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    • Thank you. You contacted directly with the parcel broker so your best option is to proceed directly against them for breach of contract. I hope you have read enough to understand that you will not be able to rely on the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Do you understand why? Have Parcel to Go giving you a reason for declining reimbursement? Do you have anything in writing from your customer which shows that they did not refuse delivery and which identifies the actual circumstances of the situation?
    • Which Court have you received the claim from?  CIVIL NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE, NORTHAMPTON Name of the Claimant?  LOWELL PORTFOLIO LTD How many defendant's joint or self?  SELF Date of issue – top right hand corner of the claim form – this in order to establish the time line you need to adhere to.  03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  THE CLAIM IS FOR THE SUM OF £6000 DUE TO THE DEFENDANT UNDER AN AGREEMENT REGULATED BY THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 FOR A LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC ACCOUNT WITH AN ACCOUNT REFERENCE OF (ACCOUNT NO. 16 DIGITS LONG). THE DEFENDANT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTRACTUAL PAYMENTS REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT AND A DEFAULT NOTICE WAS SERVED UNDER S.87(1) OF THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 WHICH HAS NOT BEEN COMPLIED WITH. THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. THE CLAIM INCLUDES STATUORY INTEREST UNDER S.69 OF THE COUNTY COURTS ACT 1984 AT A RATE OF 8% PER ANNUM FOR THE DATE PF ASSIGNMENT TO THE DATE OF ISSUE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUMBE OF £0.00. THE CLAIMANT CLAIMS THE SUM OF £6000. What is the total value of the claim? £6500 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? YES, NOTICES OF CLAIM.  Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred?  YES  Did you inform the claimant of your change of address?  NO Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account?  CREDIT CARD When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007?  BEFORE   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post?  I DONT RECALL   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ?  NO   Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim.  DEBT PURCHASER.   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? THE FIRST I RECALL WAS A LETTER FROM LOWELL SAYING THEY NOW OWNED THE DEBT.  Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor?  NOT THAT I RECALL OR BEEN PROVIDED WITH THROUGH CCA REQUESTS.AT LAST REQUEST THEY SAID THEY WERE AWAITING THE DEFAULT NOTICE AND NO ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL RESPONDED WHICH TO DATE I'VE NOT HAD OR SEEN.  Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ?  NO, I RECEIEVED LETTERS OF CLAIMS   Why did you cease payments?  I WAS UNDER MEDICAL CARE WHICH CAUSED ME NOT TO WORK. AROUND THAT TIME LOWELL HAD WANTED ME TO INCREASE MY PAYMENTS AS IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO CLEAR THE DEBT. I HAD BEEN PAYING THEM WHAT I WAS PAYING THE BANK. I EXPLAINED MY THEN HEALTH & FINANCIAL POSITION AND THAT I WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THEY PUT A HOLD ON MY ACCOUNT FOR A FEW MONTHS SO I CANCELLED MY DIRECT DEBIT. I MADE A FULL AND FINAL OFFER WHICH WAS REJECTED. WHEN THEY WANTED PAYMENTS TO RESUME I EXPLAINED I WAS IN A WORSE FINANCIAL POSITION, STILL UNDERTAKING TREATMENT AND NOW UNEMPLOYED SO COULD NOT START PAYMENTS AS THEY WANTED. AFTER SENDING MY FINANCIAL SPREADSHEET THEY KEPT SENDING LETTERS ASKING WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO. I COULDN’T SEE A WAY FORWARD I FELT STREESSED AND UNDER PRESSURE SO WROTE THAT I WOULD NOT BE CORRESPONDING WITH THEM ANYMORE.    What was the date of your last payment? NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018   Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? NO   Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? I COMMUNICATED MY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY, WE MADE A MONTHLY PAYMENT AGREEMENT WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL DEBT WAS SOLD.  
    • Perhaps you would care to read this and reflect on your continuing comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany Jugg    ALEX BRUMMER: How grotesque of pro-Palestine protesters to besmirch Auschwitz, the place where my grandparents died WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross... My elderly aunt Sussie and cousin Sheindy had been teenagers at Auschwitz and Belsen but survived and are alive to this day. What they will make of the protesters who waved flags, heckled and chanted as Israelis took part in the March Of The Living – the annual walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau – I cannot imagine. The images now circulating of the protesters are indescribably disturbing. They can only bring back memories of those final moments Sheindy shared with my grandparents when my grandmother Fanya squeezed her hand and told her to lie about her age to avoid the gas chambers. Claiming she was older, and could work, meant that Sheindy lived, not died. The outrage perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 has brought back the most terrifying memories for these two women – memories of pillage, mutilation and starvation. The Holocaust, or Shoah to use the Hebrew word, was the deliberate, industrial-scale killing of Jews.  It is bad enough that pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas sympathisers have chosen to steal the language of the Holocaust.  Any comparison between Israel's retaliation and the monstrous genocide of the 1940s is odious and anti-Semitic
    • Thank you JK2054 and BankFodder for your replies. The information requested is as follows:   My wife and I are sole traders supplying bespoke, handmade wedding trays and other items through our website. We do not sell on ebay. We had an order for two trays (invoice value £370) that were shipped on Monday 25th March. We used P2G as the broker and Evri as the shipper. We declared the value but did not take out insurance. As the trays were a present for a wedding on Saturday 30th March we checked the progress of delivery on the Thursday to see that there had been an attempt to deliver on the 27th but the driver failed to deliver as the customer’s gate was shut (customer informs us that the gates are open between 7am-7pm. We contacted the customer who informed us she had been waiting in all week and there had been no attempt of a delivery. Evri allege they attempted to deliver on the 28th & 29th. On the P2G web site on the 4th April at 14.17 it stated that the customer refused delivery. At 14.28 it updated to say there was a problem with the address and at 14.32 updated to say the customer had refused delivery. At 14.35 updated again to say it was being returned. Last entry was on the 7th April that it was being processed at the depot. We never received it. I have had six web chats with P2G between the 4th-30th April. On the 26th April, I had an offer of £20 plus cost of delivery (£6.72) from P2G which I rejected. During this time, I also contacted Evri that resulted in an email from Evri Customer Services (20th April) stating that they had lost the parcel. I replied requesting details of the attempted delivery but received no reply. After emailing Evri again on the 23rd asking again for the information I received a phone call from someone called Haleemah on the 25th who apologised and promised to send an email with a link to submit a claim form. I subsequently received an email with the link which only took me to a page that stated “Page not found”. After informing Evri customer services of the problem (to which no reply was forthcoming) a couple of days later I retried the link but it only took me to the Evri website. I believe that I have a good case against both companies but would appreciate guidance on which path to go down. I have read most of the information on this site, which has been very helpful and much appreciated, particularly the various court transcripts. I appreciate that this process is a marathon and not a sprint and am fully aware that I need to get everything in the correct order before starting on the legal road. I am sure this covers the current position but if further info is needed please let me know.  
    • Everything at small claims revolves around informality and common sense, there are no "special" ways to have to do things. The site manager's WS will be like yours and the one I linked to - just much shorter.  There need to be the introductory hearings about the case, the parties, etc., and the concluding Statement of Truth. In the middle just a couple of paragraphs where they say who they are, how they know you, and about permission being given by the landowner to use the car park. Superb.  I've added another section about the signage to the suggested WS sections three posts above. Yes, it's perfectly possible.  It'd be a good idea to phone the court on the 18th to see if they have paid.
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Mr Stanford, you ask why we actively discourage our members from using Claims Management Companies.

 

I would suggest this is thread is one reason. One very good reason why we do this.

 

Then go on to claim

 

 

Our response rate appears empirically to be better than the direct approach. However I am not able to provide hard data.

 

You receive no special treatment as CMC when making approaches to the bank or the Financial Ombudsman.

 

You have advised (as part of your advertising puff) that your largest success to date is obtaining the sum of £19,000 for a client. Please look round our "Success "Forums and you will see that with Free advice and assistance from our members, others have managed to obtain many larger sums ! Indeed one such member obtained £60,000 !!

 

Further more, we do have the hard data :)

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Uploaded & re-attached as .pdf

 

I haven't uploaded every single document as it's time consuming & space consuming, but you'll get the jist of it.

 

Taken from my original post:

 

The documents contain the following:

 

Welcome letter & T's&C's

x2 - Letter of Engagement - Allowing Ifonics to deal with this claim, which is unsigned

Client Information - Containing very basic details about my father in law (address, telephone number etc)

x11 - Letter of Authority - Giving authority for Ifonics to act & reclaim PPI on my father in laws behalf, also unsigned

x11 - PPI Questionnaire

 

I am also in the process of acquiring the bank statement which shows the actual payment being taken from my in laws bank account and I will attach that either later on today or tomorrow.

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Just realised that. Sorting them now & I have removed them for the time being. Apologies.

 

Apologies not required. It must be very frustrating to post up only to discover that no one can see or access your documents :(

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Sadly the final page, terms and conditions has scanned quite poorly and I personally am unable to read it. I am sure there are others here who will be able to comment further on the documents you have posted up.

 

What I am still at a loss to understand is why, monies were taken from your FiL's account, before these documents were signed and returned to the CMC ?

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Sadly the final page, terms and conditions has scanned quite poorly and I personally am unable to read it. I am sure there are others here who will be able to comment further on the documents you have posted up.

 

What I am still at a loss to understand is why, monies were taken from your FiL's account, before these documents were signed and returned to the CMC ?

 

so am I !!

 

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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You receive no special treatment as CMC when making approaches to the bank.

It has certainly been our experience that we have had successful claims where the bank has rejected an initial approach by the customer.

 

You have advised (as part of your advertising puff) that your largest success to date is obtaining the sum of £19,000 for a client. Please look round our "Success "Forums and you will see that with Free advice and assistance from our members, others have managed to obtain many larger sums ! Indeed one such member obtained £60,000 !!
Of course. By the very nature of this forum, you have highly intelligent members who are well able to argue their own case. They don't need us. In fact I'm considering adding a link to our web page to your helpful "how to" post for customers who want to go it alone. Would you have any objection to that?

 

Furthermore, we do have the hard data :)
I'd be very interested to see that data as it would be really useful to be able to gauge our performance over time. In return, I'd be happy to make data available to this forum.
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Sadly the final page, terms and conditions has scanned quite poorly and I personally am unable to read it. I am sure there are others here who will be able to comment further on the documents you have posted up.

 

What I am still at a loss to understand is why, monies were taken from your FiL's account, before these documents were signed and returned to the CMC ?

 

Yep, which makes me think that Cerys-Angharad Ltd. trading as Ifonic Claims have committed Advance Fee Fraud.

 

As regards to the T's & C's, I'll re-scan them and upload them again.

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You are entitled to your opinion that our business practice is disgusting. However we have never "spoofed" or "diddled" anyone and I will continue to refute such allegations.

 

Frankly, I find the practices of the banks disgusting: they have systematically overcharged for a useless insurance; they have fiddled interest rates; they do everything they can to defend the indefensible. If the banks didn't "diddle" the customers, claims companies would not be in business. With whom are you more disgusted?

 

stop changing the subject...

 

WHY are you charging an advanced fee of £990 , when there is NO SIGNED CONTRACT.??

 

nice comment about the banks spoofing people out of PPI - then along comes CMC's like yourselves - that spoof them even more!!

 

EVERYTHING you claim to do, can be done for FREE quite simply by anyone.

 

but you charge £990 upfront fees AND then take 22% of any PPI refunded!! nice earner !!

 

i'm surprised you've not discovered the other to money earners here

 

charging 20% vat and tax on the 8% stat int portion and keeping that too!

 

disgusting.

 

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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Mr Stanford, I have a couple of scenarios I will put forward. How would your company respond/act if this were to be the case with one of your "clients"

 

A customer has an outstanding balance with the bank that contains arrears. The banks have the right of offset and will insist that any refund is used to repay the outstanding arrears/balance. The claimant then has no actual refund. But, will still, because of a contract with you, owe you money !! Presumably this client is already in dire straits and has no money. Presumably you aren't going to let your fees go ? Yes/No

 

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Next scenario..

 

Would you take on a claim that goes back as far as 1989/90 ? If not, why not. Or are you only looking for the easy cases.. loans and cards taken out in the last 6 years ?

 

If you are taking up front fees, what work exactly do you do for this. How many letters, phone calls, what sort of time is spent on a claim?

What happens if your are unsuccessful? Is the "client" down by his fee to your company, what sort of fight does your company put up or do you back down at the first sign of aggravation from the bank/financial institution ?

 

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Mr Stanford, I have a couple of scenarios I will put forward. How would your company respond/act if this were to be the case with one of your "clients"

 

A customer has an outstanding balance with the bank that contains arrears. The banks have the right of offset and will insist that any refund is used to repay the outstanding arrears/balance. The claimant then has no actual refund. But, will still, because of a contract with you, owe you money !! Presumably this client is already in dire straits and has no money. Presumably you aren't going to let your fees go ? Yes/No

 

We have certainly waived fees in the past where customers are in difficulty. We have an internal but unpublished policy on the matter.

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Also, I see on your website that your verification fee is £99.00 why was this elderly person charged £990.00 or is there typo somewhere ?

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Thank you for posting up the terms and conditions.

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It was £990 as it's £99.00 per agreement which totalled 10 agreements. They were pursuing people that my father in law had previously had no business with what so ever.

 

People like M&S & Tesco at no point has my father in law had any credit cards or loans from either of these companies.

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Would you take on a claim that goes back as far as 1989/90 ? If not, why not. Or are you only looking for the easy cases.. loans and cards taken out in the last 6 years ?

 

We will take on any claim where we can obtain sufficient documentation.

 

If you are taking up front fees, what work exactly do you do for this. How many letters, phone calls, what sort of time is spent on a claim?
We estimate an average of two to three hours' work in our back-office to process a claim. We obtain a DSAR (if necessary) to establish the relevant account details. We frequently call the customer and talk him though completing the questionnaire. We write a letter of complaint to the bank. And that's just the initial steps.

 

What happens if your are unsuccessful? Is the "client" down by his fee to your company, what sort of fight does your company put up or do you back down at the first sign of aggravation from the bank/financial institution ?
There are two types of "unsuccessful". One is where there was no PPI. In this case, yes, the customer is "down" by his fee. And we are "down" by the work we have performed. This is why we try very hard to ensure that the customer believes he may have been mis-sold PPI. The other is where the bank claims that the PPI was not mis-sold. Here we have a procedure to insist that it was, involving letters and phone calls to the bank and eventually, if necessary, a complaint to the FoS. This is where I believe a CMC comes into its own: the bank is much more likely to back down to us than to the customer.
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It was £990 as it's £99.00 per agreement which totalled 10 agreements. They were pursuing people that my father in law had previously had no business with what so ever.

 

People like M&S & Tesco at no point has my father in law had any credit cards or loans from either of these companies.

We didn't make it up. We believed your Father-in-law when he said he had these agreements.

 

Now we know the circumstances and the state of your Father-in-law's health, he has been approved for a refund. The refund will be made as soon as we can be sure that a chargeback has not been issued.

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the bank is much more likely to back down to us than to the customer.

 

 

utter rubbish

 

a CMC holds no more cards nor more clout than any claimant going alone.

 

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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To the OP, please take a moment to tell BBC Watchdog about your complaint. There may be others who have been ripped off by this company and when they have enough complaints they will feature the company.

 

https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg74/contact

 

Might be an idea to include a link to this post in your message.

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There may be others who have been ripped off by this company and when they have enough complaints they will feature the company.

Have you actually read the thread? Nobody has been ripped off by "this company". I'd be more than happy to talk to Watchdog or any other investigative journalist.

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Already sent an email to Watchdog as well as making other people aware of this situation.

 

@Cliff: I turst this will be a full refund? As really it shouldn't of been taken in the first place.

 

Also going forward Cliff, I would like to ask that you make sure that people are of sound mind before pursuing with any claim. Your company needs to change it practices. I was also very serious in sending an invoice, as mentioned in my email yesterday, this is for my time, use of phone, laptop and electricity etc..

 

Finally, Cliff I will be submitting a full complaint to the ICO as pointed out earlier.

 

All this could of been avoided had you of dealt with me in a proper manner in the first place.

 

 

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http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?88004-PPI-Successes

 

Our PPI success thread, this is not fully updated. As you will appreciate, we are extremely busy and PPI is not our only concerns.

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I have unapproved the statement in the post above. I can see your personal details. I will edit properly and restore.. give me 10 minutes or so.

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3: Feel Bullied by Creditors or Debt Collectors? Read Here

4: Staying Calm About Debt  Read Here

5: Forum rules - These have been updated - Please Read

BCOBS

1: How can BCOBS protect you from your Banks unfair treatment

2: Does your Bank play fair - You can force your Bank to play Fair with you

3: Banking Conduct of Business Regulations - The Hidden Rules

4: BCOBS and Unfair Treatment - Common Examples of Banks Behaving Badly

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Just as a thank you I have made a small donation to the site. I would of donated more, but it's all I can afford at the moment. I forgot to include my username though as I didn't see that option until I clicked submit when paying. Still doesn't matter.

 

@citizenB I didn't see anything that would be identifiable, apologies though & thanks.

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