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

trisontana

More criticism by politicians of Farepak boss :-

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=414734&in_page_id=2&ito=1565

kayt_2

trisontana wrote:

More criticism by politicians of Farepak boss :-

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=414734&in_page_id=2&ito=1565

Many thanks to Tristonata for the helpful websites,although I must admit that at first I thought the negative comments weren`t needed!!! SORRY!!! starting to warm to you now!!! Did anyone else see the scumbag on the News tonight? Did you see thre Hotel he was staying at? No need now to ask where our money has gone!!! and last week we were all going to get about £32.00 each and tonight it looks likely to be 4p in the £!!!!!!! B******S!!!!

clareandlee

Hi, I didn't think I would but today received a full refund of the 3 payment I paid using my visa card with Lloyds. They were really unhelpful in the begining, phone calls did not make a difference but sent a letter to their card services dept and had a refund in 10 days! Its not much but better than nothing! Good luck!

dmg24

Though I do not advocate violence and all usual disclaimers etc, I have also just seen the story on ITV News and I just think that somebody should shoot this man. Complete and utter scum.

I know my post is not constructive but I just had to say something. This just makes my blood boil.

I'm really pleased to hear about the possibility of chargebacks, and I do hope this helps some people.

Thinking of everyone who has been affected x

sandhabibi

alwaysbusyMUM wrote:

Hi - - - I'm going to be nosy, how many DD payments did you make & what was the value - are you getting the lot back or a token amount??

The Cooperative Bank {my bank} are still refusing to budge on this one, I'd love to know how much people have got back against what was paid.

Thanks in advance for any replies

All payments for this years order were by dd and I reckon have got about 35-40% paid back by, Thought they said would receive 6months payments back so will see if I'm going to get the other 2 as got 4 payments back.

Hi! Can I just ask how you got money back from your bank? How did you pay if not by credit card or debit card? Just want to know to see if any point of me trying.I have asked Nat west who said that I wouldn`t be able to get anything back as I paid by cash and customers cheques,but you have given me a new ray of hope.thanks Kay
paid by dd and put in an indeminity claim at the bank......good luck

curlytop_3

Has anybody had any problems with chargeback after using their card to pay via the Post Office? My bank is refusing to refund any of the payments I made to Farepak which I made through the Post Office using the Farepak payment card. The reason they state is 'this is not classed as a payment by debit card. By using your card at the Post Office to pay Farepak, you have used a third party and the payment is not directly through us'. All the receipts have Farepak Ltd on them. I have been given legal advice that I should be able to claim as Farepak are the beneficiaries of the payments and Post Office have also confirmed that the payments did indeed go straight to Farepak. Any thoughts on this would be helpful.
Thanks

karren

parliment debate details : http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2006-11-07a.183.0

michjoe

There is now a link on the https://www.farepakresponsefund.org.uk where they are asking you to inform them if you have had a chargeback refund from your bank.

hesweb

Can you please post which banks have given Diect Debit refunds, and if it was full amount, payments since June, or payments since August?

I want to see if one is my bank, or if anyone else uses the same banks and they can then apply for a refund.

Thanks

sandhabibi

hesweb wrote:

Can you please post which banks have given Diect Debit refunds, and if it was full amount, payments since June, or payments since August?

I want to see if one is my bank, or if anyone else uses the same banks and they can then apply for a refund.

Thanks

My bank was abbey and haven't seen anybody else get refund through dd yet... I received back my payments for April,may Aug &sept and have found out today they are working on june & july's to make it 6 months refunds then.