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Hi, Well over a year ago, I moved from one area of the UK to another. Where I was moving from ,I had TalkTalk fibre broadband, was happy with them and had no issues. A week or two before I left, I started planning the whole internet and phone move, called up TalkTalk and found out they weren't able to suplly the fibre where I was moving to. They could only infact offer a minimal ADSL connection. I said that I would probably cancel it, but I would look into it. Later on the very same day, I foudn out only Virgin and another company had services at the prperty so TalkTalk were out. It called, cancelled propty and left it at that. I eft the new address as a forwarding address for the final bills etc... too. Months later, a DCA is on my case for the tune of £190 something. I coined them on 1st August, left on 10thish of November. There was an outstanding about £25ish. I've spoken to thecomplaints department, they were't budging, I've tried the execs and they were the ones that passed it to a DCA, which is about to go nuclear. Anyway, how it stands now... Officialy soeaking, if they want to knit-pick, the connection came with a £100 welcome gift card for someone who stayed at least 3 months, which I did..., they werent able to supply the connection, were told to cancel, and planned otherwise. They STILL dont ahve dirisdicton over this buiding so they wouldnt be able to suplly the services. Now BWLegal claim that theyve repeatedly tried to get ahold of me (lies) about this bill and now they're planning to go legal on 13th March. They literally sent me a letter with a realistic 1 week notice period on it, but officialy they;ve bacdated it by a month. SO I'm left in a predicament. I dont want to phone them as I like everyting in writing, because of corona things will be late, so they've literally tried to shaft me here for acontrac thtat doesnt exist. The letter they snt me is literaly a "Letter of Claim" with some Citizens advice page attached, income and expenditure forms etc... I refuse to fill ti in as as far as I know, this is resolved, or at the wosrst there's a small sum outstanding. Or I could be really brutal and be clear and say they owe me 60-80 for the gift card, but I dont really care about that. I've literally jstu found a good job after a long horrible period and it feels like they're using the upcoming "freedom" as a reason to start their antics. All they ask for to stop the legal action is a "reason" ut it appears they''ve gota 3rd hand account that's been sold around as it's in some name like JC International now? Shoud I: 1) Ignore them and contact TT directly? I've got the executive email address so usually get a swift response. 2) Treat it as any other hot air DCA's blow out ? No proof has been given o far, no copies of paperwork, so it's just "pay now, this much" letter. 3) Make an example of this and let it do to court, explain to the courts what's going on and let them deal with the issue? What concerns me is their underhanded tactics.... Anyway, any help would help... Cheers, Ade
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No it is not the right direction to go. Read the stories in this sub forum and then check back here for a fuller reply tomorrow -
Its fine, it just so happened that they're happy wit h me paying it off at a realistic level. I think that he landlady went little too far, but things have been smoothed over. Thanks for the help.
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Thanks for the respond. Long story short, the reason I am pursuing Packlink because I am a seller on Ebay. The courier is myHermes. The parcel is lost and the postage purchased through Packlink. It was a UK to UK shipment so I didn't need to declare value of the item when I was purchasing the postage on Packlink. The item is not extremely valuable, that is just a charger for electric toothbrush and it is insured with max pay out of £25. I raised a claim on Packlink and they refused for the reason - I did not contact them within 30 days of the posting date. Packlink did admit that the parcel is lost. I still haven't started to contact myHermes yet. However I am disgusted by Packlink customer service. I am planning to first, dispute the shipping fee through Paypal, then escalate this matter to myHermes, and if necessary, to small claim. Do you that this is the right direction to go? Thanks!
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so this is the same issue? dx
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Sorry for only updating you now, but after your guidance with submitting the claim it was pretty straight forward and I didn't want to unnecessarily waste your time. Especially with this guide you wrote here, so many thanks for that
So I issued the claim on day 15 and they requested more time to respond.
They took until the last day to respond and denied the claim, unsurprisingly saying my contract was with Packlink and not with them.
I opted for mediation, and it played out very similarly to other people's experiences.
In the first call I outlined my case, and I referred to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 as the reason to why I do in fact have a contract with them.
In the second call the mediator came back with an offer of the full amount of the phone and postage £146.93, but not the court costs. I said I was not willing to accept this and the mediator came across as a bit irritated that I would not accept this and said I should be flexible. I insisted that the law was on my side and I was willing to take them to court. The mediator went back to Hermes with what I said.
In the third call the mediator said that they would offer the full amount. However, he said that Hermes still thought that I should have taken the case against Packlink instead, and that they would try to recover the court costs themselves from Packlink.
To be fair to them, if Packlink wasn't based in Spain I would've made the claim against them instead. But since they are overseas and the law lets me take action against Hermes directly, it's the best way of trying to recover the money.
So this is a great win. Thank you so much for your help and all of the resources available on this site. It has helped me so much especially as someone who does not know anything about making money claims.
Many thanks, stay safe and have a good Christmas!
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