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Bailiffs charged me £200 to post a letter
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The CAB have no 'powers' to halt bailiff enforcement, and the same applies to people like CCCS, etc. The bailiffs can and will ignore them.
If the OP feels that the bailiffs have been unreasonable, they should complain to their local council member.
But they can review ops situation with more detail than any of us here can and offer factual, unbiased advise on how op should deal with it! Isn't this the exact reason millions of people speak to them each year?
Op should absolutely visit the CAB, irrespective of what they can and cannot do themselves.0 -
But they can review ops situation with more detail than any of us here can and offer factual, unbiased advise on how op should deal with it! Isn't this the exact reason millions of people speak to them each year?
Op should absolutely visit the CAB, irrespective of what they can and cannot do themselves.
The OP should make their own choice, yes. But having had much experience of their incompetence in the past, I'd have to disagree with both the "factual" and "unbiased" bits of CAB advice.
When I was a bailiff, more than once, different CAB offices gave advice to debtors while I was enforcing a debt that essentially gave me little choice to either insist on full payment of a debt or to remove goods there and then, when I had a much more open mind about the solution I was seeking when I first knocked on the debtor's door.
On one especially memorable occasion, a debtor got arrested for attempting to assault me because the CAB told them that I was in their house unlawfully (I wasn't) and that they could remove me by force if need be.
And when were the CAB when the debtor got arrested? They didn't want to know. When they went to court to be prosecuted for attempted assault? No-where to be found.
I totally agree with the idea of getting advice. I just think the OP should get it from people who actually do know the difference between their !!!! and their elbow.If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything0 -
Ok, fair enough, some good points made0
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