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    • Thank-you dx for your feedback. That is the reason I posted my opinion, because I am trying to learn more and this is one of the ways to learn, by posting my opinions and if I am incorrect then being advised of the reasons I am incorrect. I am not sure if you have educated me on the points in my post that would be incorrect. However, you are correct on one point, I shall refrain from posting on any other thread other than my own going forward and if you think my post here is unhelpful, misleading or in any other way inappropriate, then please do feel obliged to delete it but educate me on the reason why. To help my learning process, it would be helpful to know what I got wrong other than it goes against established advice considering the outcome of a recent court case on this topic that seemed to suggest it was dismissed due to an appeal not being made at the first stage. Thank-you.   EDIT:  Just to be clear, I am not intending to go against established advice by suggesting that appeals should ALWAYS be made, just my thoughts on the particular case of paying for parking and entering an incorrect VRN. Also, I continue to be grateful for any advice you give on my own particular case.  
    • you can have your humble opinion.... You are very new to all this private parking speculative invoice game you have very quickly taken it upon yourself to be all over this forum, now to the extent of moving away from your initial thread with your own issue that you knew little about handling to littering the forum and posting on numerous established and existing threads, where advice has already been given or a conclusion has already resulted, with your theories conclusions and observations which of course are very welcomed. BUT... in some instances, like this one...you dont quite match the advice that the forum and it's members have gathered over a very long consensual period given in a tried and trusted consistent mannered thoughtful approach. one could even call it forum hi-jacking and that is becoming somewhat worrying . dx
    • Yeah, sorry, that's what I meant .... I said DCBL because I was reading a few threads about them discontinuing claims and getting spanked in court! Meant  YOU  Highview !!!  🖕 The more I read this forum and the more I engage with it's incredible users, the more I learn and the more my knowledge expands. If my case gets to court, the Judge will dismiss it after I utter my first sentence, and you DCBL and Highview don't even know why .... OMG! .... So excited to get to court!
    • Yep, I read that and thought about trying to find out what the consideration and grace period is at Riverside but not sure I can. I know they say "You must tell us the specific consideration/grace period at a site if our compliance team or our agents ask what it is"  but I doubt they would disclose it to the public, maybe I should have asked in my CPR 31.14 letter? Yes, I think I can get rid of 5 minutes. I am also going to include a point about BPA CoP: 13.2 The reference to a consideration period in 13.1 shall not apply where a parking event takes place. I think that is Deception .... They giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other! One other point to note, the more I read, the more I study, the more proficient I feel I am becoming in this area. Make no mistake DBCL if you are reading this, when I win in court, if I have the grounds to make any claims against you, such as breach of GDPR, I shall be doing so.
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On BBC Watchdog tonight (08/09/2011) there was a 'plumber' featured called Mohammed Shamraz. This guy was trained and employed by Reactfast, a company bought by Homeserve last year.

Eyes opened and back in control of my life thanks to this site x

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Hi I have a water heater which was installed in a new build flat and is about 4years old. I also have a homeserve policy which i continued after the 2 years was up with the developer of the flat. about 2 months ago my water storage heater developed a leak. It took Homeserve 6 visits to finally diagnose the problem. They are now saying it is beyond economical repair which seems to be their line to everything. I am not sure why a water storage heater of 4 years is considered beyond repair. It makes me feel as though i have paid insurance under false pretences. Is there anything I can do? The manufacturer of the water storage heater has gone bust.

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Well my goodness I have read a lot of worrying things here about Homeserve and now feel to frightmened to let them any where near my boiler for fear of making matters worse. The odd few replies in favour of Homeserve do not make me feel any better. I suppose standards generally over all customer service will continue to drop as our country gets less well of in respect to the rest of the world.

I did send an e-mail asking about the cost of a service and they replied saying just admin department and to try somewhere else in the company, which to me does not sound like they are happy to serve.

I think I will probably just leave the servicing and save up the money for a local private boiler man. Some very worrying comments on this page and I don't think you can all be wrong.

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Homeserve - one huge problem - their contract is not worth the paper upon which it is written.

 

We have a combi-boiler. We were told by their service engineer, that it was not "gas-safe", and required a new inlet gas pipe of a larger size. [The boiler's proprietary gas inlet socket was the size of pipe in use]. They demanded we had the larger size.

 

The boiler started leaking water. not gas. We phoned Homeserve to come and fix it. They refused on grounds that it was not marked as gas-safe in their database register, and then demanded an £87.50p call out fee if they were to come.

 

We have since had two gas engineers come in and who said it was completely gas safe.

 

Here is an instance how Homserve are avoiding their contractual obligations.

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