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MSE News: Ovivo customers will not receive refunds as liquidator concludes final repo

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Customers left out of pocket after mobile phone company Ovivo shut up shop two years ago will not be getting their money...
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'Ovivo customers will not receive refunds as liquidator concludes final report'
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  • Castle
    Castle Posts: 4,788 Forumite
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    The Liquidator's pay figure of £12,359.50 is only for the period 2nd May 2015 to 25th April 2016. For the period 2nd May 2014 to 1st May 2015 the Liquidator's time costs were £42,995.00. A grand total of £55,354.50 for the two years.
  • callum9999
    callum9999 Posts: 4,434 Forumite
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    Given the attraction of Ovivo was the free aspect, did many people buy any significant amounts of credit? I can't see how it could possibly be worth going to court for the small sums involved - even if there was a remote chance of winning.
  • redux
    redux Posts: 22,976 Forumite
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    My SIM cost £5 not £20, and I'd used over £3 of the credit.

    Not worth even a stamp to write to the liquidators.

    I can imagine the later joiners paying £20 being rather more upset though.
  • prowla
    prowla Posts: 13,988 Forumite
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    I have to say I'm not expecting anything out of it.
  • boatman
    boatman Posts: 4,700 Forumite
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    The cost of the liquidators was roughly equal to the assets of the company, how convenient.
  • RichardKFord
    RichardKFord Posts: 4 Newbie
    They always are.
  • martinbuckley
    martinbuckley Posts: 1,725 Forumite
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    redux wrote: »
    I can imagine the later joiners paying £20 being rather more upset though.



    Most of them would have been after Martin Lewis pimped up Ovivo on here!


    I got the best part of a year for my one-off payments, so I'm not distraught about them not being able to give me a refund.
  • alinwales
    alinwales Posts: 335 Forumite
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    I signed up in the Feb before they stopped their service and activated it on 1st March.
    After they stopped, I got in touch with my credit card company, and they refunded me £15 of the initial £18 fee.
    So i'll never see the other £3, which with the interest it would have had is probably closer to £3.05 by now.
    It was always a gamble given their business model. It'll be interesting to see how freedompop get on.
  • davieg11
    davieg11 Posts: 278 Forumite
    I got £5 quidco and my £20 back from PayPal.
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