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    • Thank you. You contacted directly with the parcel broker so your best option is to proceed directly against them for breach of contract. I hope you have read enough to understand that you will not be able to rely on the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Do you understand why? Have Parcel to Go giving you a reason for declining reimbursement? Do you have anything in writing from your customer which shows that they did not refuse delivery and which identifies the actual circumstances of the situation?
    • Which Court have you received the claim from?  CIVIL NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE, NORTHAMPTON Name of the Claimant?  LOWELL PORTFOLIO LTD How many defendant's joint or self?  SELF Date of issue – top right hand corner of the claim form – this in order to establish the time line you need to adhere to.  03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  THE CLAIM IS FOR THE SUM OF £6000 DUE TO THE DEFENDANT UNDER AN AGREEMENT REGULATED BY THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 FOR A LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC ACCOUNT WITH AN ACCOUNT REFERENCE OF (ACCOUNT NO. 16 DIGITS LONG). THE DEFENDANT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTRACTUAL PAYMENTS REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT AND A DEFAULT NOTICE WAS SERVED UNDER S.87(1) OF THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 WHICH HAS NOT BEEN COMPLIED WITH. THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. THE CLAIM INCLUDES STATUORY INTEREST UNDER S.69 OF THE COUNTY COURTS ACT 1984 AT A RATE OF 8% PER ANNUM FOR THE DATE PF ASSIGNMENT TO THE DATE OF ISSUE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUMBE OF £0.00. THE CLAIMANT CLAIMS THE SUM OF £6000. What is the total value of the claim? £6500 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? YES, NOTICES OF CLAIM.  Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred?  YES  Did you inform the claimant of your change of address?  NO Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account?  CREDIT CARD When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007?  BEFORE   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post?  I DONT RECALL   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ?  NO   Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim.  DEBT PURCHASER.   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? THE FIRST I RECALL WAS A LETTER FROM LOWELL SAYING THEY NOW OWNED THE DEBT.  Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor?  NOT THAT I RECALL OR BEEN PROVIDED WITH THROUGH CCA REQUESTS.AT LAST REQUEST THEY SAID THEY WERE AWAITING THE DEFAULT NOTICE AND NO ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL RESPONDED WHICH TO DATE I'VE NOT HAD OR SEEN.  Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ?  NO, I RECEIEVED LETTERS OF CLAIMS   Why did you cease payments?  I WAS UNDER MEDICAL CARE WHICH CAUSED ME NOT TO WORK. AROUND THAT TIME LOWELL HAD WANTED ME TO INCREASE MY PAYMENTS AS IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO CLEAR THE DEBT. I HAD BEEN PAYING THEM WHAT I WAS PAYING THE BANK. I EXPLAINED MY THEN HEALTH & FINANCIAL POSITION AND THAT I WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THEY PUT A HOLD ON MY ACCOUNT FOR A FEW MONTHS SO I CANCELLED MY DIRECT DEBIT. I MADE A FULL AND FINAL OFFER WHICH WAS REJECTED. WHEN THEY WANTED PAYMENTS TO RESUME I EXPLAINED I WAS IN A WORSE FINANCIAL POSITION, STILL UNDERTAKING TREATMENT AND NOW UNEMPLOYED SO COULD NOT START PAYMENTS AS THEY WANTED. AFTER SENDING MY FINANCIAL SPREADSHEET THEY KEPT SENDING LETTERS ASKING WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO. I COULDN’T SEE A WAY FORWARD I FELT STREESSED AND UNDER PRESSURE SO WROTE THAT I WOULD NOT BE CORRESPONDING WITH THEM ANYMORE.    What was the date of your last payment? NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018   Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? NO   Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? I COMMUNICATED MY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY, WE MADE A MONTHLY PAYMENT AGREEMENT WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL DEBT WAS SOLD.  
    • Perhaps you would care to read this and reflect on your continuing comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany Jugg    ALEX BRUMMER: How grotesque of pro-Palestine protesters to besmirch Auschwitz, the place where my grandparents died WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross... My elderly aunt Sussie and cousin Sheindy had been teenagers at Auschwitz and Belsen but survived and are alive to this day. What they will make of the protesters who waved flags, heckled and chanted as Israelis took part in the March Of The Living – the annual walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau – I cannot imagine. The images now circulating of the protesters are indescribably disturbing. They can only bring back memories of those final moments Sheindy shared with my grandparents when my grandmother Fanya squeezed her hand and told her to lie about her age to avoid the gas chambers. Claiming she was older, and could work, meant that Sheindy lived, not died. The outrage perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 has brought back the most terrifying memories for these two women – memories of pillage, mutilation and starvation. The Holocaust, or Shoah to use the Hebrew word, was the deliberate, industrial-scale killing of Jews.  It is bad enough that pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas sympathisers have chosen to steal the language of the Holocaust.  Any comparison between Israel's retaliation and the monstrous genocide of the 1940s is odious and anti-Semitic
    • Thank you JK2054 and BankFodder for your replies. The information requested is as follows:   My wife and I are sole traders supplying bespoke, handmade wedding trays and other items through our website. We do not sell on ebay. We had an order for two trays (invoice value £370) that were shipped on Monday 25th March. We used P2G as the broker and Evri as the shipper. We declared the value but did not take out insurance. As the trays were a present for a wedding on Saturday 30th March we checked the progress of delivery on the Thursday to see that there had been an attempt to deliver on the 27th but the driver failed to deliver as the customer’s gate was shut (customer informs us that the gates are open between 7am-7pm. We contacted the customer who informed us she had been waiting in all week and there had been no attempt of a delivery. Evri allege they attempted to deliver on the 28th & 29th. On the P2G web site on the 4th April at 14.17 it stated that the customer refused delivery. At 14.28 it updated to say there was a problem with the address and at 14.32 updated to say the customer had refused delivery. At 14.35 updated again to say it was being returned. Last entry was on the 7th April that it was being processed at the depot. We never received it. I have had six web chats with P2G between the 4th-30th April. On the 26th April, I had an offer of £20 plus cost of delivery (£6.72) from P2G which I rejected. During this time, I also contacted Evri that resulted in an email from Evri Customer Services (20th April) stating that they had lost the parcel. I replied requesting details of the attempted delivery but received no reply. After emailing Evri again on the 23rd asking again for the information I received a phone call from someone called Haleemah on the 25th who apologised and promised to send an email with a link to submit a claim form. I subsequently received an email with the link which only took me to a page that stated “Page not found”. After informing Evri customer services of the problem (to which no reply was forthcoming) a couple of days later I retried the link but it only took me to the Evri website. I believe that I have a good case against both companies but would appreciate guidance on which path to go down. I have read most of the information on this site, which has been very helpful and much appreciated, particularly the various court transcripts. I appreciate that this process is a marathon and not a sprint and am fully aware that I need to get everything in the correct order before starting on the legal road. I am sure this covers the current position but if further info is needed please let me know.  
    • Everything at small claims revolves around informality and common sense, there are no "special" ways to have to do things. The site manager's WS will be like yours and the one I linked to - just much shorter.  There need to be the introductory hearings about the case, the parties, etc., and the concluding Statement of Truth. In the middle just a couple of paragraphs where they say who they are, how they know you, and about permission being given by the landowner to use the car park. Superb.  I've added another section about the signage to the suggested WS sections three posts above. Yes, it's perfectly possible.  It'd be a good idea to phone the court on the 18th to see if they have paid.
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Have just had this back from TS:

 

Dear

Thank you for your enquiry to Consumer Direct dated 29/01/2008. Your reference number for this case is *****

and should be quoted in all further correspondence regarding this case.

 

Based on the information supplied within your email the key facts of the case appear to be as follows:

 

You and your husband both have accounts with Next.

you feel there have been various problems with the billing.

You have requested copies of your credit agreement and the trader does not have one.

 

If the credit is regulated and the trader has not fulfilled the requirements of the Consumer Credit Act

it would not necessarily make the agreement unenforceable, a court could still decide you are liable for the money.

 

As there is presumably paperwork that needs looking at we will refer your case to your local Trading Standards

in Sefton for further advice. An officer should contact you within 3 working days.

 

If you require any further advice or information about this case, please do not hesitate to contact Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06. Do not reply to this email, or send an email to

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

 

AAARRGGG: I have told them I also have proof that I do not have ANY of the GOODS!!!!!!

 

Count to ten......... Any views?

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What consumer direct is saying, in a round about sort of way, is that the court could decide you would be liable (based on statements etc) and the judge could say so: HOWEVER without an agreement, as long as you defended any action and gave legal arguments (which you would be supplied with here by very many bods) he could not legally enforce it. Think of it as analgous (although in no way the same) in this way to a statute barred debt - the debt is not enforceable by a court order and yet the debt does still exist.

 

What is interesting, however, and something they have not mentioned is that continuing to pursue you while in default of your CCA request is an offence under the CCA 1974. You may need to remind them of this as sometimes the bods you speak to there are less clued up on the law than we are.

All help is merely my opinion only - please seek legal advice if you need to as I am only qualified in SEN law.

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Thanks Tiglet,

This is really getting me down now, I have not had any goods, they have admitted to not having a CCA yet they have passed me to two DCA's and Moorcroft are now preparing to take me to court!

I dont have the time or nerves to go to court to defend myself against them when they are clearly in the wrong!

Thought TS could help.....

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Don't worry about it right now - TS may actually be able to help as consumer direct often seem not to ahve the experience/knowledge that local TS offices ahve.

 

If they did take you to court, it would really be best that you attend otherwise they may obtain a judgement against you which could prove difficult to overturn. You would get lots of help in preparing your defence on here and lots of moral support too. trust me, you'd feel like Rumpole of the Bailey when you walked in!

 

Don't ever let the barstewards get you down - that way they win. Lots of deep breaths and realise that, despite all of their threats, they can't really do anything to you as long as you comply with the law and they don't.

 

Have a glass of your favourite tipple tonight and say bowlarks to the lot of them. x

All help is merely my opinion only - please seek legal advice if you need to as I am only qualified in SEN law.

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Hang on your being chased for a debt that does not exist as there is no cca and you have NOT purchesd anything from them?

 

I am sorry if l read that wrong but that is what l think you are saying.

 

Chrissi

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Please remember the only stupid question is the one you dont ask so dont worry about asking the stupid questions.

 

Essex girl in pc world looking 4 curtains 4 her pc,the assistant says u dont need curtains 4 a computer!!Essex girl says,''HELLOOO!! i,ve got WINDOWS!!'.

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Sorry for any confusion,

I Did order some goods but returned them all, I have proof of return which I have sent to next numerous times and was ignored.

Then, after finding this site I decided to go at it from the CCA route and see if that was any better.

They sent me a letter to say they did not hold a cca but would still persue the debt.

I wrote numerous time explaining and it was passesd back to Next by the previous CCA.

Next then passed it to moorcrap. I wrote to them to explain the situation and they said they had contacted next and that next had complied with the CCA????

I now have a letter from moorcrap telling me they are preparing to take the account to court!

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Have just had this back from TS:

 

Dear

Thank you for your enquiry to Consumer Direct dated 29/01/2008. Your reference number for this case is .....and should be quoted in all further correspondence regarding this case.

Based on the information supplied within your email the key facts of the case appear to be as follows:

You and your husband both have accounts with Next. you feel there have been various problems with the billing. You have requested copies of your credit agreement and the trader does not have one.

 

If the credit is regulated and the trader has not fulfilled the requirements of the Consumer Credit Act it would not necessarily make the agreement unenforceable, a court could still decide you are liable for the money.

 

As there is presumably paperwork that needs looking at we will refer your case to your local Trading Standards in Sefton for further advice. An officer should contact you within 3 working days.

 

If you require any further advice or information about this case, please do not hesitate to contact Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06. Do not reply to this email, or send an email to

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

 

AAARRGGG: I have told them I also have proof that I do not have ANY of the GOODS!!!!!!

 

Count to ten......... Any views?

 

 

Now theres your first mistake,

 

Consumer Direct,

 

they are ok for basic and i mean very basic consumer complaints, they seem to read from the screen of the pc and dont IMHO seem to know a great deal when talking about consumer credit issues

 

speak to your consumer credit officer at your local trading standards

Trading Standards Central - Trading Standards and Consumer Protection information for the UK go to that webpage, find your local trading standards, NOT Consumer Direct

 

speak to the officer who deals with credit who incidently will have recieved a great deal of training, much more than that of CD

 

i hope this helps

 

oh and if they are silly enough to take you to court, PLEASE let us know ASAP

 

regards

paul

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I did go to TS website but the reply came from consumer direct???????

I will talk to TS tomorrow I think, I cant bear the thought of this going any further.

 

WARNING TO ALL NEXT DIRECT CUSTOMERS!!!!!

This is how thet treat their customers, I had not done anything wrong and ALWAYS paid my FULL balance every month-customer service Ha they don't know the meaning of the word!!!

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hi VV,

 

yeah better to call them in the first instance, that way you get through to the correct department and the correct person

 

as i said if it does go further, let us know, unfortunatley its not your decision as they can issue proceedings and thats that

 

however, if they did, they would be extremely silly as you would have a complete defence to their claim and i feel that their case would be struck out without much trouble

 

if you need any help shout

 

regards

paul

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Hi all,

 

I've been spending the last few days re reading through monopoly and malaga'a threads which are similar to mine and have been preparing the legislation I need to put in my court bundle.

 

One item I can't find despite HOURS of googling and reading so many pages my eyes are going crossed is 'The Consumer Credit (Prescribed Periods for Giving Information) Regulations 1983' as recommended as being useful by tomterm in monopoly's thread.

 

I've found many other regulations but this specific one I can't find for the life of me, can anyone help to save me from going potty and point me in the right direction please?

 

Huge thanks, Nas

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Paul you're an absolute lifesaver, am pm-ing you now...

 

Also, I'm using sections 78, 88, and 127 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 but am wondering if I should also include section 108 in terms of Next failing to provide the signed cca when requested?

 

I'm floundering in legislation this evening!

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Thanks so much Paul, I'm going to rest my weary head tonight so I can read through all the info you've kindly sent me in the morning when hopefully I'll be able to put it into context better!

 

If I've any questions (which is pretty much a dead cert) I'll post up here again tomorrow.

 

Your support is much appreciated and gratefully received : )

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Well, after hours of research and being just about ready to print off and photocopy dozens of pages for my court bundle the following letter arrived this morning from Brighton Court....

 

'Dear Sir/Madam

 

Re: Next Retail Limited -v- nas2211

 

Please take note that due to the Claimant not having paid the required hearing fee, the small claims hearing listed for 13th March 2008 has now been vacated.

 

The Claimant may make an application to have the claim re-listed however so this does not mark the claim as settled'

 

So it would seem Howard Cohen have messed up by not paying the court fee, and now I'm left in limbo waiting to see if they restart the claim again!

 

Feeling very frustrated but also relieved that I won't have to go to court next month (hopefully!)

 

Has anyone else experienced this happening with Next?

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