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    • Hi, I've been reading the invaluable advice on this forum and reading about the problems with Evri and lost delivery of items.  From what I gather the initial steps after having exhausted every's own lost item claim process is to draft a Letter of Claim, I think it is called and to register with the government Money Claims.  I have got a login for Money Claims and have made an initial stab at the letter but I'm not certain I have got it right. Am I right to assume that having exhausted Evri customer service's claims process and having received the denial of any compensation because the laptop I was sending is on the non-compensatory list that my next step would be to send the Letter of Claim to them? Let me provide some basic details which I hopefully have addressed in the letter. I purchased a laptop through Amazon.co.uk which a business in Belfast sold refurbished laptops through.  They had a 30 day money back guarantee for a full refund if you have any issues with the laptop.  I have the invoice from Amazon showing the purchase.  On 27 April, 2024 before the end of the 30 day period I used their ParcelShop (inside a Tesco) to send the laptop back and have the tracking reference mentioned in the letter.  As mentioned in the letter there was they advised they could not give me or sell me any insurance because laptops are on the non-compensatory list so I just paid the normal delivery cost.  It was scanned as leaving the ParcelShop on 29 April and the tracking has been like that ever since.  After a 28 working day Evri claim process they gave the expected response that they could not provide any compensation and simply could not proceed with my claim. I was hoping to get some advice on whether I go ahead now and email this to Customer Services straightaway and should I send a hard-copy to the Evri address as well?  Or are there any steps I have missed out on first?  I believe 14 days is the reasonable period of time for them to respond so if I were to send it tomorrow, for example 12 June then I should expect a reply by 26 June, is that correct and fair?  And assuming they don't reply with a full refund then I would then go down the government Money Claims site to proceed with that? Sorry for all the questions, I want to make sure I go about it properly.  I'll continue to read through other cases on here so I can get an even better handle on the process. I attached a LOC, happy for any edits or updates that will make it even better. Thanks so much for anyone's help! Regards, Matt Evri letter of claim.docx
    • The date was 3 June. Get on MCOL now. The legal principle is that, even if you defence is late, if the other party hasn't requested judgement, then your defence takes priority and is accepted. You might be in time. When I say now I mean now.  Recently we had someone who was nine days' late and this was pointed out to them at 5:30pm.  They faffed around till 11pm.  When they went on MCOl they saw that judgement had been entered at 7pm. Every minute is vital. File the below standard defence if you still can - 1.  The Defendant is the recorded keeper of [motor vehicle]. 2.  It is denied that the Defendant entered into a contract with the Claimant. 3.  As held by the Upper Tax Tribunal in Vehicle Control Services Limited v HMRC [2012] UKUT 129 (TCC), any contract requires offer and acceptance.  The Claimant was simply contracted by the landowner to provide car-park management services and is not capable of entering into a contract with the Defendant on its own account, as the car park is owned by and the terms of entry set by the landowner.  Accordingly, it is denied that the Claimant has authority to bring this claim.    4.  In any case it is denied that the Defendant broke the terms of a contract with the Claimant. 5.  The Claimant is attempting double recovery by adding an additional sum not included in the original offer.  6.  The Particulars of Claim is denied in its entirety.  It is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief at all.
    • Hi friends,  I’m a bit worried I may have got confused with timings here. I thought I had 33 days from my acknowledgment to submit a defence but the date added above says 3/6/24.   have I missed the date?   if so how can I apply for an exception due to my disability and problems with deadlines and dates etc (ADHD)?   what should I submit as a defence?   I’ve had no reply from BW so far    just been back on MCOL and it says 28 days from service if I completed an acknowledgment of service so does that mean 28 days from that of acknowledgement (I.e. 16/5) which would make deadline for defence 14/6?   Thanks! Panicking here.
    • Normally we don't advise playing your cards early in a snotty letter, but as you have appealed we might as well use what you wrote in the appeal against them. There is no rush, you have until 6 July to get it to them.  See what the other regulars think too. How about something like this? -   Dear Rachael & Sean, cheers for your Letter of Claim.  I rolled around on the floor in laughter at the idea you'd actually thought I'd take such tripe seriously and would cough up! As usual you'll have been too bone idle to do any due diligence.  Had you done so you would have seen that I appealed to your client.  Indeed the driver on the day is a textbook example of having done exactly what you should do when you do not wish to be bound by the T&Cs in a private car park. Of course none of that mattered to the spivs you represent but do you really want to put such a useless case in front of a judge? To be fair, your clients are very useful members of the human race - as comedians.  How I loved the page turner of their antics at The Citrus Building in Bournemouth.  It was chuckle after chuckle reading about them, letter after letter, month after month, insisting they were legally in the right, even through someone who had done just the first day of a GCSE law course could have told them they weren't.  Until the denouement - BOOM - an absolute hammering in court.  In fact - SLAM, BANG - managing to lose twice against the same motorist for the same car park in front of two different judges. Your client can either drop their foolishness now or get yet another tolchocking* in court where I will go for an unreasonable costs order under CPR 27.14(2)(g) and spend the dosh on a nice summer holiday, while every day laughing at your clients' expense. I look forward to your deafening silence. COPIED TO COUNTRYWIDE PARKING MANAGEMENT LTD   *  This word is used under licence from Brassnecked
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I was also wondering if I could charge them £25 for each of the 5 letters I've sent them during this dispute. When I think of what it involves:

Postage ......................................... .......... £1.00

20mile round trip to the P.O. @ 50p.ml ............. £10.00

My time for producing the letter and posting it. £14.00

 

I'm about to send my 6th letter so that amounts to another £150.00

 

They don't hesitate in charging us for their letters!

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I've replied as follows:

 

Yorkshire Bank Customer Relations.

20 Waterloo Street

Glasgow

G2 6DB

 

10th September 2006.

 

 

Re: Account numbers XXXXXXX.

Response to settlement offer.

 

Dear Hilary McGuinness.

Thank you for your letter dated 6th September.

I respectfully decline your offer of settlement and request, once again, that

you return to me all charges imposed on this account, totalling £XXX.XX with no conditions attached.

 

I will accept the sum offered only as part settlement and on the clear

understanding that I will pursue recovery of the remainder, with a County Court

claim if necessary with interest @ 8% and the relevant charges added.

My letter before action sent previously indicates that you have until 12th

September to respond before Court action commences, but I am willing to give

you a further 14 days to respond to this letter before I commence court action.

There will be no further extension to this timescale.

 

I trust this clarifies my position.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Russ R

 

I just hope it gets the right response this time!

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Hi Russ, good lad, don't back down on this, they will pay up eventually.

I'm just a step behind you in my claim against clydesdale but thay have asked for more 4 more weeks to investigate after LBA...no chance !

 

Good luck bud

 

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Following on from my thread, to cut a long story short and to save alot of duplicate reading:

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/yorkshire-bank-clydesdale-bank/14994-russ-r-yorkshire-bank.html

 

YB offered me 50% of my fees back and sent me a cheque. I replied:

 

Dear Hilary McGuinness.

Thank you for your letter dated 6th September.

I respectfully decline your offer of settlement and request, once again, that

you return to me all charges imposed on this account, totalling £XXX.XX with no conditions attached.

 

I will accept the sum offered only as part settlement and on the clear

understanding that I will pursue recovery of the remainder, with a County Court

claim if necessary with interest @ 8% and the relevant charges added.

My letter before action sent previously indicates that you have until 12th

September to respond before Court action commences, but I am willing to give

you a further 14 days to respond to this letter before I commence court action.

There will be no further extension to this timescale.

 

I trust this clarifies my position.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Etc.

 

Today I had a reply saying that if I encash the cheque, it will be taken that I accept it as full and final settlement and that their position remains unchanged.

 

Is there an interest calculator that works?

 

 

Do I then fill in the moneyclaim form.

Thanks.

Russ.

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Hi Russ, I have just received the same letter with a cheque for 50% of my charges. I had been wondering if I could accept the cheque and carry on the claim for the rest of the money or if I should send it back. After reading your thread I think that I will probably do the same as you and send a letter back like the one you have posted. Will keep watching to see how you get on.

 

Janette

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So are you going to cash the cheque and claim the remainder or are you going to send it back and claim the full amount?

Tried the interest calculator its really easy, couldn't believe how much the interest is - another grand on top of my total- they can afford it!

 

Janette

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Hi Russ, I have just received the same letter with a cheque for 50% of my charges. I had been wondering if I could accept the cheque and carry on the claim for the rest of the money or if I should send it back. After reading your thread I think that I will probably do the same as you and send a letter back like the one you have posted. Will keep watching to see how you get on.

 

Janette

 

 

I'm pretty sure we can cash and carry on, but not cashed mine yet.

Please can someone confirm this for us.

Russ.

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I like that term "cash and carry on". A lot of people have accepted cheques as part payment and informed various banks that they will pursue the balance.

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