None of those places Yes-he has witnesses plus emails, however texts have diappeared as his phone broke!

My friend did some work in a small school the work consisted of building, painting, moving funriture. It was a day by day and he basically was asked to do a job-fitting a kitchen which turned into various other jobs. He was also asked to sell some items on ebay-which he did, this amounted to £36.00. She is notorious for non payment and making up stories, she has only partially paid the teachers working there. He was asked to go to B&Q which he did-buy DIY stuff, lightbulbs, etc and then was asked to return the lightbulbs, the lightbulbs were in the school and the lady had the receipt which xxxx gave to her to return the lightbulbs. On his last day he offered to return the lightbulbs for her-which she refused to let him. She now appears to be accusing him off stealing money from them! He accepts he needs to give her £36 which he has written the cheque for, but she owes him far more. During the time he was there-she was constantly asking him to do other things, and even has an email from her-stating about painting the room. This was due to passed onto the 'Headteacher' Due to continued non payment - he left and submitted an invoice. However htis is the email he received a day after leaving: XXXX I have referred your matter to Ronald the Chairman of the company and he has advised that I refer the matter to our legal department for their action. He is appalled that you have effectively fraudently taken our goods converted them and kept the money. Other invoices from B& Q have also not been properly accounted for. We had contracted with you to install the units in the art room. You said that this would take you three days and the price agreed was £150. You were paid in advance as you kept on complaining about your impecunious state. The job took you much longer as you kept forgetting things, being away. You even omitted to purchase the plinth for the units. You then took it upon yourself to paint the room. This was not a part of the contract and no payment was agreed with you, given you ad hoc appearance and unpredictable hours of attendance. However you were given £75 as a contribution for your time. It took you nearly 2 months to fit the units and paint the room. You painted the room twice after purchasing the wrong colour paint. Finally on the Monday you arrived at noon (as was your usual habit) and after being asked about a receipt for outstanding refunds amounting to £70 and the eBay funds for items that were sold through your girlfriend’s account. You produced an invoice and said that you we leaving. We will not pay this invoice as there was no contract with us for your services. When asked what you were doing painting the room you replied “I am fixing up my art room. It is going to be my art room isn’t it.” Finally before your departure you told the maintenance man “we know what’s going on here don’t we?” clearly a comment designed to cause slur on the company. Unless you properly account for the funds that properly belong to the Company we will issue proceedings in the county court. The email from you girlfriend states quite clearly that you were given the money to pass over and you have not done so. This is theft. You can put the money in an envelope and drop it off at the school where it will be signed for. We give you 7 days to produce the money which belongs to the Company. Sadly you have been misguided and taken mistaken our kindness for weakness! Yours sincerely He is very upset about this, the headteacher owes him £440.00 Any advice will be greatly received

My friend did some work in a small school the work consisted of building, painting, moving funriture. It was a day by day and he basically was asked to do a job-fitting a kitchen which turned into various other jobs. He was also asked to sell some items on ebay-which he did, this amounted to £36.00. She is notorious for non payment and making up stories, she has only partially paid the teachers working there. He was asked to go to B&Q which he did-buy DIY stuff, lightbulbs, etc and then was asked to return the lightbulbs, the lightbulbs were in the school and the lady had the receipt which xxxx gave to her to return the lightbulbs. On his last day he offered to return the lightbulbs for her-which she refused to let him. She now appears to be accusing him off stealing money from them! He accepts he needs to give her £36 which he has written the cheque for, but she owes him far more. During the time he was there-she was constantly asking him to do other things, and even has an email from her-stating about painting the room. This was due to passed onto the 'Headteacher' Due to continued non payment - he left and submitted an invoice. However htis is the email he received a day after leaving: XXXX I have referred your matter to Ronald the Chairman of the company and he has advised that I refer the matter to our legal department for their action. He is appalled that you have effectively fraudently taken our goods converted them and kept the money. Other invoices from B& Q have also not been properly accounted for. We had contracted with you to install the units in the art room. You said that this would take you three days and the price agreed was £150. You were paid in advance as you kept on complaining about your impecunious state. The job took you much longer as you kept forgetting things, being away. You even omitted to purchase the plinth for the units. You then took it upon yourself to paint the room. This was not a part of the contract and no payment was agreed with you, given you ad hoc appearance and unpredictable hours of attendance. However you were given £75 as a contribution for your time. It took you nearly 2 months to fit the units and paint the room. You painted the room twice after purchasing the wrong colour paint. Finally on the Monday you arrived at noon (as was your usual habit) and after being asked about a receipt for outstanding refunds amounting to £70 and the eBay funds for items that were sold through your girlfriend’s account. You produced an invoice and said that you we leaving. We will not pay this invoice as there was no contract with us for your services. When asked what you were doing painting the room you replied “I am fixing up my art room. It is going to be my art room isn’t it.” Finally before your departure you told the maintenance man “we know what’s going on here don’t we?” clearly a comment designed to cause slur on the company. Unless you properly account for the funds that properly belong to the Company we will issue proceedings in the County Court. The email from you girlfriend states quite clearly that you were given the money to pass over and you have not done so. This is theft. You can put the money in an envelope and drop it off at the school where it will be signed for. We give you 7 days to produce the money which belongs to the Company. Sadly you have been misguided and taken mistaken our kindness for weakness! Yours sincerely He is very upset about this, the headteacher owes him £440.00 Any advice will be greatly received

The deposit was protected, he refused arbitration and sent the amount to mydeposits which was in dispute, he says he has witness statements for estate agents...

Well...it looks like the Landlord is going to take us to court unless we take his £100. There is no negotiating with him...I am really not sure what to do...

Well they asked him to send in the deposit until a court decision is made

But he has sent the money into mydeposits so I can't imagine he will lose £1000

Anyone any ideas what I should do next?

the small paragraph which we signed was on his headed paper and said the flat was in good redecoration apart from a small stain on the carpet

The landlord in my former flat, offered us from £1107 deposit, £100-in his letter he gave us 7 days to reply, and threatened that if we did not accept it he may go to court for £2800. We had no check-in inventory, only a small paragraph and then check out inventory was 9 pages long with every scratch marked, including prices. The price to clean the kitchen floor was £20!! We had invoices to clean and carpet cleaning we had done. Anyway we decided to try arbitration, the Landlord has refused and it now looks like it may go to court. I have no idea what to do!!! I really don't want to go to court my father has passed away within the last month and I don't think I could handle the stress!

Just been reading before I send the letter to Wescot-is it true that a DCA can't default you on a default that someone has already defaulted you on-as Vodafone were the ones who originally defaulted on me...

Ok i am reading this letter thoroughly!!!

Can you advise me what you htink of htis letter following a call to customer relations-this is in response to the email from the CEo asking me if I had resolved the problem: Dear xxxx Unfortunately not, I spoke to xxxxx in the Customer relations department who during one phone call at approx 3pm said he would 'phone experian to remove the default' and then the next phone call I received he said ' I have spoken to experian who said it's marked as 'satisfied' That is clearly not asking Experiean to remove a default-but only confirming what I already knew. I requested that the default would be removed-that all references to it to be removed. I was also told that I could get a 'mortgage lender to speak to xxxx xxxx' I was not aware that this is an official manner in which Mortgage advisors will go about issuing mortgages. To my knowledge you have not now or ever had my express consent to share my data.The Information Commissioners Office regards the practice of registering defaults for a period of 6 years as one that serves legitimate business practice providing the registration was justified in the first place, and am at a loss to understand how you feel the continued processing of my data in this manner is justified for the amount of £57.00 This is a recent quote I had from Yorkshire Building Society regarding a mortgage: ‘The criteria is that there is no more than 1 default registered, the value to be no greater than £150 and they have to have been registered 36 months or more. I have spoken to our underwriters and they said we probably will not proceed with a mortgage on the basis that the British Gas one was only last year.’... This was not longer than 36 months so we would not be able to proceed with a mortgage for you. This is the type of response I have got from all High street lenders regarding this default-and contrary to what your customer relations employee said:’oh it should’ne have any effect on your mortgage application, well it certainly does, going by the criteria of mortgage lenders. And that as the processing of the said data in the way referred to in this notice would violate the fourth, first and sixth principles of The Data Protection Act 1998 to do so would be unwarranted. These rights are contained in section 13 of the Act. If an individual has only suffered distress, compensation is not available unless the processing of the personal data is for the “special purposes” which means processing for artistic, literary or journalistic purposes. (i) My credit worthiness is being or has been damaged by your actions as a result of your entries to my credit files,which relate to unfair charges currently in dispute,and found by the Office of Fair Trading to be unfair. If this default is not removed I will be claiming compensation: Distress for trying to get a mortgage £400 Distress for trying to take out loans £400 Distress for renewing credit cards £400 Time spent investigating this matter 10 hours @ £10 per hour £100 I therefore request that you remove these defaults within 7 days from receipt of this letter or I shall be left with no alternative but to pursue their removal through court action

hummm-Vodafone have confirmed that wescot have bought the debt

Ok thanks a lot-do you know anyone who has had any sucess regarding this letter to CRAs?