Help!Buyer constantly delaying payment

motorguy

excellent! good move! :beer:

jaffa30

Well done ashy

Dont let the !!!!!! get away with it.

Jaffa

DesG

I would actually advise against blocking the phone until after a court hearing. Otherwise you have wasted your court fee. The fact that the phone is blocked is a complete defence.

On the other hand, you probably will never get a payment from him, even if you win the court case.

Has anyone had a stolen phone blocked and then had it unblocked after it has been recovered? I havn't heard of it happening, but it must be possible?

Cheers, Des.

motorguy

DesG wrote:

I would actually advise against blocking the phone until after a court hearing. Otherwise you have wasted your court fee. The fact that the phone is blocked is a complete defence.


Cheers, Des.

How have you wasted your court fee? a calling bar or block can be lifted if required and that can be confirmed with the service provider. also personally i'd be telling the supplier that its been 'lost' and you will probably want to unblock it when you find it.

this guy is very obviously going to drag the whole thing out as long as possible, why let him use the phone in the meantime?

gromituk

DesG wrote:

On the other hand, you probably will never get a payment from him, even if you win the court case.

I don't see why not. If he doesn't pay up, they send the bailiffs in. If he has an address, there'll be something they can acquire.

DesG

pgilc1 wrote:

this guy is very obviously going to drag the whole thing out as long as possible, why let him use the phone in the meantime?

I agree the guy is obviously a conman, but, I personally wouldn't want the guy to be able to use the defence that the phone is blocked and therefore un-useable when it comes to court.

If it is possible to get the IMEI unblocked just before the case, then I would go for it

But as I said in my post I havn't heard of anyone getting an IMEI unblocked, if it is possble and can be done reasonably quickly, then go for it, otherwise I stick by my advice.

Cheers, Des.

DesG

gromituk wrote:

I don't see why not. If he doesn't pay up, they send the bailiffs in. If he has an address, there'll be something they can acquire.

And how much does it cost, on top of the original £30 to get to that stage? Another £50.

You have to pay more, and have another court hearing.

Of course, you can then find that they have moved house, and the court won't help you track them down. And if you do somehow manage to trace them, you have to pay another fee to enter the new address.

If the bailiffs manage to find them, they can just not answer the door, they are not allowed to force entry.

If they do gain entry, there needs to be goods suitable for auction which actually belong to the debtor.


Actually getting the cash from someone who doesn't want to pay costs a lot and takes a long time.

Cheers, Des.

gromituk

OK - in the case of a colleague of mine, it was easy.

And even if it doesn't reach the bailiff stage, he gets a CCJ against him.

DesG

gromituk wrote:

OK - in the case of a colleague of mine, it was easy.

Ah, you edited your post, nothing to do with unblocking then!

gromituk

DesG wrote:

Ah, you edited your post, nothing to do with unblocking then!

Eh? I edited my post to add the second sentence. I said nothing about unblocking before or after. Do you have the wrong person?