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    • Thank-you dx, What you have written is certainly helpful to my understanding. The only thing I would say, what I found to be most worrying and led me to start this discussion is, I believe the judge did not merely admonish the defendant in the case in question, but used that point to dismiss the case in the claimants favour. To me, and I don't have your experience or knowledge, that is somewhat troubling. Again, the caveat being that we don't know exactly what went on but I think we can infer the reason for the judgement. Thank-you for your feedback. EDIT: I guess that the case I refer to is only one case and it may never happen again and the strategy not to appeal is still the best strategy even in this event, but I really did find the outcome of that case, not only extremely annoying but also worrying.
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    • the claimant in their WS can refer to whatever previous CC judgements they like, as we do in our WS's, but CC judgements do not set a legal precedence. however, they do often refer to judgements like Bevis, those cases do created a precedence as they were court of appeal rulings. as for if the defendant, prior to the raising of a claim, dobbed themselves in as the driver in writing during any appeal to the PPC, i don't think we've seen one case whereby the claimant referred to such in their WS.. ?? but they certainly typically include said appeal letters in their exhibits. i certainly dont think it's a good idea to 'remind' them of such at the defence stage, even if the defendant did admit such in a written appeal. i would further go as far to say, that could be even more damaging to the whole case than a judge admonishing a defendant for not appealing to the PPC in the 1st place. it sort of blows the defendant out the water before the judge reads anything else. dx  
    • Hi LFI, Your knowledge in this area is greater than I could possibly hope to have and as such I appreciate your feedback. I'm not sure that I agree the reason why a barrister would say that, only to get new customers, I'm sure he must have had professional experience in this area that qualifies him to make that point. 🙂 In your point 1 you mention: 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver. I understand the point you are making but I was referring to when the keeper is also the driver and admits it later and only in this circumstance, but I understand what you are saying. I take on board the issues you raise in point 2. Is it possible that a PPC (claimant) could refer back to the case above as proof that the motorist should have appealed, like they refer back to other cases? Thanks once again for the feedback.
    • Well barristers would say that in the hope that motorists would go to them for advice -obviously paid advice.  The problem with appealing is at least twofold. 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver.  And in a lot of cases the last thing the keeper wants when they are also the driver is that the parking company knows that. It makes it so much easier for them as the majority  of Judges do not accept that the keeper and the driver are the same person for obvious reasons. Often they are not the same person especially when it is a family car where the husband, wife and children are all insured to drive the same car. On top of that  just about every person who has a valid insurance policy is able to drive another person's vehicle. So there are many possibilities and it should be up to the parking company to prove it to some extent.  Most parking company's do not accept appeals under virtually any circumstances. But insist that you carry on and appeal to their so called impartial jury who are often anything but impartial. By turning down that second appeal, many motorists pay up because they don't know enough about PoFA to argue with those decisions which brings us to the second problem. 2] the major parking companies are mostly unscrupulous, lying cheating scrotes. So when you appeal and your reasons look as if they would have merit in Court, they then go about  concocting a Witness Statement to debunk that challenge. We feel that by leaving what we think are the strongest arguments to our Member's Witness Statements, it leaves insufficient time to be thwarted with their lies etc. And when the motorists defence is good enough to win, it should win regardless of when it is first produced.   
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BT claims it has 18 million UK customers, it charges £15.99 per month line rental. (Price increase from 4th Jan)

 

Using those figures, it is bringing in £287,820,000 (two hundred eighty-seven million eight hundred twenty thousand) per month.

 

Or £3,453,840,000 (three billion four hundred fifty-three million eight hundred forty thousand) per year.

 

I've used BT, but they all charge around the same amount.

 

What are we actually paying for ?

 

If we rent a car, there is paintwork, engine wear and tyre wear to be taken care of plus servicing, but wires don't suffer from any of those things.

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Virginmedia are hiking up their prices by 6.7% in Feb 2014

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24911042

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I'm Virgin, they are adding an extra £5.76 to my bill from next month. Weren't we all told we were getting 'FREE' broadband boost.

That is three years in a row they have increased prices. I'm looking at BT and then the sheer scale of these rip-off line rental charges hit me.

 

My monthly bill has risen by more than £12 since they announced the free upgrades, I'm now on 150 mbs so it ain't been free.

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Ah Virginmedia have been sneaky with this, have you actually received a letter from them informing you of the increase and the 30day period to cancel from date of letter.

 

I for one am still waiting on that letter but will be contacting the 'Retentions Dept' to do a bit of renegotiating or I go bye bye

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My letter says:

 

The price of your Virgin Media services is going up.

But you'll keep on getting great value technology and entertainment.

 

Dear Sucker,

 

We wanted to let you know that from 1st February 2014, the price of your Virgin Media services will go up by £5.75 per mongh, Plus, any calls you make to UK landlines outside of your talk plan will increase by less than 1p per minute. It's never nice when your bill goes up, but it means we can keep making all the things you enjoy about Virgin Media even better.

 

And because you've opted for ebilling and Direct Debit, the good news is you already save over £80 a year.

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I would still advise anyone to contact them to try renegotiating a better deal and if advisor wont help then insist they put you through to the 'Retentions Dept' as they have greater authority to renegotiate but remember they may not and only cancel your subscription after you know their will be NO penalties ie leaving early.

 

I will be doing battle tomorrow as not happy I pay £76 for TV-L, Broadband 60mb, Phone-XL and a friend joined recently and is paying £48 for TX-XL, Broadband 120mb, phone-XL. So it seems new customers are getting better treatment than existing customers but like everything loyalty means nothing over profit.

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Sadly stu its always been that way. Especially with Bt and virgin.

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Exactly what I thought and cant wait to renegotiate as I can get better deals else where at half the cost with more included.

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Stu, we're about to talk to Virgin too. We have basic cable TV with them, plus phone and broadband.

 

Our friend who has the same deal is paying quite a bit less than us. We think we're paying more than new customers even though we got a reduction last year. This year we're going to be researching very carefully.

 

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From my research it does seems like not just Virginmedia but a few well know ones are giving the best deals to there New Customers Only as they know a lot of existing customers are fixed into a contract and to cancel would cost that customer for early cancellation which they are fully aware of.

 

Sadly for them I aint one of then as my actual contract ended 1yr ago so they either give better deal or bye bye.

 

I would advise anyone to Firstly check that there Contractual Period has end and if it has to contact there provider and renegotiate. If the advisor on the phone wont budge then ask to get put through to either cancellation/retention dept and renegotiate a better deal (try reasearching different providers deals and keep to hand to quote to provider).

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I think you are right in your assumption Honeybee. We have been with them since cable was first laid about 15 or more years ago and they take advantage of us.

 

When I have been through them both, (could only consider BT or Virgin as there is nothing to touch the reliability and speed of cable), I will put those comparisons up here.

 

I just heard from my son who is a BT engineer and he says the line rental is to pay for the 30,000 Openreach engineers.

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What the openreach engineers that you pay £140 to check your line.

 

When I move to my property approx. 4yrs ago had to do the usual to get new line with BT as didn't know at time we had fibre optic broadband.

 

Engineer was arranged to check BT line this is the funny part for £140 at that time the engineer came out attached a test box to the BT socket internal of property then walked outside property to BT exchange (a matter of 1metre from property) pushed a switch and came back inside re attached test box to BT socket all ok up and running £140 for 5 minutes work not bad.

 

Well I didn't let this drop £140 for 5 mins work I demanded from BT a full breakdown of the costs and low and behold at that time they couldnt justify it and was refunded the full amount.

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Have done the deal.

 

I have signed up to all 3 top packages from BT services and cancelled my Virgin account which I have been with for well over 15 years, (had other names before Virgin). also by paying the line rental 12 months in advance, I save a further £50.

 

My monthly cost will be half of what I was paying Virgin and the service should be activated at the end of the month.

 

Virgin did offer me, (and I was on all 3 top packages from them), a Tivo box, (wouldn't give me one last week when I asked), and knock £20 per month off my bill, £25 for six months.

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