Farepak in administration: What to do? (Merged Thread)

cookie334 wrote:

Just wondering if anyone could tell me if Family Hampers are affected?

I really hope it all works out for you all and that you don't lose your money. This is terrible!

No Family Hampers is owned by a different company if i remember right, so shouldnt be effected.

https://www.hitauk.co.uk thats the hampers trade industry assc website which all hamper companys need to abide by site is down atm, but keep checking you might be able to find help there.

Farepak were put in to administration on Friday at 6.0pm and we were informed at 9.0pm. Because of this we have little information.
However there are a number of circumstances that affected Farepak's demise that HITA is currently investigating.
As information becomes available we will publish it on our website and you should also hear from the administrators.
Neil Henderson-Begg
HITA


This is an email I received when I contacted HITA. HTH

MEMBER02 wrote:

I ordered £1500 and owed £55 which i tried to pay off on wednesday but were told by cs that there payment system was down,surely they will have some sort of insurance against this thing like holiday companies use abta.

Thats what HITA is for it regulates Hampers, So hench the poster stating the email from them that they are looking in to it, So keep an eye https://www.hitauk.co.uk when its working to see the updates through out the week.

I'm another that's been 'robbed' by farepak, was looking forward to £135 of vouchers but now it's all just gone!!

This was the first year I'd done the saving with them (after lots of recommendations about them) as I'm terrible at saving because I dip into the account so I was pleased that I'd done it this way, I'm kicking myself now though!

Been wanting to cry all day, I know £135 is small change to what others have lost but it's a lot to me and it was going towards my son's present, for the first time in years I would've had enough to buy him what he actually wanted!:mad: