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    • Hi, I have an old outstanding debt from 1994 due to MBNA for £20,000. The debt has been passed to various DCAs and is currently with PRA Group.  I sent them a CCA letter in January 2024. They acknowledged this letter and stated they would come back when they had more information, however the information did not arrive within the 12 working day scenario.. I have just received a copy of the agreement which goes back to 1994 from them. In their response letter they have stated " Please find enclosed documentation received to date: we are waiting further documents in order to complete your request. We have currently deemed this debt as unenforceable which means we are not able to take court or further action against you to recover the outstanding balance". They then go on to state "we are still legally entitled to:  1.Contact you to ask and repay what you owe 2.Pass your details onto a third party collection agency 3. Continue to report your account with the credit reference bureaux (as appropriate)". I'm at a loss as to what I should do next and would appreciate any guidance on this matter. I am currently paying £5.00 pcm. TIA      
    • My understanding is that they won't provide the name to me whether the investigation is Live or Closed, & I have no legal rep as I didn't have P.I. Cover on my policy, & am intending to claim using OIC.org.uk, but remain completely stuck as they 100% cannot open a claim on the portal without both the Reg. No. & Name of the other driver.  
    • thanks again ftmdave, your words are verey encouraging and i do appreciate them. i have taken about 2 hours to think of a letter to write to the ceo...i will paste it below...also how would i address a ceo? do i just put his name? or put dear sir? do you think its ok?  i would appreciate feedback/input from anybody if anything needs to be added/taken away, removed if incorrect etc. i am writing it on behalf of my friend..she is the named driver  - im the one with the blue badge and owner of the car - just for clarification. thanks in adavance to everyone.       My friend and I are both disabled and have been a victim of disability discrimination on the part of your agents.   I have been incorrectly 'charged' by your agent 'excel parking' for overstaying in your car park, but there was no overstay. The letter I recieved said the duration of stay was 15 minutes but there is a 10 minute grace period and also 5 minutes consideration time, hence there was no duration of stay of 15 minutes.   I would like to take this oppertunity to clarify what happend at your Gravesend store. We are struggling finacially due to the 'cost of living crisis' and not being able to work because we are both disabled, we was attracted to your store for the 10 items for £10 offer. I suffer dyslexia and depression and my friend who I take shopping has a mobility disability. We went to buy some shopping at your Gravesend branch of Iceland on 28th of December 2023, we entered your car park, tried to read and understand the parking signs and realised we had to pay for parking. We then realised we didnt have any change for the parking machine so went back to look for coins in the car and when we couldnt find any we left. As my friend has mobility issues it takes some time for me to help him out of the car, as you probably understand this takes more time than it would a normal able bodied person. As I suffer dyslexia I am sure you'll agree that it took me more time than a normal person to read and understand the large amount of information at the pay & display machine. After this, it took more time than an able bodied person to leave the car park especially as I have to help my friend on his crutches etc get back into the car due to his mobility disability. All this took us 15 minutes.   I was the driver of my friends car and he has a blue badge. He then received a 'notice to keeper' for a 'failure to purchase a parking tariff'. On the letter it asked to name the driver if you wasnt the driver at the time, so as he wasnt the driver he named me. I appealed the charge and told them we are disabled and explained the situation as above. The appeal was denied, and even more so was totally ignored regarding our disabilities and that we take longer than an able bodied person to access the car and read the signs and understand them. As our disabilities were ignored and disregarded for the time taken I believe this is discrimination against us. I cannot afford any unfair charges of this kind as I am severely struggling financially. I cannot work and am a carer for my disabled Son who also has a mental and mobility disability. I obviously do not have any disposable income and am in debt with my bills. So its an absolute impossibility for me to pay this incorrect charge.     After being discriminated by your agent my friend decided to contact 'iceland customer care team' on my behalf and again explained the situation and also sent photos of his disabled blue badge and proof of disability. He asked the care team to cancel the charge as ultimately its Iceland's land/property and you have the power over excel parking to cancel it. Again we was met with no mention or consideration for our disability and no direct response regarding the cancellation, all we was told was to contact excel parking. He has replied over 20 times to try to get the 'care team' to understand and cancel this but its pointless as we are just ignored every time. I believe that Ignoring our disability is discrimination which is why I am now contacting you.     I have noticed on your website that you are 'acting' to ease the 'cost of living crisis' : https://about.iceland.co.uk/2022/04/05/iceland-acts-to-ease-the-cost-of-living-crisis/   If you really are commited to helping people in this time of crisis ..and especially two struggling disabled people, can you please cancel this charge as it will only cause more damage to our mental health if you do not.  
    • I've also been in touch via the online portal to the Police's GDPR team, to request the name of the other Driver. Got this response:   Dear Mr. ---------   Our Ref: ----------   Thank you for your request which has been forwarded to the Data Protection Team for consideration.   The data you are requesting is third party, we would not give this information directly to you.   Your solicitor or legal team acting on our behalf would approach us directly with your signed (wet) consent allowing us to consider the request further.   I note the investigation is showing as ‘live’ at this time, we would not considered sharing data for suggested injury until the investigation has been closed.   If you wish to pursue a claim once the investigation has been closed please signpost your legal team to [email protected]   Kind regards   ----------------- Data Protection Assistant    
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Hi Dotty50

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe one of the Caggers with a legal background will have a clue.

I do follow your threads and can see that you seem to be keeping on top of the situation. Our ultimate aim must be to get these debts statute barred so be careful about doing anything that looks like you are acknowledging the debt!

This is in the back of my mind all the time as a mistake could extend the crap we have to go through with all of this.

Keep fighting!

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Hi Dotty50, I reckon the changes to the site have thrown a few people as I had problems with it so I guess everyone did. Hopefully they'll be back as the site seems to be getting back to normal, but with adverts within posts to try to raise funds for the site. Still don't have everything like before though it seems!

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Having heard nothing for ages I received the obligatory annual statement today. As I have paid nothing to them since disputing it the amount is the same. I have also just received an Equifax report which shows the loan as satisfied, yipee! But then shows a defaulted debt to Arrow Global Ltd for the same amount, boo, hiss! Arrow also apparently have my two MBNA credit card disputed debts too, which also show as satisfied with MBNA. Strange thing is I have heard nothing from Arrow, ever! As I started this process in March 2009 and my MBNA debts appear to have been sold I find this strange. Are Arrow part of MBNA or have MBNA cleverly sold these debts to Arrow who cannot get anywhere with them because I am not in the UK?

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Just subbing, like you exchange I'm having a drama with Connaught Collections who have my MBNA loan debt from 2002, stopped paying it in July this year. They however said they would pass my debt onto a lawyer in the country in which I reside (last week). It seems strange that MBNA have your EU address and have not done the same thing. I best SAR MBNA, it's only for 2 grand but still from reading your thread, it seems MBNA don't know their backside from their elbow. And I think it will halt the action from the DCA aswell for at least 40 days. PM

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Hi PM, MBNA must be the most disorganised organisation on the planet! But then again my experience of American run companies makes this no surprise. They are full of threats like all creditors but in the end seem to rarely act on their threats as they know it will cost them money to attempt anything so they prefer to threaten and hope you give in. I am subbed to your thread and can see that you have a slightly more complicated scenario than me. The good news is that this will confuse there legal people even more! Good luck with them. Exchange

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As you can tell from the date of my last posting, nothing but annual loan statements until today. Letter saying loan account has been transferred to AOF 2 Sarl (catchy name - I think not!) and Morrgate Loan Servicing Limited will maintain my personal info! I'm guessing this is code for Moorgate will start pestering me.

Anyone else had this?

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Hi Dotty50, thanks for responding. I have looked and found out all I need to know, which is that they are part of Paragon Finance which owns a few companies dealing with debt and that I should ignore them like all the others!

More annoying are Capquest at the moment who leave constant messages on my mobile without having received any correspondence from them! I don't even know what they are chasing.

To anybody who reads this, these companies should never be spoken to on the phone. Only deal with them in writing as it provides a paper audit trail should you ever end up in court.

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The saga continues with a letter from Moorgate saying they have appointed Arden Credit Management, who in turn have written asking for money. Can't give what I haven't got so ignoring until I hear again.

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4 letters to date from Arden. Empty threats of court action and CCJ's which is all a bit difficult for them when I am not in the UK. You'd think having addressed the letter to a foreign country they might realise that they are talking nonsense. DCA's and common sense don't go together, but we all know that already!

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''Final Demand'' received from Arden. Give you seven days to reply to a letter postmarked 3 days after the date on the letter, and sending to a foreign address which will of course take longer to arrive, muppets!!

Threatening a home visit, so they will need to book flights, and solicitors taking action. Hope they know how to deal with foreign courts.

Ignoring as always.

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Hi exchange

 

Nice one. For the benefit of others reading, I always respond by email to missives acknowledging receipt of their missive dated x and received y (and staple the annotated envelope to said missive for my audit trail); this misuse of dates is a standard harassment tactic (and often used with time limited special discount offers) and I find it useful subtlety to remind them of this: I have no idea why they would do this were they to have a legally enforceable:-) debt.

 

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Thanks for replying victoria_siempre. Always good to know someone is looking, although I am way beyond the stage where I needed reassurance constantly like we all do at the beginning of this long, long process!

Personally, I would avoid emailing any CCC or DCA as I have enough unwanted calls and post without openning another avenue for them to communicate, but if you prefer to communicate via email and this stops other forms of harassement then maybe it's a way of keeping things under control.

Good luck with your battles v.

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