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      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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I'm a victim of Vanquis. I wanted to pay off my Vanquis debt by getting another card from my bank and doing a balance transfer. Vanquis do not accept balance transfers or any payment from other CCs. Is there anyway round this? Has anyone else experienced the same problem? I have lengthened this reply by way more than 2 characters

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yes I am also a victim. I wanted to close my account and transfer my balance to another credit card, but I was told by a very rude customer service advisor that I was unable to do this. I owe £256.00 and thay are charging me this month £19.60. How can they charge so much without letting us know how much interest they are going to charg in the begining I owe £194.00 on another credit card and they are charging me £6.50 this month! what a difference!!

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Contact the Financial Services Authority for regulation on that subject, inform them of the correspondence/telephone answer to your transfer request from Vanquis, and look into the agreement T&Cs YOU MUST HAVE FOR THIS, SEE IF MENTION IS MADE. AS IF SO uNFAIR CONTRACTS COME TO MIND as a balance transfer is a cash payment to clear account regardless where it came from????

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Yes I am also a victim. I wanted to close my account and transfer my balance to another credit card, but I was told by a very rude customer service advisor that I was unable to do this. I owe £256.00 and thay are charging me this month £19.60. How can they charge so much without letting us know how much interest they are going to charg in the begining I owe £194.00 on another credit card and they are charging me £6.50 this month! what a difference!!

 

You should have been advised at the time of entering into the agreement, the rate of interest that would be applied to the account. Are you saying they didnt do this ?

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unfortunally they do let you know on opening the account, so maybe it is a case that the % rate = £s did not connect with your thoughts, i.e. converting say 34% to possibly £34.00 per annum per £100.00, be honest not many of us would initially.

 

I believe Cap one has gone up to say 27% in cases?

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