Random letter claiming I owe money from 3 years ago
Discussion
Red Devil said:
Centurion07 said:
Ok.
You owe ME £36. Hand it over.
Exactly. The whirlybird man seems to be the type of person who will roll over every time they receive a demand for money whether justified or not.You owe ME £36. Hand it over.
Others may have a different mindset. As I said previously, maybe the OP is liable under the T&Cs. We simply don't know. If not, it is his prerogative to tell them politely to Foxtrot Oscar.
As I said, you pick your battles and I can't see £36 being worth all the hassle chaps. Sorry.
Yes, you made it clear that would be your choice.
It's for the OP to decide what is right for him.
Only he knows whether he is on terra firma with this issue.
He's only expending much time on it because, as I said, he's doing it all wrong.
He could easily put it to bed with about 3 or 4 letters/e-mails.
No way would they take hours to compose and send.
It's for the OP to decide what is right for him.
Only he knows whether he is on terra firma with this issue.
He's only expending much time on it because, as I said, he's doing it all wrong.
He could easily put it to bed with about 3 or 4 letters/e-mails.
No way would they take hours to compose and send.
A year or so after I left the Army I got a letter telling me I owed them money because I'd been "overpaid" toward the end of my service. This prompted a ferret about for my pay statements, and in the end I wrote back to them detailing various anomalies with my pay (it was frequently messed up by clerical staff adding, or removing stuff at their own bidding). I turned it back on them, offering to pay what they thought was owed to them, provided they produced documentary evidence and an explanation of where they thought the debt arose from. I then went on to say that I believed that they owed me money as a result of errors made, invited them to open an investigation, and bid them good 'morrow.
Three years on, after receiving an acknowledgement that it (my alleged debt) had been passed to an investigation team, I've not heard another peep out of them. Even if they did investigate and demonstrate existence of a debt, I don't think they can pursue me for anything more than the original debt because I offered to pay at the time, if they could demonstrate the source of THEIR error. Any delay and extra cost to collect the 'debt' would be as a result of internal failings within their system.
Three years on, after receiving an acknowledgement that it (my alleged debt) had been passed to an investigation team, I've not heard another peep out of them. Even if they did investigate and demonstrate existence of a debt, I don't think they can pursue me for anything more than the original debt because I offered to pay at the time, if they could demonstrate the source of THEIR error. Any delay and extra cost to collect the 'debt' would be as a result of internal failings within their system.
yellowjack said:
A year or so after I left the Army I got a letter telling me I owed them money because I'd been "overpaid" toward the end of my service. This prompted a ferret about for my pay statements, and in the end I wrote back to them detailing various anomalies with my pay (it was frequently messed up by clerical staff adding, or removing stuff at their own bidding). I turned it back on them, offering to pay what they thought was owed to them, provided they produced documentary evidence and an explanation of where they thought the debt arose from. I then went on to say that I believed that they owed me money as a result of errors made, invited them to open an investigation, and bid them good 'morrow.
Three years on, after receiving an acknowledgement that it (my alleged debt) had been passed to an investigation team, I've not heard another peep out of them. Even if they did investigate and demonstrate existence of a debt, I don't think they can pursue me for anything more than the original debt because I offered to pay at the time, if they could demonstrate the source of THEIR error. Any delay and extra cost to collect the 'debt' would be as a result of internal failings within their system.
Not sure I'd want their collection team knocking on my door.Three years on, after receiving an acknowledgement that it (my alleged debt) had been passed to an investigation team, I've not heard another peep out of them. Even if they did investigate and demonstrate existence of a debt, I don't think they can pursue me for anything more than the original debt because I offered to pay at the time, if they could demonstrate the source of THEIR error. Any delay and extra cost to collect the 'debt' would be as a result of internal failings within their system.
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