What he should have done is sign his name on your behalf. Although I can see that the guy was just making sure that you got your parcel today and not have to wait or rearrange. I wouldn't dob him in over it though, he did what he thought you would be OK with. I would (and have) done the same in the past. ie Just accepted that I had the parcel today rather than tomorrow.

I would guess it means, that if you accept it, then you could not make any claims against them for unfair charges or PPI etc

No if they refuse 10% then offer them 7.5%

I love it when a woman is angry and swears, especially if they have a scouse accent. /goes away and hides.

You only see them if you are not logged in Bookie.

It's a shame he isn't older, there is a Miss Whippy for hire, I am sure I have seen some adverts for her somewhere.

Just a small consideration, I know the reason why you have Google ads, and I fully support that, but you would make it look a million times better, if you skin the ads to the correct colour of the background of the forums. Then they would look less obtrusive. An example. This can be done in your Google Ads panel.

Have a look round the forums, there may be better letters to send. As long as you have not admitted the debt or paid anything within a 6 year period, it is definitely statute barred afaik

You could try sending them a statute barred letter. Dear Sir/Madam Acc/Ref No 4563210025897412 You have contacted us regarding the account with the above reference number, which you claim is owed by ourselves. We would point out that under the Limitation Act 1980 Section 5 “an action founded on simple contract shall not be brought after the expiration of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.” We would also point out that the OFT say under their Debt Collection Guidance on statute barred debt that “it is unfair to pursue the debt if the debtor has heard nothing from the creditor during the relevant limitation period”. The last payment of this alleged debt was made over six years ago and no further acknowledgement or payment has been made since that time. Unless you can provide evidence of payment or written contact from us in the relevant period under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, we suggest that you are no longer able to take any court action against us to recover the alleged amount claimed. The OFT Debt Collection Guidance states further that “continuing to press for payment after a debtor has stated that they will not be paying a debt because it is statute barred could amount to harassment contrary to CPUTR2008 We await your written confirmation that this matter is now closed and that no further contact will be made concerning the above account after that last letter. We look forward to your reply. Yours faithfully Mr A N Other http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/resources/templates-library/86-debt-collectors/599-letter-sent-when-debt-is-statute-barred

If any of your debts have not being acknowledged by you in writing, or any payments made by you 'within a 6 year period', I understand them to be statute barred.

Just to add, I am not logged in using IE8 but am using FF - Possibly why it is not showing?

On this page, ie clicking on the New Posts button. http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/search.php?&searchid=4225 You can see the other menus I mentioned using FF3 but not using IE8

The advanced search can be found on any page, using IE8 or FF3 - Both by doing what I said. As for the new posts etc - I cannot remember what page I was looking at but it was using FF3 and so I will try to replicate and let you know Webby.

I have found the missing new posts and search buttons. You can only see them if you mouse over and left click pulling it across them.

Also the same thing on IE below the thread, where the You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts and the Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google bit is - There are two boxes one above each other, whereas on FF they are side by side.

Yup - No longer there for me and the centre alignment has now gone

That makes sense, I am not logged in using IE - So it has to be to do with that.

There is an error showing on IE as well. Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) Timestamp: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:23:07 UTC Message: Object expected Line: 6609 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forum.php Message: Object expected Line: 6725 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forum.php Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) Timestamp: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:23:17 UTC Message: Object expected Line: 6609 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forum.php Message: Object expected Line: 6725 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forum.php I'll stick to Firefox I think, the difference in layout for this site between the 2 browsers, is just not comparable. Similar issue to Kiptower as well using IE

This is how it looks if I set my screen to your resolution, still centred. I cannot edit the other post, but I agree it blows the forum right out.

What is your display resolution? Mine is 1920 * 1200 CAG looks appaulling at that resolution on my monitor using IE

FAO Webby The text is only centred on IE (I am using 8 to test) whereas for Firefox the text is fine.

If she is convicted of assault, then she would automatically lose her licence I would have thought. Play them at their own game, they don't care about you so why should you care about her or them? Pay what you owe the council and then you have the security and peace of mind that the bailiff's can do no more to to you. Whatever they want to charge you would then be invalid, so they can say you owe them thousands, but they would have to prove that in court to have any chance of recovering it. You have already been shown on here that there is no waiting fee, and the other charges have been done wrongfully. They cannot win.

Pay the council the £200 asap then the baillifs are powerless. The worst they can do is to issue court proceedings for the £42.50 to get any chance of recovering it from you. The cost of doing so would outweigh what you owe so they lose anyway. Then press charges against the bailiff. Don't be worried about upsetting her feelings, she deserved it. Let her lose her bailiff's licence. I would.

What would be a fair figure? I would expect at least £100 for the hassle, maybe ask for £150 then let them barter. Either way £100 or £150 is still saving them the cost of FOS investigating your complaint.

How much do you still actually owe the council? I would if possible borrow the exact amount that you owe under the liability order off family if possible. If say for arguments sake you owe the council £230 and you then pay that off, direct to the council. It doesn't really matter what the bailliff's are charging you. As the liability order would have then been paid off in full, they then have no means of lawfully collecting any monies off you. Obviously you would still owe the £24.50 and the £18.00 though, which would be £42.50 - Which in reality, I feel you should pay, if you have had those 2 visits. But that of course is up to you.