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    • Please can you avoid posting solid blocks of text. It is difficult for people to read especially when they are using a small screen such as a telephone. Well spaced and punctuated please. I hear what you say about the evidence – but do you have copies of it? And if so can we see it please. That's the point. We want to know what you have. As long as you have the evidence in your possession then you have some kind of control
    • Hi, the vehicle went to Audi Chingford on Thursday 13th May. I did state beforehand that I only wanted a diagnostic. The technician out of courtesy opened the drain letting huge deposits of water escape the seals. Video evidence was provided via AUDI cam. The link for the audi cam has been forwarded to BMW and Motonovo. I spoke to branch manager explained the situation and he stated he would sent me an email outlining the issue. Audi state this is not really an issue and more of a design flaw. However, the seals still have water ingress. I purchased the vehicle with £0 deposit on a 60 months HP plan for £520.00. The vehicle total was £21000. I did not go for any extended warranty. I live almost 70 miles away from the aftersales centre in Peterborough. I have previously uploaded the document I forwarded to BMW however it was in word format. I have had to buy a new tyre almost three days after purchasing vehicle. BMW still have not compensated me for the v62 cost as they said they would. 
    • I would suggest that you stop trying to rely on legal theory – as you understand it. Firstly, because we are dealing with practical/pragmatic situations and at a low value level where these arguments tend not to work. Secondly, because you clearly have misunderstood the assessment of quantum where there are breaches of obligations. The formula that you have cited above is the method of loss calculation in torts. In contract it is entirely different. The law of obligations generally attempts to remedy the breach. This means that in tort, damages seek to put you into the position you would have been in had the breach not occurred. In other words it returns you to your starting position – point zero. Contract damages attend put you into the position that you would have been had the breach not occurred but this is not your starting position, contract damages assume that the agreement in dispute had actually been carried out. This puts you into your final position. You sold an item for £XXX. Your expectation was that you your item would be correctly delivered and that you would be the beneficiary of £XXX. Your expectation loss is the amount that you sold the item for and that is all you are entitled to recover. If you want, you can try to sue for the larger sum – and we will help you. But if they ask for evidence of the value of the item as it was sold then I can almost guarantee that either you will be obliged to settle for the lesser sum – or else a judge will give you judgement but for the lesser sum. This will put you to the position that you would have been had there been no breach of contract. I understand from you now that when you dispatch the item you declared the retail cost to you and not your expected benefit of £XXX. To claim for the retail value in the circumstances would offend the rules relating to betterment. If you want to do it then we will help you – but don't be surprised if you take a tumble.  
    • I was caught speeding 3 times in the same week, on the same road. All times were 8-12mph higher than the limit. I was offered the course for the first offense and I now need to accept the other 2 offenses. I just want to be ready for what might come. Will I get the £100 fine and 3 points for each of them or do I face something more severe?  These are my only offenses in 8 years of driving.
    • I'll get my letter drafted this evening. Its an item I sold, which I'm also concerned about, as whilst I don't have my original purchase receipt (the best I have is my credit card statement showing a purchase from Car Audio Centre), I do unfortunately have the eBay listing where I sold it for much less. But as I said before this is now a question of compensation: true compensation would seek to put me back into the position I was in before the loss ie: that title would remain with me until my buyer has accepted this, and so compensation should be that which would be needed to replace the lost item. But in the world of instant electronic payment, it could be argued that as I had already been paid, the title to the goods had already transferred, and I was required to refund the buyer after the loss. And so, despite my declared value being the retail price - that which is needed to return me to my pre-sales position, the compensatory value should be the value I sold it for, which being a second-hand item from a private seller is lower. I still believe that I should be claiming for the item's full value, rather than how much I sold it for, as this is the same for insurance: we don't insure the value we paid, but rather the value of the item to put us back into the position we would be in if we ever needed to claim. Its for the loss adjuster to argue the toss
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      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Why don't you take a vote about the edit button?

 

As I posted on another thread, I can't see the problem, I would think there's a time limit on editing posts to avoid the occasional person who leaves wanting to remove all their old posts, or someone returning to spam, hence making a nonsense of various threads.

 

Perhaps one option is to quote the posts that, in your opinion, are incorrect and write a reply which explains your thoughts.

 

As I said earlier, almost all sites do this.

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An entire post of mine has just disappeared :-(

 

gh2008 can you look in your Inbox and see if you can see my reply to your last post on my Cabot thread? :-

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?267627-County-Court-Claim-form-received-Cabot/page3

 

I posted it and checked that it was definitely there too!

 

PS - I vote to keep the Edit Post button :p

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The text is too large when I'm on my laptop (1280x800), it's fine on my desktop though (1920x1080)

 

Knocking it down an increment with Ctrl+- makes it fine but then makes most of the internet look silly :S

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An entire post of mine has just disappeared :-(

 

gh2008 can you look in your Inbox and see if you can see my reply to your last post on my Cabot thread? :-

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?267627-County-Court-Claim-form-received-Cabot/page3

 

I posted it and checked that it was definitely there too!

 

PS - I vote to keep the Edit Post button :p

 

hi, my post disappeared after typing, and did it all again, just got used to this site, now finding it hard to find things again

on this new site, and the pictures looked nicer before.

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MY ADVICE IS BASED ON COMMON SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I AM NOT LEGALLY TRAINED, AND ALWAYS CHECK LEGAL ISSUES EITHER WITH A LEGAL PERSON, OR

THE APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION. :rolleyes:

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Well whilst everything's being updated on the site, no doubt for a very good reason, might be best to type your post and then copy and paste it to word just in case.

 

I preferred the old one but if the new one's going to be better, security wise, then I'm all for it.

 

I just want maaaaaa smilies back :lol:

 

Poor Webby - he must be having a right nightmare with all these moaning minnies!! Patience of a saint that one - I would normally insert a "nice" smilie here but I can't find one. These new ones look like they have major issues :p

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I'm not keen on the current layout.

 

The old format whilst VBulletins out of the box skin/layout (with a few variations of course) it worked, it was crisp, reasonably easy to navigate and everything (forum wise) had it's place and you knew where to find it.

 

This current layout is altogether different, it's scruffy/messy, nothing sort of ends as in all the colours/boxes blend in and it's quite hard to differentiate between the edge/borders.

 

Pastel colours are alright in a forum that maybe deals with basket weaving or aromatherapy but CAG is more businesslike. Gone has the sharp crisp look and in has come

a sort of Laura Ashley theme. Yuk!

 

 

My opinion is that it will put more people off using it than it will encourage others to join/post.

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This whole 'hovering' business to see a post before you click? It doesn't work my side of the fence! Running IE8 - any ideas?

 

I didn't even realise we had that. You mean in the list of threads, hovering over it should bring up a preview? I'm not seeing that in Firefox either

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ALSO laptop does not seem to sit right and text is right across the screen on some of the forum

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MY ADVICE IS BASED ON COMMON SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I AM NOT LEGALLY TRAINED, AND ALWAYS CHECK LEGAL ISSUES EITHER WITH A LEGAL PERSON, OR

THE APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION. :rolleyes:

IF I HAVE HELPED, PLEASE PRESS MY STAR, THANK YOU.:lol:

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Ok, I'm not the greatest user of CAG. I tend to stick to two main forums that I feel I can actively contribute to. Namely the Benefits Forum and the Bailiff Forum. This new version of software I'm finding very difficult to navigate and appreciate. The original links I had to CAG now just give a 404 error and I'm having to go 'the long way round' to get here. Also I can't even find the Bailiff Forum! To be honest, if this is progress then I think my days on CAG are done. Short but sweet. It's just way too complicated for me now. The 'old' software worked just fine.I knew where I was with it. If it ain't broke you shouldn't fix it!

To be fair, whilst typing this, I have made up my mind to leave CAG. Most of you won't know me and there'll be no loss there. However, I'll miss the Bailiff Forum and doing what little I can for people. However, the beauty of CAG is that there are many who will step up to the plate as we - the technophobes - step down.

Best wishes to the site and all who sail within her. For those who wish to stay in touch you'll know where to find me on Facebook.

Much love

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webby you got error on new posts need to increase a column its got letters below each other in VIEWS and go advanced brings up long empty page , problem with new thread buttom ? @ the moment brings up the long blank page just like go advanced does , this is in IE7

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i am being severely hampered with this new cag site

i cannot easily find new posts with few relplies to help on

i cannot easily find new posts to threads i am already subscribed to because there is no user cp tab

i cannot see the last person to post on those threads i have already contributed too either.

my time is limited on each session i have to waste faffing around.

 

if these issues are not sorted soon i will remove my assistance until they are

 

get it sorted guys...........................

 

i am on several forums that updated weeks ago and none have had these issues .

 

you can also enable 'view forum in 'xx' version to enable the user to see the forum the way it was and not be forced click away blindly to find anything because of no menus they can understand or have.

 

i don't mind helping when i've got 5 mins, but this is getting frustrating to the point of giving up because of excessive time wasted

 

 

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Although I appreciate the site upgrade may be necessary for a number of reasons, I have to question the layout.

Center alignment is fine for short sections of text but makes reading difficult for lengthier passages, which are often found on here.

I'm suffering eye strain since the change and expect many others will be experiencing the same problem.

Sorry to add to your list of woes.

 

Who ever told you Web Design was easy? They lied.

How does it go? ... 'You can please all of the people none of the time .... etc.'

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Although I appreciate the site upgrade may be necessary for a number of reasons, I have to question the layout.

Center alignment is fine for short sections of text but makes reading difficult for lengthier passages, which are often found on here.

I'm suffering eye strain since the change and expect many others will be experiencing the same problem.

Sorry to add to your list of woes.

 

Who ever told you Web Design was easy? They lied.

How does it go? ... 'You can please all of the people none of the time .... etc.'

 

FAO Webby

 

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

 

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1280 x 800

The last image in the last post has seriously broken the layout..might be best to set a limit of 600px wide

 

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.

 

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