Response from British Gas to A4V...?

[deethebee]

Thanks for the help.

I thought about sending a screen grab of the HMRC page, but I think that might apply only to themselves and not as payment in general. As it seems to be part of a manual, it looks like it's just for employees and relating to payments received by HMRC and not companies in general. So I left it out. The mention of Bills of Exchange act and Bankruptcy Act should really be enough...

Also, what I sent is a letter and not a notice. Is that ok? The first one with the payment was a notice.

[exdrogadgy]

Hi Dee

It's a very good letter and i am sure Jon and Ceylon would encourage us to write our own letters or use the templates. Try the fee schedule, apart from Simon The Spaniard/White Rabbit i don't know anyone who has had their fee schedule paid, it would be interesting to hear of some cases where they have.

Gadgy

[deethebee]

Gadgy, have people been to small claims court to try get their fee schedule paid?

[exdrogadgy]

19 times out of 20 they pay up before it gets to small claims court...but we are talking lower than £500 not big money.

If you go to the BenLowreyHimself youtube channel you will see several videos of him interviewing the spaniard. I never got that far as in the case with Vodafone and Dell i got reasonable customer service. I was advised to come here to solve my dispute with the halifax. There are also interesting interviews with Jon and Ceylon on Ben Lowrey's youtube.

[deethebee]

Ok, it sounded from what you said that most people don't get their payouts. My fee schedule for British Gas isn't as outrageous as the one for the bank (£1000 per letter and £5000 for calling me Miss), so I've been lowering fees in the hopes of more payouts. To be honest I was a little worried about the fee schedule on the bank letters...perhaps I should have changed it! I am not sure any court would agree with that sort of fee schedule and a bank would probably allow it to go to court before they paid out thousands of pounds. Even if it is under £5000, I am not sure a judge would agree with that amount for admin costs.

[robfreeman]

Dee,you don't NEED anyone to verify/agree/or authorise your fee schedule/payment costs.They are YOURS.As long as you inform parties concerned beforehand of what you're schedule of fees are,then it is UP TO THEM if they wanna do business with you.I think that there are 2 basic trains of thought on our fee schedules.

1] Make them so ridiculously high that they scare the sh#t out of the other side,and they can NEVER claim that you owe them MORE than they owe you.These bills are never meant to be cashed in,but act as a deterrent and a suit of armour - a la commercial lien.

2] Make the fees under £5000.00 for small claims court, [although I think the limit has now been raised] especially fees around £500-£600 is more likely to be settled out of court by them - a la The Spaniard- and you CAN get paid.

My method depends on how much is being demanded from me.I make it relative to this amount,always making the corporation the debtor [Trustee] and always making me the creditor [Beneficiary]