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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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I have just sent away the first letter asking for my statements to abbey!! (ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!) but I wondered after reading some of the other threads, if anyone has actually one against abbey? they seem to be the only bank willing to go to court, or am i just over reacting?

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Hi

I have just recieved a letter from Abbey,after sending in my letter requesting the amount, saying how sorry they are to hear about my complaint against them! They say that they take if very seriously and will be looking in to it!

Also recieved letter from Barclaycard after sending in initial letter requesting statements way back in December, and they say they have so many claims that it will take them some time to get back to me.

Are these replies normal? :confused:

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Hi Hollyblue.

 

Standard response designed to delay you.

Just stick to your own timetable... you're in the driving seat.

 

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Everyone on the site works really hard to manage things for the users.......looks like you are doing something wrong ??????

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By clicking on your user name you should be able to find all your posts....and threads.

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Oh thanks, Im pooping myself now though!!

I sent the letter to them 2 weeks ago tomorrow, so I guess I should be sending the follow up if I don't hear anything this week?

Is that right?

My minds gone blank, will have to read up on procedure again :confused:

Thanks for support!!;)

;-) hollyblue

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Hi

I have just recieved gesture of goodwill sum of money, £820.00 into my bank account as well as a letter today from abbey. The letter has spooked me a bit because it says they have researched my account fully and that I knew about the charges when opening the account etc....

They also said they are not obliged to give a breakdown of charges, and to avoid anymore charges, to make sure I have enough money in account at all times.

Is this normal? and if so what do I do now?

:confused:

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hollyblue, no need to feel spooked. They are trying to intimidate you but everyone gets that letter. Just press on. I can't work out from your posts whether you've sent the LBA or not, but if you got a GOGW you probably have. Assuming you want to press on, you need to a) reject the offer outright; or b) accept it in partial settlement. Quite frankly it doesn't make much difference which you do. Pinch the wording from someone else's thread - there are quite a lot !! In the same letter you need to remind them of the timetable you set for taking Court action (assuming it's in the future - if it's passed, don't mention it).

 

THEN, because you sound a bit unsure, I think you need to get your head round the basic argument, read through a thread of someone who won, get hold of the template Particulars Of Claim for your N1 Court Claim, and make sure you understand the logic. It's actually quite simple, but being the Law it's all long words, commas, bluster and huff. Put simply, the argument is :

  • a default charge has to be proportionate to the cost of the default
  • if it isn't, then it constitutes a penalty which is unenforceable (by virtue of Common Law like Dunlop and Statute like UTCCR)
  • Abbey says its default charges are proportionate but refuses to disclose its costs
  • You are therefore relying on : Australian survey, OFT credit card investigation, Treasury Select Committee, Competition Commission NI inquiry, BBC2 Money Programme all of which concluded that Banks default charges are significantly disproportionate and include costs unrelated to the default (not to mention profit !)
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Hope this helps. Regards, Mad Nick

Abbey £8370 settled 17 Apr 07

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Thanks for your help.

I sent away letter accepting the amount as partial payment but reminding them that I would be claiming the balance. I also reminded them of the time limit etc.

I just wonder if you can clarify for me,as I have read different things in some threads, it's about the amount to claim.

I only claimed charges relating to unpaid direct debits and charges for going over my overdraught. I can't understand whether I was meant to include the interest charged while overdrawn and I thought I was to add interest once it goes to court? can you make any sense of this / if so I'd really appreciate your advice!!:o

Thanks

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hollyblue, you're correctly following the path to get 8% Statutory interest - you'll add it at the stage you file your N1. What I think is confusing you is that an increasing number of people are claiming "contractual interest" - that's just interest at rates specified in the Account terms&conditions (ie the contract with the Bank). This is usually included in the Prelim & LBA but you could, if you really want to, change to Contractual - it would just mean sending a 2nd LBA (just add another 14 days to the timeline).

 

What are you claiming ? From a GOGW of £820, I'm guessing >£5K. Contractual interest could add £1K to your claim. For example, the contractual interest to date on a £30 charge from Jun 00 would be about £55 (@ authorised overdraft rate). But have no qualms - assuming you were mostly in overdraft that is just interest they have levied on the penalty charge - so you'd want it back as well wouldn't you ?

 

Regards, Mad Nick

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Abbey £8370 settled 17 Apr 07

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Hi Mad Nick!

Thanks for that info, I think I'll stick to adding the interest when I file the N1 as you mentioned.

I just am not exactly sure how to do this, Im no good with spreadsheets:(

do I just work out 8% of the total, which by the way is £4248.00, and then add the figures together?

Never was good at anything to do with figures!! maybe that's why I am in this situation!!

I really appreciate you r help!

Thanks Holly

Ps, as I have sent letter accepting the GOGW, can I use that money, or do I have to hold on to it incase they request it back?

;-) hollyblue

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holly, Vampiress did a spreadsheet for 8% interest. You want the first one : England-Simple-Excel

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/bank-templates-library/182-6-interest-calculation-spreadsheets.html

You enter each charge and date it was taken and the sheet works out the interest on each charge at 8% per year and adds it all up.

 

As for the GOGW, you've accepted it in partial settlement so it's yours. Regards, Mad Nick

Abbey £8370 settled 17 Apr 07

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Im so confused!!!

been putting this off for so long because I don't understand the "court claim" part of claim.

It feels as if Im just making up some figure and sending letter into manopoly court!!

Can any one tell me what letters I have to use after having send the first 3 letters to Abbey, have a gwg of £845 and accepting is as part payment.

Last letter form Abbey said definately no to claim! end of story as far as they are concerned!!

I can't work the spreadsheet, I can't workout what letter to send, I also can't work out if I send a letter to Abbey and the court, just the court or just Abbey.

I'm in a panic!! (sure you worked that out thought)

All of the legal jargin in making me very nervous!

Can anyone help?

:confused:

;-) hollyblue

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Holly, calm down!

 

Just have another read of these and it might become clearer.

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/faqs-please-read-these/31460-example-step-step-instructions.html

 

Above all don't panic there is plenty of help here.

 

Which spreadsheet are you using?

If you have sent SAR letter, prelim letter, LBA, and you have rejected the GOGW, then the next is to file at court. This is either By MCOL or N1 at your county court.

 

Don't worry with the legal jargon they use, that's just to get you to panic like you are doing now.

 

When you rejected the offer, did you use one of these letters

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/bank-templates-library/25716-rejecting-offers.html

 

have a read of this. And relax!

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Thanks Nik!

I will check out the links and get back to you. Think its the thought of completing the spreadsheet and writing to the court that's the scaryist part.

Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again. :)

;-) hollyblue

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Hi Holly,

 

I've just had a read of your earlier thread and it sounds like you were doing fine

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/abbey-bank/45867-hollyblue-abbey.html

 

Pm one of the Mods to merge your threads and people will be able to understand where you're up to easier.

 

The spreadsheets are easy so long as you take your time and people on here will help you if you get stuck.

 

All you have to enter is the date of the charge, the amount of the charge and the description (returned cheque etc). The spreadsheet does everything else for you.:)

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Thanks for that Charley, not sure what you mean by, pm one of the Mods to merge thread? Can you help please?

 

What Charleyfarley is suggesting is you send a private message (pm) to the moderators of this site, and ask them to put all the topics you have started for Abbey into one, this makes it easier for you and everyone else reading it as when you for example ask a question the history on how far you are in the system is there also you stand more chance of people reading it as if they have already replied they will get an e-mail notification advisiing something new has been entered.

 

To pm a mod (for example karnevil) you click on their user name and then you will see on the right something that reads send private message and then you ask the question

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Im seriously considering backing out of the claim!

I can't get my head around the "Allocation questionnaire" small claims track.

I could work out how to get access on to the speadsheet you have, but did a basic one on microsoft.

Can't work out what letter should go with letter to court and which one should go to Abbey.

:(

I feel so...... thick!

;-) hollyblue

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Firstly don't condiser backing out there is people here that will help,

 

Secondly, it may be an idea to post below what you have done so far and what response you got from Abbey, sorry had a quick look above and found it a bit confusing.

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