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  1. Hi BankFodder, I have drafted a letter which I intend to post tomorrow, it is attached below. Regards, Garry Mr. Garry Hastelow 113 Fourth Avenue York North Yorkshire YO31 0SS EVRi Parcelnet Limited Capitol House 1 Capitol Close Morley Leeds West Yorkshire LS27 0WH 27th February 2022 RE: Lost parcel containing a guitar worth £350 Support Incident Reference: 211203-020353 Parcel ID: C00HHA0090876050 Claim Number: J4QZ543A Dear EVRi Parcelnet Limited, I am writing to inform you that I am no longer seeking to recover the £322.28 in compensation for the parcel you admitted to losing on 06/12/21. It was delivered to my customer on 24/02/22 and I have received payment for the item. However, the gross delay in delivery time (the parcel was posted on 25/11/21) caused by your negligence has forced me to issue legal proceedings against you and I will continue with my claim to recover the £50 I have so far paid in court fees. The delay is in breach of contract which will be explained to the mediator or the court. If you are prepared to reimburse the £50 court fee now I will withdraw my claim and the matter will be resolved with no further action. Please let me know how you wish to proceed. Yours Sincerely,
  2. Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes I want to recover the court fee as I'm still annoyed by how I have been treated by this company so I will follow your suggestion. I will draft a letter this weekend and post it up on here before I send it. Many thanks for all your help and advice.
  3. No I haven't received a penny from Hermes, they wouldn't even refund the postage fee. And I haven't received the directions questionnaire yet just the documents I posted above.
  4. Hi BankFodder, I've had an interesting development to my EVRi issue, just as I was about to post an update regarding where I am in the small claims process, I had a message from my eBay buyer and bizarrely the guitar has been delivered 3 months late! The buyer still wanted the guitar I gave him a £30 discount off the original £350 due to all the problems and I received the payment today. Strange how the guitar made a reappearance not long after I issued my claim. I'm £50 out of pocket for the issue fee, I'm still trying to decide if it is worth the hassle trying to claim this back or if I should just cut my loses and drop the case. This has made it more complicated in some ways as I no longer need to claim the value of the guitar as originally stated on my claim. I haven't heard anything from EVRi and the tracking information is the same as before (it doesn't say it has been delivered). I 've attached the documents I have received from the courts whereby EVRi unsurprisingly said they were defending the whole claim and it was signed off by a trainee solicitor:
  5. Okay I will spend some more time reading, I've bookmarked a few threads including the one you wrote about the courier industry and I'll search for some more.
  6. I sent the Letter of Claim on Wednesday last week so I am ready to send the Particulars on the 1st Feb which will be 14 working days if I don't receive a response and I will start preparing my claim. However I got another email from Hermes customer service stating this which is making me feel like I don't have a case as it is in their terms and conditions that the guitar was an excluded item, I have read other stories of people being successful but their cases were different in that the item wasn't excluded but they didn't take out any insurance:
  7. That's good I'll make some amendments, I was looking at other people's examples and realised that they were a bit different in that they didn't take out the insurance whereas I wasn't able to insure the guitar due to it being an excluded item. Thanks, Garry
  8. Thanks I have registered with the MoneyClaim website and have started filling in the details, I've also typed up a couple of drafts for the Letter of Claim and the Particulars, I hope I've got the wording right if you don't mind taking a look.
  9. 0330 808 5456 it is automated at first but there is an option to "speak to someone about my parcel" after the long winded process of entering all the parcel information.
  10. Hi, this is my first post on this forum, I have been reading some threads relating to EVRi losing parcels and not paying compensation as this has happened to me recently. I sold a guitar on eBay for £350 and unfortunately decided to use EVRi to deliver the item as it was very large and heavy. I paid £6.98 for standard delivery and could not take out insurance as musical instruments are on the exclusion list of non compensation items. A courier collected the parcel on 26/11/21 and I got a tracking number but after several days the tracking information didn't update beyond stating "collected by courier" which rang alarm bells. I contacted EVRi customer service several times by phone and they kept telling me that the package was in a depot in Normanton and it would be delivered shortly. This didn't happen so I contacted them again and they opened a Support Incident which resulted in me receiving an email stating that despite carrying out an extensive investigation they could not locate the parcel and admitted it was lost. They then told me to complete a Lost Claim Form which I submitted on 06/12/21. I didn't hear anything from them until 31/12/21 when they sent me another email asking me to complete and submit the Lost Claim Form again and I replied to this saying I had already done it. Then I got a Support Incident update stating this: "Response By E-mail (Madeline Fox) (31/12/2021 02.49 PM) Good Afternoon Garry, Firstly I would like to apologise as I am unsure why you were sent another claims form when you have already completed it. I have looked into your claim and unfortunately, I am going to have to reject it due to the item being an excluded item. A full list of excluded and prohibited items can be found here; https://www.myhermes.co.uk/_assets/pdf/carry-guide.pdf Due to this, I am unable to process your refund. Kind Regards, Maddy Fox Customer Service Advisor EVRi Send Claims Department" Obviously I am not happy about this outcome, they did not even offer to refund the postage fee. I sent a letter of complaint to their head office a couple of weeks ago but have not had any response. I have had to issue a full refund to the eBay buyer who was supposed to receive the guitar which was £350. I am considering taking this matter to the small claims court in order to recover my loss. I want to claim compensation for the value of the item plus the postage fee plus the special guitar shipping box I had to buy (I took care to package the item really well so it wouldn't get damaged). I have drafted a Letter of Claim and would be grateful if you could look at it and tell me if there is anything I have missed. I have contacted the Citizens Advice Bureau who have passed on some information about my case to trading standards and pointed me towards a template for making a complaint but haven't been much help otherwise. They also said this: "Your rights and obligations: Under common law, when you enter into a contract, both parties are bound by any terms and conditions that have formed part of any pre-contract negotiations. We would advise you to thoroughly read these to see what the maximum value you are covered for is. If nothing related to your issue is included in the terms and conditions, or, the trader is not following terms included, you may be able to hold the trader in breach of contract. You may be able to seek redress from the trader for a breach of contract by repudiating the contract; this means bringing the contract to an end and being put back into your precontractual position, which could include money back. Alternatively, you may request the trader honour the contract as agreed and seek damages; damages could be for a monetary amount you feel is reasonable to compensate for the breach. The burden of proof is on yourself as the consumer, therefore you will need to provide evidence if the trader is not complying with the terms and conditions." Does that mean I have not got a case against EVRi because of the excluded items list which is part of their terms and conditions? And if I lost the case would I be made to pay their legal fees (because I certainly cannot afford to do that). I have never had to do anything like this before so don't have any experience of the legal system apart from what I have read online. Apologies for the long post and thanks in advance for taking the time to read it and I appreciate any advice you can provide. Letter of Claim to Hermes.pdf
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