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    • It sounds like people with something to hide, TJ.
    • I have already posted this on another forum but posting it here for more reach,  been told to get proper legal advice which i think i might have to do, About 2 weeks ago i recently completed on the purchase of a house in a small town and moved all my stuff in.  After being away for a few days clearing out my old flat i come back to find the post man knocking at my door with what i can only describe as a small stack of post . In it was over 400 letters all with different names on.  Some peoples name and some company names.   I put them to one side having started a new job, over the next few days i come home to literally hundreds more  Over 2 weeks i have several thousand letters and feel  very overwhelmed I manage to speak to the postman and ask him what is going on and he says he has been delivering this volume of mail for the last 18 months  So i open quite a large number of them and they are from companies like Excel Parking Ltd, Parking Eye Ltd Smart Parking Ltd.  There are also parking tickets from different councils and speeding tickets.  I have also seem some log books from the dvla and letters from debt collectors I contact my solicitor who i brought the house through and the estate agent to get hold of the person who sold me the house and they have asked the couple to get in contact as I have no forwarding address or phone number.  They said when they were selling it that they were moving abroad (i dont know where) I have literally no idea what to do now and literally piles and piles of mail  To top it of i had a bailiff turn up today looking for some one but said he had been here before  My friends say it must be a scam and someone said it sounds like a mailbox address which i dont really understand What can I do ??  help!!!!!!
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    • Yes it is exactly that. Draft a letter of claim and post it here so we can have a look. It's a shame that you have been taking so long about this. It was all predictable. If you have read the stories on the sub- forum you will see that what you're going through is nothing new. By hanging around and trying to go through the process you are ceding control to them. Let's see your letter of claim. Bear in mind it won't be a bluff. 14 days and then on day 15 you issue the claim. If you aren't prepared to do that then frankly you may as well give up
    • Yes they were most probably waiting on yours so to counter your arguments rather than put forward the facts in support of their claim. If say by Mondays till no sign then as per my previous post and whilst your on to the court check if they have paid the hearing fee thats usually a sign that they wish to proceed.
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Can anyone help me. 2 years ago i was in a world of pain with debt. I arranged an IVA with Harrington Brooks. I found out after 1 year that it wasnt an IVA it was a debt payment agreement???

 

I was charged £79.61 pm for their services. Thet were paying my creditors at irregular times/dates causing me more debt, once I found out I cancelled the arrangement and contacted my creditors myself and sorted it out.

 

The question is can i claim back the £79.61 against them or as it is not a charge but a fee i cant claim any of it back. Or do I try to sue them for mis-management/advertising (i.e causing me to get into more debt)

 

Please help

 

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You can reclaim on the understanding that you were misinformed etc.

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Can anyone help me. 2 years ago i was in a world of pain with debt. I arranged an IVA with Harrington Brooks. I found out after 1 year that it wasnt an IVA it was a debt payment agreement???

 

I was charged £79.61 pm for their services. Thet were paying my creditors at irregular times/dates causing me more debt, once I found out I cancelled the arrangement and contacted my creditors myself and sorted it out.

 

The question is can i claim back the £79.61 against them or as it is not a charge but a fee i cant claim any of it back. Or do I try to sue them for mis-management/advertising (i.e causing me to get into more debt)

 

Please help

 

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1. surely the paperwork would have stated that it was an IVA or a Debt Management Plan.

 

2. this is the oft debt managment guidance, have a look through it and see about raising a complaint.

 

http://www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/75CD3C6E-A7C0-44AF-96FF-308E4DCD703E/0/oft366.pdf

 

if you're still keep on an IVA - shop around, there is a good factsheet right here:- National Debtline England & Wales | Debt Advice | Factsheet 26 Individual Voluntary Arrangements

 

if you would like a free DMP, get in touch with either payplan or cccs

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Thank you everyone. I will raise a complaint with reference to the way the "product" was sold to me and also the fact that they recieved my payment through source on the 1st and held on to it until the 20th and i was not given any interest earned on it as well as all the late charges from the compaines i owed. May be able to clear all debts lol

 

Which is the best way to tackle this please

 

Thanks eve1.

 

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