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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. Let's hope other judges are not quite so narrow minded and don't get fixated on one particular issue as FTMDave alluded to.
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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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Being the fool that I am i thought in would use hermes to return an amazon parcel (being a poor student and having a hermes parcelshop nearby).

Used next day insured upto £300 delivery and was meant to be delivered saturday.
Got a notification on that day saying parcel delivery failed contact sender. With me being the sender i was confused, so i called them today (Monday), and they tell me the parcel was damaged and had to be disposed of. I cant see how this happened as I double boxed and insulated it.

Also it was a £700 laptop, so you can imagine my anger when they told me this.
The person on the phone told me to submit a claim form but i already know it isnt gonna be accepted because laptops are excluded from their compensation.

Their email and live chat service is awful and im sick of being on hold for 40 min at a time.

Thinking small claims but before i get all excited thought i would ask for some advice from you good people

 

Ive already read through a few different cases but ive also been in contact with santander (my bank) who asked me to provide proof it was destroyed and they would dispute on my behalf

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It probably wasn't damaged. It was probably stolen and then logged as damaged and then destroyed - but in fact somebody has got a nice new laptop.

You returned this item to Amazon. Who organised the return? Was this done with an Amazon generated label – or did you make your own arrangements?

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this will probably make you laugh, made me laugh. 

A couple months ago bough some airpods, and i returned them back to amazon a couple days after coz i didnt like them. Amazon organised a collection via hermes, and they were "lost". Waited 2 weeks and several annoyed calls later and finally amazon caved in and refunded me. This time, i specifically asked amazon if i could do it myself and they said yeah. So i did (last time i used hermes dropoff it was actually great, i returned something and it was perfect). So this time i thought thatd be better. Insured it and everything. So short answer is i did it myself haha

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Thank you. Big Fail, then. If you had left it to Amazon then Amazon would have been responsible.

Do you have it in writing that it was damaged and then destroyed?

You need to go through the claims process with Hermes. Hopefully they will confirm that it was damaged and then destroyed. They told you in a phone call I understand – and I suppose you don't record your calls. You won't to read our customer services guide

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yep i rang hermes up again and got them to say in an email that it was damaged and destroyed. Just concerned that the claim wont get anywhere since they exclude laptops. even the guy on the phone was fairly certain i was wasting my time and made sure to tell me

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Okay was it declared as a laptop – and what was the declared value?

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It's not clear what you're saying. You declared as a laptop. You're not saying what the declared value was. Earlier on you talk about it being insured to £300.

 

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sorry, the laptop was only insured upto a value of £300 as that was the maximum hermes would allow me to do. However the actual value of it is £710 and thats what amazon wouldve refunded me had it arrived. On the claims form i declared it as a laptop as it asked what sort of item it was 

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So you declared it as £300 value. Is this correct?

 

You say you're a student. What you studying? Don't tell me you are studying law… Please.

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No i dont think so, i assume you are referring to when paying for postage, hermes ask the value of the item. Here i put £710. I only say it was insured upto £300 as the extra insurance i paid for only covers upto a max of £300. So no, i declared its price as what it was and paid for the insurance

 

Haha i wish i was studying law, make my life way easier. Nah i study medicine, so when it comes to stuff like this im useless hahaha

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Okay. You should start reading around the Hermes stories on the sub- forum. You will find references to the various things that I've been asking you about – including declared value – and you will start to understand why it's important to know this.

You will also find out about our position on insurance and why it's unfair. And also there have been two recent cases one involving a good cheap a and another one on going involving a diamond engagement ring where we are referring to the tort of conversion. This tort can only be considered when an item is apparently damaged and then Hermes going to destroy it.

It's very important that you read around and understand the cases and the principles which are being discussed there. It's also important that you understand how these Hermes claims normally go – route they take which definitely involves starting a County Court claim. You will have to do this if you want to have any chance of getting your money back. The chances of getting your money back are good.

You keep getting very pessimistic about the things that you are told by Hermes – I love the innocence of people who listen to what Hermes staff tell them and then believe it. Bless!

 

You should also start reading up about taking a small claim in the County Court. It's pretty straightforward but it's worth understanding the steps in advance. You will be confident as you go through and you will become more self-reliant. This forum is about empowerment – not about spoon feeding

When you read around thoroughly, then come back here and will start to take you to the next stage.

 

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Perfect, I hope it made sense what I said about the declared value. i attached a screenshot, this is where i put the £710 value

Ill have a look around and get back to you soon. Ive already done a bunch of research, I feel like i just need prodding in the right direction so i dont screw up. Thanks in advance tho 

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just type stop hitting quote please...

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

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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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Just been reading through a couple of the hermes cases, actually pretty interesting reads! The tort of conversion route seems like the most logical option in my case, as its quite similar to the gucci handbag case. The declared value was definitely £710 so that particular detail shouldn’t hinder anything. I feel pretty confident about the small claims process, theres a few decent templates out there. One thing that i am a little lost on is what an SAR is. I understand there is a thread, but is it just asking hermes what actually happened to the parcel? in this case anyway

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Well if you follow the SAR link, you should learn a great deal.

You find that this forum is plastered with links and they are all there to be followed

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I don't think nsar is it all relevant to you.

I think you still got more reading to go because otherwise you would know what the next step is.

I asked you in a previous post what you were studying but I didn't get any reply

 

 

 

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sorry, i edited my reply because i saw it late. Im a medical student, albeit not a very studious one but i try my best.

I would assume a letter of claim would be the best course of action if im doing this then. 

Sorry if im a little slow, spent most of my weekend revising (have an exam on wednesday) so im pretty knackered haha

Am i correct in saying i would post the letter of claim to their head office, which would be their leeds address?

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Why don't we let it go for the moment. Revise for your exam and then have a couple of days off and we will sort it out next weekend.

i think that is much the best thing to do. There is no hurry it won't make any difference.

don't take this as a lack of interest or anything. It simply that they shouldn't be the highest thing in your priorities and the end result of your claim will be the same either way. Although you probably will get your money back if you stand your ground.

 

I'm going to close this thread in order to remove temptation from you and after you have finished your exam may be on Friday then click the report button at the bottom of this post and ask for the thread to be reopened

 

 

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Hi, hope everyone's had a good week. Got the next month off on holiday so hopefully with all your help I can make some decent progress on this. I guess from what i've gathered about similar cases, next step is a letter of action addressed to the leeds HQ. Is there anything in particular that needs to be done before this, or any other information that you need from me regarding this?

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Okay, on the basis that you declared the correct value – £710, I would recommend that the easiest way to go is to sue them for breach of contract – failing to deliver correctly the laptop of that value.

However I would suggest that you put in a reference to the tort of conversion so that if it did go to court, hopefully the judge will issue some remarks about that element of it as well.

When you're ready and you are sure that you want to go ahead, then please post up a draft letter of claim

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