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basically abbey charged me about £400 in total for direct debits going over my balance

each time at a ridiculous £60!!!

it started with a small one, £35 for going £5 over on a debit payment.

I missed this, i was just a teenager with a part time job and a phone bill so i didnt check my bills often. I received a further £60 (total of £35 for over balance and £25 for not saying my direct debit)

This hug amount finevs my part time work meant that without realizing i was not able to pay the next one, now we are at £150 i am a student with a small earning and i really struggle.

Here however is the worst bit.

I removed everything from this account just my phone bill was left and i was due to move it when - not understanding the confusing breakdown letters, i went in store to ask ho wmuch i need in my account to stop all charges if i remove my direct debit. I was advised £60 would be enough. Content that this mad sense as i was being charged £60 a time and now cancelling my phone bill i paid this amount to make my balance £0.

Two months later, being cautious i check what i thought was a dormant account as there is a £120 charge!!! No letters, I have ben away at uni so i hadnt checked my statement but no red post to warn me or my mother who always does if anything suspicious comes. Heartbroken, i pay it, but i do not earn this kind of money in 4 months and really struggle to get through uni!

I am furrious and contact them my phone and writing to no use, i involved the FOS and the result is that the do not charge me the outstanding £25 - WHAT OUTSTANDING £25!?

I am so upset and just cannot think how to go about solving this mess :(

I have tried for such a long time to claim back my money with tearful phone calls letters and contacting the FOS but everything takes so long as is so confusing i cant keep up whilst at university. If i knew i was doing the right thing i would be faster but i am shooting in the dark

I desperate to get even some of this money back - please please help me with some guidance.

Thank you so much in advance

Amber Rose

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BCOBS?

 

dx

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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Hi Amber

 

Same thing happened to me. First thing's first do not deal over the phone with this matter, go in branch and do it. Everytime I called my calls were not logged - funny that. Get them to refund all the charges dating back to the original £5 overdrawn because the accumulation of fees is not in line with the amount you went overdue by.

 

DO NOT LEAVE THE BRANCH UNTIL THEY DO IT.

 

Doesn't matter if they tell you anything from can't be done to no one to authorise, do not leave the branch.

 

I managed to get a good couple of hundred out of them doing that as I only went £1 overdrawn, didn't know, then they whacked on a monthly fee for none use when I was assured that the account was closed.

 

Hope it helps, Good Luck

M

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