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    • pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’. Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time. You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID. You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.  then log in to the bulk court Website .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website .. get a CCA Request running to the claimant . https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332502-cca-request-consumer-credit-act-1974-updated-january-2015/ .. Leave the £1 PO unsigned and uncrossed . get a CPR  31:14  request running to the solicitors [if one is not listed send to the claimant] ... https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332546-legal-cpr-3114-request-request-for-information-when-a-claim-has-been-issued/ . .use our other CPR letter if the claim is for an OD or Telecom Debt or Util debt]  https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332546-legal-cpr-3114-request-request-for-information-when-a-claim-has-been-issued/ on BOTH type your name ONLY Do Not sign anything .do not ever use or give an email . you DO NOT await the return of ANY paperwork  you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform [1 in the count] ..............  
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    • 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 – 03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  1.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). 2.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. 3.THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. 4. 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 SUM BE 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 stressed 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
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Ive seen a lot on tv lately, especially Martin Lewis recommending that you price fix your gas and electric.

British Gas are writing to customers asking them to fill in the form to fix price till 2011.

 

If the price is going to continue to go up, why are they prompting you to fix the price now, whats in it for them?

Surely if you dont go for the fixed price and gas continues to rise they get less from you. Or, is it possible that there will be some kind of outcry or limit put on the charges because of the vast profits these companies make and so prices may be forced down? If you are fixed you may well then be paying over the odds.

 

So, price fix or not?

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Latest is that Martin Lewis is now not recommending capped tariffs. It seems that for a short period the capped tariffs were out of line but this opportunity has now gone.

 

Fixing your tariff does not mean that the tariff you are on will be fixed. You will be transferred to a capped tariff that will be higher than you are on now. So you pay more now in the hope that prices will rise sufficiently to pay back this initial higher outlay. Who is to know?

 

I would suggest that a utility that offers capped tariffs will try to set its capped prices so that at the worst they take the same money overall and at best they make extra profit. They might get it wrong and make a loss and the customer would profit. However who is likely to be best able to forecast fuel prices -you or the utility?

 

This is a straight gamble -your opinion against theirs. I personally think that the chance of winning the gamble are rather poor and I would expect to pay more overall on a capped tariff.

 

When you go on a capped tarifff inititially you are investing money with the hope of winning it back later. This 'investment' makes it far less likely that you will change providers and this could well be a disadvantage.

 

Finally if you do win, when the capped period ends you will be faced with a much higher tariff for which you will likely not be prepared.

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Ive seen a lot on tv lately, especially Martin Lewis recommending that you price fix your gas and electric.

British Gas are writing to customers asking them to fill in the form to fix price till 2011.

 

If the price is going to continue to go up, why are they prompting you to fix the price now, whats in it for them?

Surely if you dont go for the fixed price and gas continues to rise they get less from you. Or, is it possible that there will be some kind of outcry or limit put on the charges because of the vast profits these companies make and so prices may be forced down? If you are fixed you may well then be paying over the odds.

 

So, price fix or not?

 

It is quite alarming how many gullible people there are.

 

Let me tell you, BG would want everybody who are with them to cap and why ???!!

 

Because you will be capping at BG tariffs!! Which, shock, are the most expensive in the UK! You are not capping at the other suppliers rates which are....cheaper!

 

So,....all you are doing is voluntarily agreeing to pay the most expensive energy tariff AND at a premium!:???: For 2,3 or even 4 years!

 

It's a shocker. Why do you think BG are actually writing to you to do this? For them to save you money?:D

 

Has it not occurred to you to switch to the lowest tariff you can find, with any company, and just change when you want to in the future to always get the better price?

 

If it was possible, would you cap, and be contracted, for car fuel at one garage for 140p just to avoid possible price rises, or would you just fill up at the cheapest you come across?

 

No? Then why do it with home energy?

 

And will home energy be as expensive in 2010 as it is now?

 

It is utter madness. So no, do not cap with BG unless you want to lose out.

 

Why not just find an alternative cheaper supplier?:???:

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I agree fully with the above posts. This is practically guraranteed to increase your bill and make the company even more profit.

 

You would be better going into a bookies and putting that extra on a horse, you at least stand a chance of coming out on top this way.

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Actually, I disagree regarding the price fixing on some levels. Obviously as the OP is with BritishGas, who IMO are the worst company out there and normally the most expensive as well, I would advise finding a cheaper supplier THEN think about price fixing.

 

At this point in time, I'm thanking my lucky STARS that I signed up for price fixing a couple months ago!! I'm with Eon and in May 2008, I was offered price protection until October 2009. It cost me roughly £1 a month more than what I was paying. I was told that I was not bound to stay in it, so no cancellation fees, and if energy prices drop below what I'm paying, then my bill drops too. Can't grumble about that!

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Actually, I disagree regarding the price fixing on some levels. Obviously as the OP is with BritishGas, who IMO are the worst company out there and normally the most expensive as well, I would advise finding a cheaper supplier THEN think about price fixing.

 

At this point in time, I'm thanking my lucky STARS that I signed up for price fixing a couple months ago!! I'm with Eon and in May 2008, I was offered price protection until October 2009. It cost me roughly £1 a month more than what I was paying. I was told that I was not bound to stay in it, so no cancellation fees, and if energy prices drop below what I'm paying, then my bill drops too. Can't grumble about that!

 

But the problem here is that since May 2008 you have decided to pay an Eon tariff at x amount and you will be doing so until October 2009.

 

Now, in May 2008, the cheapest supplier of the big 6 were/are generally 25 to 30% cheaper on gas than Eon and about 20% cheaper than Eon on electricity.

 

Why is it a good idea to voluntarily pay this amount more and for a fixed period?

 

Even with an impending price rise the cheapest supplier will be cheaper than the amount you are fixed with even when that happens.

 

And the cheapest supplier will raise last which will probably be another 3 months saving at the cheapest tariff.

 

And then we will enter 2009, and who knows what that will bring? Although a good sign is petrol prices are lowering.

 

So no, I have to disagree with you. The person who will save most on energy will be the one who tracks the cheapest supplier in their region and switches to them whoever the cheapest supplier is at any given time.

 

You are just buying 'no price rises,' which is very different to saving on energy costs.

 

ps A fixed price that drops? And no cancellation fees???

 

Read your contract again!!

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I just wanted to say i have found this post very helpful, i nearly signed up to bg fixed prices until 2011!!! How foolish. Thanks guys. MM :D

 

Good for you!

 

Simple advice? Just switch to your cheapest supplier in your region and track the market every quarter or so and switch again if need be to whoever is cheapest then. They are only 28 day rolling contracts anyway.

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I think a lot depends on what deal you are being offered, and how much time you want to invest in monitoring the market.

 

I fixed my prices back in 2005, until 2010. Yes at the point of fixing the prices went up - but be nowhere near as much as they have continued to go up since then, so I'm a happy bunny.

 

That being said, I would be wary of a fixed price deal which involved an immediate increase and then only lasted around 1 year...

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