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GRRRRR Red,lowell,etc keep hounding me...

I cannot believe the evidence and still not have sufficient evidence when i have asked and asked and asked regarding a 3 mobile debt from 2007 ( i ended my contract in 2005) they keep coming in all different forms from 2 years ago first at an address where i didn't even live my mother in law did!! worrying her!!changing their names from lowell, red. etc and its really getting me down so i have written this..any more help would be great!! see below..


Dear sir..
Account Balance: 539.77

I have previously asked on 2 occasions no less for the original documentation form Lowell Port folio of my contract to which this apparent debt has derived from. All i have got back is actually one invoice from 2007 , this is not indeed what i have asked for.
In the year 2007 i did not have a contact with 3 mobile, the only time i was with 3 mobile was in 2004-2005. To which my contact had ENDED.

Since way back then i have been on pay as you go, so i absolutely will not be accounted for a debt to which you can not provide any evidence of, especially in this day and age with the industry rife with mis-leading letters to innocent clients!

I would point out that I have no knowledge of any such debt being owed to 3 mobile for the dates you had sent,as my contract prior in 2005 had ended, and even more worrying is that these letters had only started to get sent to me at my mother in laws address 2 years ago..until then..nothing whatsoever, surely if i had a contract with a mobile provider i would have been sent monthly statements to my home address would i not?

I am familiar with the CPUTR 2008 and the Office of Fair Trading's Guidance on debt collection, which states that it is unfair to send demands for payment to an individual when it is uncertain that they are the debtor in question.

I would ask that no further contact be made concerning the above account UNLESS you can provide evidence as to my liability for the debt in question ,including the contract details i have asked for and await your written confirmation that this matter is now closed. Otherwise I will have no option but to make a complaint to Trading Standards and also inform the Office Of Fair Trading of your actions.

I do understand you are not obliged to provide the contract but nevertheless i absolutely am not happy with a single invoice being sent to me out of the blue years later after first requesting evidence!!!

I DID NOT HAVE OR AGREE TO A CONTRACT ON THESE DATES and am sure if indeed any court given my evidence of all the harrasment of letters i keep getting from various companies, Lowell, red,etc etc..(one company possibly?) with STILL not what i have asked for repeatedly but getting the same ONE invoice only...THIS in my opinion is indeed NOT sufficient !!

All of my previous request to all companies i keep getting letters from and to all have no response to what i ask for will be put forward to whoever this may concern! ( please note i have contacted consumer direct also)

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully

MRS M R Skomro.

Comments

  • I think you have written too much to be honest.

    You need to keep your letters short and to the point, otherwise they just get bored and end up skimming through your letters.

    Did your contract end, or did you cancel?
    Did you get any correspondence from them to state that the contract had ended?
    Do you have the original agreement that states the contract was for x amount of months?

    You could send them a SAR - costs £10 - they have to send you all information they have on you under the Data Protection Act. You could send this to 3. They'd have to provide you with a list of transactions, which means you'd see all your bill amounts, and payments you've made.
    SAVINGS: £63.86 // £3,000
  • Or actually, you could send them a 'prove it' letter. They would then have to prove the debt belongs to you, rather than you proving that it doesn't.
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