owed money by someone, worth trying to get it back?

kmel

pcombo wrote: »

solicitors lol will cost you more than the £25.

yes i am aware of that, i do have relatives who are solicitors/ magistrates but i was simply curious if there was anything i COULD do, so this wasn't really an answer.

looks like i'll just have to keep messaging her. cheers everyone!

sharpy2010

kmel wrote: »

looks like i'll just have to keep messaging her. cheers everyone!

Not ready to let it go then?

For the sake of your own sanity... move on!

Biketrials08

In a few years when you've left uni you'll look back and think "damn, £25, I wish that's all I had to worry about now!". It's a bit irritating I know but let it slide, lending money is like gambling, don't put up more than you're willing to lose.

arcon5

kmel wrote: »

yes i am aware of that, i do have relatives who are solicitors/ magistrates but i was simply curious if there was anything i COULD do, so this wasn't really an answer.

looks like i'll just have to keep messaging her. cheers everyone!

So instead of taking advice from a professional you search google for statutory demand and ask a bunch of strangers for advice?
If I had a nickel for everytime I heard somebody say 'if you don't sort it out, i'll get my son involved -- he's a lawyer ya'know' , never heard any claim to have relatives that are magistrates aswell though:rotfl:.

If you really don't want to let it go then your best route would be to send a 'Letter Before Action' to her giving her 14 days to repay your money then go to moneyclaim.gov and file a claim. It will cost you £35 and will be added to the claim. You don't need solicitors.

Don't forget, whatever route you take doesn't guarantee your money. After getting a CCJ you then have to decide on the best enforcement route if she doesn't pay.

I'm sure I owe many old uni friends money and some owe me which I will never pay and nor will they -- you know, all those times you go to the bar and by everybody a few pints and they all do the same, it never works out exact

But if your a student, surely you could put your time to better use?

Dave101t

please stop being so nice, you will only get taken for a ride in a much bigger way in future. all people are enemies until proven otherwise, not the other way round!

Oliver14

kmel wrote: »

Hello! first post so if i've put this in the wrong place then i'm sorry!

but basically, i'm in my 3rd year at uni, but in my 1st year (around march 2010) i leant a girl i was friends with at the time £25 for a train fare. she always said she'd pay me back at summer, but that came and went.

i then continued to ask her many times, and she said she was short of money. (but from what i've seen on facebook, she could definitely afford to amass £25 over a year and a half), but the last thing she said to me was that she promised she would get it to me. (this was also in facebook messaging.) however, the last thing i said to her went unreplied to, and then she deleted me as a friend, surprise surprise.

basically, is there anything i can do that won't cost me MORE than the £25 i need to get back? i've looked into statuatory demand but i'm not sure if i need a solicitor.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

kate.

3 years at University dodgy spelling starting sentences with 'basically'.and without the common sense to walk up to someone and ask for the money (it must be messaged through facebook;)). Doesn't that give you hope for the future of British industry?

Dave101t

ay, i wuz at uni like, and like, i aint had no probs wiv spellin n stuff.

Annisele

I can't see that taking her to court is going to help you.

You: I lent her £25 and she didn't pay it back.
Her: No, we were friends and she gave me £25, it wasn't a loan.

paddyrg

£25 is cheap to learn a lesson about lending money to friends and family.

fluffnutter

I see people on these boards who are owed thousands by friends. £25 really is a trifling sum. In fact most decent people have leant this amount (and more) to friends over the years and not seen it back. Let it go and consider it money well spent learning the lesson 'Never lend money if you can't afford to write it off'.