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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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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
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      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Avon Car Sales - Dubious tactics not to refund for fault in car - court claim issued


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What you mean by – tweeting the letter of claim?

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I don't understand. I thought we had prepared a version of the letter of claim which addresses this eventuality.

 

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For the avoidance of doubt, please can you post op what you are about to send. Thanks

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Dear Avon Car Sales Ltd.

Letter of Claim
 

We acknowledge receipt of your email 18th March 2021 in which you fail to honour your previous offers and you have refused to refund me in full as previously offered as stated in my emailed letter of 12th March 2021.

 

The details of my complaint and the reimbursement I seek are all contained in that letter.

Furthermore, your insistence that I be responsible for the cost of transporting the vehicle to you in order to carry out any sort of repair and for which you were legally responsible is, in my view, an example of unfair trading in addition to a breach of contract.

 

I also notice that under the Road Traffic Act 1988 Section 75 it is an offence to sell a vehicle that displays some of the defects which were present in the vehicle which you sold me and suddenly refused to repair and then refused to refund me and charge me for the full repair all within your 3 month warranty period.  Now you demand that I collect the damaged vehicle which can not be driven safetly and charge me storage fees.


If you do not reimburse me in full within 14 days then I shall see you in the County Court and without any further notice for my losses plus interest and furthermore, I shall refer the judgement which I am confident of obtaining against you to Trading Standards who are then required by law to be an investigation.

Yours faithfully

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I removed the references to the previous offers because it suggests that you are leaving the door open to them renewing an offer and effectively to paying you a reduced amount and shortchanging you

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I'm not sure why you're asking this. If you don't put your name and address on the letter then they won't know who it's from

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As a quick aside, on the subject of the MOT and any suspicions you might have about it, you can use https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history to check the past MOT history of the vehicle.

 

That will tell you when the vehicle was last tested and what faults existed at the time of the test. If no faults were recorded in relation to the brakes or driveshaft boots, yet the car has done very few miles since the MOT, you might choose to report the garage responsible for the test via the telephone number at this link.

 

I would normally expect such a complaint to go nowhere, but having had cause to do this in the past, I can confirm my complaint was taken very seriously indeed, to the extent that a car with known faults was submitted to the garage in question for test.

 

I gather you don't think the sales garage and the MOT station are connected, but I think there's a suspicion they may be 'friendly' shall we say. You might choose to make their life as awkward for a day.

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Sorry I just don't trust them and the lengths they would go to.   Just checking.  Thanks for your patience.

 

I'll consider the MOT at least for hassle value as 2 mechanics thought otherwise about the CV boots.

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Hi

Got reply from Dealer, expecting from their lawyer later .....

 

As noted previously, Legal Solutions 4 U have been instructed to handle this matter and all correspondence if required, should be sent to them. As you have previously replied to their correspondence you are obviously well aware of this.
 
Please note that any emails or letters sent directly to Avon Car Sales will not receive a response from us.
 
Legal Solutions 4 U have more than reiterate our position on matters and we are currently awaiting confirmation on when you will be arranging collection of your vehicle.  

 

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Ignore. Keep all your correspondence to the dealer.

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I suggest you do.

Has the draft claim been prepared?

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How is this ? .......

 

Particuars of Claim

 

The claimant bought a Skoda car registration xxx from the defendant car dealer. Within a week the car displayed a serious fault and investigation revealed further serious defects. The defendant is aware of the defects and the timeline. The car is not of a satisfactory quality and unroadworthy within the meaning of the road traffic accident 1988. The vehicle could not be driven. The defendant refused to consider any repairs unless the claimant return the car at his own expense – which the claimant eventually did. The defendant refused to repair all the faults and so the claimant rejected the vehicle on the basis of the defendant's fundamental breach. The defendant has refused to reimburse the claimant for the cost of the car and associated costs and losses. The claimant seeks £3,495 [cost of the car], £190 car transporter cost, £106.80 [89 + Vat] cost of independent engineers report, £174.08 lost insurance- total £3,965.88 plus interest plus costs.

 

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how many weeks?

You may have said it earlier but you will have to remind me

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All the faults were diagnosed within 8 days???

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No sorry.   thought you meant when it was first reported to them.  

2/Oct I reported issue

8/Oct Skoda Health Check - 14 days

26/Oct Mechanic report done confirming cause after dealer changed his mind & refused to repair - 4 weeks

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You're right. I don't know what happened. Please check now

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Hi

Just about ready to submit the claim but trying to line up the dots and understand what happens when because of the deadlines required.   The claim particulars were bigger so I shortened it to attach the full version which needs to be sent with in 14 days of claim.  The guidance now tells me that I needs to submit a N215 certificate of service and references documents.   Is this just for the Extra Particulars?  When do I have to submit evidence ??  The guidance is not at all clear on this.

Regards 

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You submit your evidence when / if the defendant submits a defence...and your advised to do so when the court informs you at allocation stage. If they dont contest the claim you get a default judgment without any evidence....which you can request if they fail to acknowledge service/submit a defence after 19 days.

 

Serving Additional Particulars of Claim


If during step 5 of issuing the claim you state that you will serve additional Particulars of Claim,
you must send the additional particulars to the defendant(s) within 14 days of your
claim being issued. You should also send a covering letter to the defendant clearly advising
that these are the extra particulars referred to in your claim form and quote the claim number.


You must file an ‘N215 Certificate of Service’ with the court within 14 days of the claim being
issued. The certificate of service confirms to the court that you have sent the documents to the
defendant. The certificate can be filed by post or preferably by email to
[email protected]. Please include the claim number in the subject line of the email. A
blank N215 can be downloaded from www.justice.gov.uk/forms.


The second page of the N215 explains how to calculate the ‘date of service’. Please note if
the date of service is different to that of the claim form, then you should consider the
later date to be the date of service for the claim. For further information please see Civil
Procedure Rule 7E.6 at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedurerules/
civil/rules/pd_part07e

 

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Please do not send a fuller version.

We want to send the minimum version – if it needs to be cut down then post it here and we will cut it down.

We are doing our best to help you – but if you start going off at a tangent and doing it alone, then you are just making more work for everyone.

Also, if you don't understand the steps involved in taking a small claim in the County Court then you are ready. I'm sorry if this sounds a bit short – but there has been ample time for you to do the reading to get an idea of what the steps are.

Please don't start issuing any claim yet until you are fully comfortable with what you are doing.

 

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