Google Inc is Worse then eBay Inc Just because Google has a slogan of Dont Be Evil or something on those lines doesnt mean they wont be evil.

All companies with some form of financial accounts are nutorious for doing that... Paypal has been known to randomly shut down accounts - including taking the money Google (adsense) have been known to unfairly shut down accounts and refusing to pay the balance - to which they are worse then paypal - normally the reason is click fraud... but you have no control if someone fraudlently clicks on the ads on your site... so instead of closing accounts they should filter those clicks (i.e. ban them from a certain IP address)

Good luck, i doubt they would disclose it... but you never know. Criminal investigations only can be lodged to a person, like you mentioned, the problem is those rogue sellers hide behind ebay... i would suggest to get the police (ask them nicely) to do this, the letterhead alone should hit it home besides they should see it with some authority. As things stand atm ebay see's you in the wrong, so they are barely going to give someones address away to you - but hopefully that would be a different story if they saw the police involved.

No one gets my sense of humour then. Its been taken as if i was planning a serious crime (murder, terrorism etc.), i am not, was just joking.

agreed... small dents can be removed...

Simple mistake? I believe there is a form you fill in... you dont send a letter A letter would be valid, nethertheless, but i think it was a mistake within departments, so those that read letters acknowledged your notification and passed it on to a department which processes the forms, then someone probably thrown it away as it wasnt a form. Dont get me started with the DVLA... "you cant escape the computer"! But it seems many people who dont have tax discs etc. are getting away with it and the genuine people get silly fines...

How much is it for? (what you wish to claim)

f**k eBay, f**k PayPal.. let the seller has his/hers money ebay and PayPal wont support you, they cant enforce their own terms for goodness sake... I presume you have the sellers address, go through the small claims route... the seller would not be able to win the case if the details you have stated is correct. When they lose the case they have to pay you for your costs too. What i would do if you have not done so is return (post) the bike asking for a refund, if they refuse thats good... just if you went to court saying they wouldnt refund you but you have the bike then they dont to an extent owe you money Ebay is pathetic, once i stuck an affiliate advert in the cars section (i never do this, only once... everyone else does it, why shouldnt i?) the listing fee was expensive, i had it on either 7 or 10 days, within the last 5 minutes (no exageration) they terminated the auction and REFUNDED me the listing costs... considering i wasnt selling an item (like i should have been) it meant the advertisement i stuck in was free... and i got a few people click on it which meant £££ Tell me all your ebay/paypal stories, none fo them would surprise me...

ignore the PayPal Guarantees... not worth the webpages its displayed on! Dont rely and feel that your money is safe because of a bit of text!

Its a criminal offense to move a company's registered office without updating companies house. There is no excuse anyway with Royal Mails redirection mail services. Its highly unlikely they moved within days of sticking in a claim, UNLESS s/he got the address from ages ago...

Its illegal for someone to install/repair a gas boiler who isn't CORGI registered... beware, a corgi logo on letterheads or the installers maters corgi card etc. isnt good enough, the company doesnt require corgi registration its the engineers... They dont commonly show you paperwork saying they are legally allowed to do the work, but you have every right to ask and confirm their CORGI registration. I do agree that they have to leave, i think it usually is a manual (plus warranty papers etc.) with the boiler.

18 months... how long is the warranty?

Its simple... you should have never gave her your contact details...

Whats going on? if you are taking a company to court you stick either: a) their registered office address (as on their letterheads and on companies house website) OR b) their local address - i.e. if you sued Tesco (hint ) regarding something that happened at one of their stores, you may select the store address As far as i am aware it doesnt matter which one you choose. BUT you cant just stick a random address of theirs down - sticking one of their offices in scotland for example wouldnt be appropiate.

doubt it - you mean standard geographic numbers surely? 0800 are also non-geographical too

Well, just the fact, that: 1) Its called a form, there is no boxes to input data, its no form! 2) Is it a letter or agreement? Its a contract... so why has it got letter lines (dear.., yours sincerely) 3) Can you have a document which wants to be a letter, a form and an agreemnt at the same time? Thats three different types... Someone passed that link on to me... found it quite comical

CSA tried to regulate payments without any enforcements... As far as i am aware they never had any legal powers in making people pay up - you are better through the courts...

Congrats. beware of pipex then! I stuck my card details in for a non-obligation non-subscription service where they didnt mention about storing card details... they then without my permission (Even though i cancelled the account within the month as the servce was soo poor) they kept using my card, the thing is the bank cant stop payments from cards, or so they say anyway, unlike direct debits... so i had to get a new card, obtain the rest the money back, dispute it with my banks fraud department, i then got a letter threatening legal action under the county courts act 1987 if i dont pay them within 7 days (guess what, i received it after the date on letter and only had 2 days... even thoguh you would ahve gone by postmark anyway), so i then sent them a letter back... heard ntohing from them, a month later they sent me a "debt" write off notification... and when i thought it was all ok, a month and a bit later i got another invoice (been going on for years now)... so when they try to claim the money this time, its gongi to the small claims, as this is totally unfair harrassment - i tried the police to begin with as it was fraudulent, but they said its not a police issue (fraud and theft...like wtf?!?!) and was between me and the company involved....

Sadly, as when you will be trying to find out what you owe they will be adding to that..

Its been going around for a while... " Music Channels and Music Contracts ripping off UK Artists... (Channel U) " i wondered peoples views on this. The document is called an "mp3 agreement form" but they dont use mp3 but wma apparently... Let me know if you think its worth the money its written on... FROM: VITV LIMITED (t/a CHANNEL U) (“We”/”us”/”our”) TO: [iNSERT NAME OF ARTIST] ( “you”/”your”) DATE: 2006 Dear [insert name of artist] This is to confirm our agreement. 1. You hereby grant to us by way of non-exclusive licence for the Term the right throughout the world solely and exclusively to make effect and otherwise provide digital distribution of the track entitled “[insert name]” (“Licensed Master”) for any use in any manner in any medium now or hereafter known invented or discovered including (by way of example but without limitation) for use as so-called “downloads”, “ringtones”, “mastertones” and “on-hold telephone music”; 2. You further grant to us solely exclusively to reproduce transmit distribute publicly perform communicate to the public make available and broadcast and otherwise use any Licensed Master in whole or in part by means of digital distribution and to adapt edit or otherwise alter the Licensed Masters and to reproduce print publish or disseminate in any medium (including without limitation any physical medium) any associated artwork, your professional name and any logo or device portraits pictures and likenesses and biographical material concerning the same and all advertising and promotional material for use in connection with the Licensed Masters. We shall further have the right to authorise others to exercise any of the rights granted in this Agreement. 3. The Term of this Agreement shall commence on the date hereof and shall continue thereafter until the expiry of three (3) months after receipt by one party of a written notice of termination served by the other party to this Agreement PROVIDED THAT such notice shall not be served prior to the date being nine (9) months from the date hereof. If during the Term you receive a written offer of an exclusive recording contract from a third party major record company and it is a condition of such agreement that you grant to such company some or all of the rights licensed hereunder then we agree that such rights shall revert to you which reversion shall take effect on full execution of the said agreement between you and the major record company PROVIDED THAT we shall have received thirty (30) days written notice from you requiring such reversion. 4. You shall at your sole cost and expense deliver to us a digital copy of the Licensed Master and any ancillary materials in a proper form for us to upload and digitally distribute and otherwise use and exploit the same as provided for in this Agreement within seven (7) days of the date of this Agreement in respect of the Licensed Master. 5. We shall pay to you fifty percent (50%) of gross monies actually earned and received by us in the United Kingdom directly and identifiably from digital distribution of the Licensed Master less all expenses costs liabilities and other payments (excluding overhead costs) incurred by us in connection with the use or exploitation of the rights granted hereunder. 6. We will compute your share of monies under this Agreement as of 31 March 30 June 30 September and 31 December in each calendar year in respect of each preceding three (3) month period and will render a statement to you and pay such share less any taxes required to be deducted and any other offsets ninety (90) days after the relevant accounting date. . All monies due to you under this Agreement are exclusive of VAT which shall be paid by us upon receipt of a valid and subsisting VAT invoice from you. 7. You hereby grant or shall procure the grant of a worldwide mechanical, performing right and any other relevant licences and consents required to be given in accordance with Part II of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended to enable us and our licensees to reproduce the compositions embodied on the Licensed Master and exercise all our rights hereunder.. You hereby agree to waive as against us and our licensees any entitlement that you may have to royalties or other payments administered by Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and or Video Performance Limited (VPL). For the avoidance of doubt any payment that we are forced to make herein shall be deemed an expense and shall be deductible from you share of gross monies due to you in the accounting period following such payment pursuant to Clause 5 above. 8. You warrant represent and undertake that the Licensed Master is and shall be free from all payments and royalties save as set out herein, that you are the owner of the copyright in and own and control all rights in the Licensed Master during the Term and you waive all moral rights in and to the Licensed Master and composition embodied thereon, that you have paid or procured the payment of all mechanical royalties due payable in respect of the Licensed Master and we shall not have to make any payment in respect of the same. You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified against any loss liability damage cost or expense (including legal fees and disbursements) suffered by us arising out of any claim asserted or proceedings commenced against us by reason of your breach or alleged breach of any of your obligations representations warranties undertakings and agreements set out in this Agreement. Neither party shall be deemed to be in breach of any of its material obligations unless and until the other party has given the breaching party written notice of the breach and the breaching party has failed to cure such breach within 30 (thirty) days after receipt of such written notice. In the event that either party is in breach of a material obligation hereunder and fails to cure such breach within 30 (thirty) days after receipt of notice of such material breach then the other may terminate this Agreement by notice in writing without prejudice to any rights or claim it may have prior to the date of termination. All notices shall be in writing and addressed to the party to be served at the address referred to in this Agreement or to such other address as either party may notify the other of in writing and shall be sent by recorded delivery and shall be deemed to have been received two (2) working days after the date on which it was sent. We may assign all or any of its rights and liabilities hereunder or the benefit of this Agreement to any third party. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting any partnership between you and us and no variation of this Agreement shall be binding on either party hereto unless made in writing and signed by the duly authorised representatives of you and us. The provisions set forth in this Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties in relation to the subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement shall be governed by English Law and the High Court of Justice in England shall be the sole Court of Jurisdiction in respect of all disputes arising in connection with this Agreement. Please sign where indicated below to show your agreement to the terms of this Agreement. Yours sincerely, Read, Understood and Agreed ....................................................... ................................................. VITV LIMITED (t/a CHANNEL U) [insert name of artist] I know alot of people have fooled for this [problem] (is that fair word to use?) but is there a way out?

They have no idea! I hate waiting a month to get an item... thought cheques had to take time to clear?! it seem these days Paypal takes longer to clear... well for the seller to trust the buyer with payment... but i have noticed, everything was pay with paypal... now alot have refused to accept it now! I am annoyed because i paid for an item 2 weeks ago, auction stated next day delivery (to me that says if i won the item on a mondaya nd paid for it on the monday, then the item gets to me by wednesday..hmm no such luck) ebay is a major joke, i always see the legally binding contract sh*t, but you get the sellers who refund you because the item went too cheap because they didnt want to set a reserve, technically if i refuse the refund i get the item? Nooo.. Thats just eBay, paypal is terrible...

lol, FSA... they do **** all, like the bank charges were illegal.. did you see FSA, OFT etc. step in? noooooooo...... surely, them regulators have the power to say to each bank, you have 6 months to refund all the customers for these illegal amounts... nothing has happened.

eBay and Paypal sucks... learn to live with it or dont bother... thats being polite, their services are poor, they dont enforce any of their rules and when they do its only for the fraudulent people who lied or dont deserve to win the cases.

What i would do... 1) It seems that the buyer complained to PayPal to get money taken back so i suggest as you have his/hers address file a small claims ... and claim it with interest!! 2) Complain to Paypal I doubt the police would do much... its fraud and theft yes... but you sent the parcel to them - they took money back - as its under £1000 i reckon the police will drag their feet, civil action is whats needed - anyone elses thoughts?

Well since i registered my numbers i haven't really received any less. just that i raise the point then they get the message and dont bother trying again. Its not too much the phone calls... its the sales guys who cant take no for an answer and ring you like 20 times a day..