure and paid it over the phone,

could they then plead ignorance and still chase me for the remaining amount?

 

What's the most I can realistically expect to get discounted for a settlement?

 

Also Will a "partially satisfied" account vs "satisfied" make a difference next year when I look for a mortgage?

 

Does the default still bear much impact on my file now than it did say 4 years a go?

Or does it's effect lessen all the time even if still open?

(and especially once Satisfied / Partially Satisfied).

 

Full list of defaults on my file, I have no CCJ's etc

- £2700 Opened: 13th March 2010 - Default

- £1500 Opened: 2nd July 2010) - Default

- PRA Group UK - Opened 31 May 2012 - Satisfied

- Lowell - Opened 31 July 2010 - Satisfied

- Lowell - Opened 7 December 2011 - Satisfied

- Lowell - Opened 13 Aug 2009 - Satisfied

- Lowell - Opened 18 July 2011 - Satisfied

 

I take it the "opened" date is the date I opened the original credit account and not the time Lowell had my account?

 

brassnecked:

 

I have been paying these final two debts for years,

I have been clearing the other debts as quickly as possible to just get rid of them and now have these two left.

 

Thanks again!

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Don't even consider a settlement until you've checked the enforceability of the debt. And if you do offer a settlement it must be in writing and specifically worded. Not done over the phone.

 

 

The vast majority of debts bought by Lowell are lemon debts. Don't be conned into paying them like you previously have been.

Any advice i give is my own and is based solely on personal experience. If in any doubt about a situation , please contact a certified legal representative or debt counsellor..

 

 

If my advice helps you, click the star icon at the bottom of my post and feel free to say thanks

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Only problem now is that Lowell have become a litigous as Parking Eye issuing County Court claimformss like confetti. Definitely follow above advice from renegadeimp regarding "enforceability".

 

It is not unknown for a DCA selling the remainder of the "Satisfied" debt on to another bottom feeding DCA.

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Hi renegadeimp

 

Thanks for your reply

 

What does a lemon debt refer to?

 

The debts Lowell refer to are from accounts I held with various catalogues / credit cards e.g. K&Co when they existed, Littlewoods, Capital One etc.

 

The original amounts were not abnormal to that of the original debts owed.

 

 

brassnecked:

 

Thanks for your reply

 

This is something I don't have any knowledge about.

 

If Lowell tell me an outstanding amount is owed and I pay that and it is then showing as "Satisfied" on my credit file, how can they engineer a new amount owing and sell that on? I don't understand and thats what scares me, I just want rid of it all!

 

 

Going back to my previous post;

 

- What is a realistic amount to ask for to settle the accounts I have left?

What discount can I ask and realistically expect on the £2700 & £1500 debts? I will communicate with them via email only.

 

- Will the defaults (all previously listed) hold a large negative effect on my credit file to potential mortgage lenders next year? (Accounts will have been satisfied/partially satisfied for a mixture of 1/3 years by that point) or can I expect the file to have begun its recovery by that point?

 

 

Many thanks again!

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A lemon debt is one that is likely to be unenforceable if challenged, DCA's will issue speculative claims regularly especially if there is an old address to send the claimform to giving them 99% certainty of obtaining a default CCJ, as highlighted in the Daily mail

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forget settling

doesn't help you file at all.

once defaulted that's it doesnr matter if its shown as partial or whatever

 

sorry but you've wasted £1000's here and paid for their holidays for years !!

 

send lowells a CCA request for each account you are thinking of settling.

 

NO CCA = NP PAY

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 for your response dx100uk for the advice so but I still am not 100% clear of what I should do in my situation.

 

I was under the impression that;

 

- If I pay the outstanding amounts on the defaulted accounts these accounts will be "Satisfied" and no further action can be taken and those accounts will drop off my credit file after some time.

 

- As I have already been paying monthly installments against the two final defaults I am deemed to have acknowledged them and I do indeed have to clear them or I will revert back to step 1 and defaults will continue until legal action is taken against me or 6-7 years when they drop off my file and are stature barred? I was also told (verbally) by Lowell that the fact the amounts on the default lessen, my credit file will become more attractive to lenders.

 

You suggest I send a CCA request, can & should I do this now I have already been paying for these two accounts for years (like 4 years now..) - I know in the past they have provided me information, letters of agreements but I don't know if they were agreements I have accepted with them now.

 

After each of the other accounts were paid I received acknowledgement from Lowell in form of email/letter stating that the account had been cleared and default altered to "satisfied".

 

Please note that I have extremely little knowledge of these types of scenarios, I only ever thought it was unfair that if I had ignored these defaults I could have had them wiped from my file by now if no legal action was taken but by paying them I am almost handicapping myself further until they are paid, I imagine the "Satisfied" default remains for a further 6 years after my final payment on each? Great.

 

I imagine you have answered these types of questions a million times but any information you can give me to help is extremely valuable to me so thank you

 

Patrick

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Thank you for your response dx100uk for the advice so but I still am not 100% clear of what I should do in my situation.

 

I was under the impression that;

 

- If I pay the outstanding amounts on the defaulted accounts these accounts will be "Satisfied" and no further action can be taken and those accounts will drop off my credit file after some time.- they drop off on the defaults 6th birthday regardless to if paid, paying or not.

IF you paid the full outstanding amount, they will be marked as settled/satisfied then there is nothing to sell on.

IF you only short settled then they will be marked as partial settlement, the remaining balance still exists and could be sold on. The marker of settled/satisfied or partial settlement makes no difference to you score and has no effect toward the still defaulted account dropping of on the defaults 6th birthday.

- As I have already been paying monthly installments against the two final defaults I am deemed to have acknowledged them and I do indeed have to clear them

- not until they produce enforceable paperwork that legally proves they own the debt and the debt is not all/mostly penalty charges/extra interest or PPI all of which is reclaimable against the original creditor

or I will revert back to step 1 and defaults will continue until legal action is taken against me or 6-7 years when they drop off my file and are stature barred?

- there is no link between defaulted date and state barred date. SB runs from your last payment date. Defaulted date is that registered by the original creditor and can never be changed, unless they filed it late and you complain to the ICO. a DCA cannot change that date.

 

 

I was also told (verbally) by Lowell that the fact the amounts on the default lessen, my credit file will become more attractive to lenders.

- total rubbish DCA sprout to convince you to pay them free money to their pocket you should NEVER EVER RING A DCA OR TALK ABOUT YOUR DEBTS TO A DCA OVER THE PHONE. WRITTING ONLY PUT THE PHONE DOWN. A DCA WILL SAY ANYTHING THEY LKE OVER THE PHONE WHICH CAN NEVER BE PROVED THAT THEY WOULD NEVER PUT IN WRITING TO SPOOF YOUINTO BECOMING A CASH COW TO FUND THEIR HOLIDAYS ON THE FREE MONEY YOUR ARE BLINDLY GIVING THEM.

 

You suggest I send a CCA request & should I do this now - yes on every debt you are still paying unless it is a mobile phone account or a bank account/OD.

I have already been paying for these two accounts for years (like 4 years now..)

- I know in the past they have provided me information, letters of agreements but I don't know if they were agreements I have accepted with them now.

- you want a copy of the enforceable signed credit agreements . making an agreement to pay a dca means nothing upon enforceability of a debt

 

After each of the other accounts were paid I received acknowledgement from Lowell in form of email/letter stating that the account had been cleared and default altered to "satisfied". - shame you got cash cowed blind.

 

Please note that I have extremely little knowledge of these types of scenarios, - that's obviously because you've blindly been talking to these fleecers on the phone for god knows how many years and have swallowed all the rubbish they have told you.

 

 

I only ever thought it was unfair that if I had ignored these defaults - why? if the OC wanted their money, why didn't THEY take you to court rather than sell the debt on for 10P=£1 to a DCA and let the DCA fleece you blind for the full amounts?

I could have had them wiped from my file by now if no legal action was taken but by paying them I am almost handicapping myself further until they are paid,

- no they still fall off you file on the defaults 6th birthday. thus not harming you.

 

 

I imagine the "Satisfied" default remains for a further 6 years after my final payment on each? Great.

- no they drop off on the defaults 6th birthday regardless to if paid, paying or not.

 

I imagine you have answered these types of questions a million times but any information you can give me to help is extremely valuable to me so thank you

 

Patrick

 

 

dx

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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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Wow dx, thank you for all of that!

 

I can see that you hate the fact people are "cash cows" as you say for DCA's lol!

 

There's a side to it though where people like myself whom never was in the situation prior & had no knowledge, the information provided by Lowell at the time was deemed by myself to be quite helpful by myself! In hindsight I would never let the same thing happen again.

 

Now I know the "Account Opened" date on my credit file is actually he original creditor opening the account I can look through the history to find the original default dates?

 

You'll also like to know that Lowell have always told me the default will not go off my credit file until Account is "Satisfied/Partially Satisfied", I believed this because EVERY month a default appears to be recorded on EACH account because this is how my Accounts are recorded on my credit file;

 

Jan DF - Feb DF - Mar DF - Apr DF - May DF - Jun DF - Jul DF - Aug DF - Sept DF etc etc for every month since the account originally defaulted.

 

I will request a CCA on my two remaining accounts asap!

 

Thank you dx!

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The Information Commisioners Office says:

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All references to a defaulted debt must be removed from your credit files after 6 years

has passed from date of default, whether paid off, paying now or not.

.

{the WHOLE ACCOUNT WILL VANISH, never to return}.

.

{however, this does not mean the debt itself is not still owed

consider a CCA request.}

.

This is so that someone who continues paying something

- even after 6 years from default

- should not be at a disadvantage to someone who pays nothing after default

and ends up with a clean file after 6 years.

.

NOTE: {the bracketed text is not Information Commisioners Office guideline but my advise]

 

.........

 

the debt summary will show a defaulted date forget the calendar section. means nothing.

 

I hate fleecing DCA's and the way they cash cow people.

 

if everyone stopped paying them tomorrow

the whole dirty industry would collapse overnight.

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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Hi again dx

 

Thanks for the information once again!

 

I have just looked through my credit file and checked the Date of Default on each Account and every account - all of my adverse credit history will cease to exist with regards to my credit report by November this year!

 

My next step is to request a CCA on my two accounts and go from there, thank you for your help it's been invaluable and I hope others can take something from this too!

 

Patrick

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