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

kmel

Biketrials08 wrote: »

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.

haha true, i have plenty of money, i guess it's just the principal really.

thanks for the nice reply though. there are a lot of miserable people in these forums!

kmel

arcon5 wrote: »

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?

well i don't want to bother my relatives over something like this really so i just went on the direct gov website. obviously my world won't collapse if i don't get the money. i just meant that i could go to them for advice really, not so much a "i'll get my dad on you!" thing, haha.
yep, the reason it's taken me so long is that now i'm on my holidays so i had a spare couple of minutes to send a message, which doesn't really take that much out of my day.

thanks for the informative answer though .

arcon5

kmel wrote: »

haha! surely they'd do it over skype though...

This is a joke right..? Please be joking?

Just to add to the court route op, the court in which the case is heard it chosen by the defendant and not the claimant --so since you say your quite far apart, although you would be able to claim reasonable costs of transportation, it would be more expenses you would incur i nthe process.

As I discovered today, you don't just pay the £35 to file a claim, but there is a £50 'hearing fee' for amounts under £500.

So your effectively going to end up spending £85+travel+your time just to get your judgement.

kmel

arcon5 wrote: »

This is a joke right..? Please be joking?

Just to add to the court route op, the court in which the case is heard it chosen by the defendant and not the claimant --so since you say your quite far apart, although you would be able to claim reasonable costs of transportation, it would be more expenses you would incur i nthe process.

As I discovered today, you don't just pay the £35 to file a claim, but there is a £50 'hearing fee' for amounts under £500.

So your effectively going to end up spending £85+travel+your time just to get your judgement.

oh dear, of COURSE i was joking. us youth of today aren't that bad (even if i don't capitalise the starts of my sentences and my Is when i'm online ).

that's very useful! this is exactly the kind of advice i wanted thanks. even if i don't act on it i think it's good to know. cheers!

pendulum

kmel wrote: »

oh dear, of COURSE i was joking. us youth of today aren't that bad (even if i don't capitalise the starts of my sentences and my Is when i'm online ).

"and my Is when i'm online"... I had to read that a couple of times before realising you meant "I's". It's bad enough not bothering to capitalise, but when you start leaving out the grammar too...

kmel

pendulum wrote: »

"and my Is when i'm online"... I had to read that a couple of times before realising you meant "I's". It's bad enough not bothering to capitalise, but when you start leaving out the grammar too...

Interesting perspective, but aren't apostrophes only for possessive and missing letters? Which does this fall under?

kmel

kmel wrote: »

Interesting perspective, but aren't apostrophes only for possessive and missing letters? Which does this fall under?

"The apostrophe has three uses:

to form possessives of nouns
to show the omission of letters
to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters"

http: //owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/

Is this what winning on the internet feels like? It's strangely hollow...

Hintza

kmel wrote: »

Is this what winning on the internet feels like? It's strangely hollow...

Keep taking the tablets!

DCFC79

kmel wrote: »

well she lives in london and i live in essex, so no i can't exactly "walk up to her". and sorry for not reserving my best writing for this forum. why don't you try being nice? this was my first post and you just criticise me. BASICALLY, thanks for hurting my feelings. excellent.

Hurting your feelings jeez, just let it go over your head

kmel wrote: »

haha true, i have plenty of money, i guess it's just the principal really.

thanks for the nice reply though. there are a lot of miserable people in these forums!

Not miserable people but helpful people who offer opinions which in this case were opinions you weren't after

pendulum

kmel wrote: »

Is this what winning on the internet feels like? It's strangely hollow...

Substitute winning with failing and all will become clear.

You need to go a bit further than reading an introduction to the apostrophe from an American university website in order to understand their many uses.