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Dave or Bankfodder,

 

Please can you add the need to pay the £10 DPA charge to the Step-By-Step guide?

 

I think I may have wasted 10-11 days of the original 40 day ultimatum by not enclosing the fee and guess the forty days will now restart when they get my money.

 

Many thanks

 

Excellent site

 

LOULA

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It was already in the FAQs and also in the template letter. It is also in the information provided on the Information Commissioners website in the DPA part and this is linked in the library. It has also been mentioned hundreds of times in various discussions throughout the forum material. I can scarcely imagine how any one who does do some of the reading of the available material here could possibly have missed it.

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Bankfodder,

 

I don't think you need to be quite so ascerbic.

 

There are a lot of questions being raised by many of people and I haven't noticed you being quite so cutting with them.

 

I have read the FAQs and Q&As also printed them, and believe me the £10 charge was very well hidden.

 

Thank you to Dave for helping to me and also Richardc who also has helped.

 

Surely us all working together to make the site simpler to read will make the site easier for you to manage?

 

LOULA

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The amount of effort that Dave and Bankfodder have put into setting up this site is awesome. The amount of information contained is staggering. It is impossible for every item to be highlighted. Study is, unfortunately, necessary.

 

If you proceed with your claim, you are going to have a grasp of all the facts.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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Hi!

 

Exactly what I have been trying to do.

 

I have printed the necessary pages and study them before asking any questions.

 

All I wanted to do was make the site clearer for people.

 

I never said Bankfodder, Dave and the Moderators aren't doing an excellent job or the site is poor. ANd for the record never would. I have been recommending you left right centre and behind!

 

LOULA

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