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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

      Many thanks 
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    • Housing Association property flooding. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/438641-housing-association-property-flooding/&do=findComment&comment=5124299
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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.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

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

       

      OT APPROVED, 365MC637, FAROOQ, EVRi, 12.07.23 (BRENT) - J v4.pdf
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hi there. hope someone can give me some peace of mind regarding business rates.

 

i have sold my business which was a market unit rented from leeds city council. the paperwork should all be signed and completed in the next 9 days.

 

several weeks ago, a bailiff came to the shop (which is leased in husbands name, and very strange for him to come there as all the paperwork goes to our home add.) and for some silly reason i signed a walking possession agreement. (stool, microwave, stainless steel table etc.)this guy was very cool and relaxed and stated it would be easier for us both if i signed as mr davies then we could go on a payment plan, but that he needed at least 150 quid off me there and then. told him i didnt have that but would ring him in a couple of days and pay on my card.

 

of course, the account is constantly overdrawn and that day never came, which i know is my own fault.

 

scraped £50 quid together 3 weeks ago, went to the bank, paid it in and it seems that by coincidence, an hour later, different bailiff turns up at our house, wanting full payment.

 

explained the situation to him and have paid nearly £800.00 off the original balance.

 

he thinks that because i have sold the shop, then he will be getting his full balance soon, and i just cant afford to do that. i have suppliers to pay for final invoices.

 

i think i have done my best and have kept him and the local revenues office up to date with the situation, but this bailiff is ring me at half seven on a friday night and 2.30 on sat afternoon.Do these people get paid on commission? are they all ex timeshare cranks?

 

when i phoned the revenues office at the council last week and told her that things are really hard and that i was having to claim benefits due to ill health, she asked if my husband was claiming. i said no he works. oh yeah, who for and what was the address, and like an idiot i told her.

 

it dawned on me a day later that shes looking at an attatchment of earning?

 

why didnt she just say??

 

its not that i dont want to pay, its that we cant!!

 

told them before, how we have approx 2k a month coming in and 3k a month going out is beyond me.

 

please someone, i know this sounds boring and long winded, but what is the best thing for me to do. we also have this years council tax benefit with rossendales and other loans and credit cards debts and i just dont know which to deal with first.

 

sorry for rambling x

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