RAc conmen

Hintza

The thread title is just hysterical.

MIKE770

just like saying I signed a years membership but did not use it so I want my money back - did you do the same with your national insurance? - Grow Up!

mikey72

MIKE770 wrote: »

just like saying I signed a years membership but did not use it so I want my money back - did you do the same with your national insurance? - Grow Up!

A well reasoned arguement, from yet anyother "roll me over" MSE'er
Companies must love you lot.

Marco_Panettone

mikey72 wrote: »

A well reasoned arguement, from yet anyother "roll me over" MSE'er
Companies must love you lot.

Maybe it's a cautionary tale to ALWAYS read the contract before signing.

mikey72

Marco_Panettone wrote: »

Maybe it's a cautionary tale to ALWAYS read the contract before signing.

Maybe the op didn't expect to stop driving mid term.
Breakdown cover, courtesy car, and legal expenses.
None are much use if you don't have a car, but none are refundable if you cancel mid term. And so long as most people think that's a fair and reasonable way to sell it, I'm sure it will continue. It's when people stop being mugs that they will be forced to change.

poppasmurf_bewdley

mikey72 wrote: »

A well reasoned arguement, from yet anyother "roll me over" MSE'er
Companies must love you lot.

If everyone behaved as you apparently want them to, nobody would ask anyone to sign anything because nobody would take any notice of what they signed.

If everyone behaved as you apparently want them to, this country would do no business whatsoever, because nobody would trust anybody else.

And that's the word - trust - something you evidently don't have and don't want.

bigjl.

mikey72 wrote: »

Maybe the op didn't expect to stop driving mid term.
Breakdown cover, courtesy car, and legal expenses.
None are much use if you don't have a car, but none are refundable if you cancel mid term. And so long as most people think that's a fair and reasonable way to sell it, I'm sure it will continue. It's when people stop being mugs that they will be forced to change.

Maybe he didn't read the contract before he signed it.

poppasmurf_bewdley

mikey72 wrote: »

Maybe the op didn't expect to stop driving mid term.
Breakdown cover, courtesy car, and legal expenses.
None are much use if you don't have a car, but none are refundable if you cancel mid term. And so long as most people think that's a fair and reasonable way to sell it, I'm sure it will continue. It's when people stop being mugs that they will be forced to change.

So it would be ok with you if you ring the RAC or other breakdown organisation when you break down, only to be told "You've broken down, we don't want to know. We're cancelling your policy mid-term (as you put it)"

If it's ok for one person to break the contract, surely it's ok for the other side to do likewise?

mikey72

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

So it would be ok with you if you ring the RAC or other breakdown organisation when you break down, only to be told "You've broken down, we don't want to know. We're cancelling your policy mid-term (as you put it)"

If it's ok for one person to break the contract, surely it's ok for the other side to do likewise?

Maybe you need to read it, they can cancel mid term, and they don't refund for that either. But I'm sure you'll be fine, if you trust eveyone, you probably haven't felt the need to even read the contracts. (Or maybe you don't really trust them, and you do read the contracts, who knows?)

patman99

Don't forget, it is YOU who is the member, not the car. So if you are in a vehicle that breaks-down and the owner has no breakdown cover, you can simply whip-out your RAC card and give them a call.

As for your in-laws 'stealing your car', can we assume the cheque bounced?. If so, did you keep a spare key?. If you did, just go to where they park it and drive-off (mind you, if you have no insurance on it, then you could drive it round the corner, disable it and get the RAC to recover it back to your house). It is still yours. As the payment bounced, they have no legal title to it.