stealing from buy as you view

[owenrotten]

Hi eveyone, new user here need some adice plz.

 

ive read this online in my local paper

 

 

GINA Carey, 22, of Wilson Street, Derby, was handed a two-month community order with curfew, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge for stealing a £575 television from Buy As You View, Derby, on June 27.

 

Read more: http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/given-jail-sentences-cases-dealt-South-Derbyshire/story-25927874-detail/story.html#ixzz3Q8353dyO

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says someone got community sentence and a fine for STEALING a tv from buy as you view!! £145 in total, not enough if you ask me!!!

 

Serves em right if you ask me, if you don't pay what you owe then what do you expect

 

question is will there be more people getting in trouble (maybe sent to prison?)

for not paying their buy as you view (and others) reckon that would be a good thing

as I hnow loads of people who just dont bother paying ever

and its not fair on people like me who pay £12 month for a tv

and never miss a payment pay every time lol!

[dx100uk]

bet it was not a simple as that.

 

 

hope you are not paying for their useless insurance in your £12PCm fee?

 

 

dx

[owenrotten]

hope you are not paying for their useless insurance in your £12PCm fee?

 

yes, the allsorted insurance is extra on top of the £12. what's wrong with it? worried now, lol!

[Conniff]

yes, the allsorted insurance is extra on top of the £12. what's wrong with it? worried now, lol!

 

 

You obviously haven't read any of the threads here or not enough.

[Anus Horribilis]

question is will there be more people getting in trouble (maybe sent to prison?)

for not paying their buy as you view

 

Nobody has ever been convicted or sent to prison for "not paying their buy as you view". Failing to pay a debt is not a crime, it is a civil matter. It would only become a prison matter if the customer could be proven to have acted with intentional, criminal dishonesty. For example by signing a contract for the TV in a false name and then selling it to cash converters the next day.

 

But you can just just keep making those payments Owen, and have a laugh at others who aren't as smart as you.

[silverfox1961]

Strange one this. As BAYV have no stores, this must have been a rental in which this person didn't pay which is a civil matter.

 

The only conclusion I can think of is that BAYV reported this as a theft OR took out a civil claim for repossession and the lady failed to surrender the TV so the article in the newspaper should have been more clear.

 

owenrotten, why, when you posted for advice did you then go on to post the link? Don't work for BAYV do you??

[GrumpyToSayTheLeast]

So if you order a tv and then dont pay and refuse to give it back its not theft? I think you will find that is criminal, not civil.

 

I once used buy as you view. I had no house insurance, no contents insurance etc but was paying their monthly insurance. My tv(bayv tv) was pulled over by my then child and smashed. I phoned bayv who delivered a new one the next day as accidental damage was covered. This must have been 10 years ago now, but for me, the insurance was worth it. A bit pointless if you have contents insurance though.

But the OP, if he has the relevant insurance in place and was missold the insurance, does need to claim it back.

[Conniff]

So if you order a tv and then dont pay and refuse to give it back its not theft? I think you will find that is criminal, not civil.

 

 

Who's that directed at ??

[GrumpyToSayTheLeast]

Who's that directed at ??

 

Wtf! Im almost positve I saw a comment on here saying this should have been civil, not criminal and bayv would just have to use county court to get their money or tv.

 

Ignore me as it appears that comment doesn't/no longer exist.

[silverfox1961]

So if you order a tv and then dont pay and refuse to give it back its not theft? I think you will find that is criminal, not civil.

 

I once used buy as you view. I had no house insurance, no contents insurance etc but was paying their monthly insurance. My tv(bayv tv) was pulled over by my then child and smashed. I phoned bayv who delivered a new one the next day as accidental damage was covered. This must have been 10 years ago now, but for me, the insurance was worth it. A bit pointless if you have contents insurance though.

But the OP, if he has the relevant insurance in place and was missold the insurance, does need to claim it back.

 

IF the lady had physically taken the TV with the intention to permanently deprive then that IS theft however, as BAYV have no stores, this TV must have been taken under contract which is a civil matter. Our speculating as to what happened is a bit moot as we don't know the full circumstances but as the OP posted the link, we can.

 

There is the option of renting the TV then selling it on which could be classed as a criminal act.

[ericsbrother]

It may be she sold it when it wasnt hers to sell.

[citizenB]

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?442989-Help-required-in-reclaiming-insurance-from-BAYV

 

Link to Caroline's thread.