They settled out of court and gave me my £200 back in full. I will update my thread when I get time.

Roughly speaking, no, but they can't take it back without mutally agreeing a repayment schedule with you. My dad's office got paid another office's bonus a while ago, about £200 worth, I think they settled on £2 a week deductted from his wages to pay it back.

Pretty much wonderring exactly the same thing myself.

That's strange, I saw them attending to an old lady who'd introduced her car to a brick wall earlier today.

Since I wasn't happy with their initial f-off letter, they were sent a LBA. They've just written back with the following reply to my complaint: http://www.omicronrobot.co.uk/forums/cag/refusal2%20%60no%20heading%60.gif And a rather handy leaflet about their complaints process: http://www.omicronrobot.co.uk/forums/cag/complaint%20leaflet.gif Effectively, they seem to be putting the ball in my court. In my LBA, I stated I would proceed without further notice, so the next thing they're getting is a claim.

Tell him there's rather a good website he could have a read at to show him how this whole illegal bank charges thing works. Sure someone on here knows the address

Car speedos are normally set to over read anyway, so chances are, you weren't really even doing 70mph.

LBA despatched. Next job: Issue claim 03/02/07

From the Information Commissioners Office website: "Organisations must keep the information accurate and up to date..." Breach of the Data Protection Act methinks

Already got one, it cost me thirty-odd quid and lets me drive anything up to 3.5 tonnes as well, why do I need another?

As a cashier, if you're being held responsible for your till, go into cover your arse mode. Check your float, make it clear no one else uses your till, and insist on being present during cash up. When I worked in store managerment, all we ever used to do was have an overs and unders pot on the desk in the cash office, make it right for the computer and the safe and keep an eye on the staff to see if a pattern emerges. Generally, it was just small "swings and roundabouts" errors. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to give this sort of reccomendation on here, but can I reccomend anyone doing this sort of work is a union member, personally, I'm with USDAW (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers). Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers: Homepage

I've done my fair share of time in store management, also having to deal with security issues as part of this. IMO, the above post is your best course of repproach and is totally accurate. I'm wary to say this on a public board (because not everyone out there is honest), but if you are ever tackled by someone from a shop who accusses you of theft, your best reproach is to say "Sorry, you've made a mistake" and keep walking. If there is someone you know with you, get them to stay with you throughout what happens next as a witness. As long as you're innocent, everything they do from that point on buts them further and further into the wrong.

Just had the standard "go away, the OFT weren't talking about our current account charges being unfair" letter. If you would like to see it, please click the link below (missing section off the top is just my personal details and reference numbers). http://www.omicronrobot.co.uk/forums/cag/refusal1-no-heading.gif In other news, dormant account at Natwest brought back to life (really ought to pay off that interest free overdraft they gave me 4 years ago and have never mentioned since), for parachute purposes. That way if A+L don't want a 4 figure sum of my money sat in a current account with them, they'll get a none-CAG template letter back from my correspondace secretary Vicky Pollard saying "Am I bovverred?" Next job: LBA: To be sent 20/01/2007 This is all very exciting isn't it?

I'd have thought you'd have to prove dishonesty on his part, as all he has to say is "I couldn't see anything wrong with it, but I'm not a mechanic". On a private sale, you have very little redress.

As mentioned on the other forum, it says "Non retail park customer parking will be liable to an excess charge of £50", with no mention of any penalty of what happens if you are there spending your money in their shops for more than 90 minutes.

Generally speaking, whoever owns the car park will have a contact with the warden and be able to say "This person works for us, but hadn't had a permit issued on that day, please can you scratch the ticket off". I used to get this all the time when I worked for Tesco's, as I have use if a few vehicles, and was always forgetting to switch my staff permit between them. I just used to give them back to the warden, say sorry, and he'd cross it off.

Ooops, sorry, I'm new here, so I'm still getting into the lengths we're allowed to hypothetically go to to save a few quid. Moral highground... duly noted... sounds like an exciting new place for me

Well done on taking up the fight. I'm pretty much at the same stage with A+L. The 8% is basically your interest which they pay on the amount of money they have deprived you of. The 28% is the interest they have charged you, which (as I understand things should be reclaimable anyway). The 8% is a court agreed rate for most claims, so it is generally a good idea to stick with this, rather than overcomplicate matters and give yourself an opportunity to shoot yourself in the foot at a later date. Though to me as a lay person, it would only seem fair that they pay the same level of interest as they charge, as I'm sure they would tell you it's a fair figure if you owed them it. The way I looked at it is the 8% interest on the money they've deprived me of would have been a pretty negliable amount to my claim, so I haven't bothered for now (that and it gives me something else to throw at them later).

Not wanting to suggest you do something immoral, but surely if it were faulty, you'd be entitled to a refund?

Not the University of Lincoln by any chance is it?

I've had a similar debate with a traffic warden regaarding the gaps in double yellows being at least a car length. I was parked over a mini-sized gap in the double yellows in my Toyota Camry (think about two mini's long). He elected to let me just get out of his sight before he changed his mind, which suited me as my mate had just picked up our takeaway. A car-length is a very subjective measure.

What can I say.... It's Christmas and I was feeling generous. I'm in no real rush for the money, I just want to score a point off them. So I thought I'd pre-empt what would be an obvious excuse for not getting back to me. Also, in the worst case, it would probably look good that I was accomodating to them, should it go to court. Thanks for that, a hello sort of wanderred into conversation

I'm no master mechanic, and I'm not great on Honda's, but to be honest, that doesn't seem out of the way. The "Honda Happiness" thing seems a good deal. Otherwise, have you considerred an Independant specialist? Most of them tend to employ ex-main dealer people, so, if I personally were, hypothetically, a buyer, I wouldn't see that as a serious blot on the copybook.

If you were late getting back because you had to stop and rest/were in pain/etc because of your condition, isn't there a Disability Discriminination implication?

Thanks for the welcome and the information. I've had a good read round the site, and am pretty familar with court claims, although not s the claimant (very long story, don't ask). So with the information that's on here already, I'm quietly confident.