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1981daisy

I was an agent for a home shopping catalogue, very stupidly i let a friend order white goods which she did pay for a few months then she refused to pay, I contacted the catalogue and asked them to collect the monies direct from her, they refused, the reason being I was the agent and therefore my responsibilitie, I could not get any payment from her, this leaves me in debt to the catalogue, this was in 2008 and this is ongoing since then, at the present time I have debt collectors who say they will take me to court and try to declare me bankrupt, I cant see how they can do this as the debt is not mine, I did not sign a credit agreement but neither did the customer, this was an oversight, the catalogue did not supply one, I had been an agent since 1979, the only corespondence I received from them was a monthly statement I never received any new legislation regarding the running of the agency. Where do I stand in this situation ?

skiddlydiddly

Pretty sure as an agent you would have had to stand to this as they used to get commission on sales so liek a small business.A similar post to this got replies from people saying that catalogues did away with agents a few years ago so you'd be classed as a regular cutomer and still have to stand to it.

Flyboy152

1981daisy wrote: »

I was an agent for a home shopping catalogue, very stupidly i let a friend order white goods which she did pay for a few months then she refused to pay, I contacted the catalogue and asked them to collect the monies direct from her, they refused, the reason being I was the agent and therefore my responsibilitie, I could not get any payment from her, this leaves me in debt to the catalogue, this was in 2008 and this is ongoing since then, at the present time I have debt collectors who say they will take me to court and try to declare me bankrupt, I cant see how they can do this as the debt is not mine, I did not sign a credit agreement but neither did the customer, this was an oversight, the catalogue did not supply one, I had been an agent since 1979, the only corespondence I received from them was a monthly statement I never received any new legislation regarding the running of the agency. Where do I stand in this situation ?

In which case there is no enforceable debt, for either of you.