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    • The postcode is an important point. You cannot be in two postcodes at the same time and the contract only covers the F area and not the E area where Met placed your car. See there is some   advantages in with idiots.🙂 The other fact about the electric spaces is that as you are not allowed to park there, the sign is prohibitory so cannot  offer a contract anyway. and another biggie in your favour is you were not the driver and the PCN does not comply with PoFA. I had another look yesterday at the PCN and there is another error since it does not say that the driver is responsible to pay the charge during the first 28 days. Schedule 4 Section 9 [2][b] (b)inform the keeper that the driver is required to pay parking charges in respect of the specified period of parking and that the parking charges have not been paid in full; so that is another nail in their coffin and it s something I would include in  your WS since that is one that every Judge would accept as a failure to comply. As far as their WS is concerned some of them leave it to the last minute to prevent Defendants being able to counteract their claims. However if they leave it too late [ie after the stipulated time] you can email yours to the Court on the last day and complain at the bottom of your WS that you have not received it and therefore you are asking the Court not to accept their WS. In your case it isn't that important since you have a virtual walkover in Court. I would be surprised if they don't concede beforehand. It is a lost cause for them. Not that I would advocate parking in their electric bay in future with a petrol driven car again.🙂
    • I think the post code 0 v O is nonsense personally and would just annoy the judge.  Cases are decided informally at small claims and judges are not interested in the weakest of trivialities. Understood re FY v EY.  So add to the Unfair PCN section that the PCN includes the wrong post code and places you at a residential area rather than the car park in question. You should wait till 7 June before filing your WS - as a Litigant-in-Person you wont't be penalised for being a day late - to see if MET's WS turns up.  It will also give you a chance to see if they have paid the hearing fee.  If it doesn't turn up you can attack them for defying court directions.  If it does turn up you can ridicule their arguments.  Win win. Also you can see if they have bottled it - which they have done with the last two cases we have here. I think the exact points of your WS have become a tad confusing - and I have heartily contributed to the confusion! - so can you please add the latest version. I think the post code 0 v O is nonsense personally and would just annoy the judge.  Cases are decided informally at small claims and judges are not interested in the weakest of trivialities. Understood re FY v EY.  So add to the Unfair PCN section that the PCN includes the wrong post code and places you at a residential area rather than the car park in question. You should wait till 7 June before filing your WS - as a Litigant-in-Person you wont't be penalised for being a day late - to see if MET's WS turns up.  It will also give you a chance to see if they have paid the hearing fee.  If it doesn't turn up you can attack them for defying court directions.  If it does turn up you can ridicule their arguments.  Win win. Also you can see if they have bottled it - which they have done with the last two cases we have here. I think the exact points of your WS have become a tad confusing - and I have heartily contributed to the confusion! - so can you please add the latest version. I think the post code 0 v O is nonsense personally and would just annoy the judge.  Cases are decided informally at small claims and judges are not interested in the weakest of trivialities. Understood re FY v EY.  So add to the Unfair PCN section that the PCN includes the wrong post code and places you at a residential area rather than the car park in question. You should wait till 7 June before filing your WS - as a Litigant-in-Person you wont't be penalised for being a day late - to see if MET's WS turns up.  It will also give you a chance to see if they have paid the hearing fee.  If it doesn't turn up you can attack them for defying court directions.  If it does turn up you can ridicule their arguments.  Win win. Also you can see if they have bottled it - which they have done with the last two cases we have here. I think the exact points of your WS have become a tad confusing - and I have heartily contributed to the confusion! - so can you please add the latest version.
    • Thank you Dave for jumping in yesterday and advising not to send off the letter I wrote. I am sorry Clou but I thought at the time that both car parks were owned by Alliance. Before doing a snotty letter does anyone in your family able to alos drive your car apart from yourself and are you the keeper?
    • Thanks for this. UPS never said they delivered to the wrong address. Tracking just showed as delivered. EBay couldn’t find it for weeks and then said they found it and it had chocolate in it. Something clearly doesn’t add up here.
    • Try to think things through logically & legally - the two go together as the civil court system in England is pretty decent and easy to get your head round. 1.  Say you & I got into legal dispute.  Who could sue who?  Well I could sue you and you could sue me.  My next-door neighbour couldn't sue you and your best mate couldn't sue me because the case would have nowt to do with them.  The same goes for a DCA.  It's not their debt.  They can do nothing. 2.  Of course a DCA can't affect your credit score.  If they could, then there would be nothing stopping you picking on someone you dislike, saying they owed you a billion pounds, and affecting their credit score.  Logically there must be more to it than some daft allegation.  CCJs are issued and credit scores wrecked after a judge has decided on the matter and the losing party has still refused to pay.  With nine grand in play the matter will not magically go away but you need to gen up and seperate daft threats from paper tigers from concrete threats which could really cause you trouble. The others are right - you need to inform the original creditor of your address in order to avoid a backdoor CCJ. Also, why did you decide not to sue UPS who have admitted to delivering to the wrong address which in turn led to the theft of your goods?
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We took out car insurance with Admiral in April 2010 and paid the whole year up front. At the time we lived on a busy road and had to park on the road.

 

In January we moved house. We notified Admiral that we had moved to a safer area and that the car was now parked on a driveway, behind a security gate. Thanks they said, we'll charge you approx £15 for updating our records and about £15.00 for the less secure parking and worse area...Hang on a sec we said, it’s a safer area, look at the police data base and we're now parked off road. Admiral wouldn’t budge.

 

We then received a letter saying they wanted the [approx] £30 immediately. We telephoned and asked for a bit of time to pay as we were strapped for cash. No worries they said.

 

Before the payment date we rang again and asked for a bit more time. Again they said no worries, we'll put an "indefinite suspension" on the time to pay.

 

Today (4th March) we receive two letters from Admiral. Both are dated 25th February. Slightly different wording in each but both inform us that they have already cancelled the insurance as of 15th February ... so we have unwittingly been driving around uninsured for nearly 3 weeks. And, to add insult to injury, they want £16.00 from us for the privilege of having our insurance cancelled /for our having been driving about uninsured /for them stealing two months premiums from us... We telephoned Admiral, explained what had happened, and their reply was along the lines of "too bad, not bothered, your insurance is cancelled."

 

We are, to put it mildly, absolutely livid! We’ve reported this to the Financial Ombudsman. They’ve given us a reference number and are writing to Admiral. The FO seemed to agree that this was shocking because (1) Admiral had told us they had put an "indefinite suspension" on the payment (2) they wrote to us after cancelling the insurance, leaving us uninsured for around 3 weeks (3) they want money to cancel the insurance they had specifically told us they would not cancel...

 

Apparently we have to allow 8 weeks for Admiral to get back to us. Then we can ask the FO to investigate. Meanwhile, we have been relieved of around 2 months insurance, are expected to pay around £45.00 in "charges" and have had our insurance cancelled (which will presumably have a knock-on effect on future insurance).

 

We have taken out insurance with another company but feel we have been totally misled / defrauded (two months premiums gone to waste) / libelled (they'll probably notify their database they cancelled our insurance / ripped-off - "charges" etc

 

We are thinking of pursuing them through the courts for damages etc. Anyone else had this sort of trouble with their insurers?

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  • 2 weeks later...

SIMILAR situation with them NOT telling us we were uninsured but on 2 cars (multi-car policy) now they are trying to FINE US!? but £175 is this even legal?

 

Like you we paid upfront like you they charged us for changes (that should have been a reduction in the logical world) AND WORSE than that i think that must be when they changed our policy date from May 2011 to Feb 2011 stealing 3 months from us?

 

I have repeatedly questioned the end of insurance date with them but NO-ONE seems to know or has BOTHERED to get back to me when they made a mistake on our insurance initially the advisor said "no-one's really got their head around multi car and how it works yet so i apologise for the mistake but TBH this was bound to happen sooner or later"!!??

 

Does anyone know if you can get a statement of everything paid and for what from an insurance company please? and if so what i should ask for?

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I sent them a very strongly worded letter, giving them the reference I had been given by the Financial Ombudsman and threatenting to take them to court, talk to the media etc etc if I did not get a resolution within 7 days. And I complained in similar terms via their website. I also checked my phone records and sent them details of every call I had made showing date, time, duration and number called.

 

On day five of the 7-day deadline I had a call from a Complaint Executive who apologised profusely and said that it was all their fault blah blah. She suggested re-instating the policy. No good as we'd taken out cover elsewhere. (I said I thought that it was illegal to have two sets of insurance for the same vehicle and she said it wouldn't matter for a short time???).

 

So she offered a refund of approx £34 and suggested rounding-it up to £50 as a gesture of goodwill. We negotiated. I got the offer increased to £34 + £50 goodwill. She then insisted she had to refund the debit card I had used to pay the premium due to "anti-money laundering". What the heck has this got to do with money laundering I said, you cancelled the insurance... she insisted she had to refund the card. I suggested that I'd be happy to go back to the Financial Ombudsman (I understand raising a complaint costs these firms money) and suddenly she decided she could send a cheque after all.

 

Today I received said cheque, it had been sent to the old address (how predictable) - thankfully I have a re-direct with the Post Office.

 

What she did say was that the agents had not followed company guidelines and the matter would be taken up with their managers. She was also extremely anxious about the company's reputation.

 

Hope this helps. bb

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thanks yeah it DEFO gives me a starting point with them!!

 

btw - I'm VERY frustrated with the call centre peeps too was there a number you rang to speak to the right department first time? if so could i ask what it is please?

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The call centre numbers I called were 0871 882 8208 and 0871 882 0000 - they were hopeless, refused to help, forgot to mention the policy had been cancelled etc.

The complaints people can be contacted by email at [email protected] and the telephone number I have for Yvonne Seage, Complaint Executive, is 0800 118 1695 ext 835705.

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  • 2 years later...

I really did my price comparison shopping and Admiral came up best for price... there is a very good reason. They are pathetic. I am trying to be neutral but they are what they are. When joining a man phoned me back and sold me a couple of cheap little extras, fair enough, but I asked for my mid month payments to be changed to the 1st of each month as my partner and I prefer this. "Yeah that's no problems sir!" yada yada. I'm sure you see where this is going... didn't happen. I assumed it had, mid month they try to take the cash, I didn't have it ( I get paid weekly) letter comes through saying the direct debit has been missed.

 

I phone again, this time a lady who spreads the missed payment over the rest of the policy, changes the date to the 1st and sets up the direct debit again. Phew! Glad that's sorted! I go on my two week holiday leaving £300 in the bank for the payment on the 1st, wouldn't want a repeat of last time.......... Didn't get set up.

 

I call back today actually, (first day back in UK), angry now, as the direct debit is cancelled, they want £360 in a 8 days or it's £46.50 cancellation fee and the outstanding payment that had to be spread and the September payment. It's a D20 they say so you can't just pay the two payments over the phone and be up to date, there is nothing we can do. Utter Garbage.

 

I asked why there was no communication of this issue via email or a phone call.

 

We sent you one on the 8th of September...

No you didn't I have my email open...

Oh, well sometimes it can go to your portal...

Sometimes! Why didn't you send it to my email I have registered?

Well, sometimes we send it to your portal...

But if I believe there to be no issue why would I check the portal?

Sorry that's the way it is

 

Well you know what? If I can stop one poor soul signing up to this incompetent circus that is Admiral then I have not wasted my time. Remember fellow consumers, you get what you pay for.

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[email protected]

 

According to info online the above is an email address to the PA of Admirals CEO Henry Engelhardt

 

I would suggest that you register an official complaint by email to [email protected] and copy in to the CEO's PA.

 

Admiral have obviously failed on 2 occasions to follow your payment instructions. There is no reason why they cannot collect the current outstanding premium and then collect the remaining payments each month on the 1st.

 

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