wrong order and much more valuable made in error by them, unsolicited gift?

shaun_from_Africa

vinie wrote: »

Cool ok let's say I agree I have been dishonest by staying at my address and accepting a delivery.. What's the details of being screwed over ! What could happen!

You have done nothing dishonest by staying where you do or by accepting a delivery.

The dishonest only started when you decided to dispose of something that you neither owned nor had permission of the rightful owners to dispose of.

pmduk

I hope your workmate will be grateful for potentially landing them with a handling stolen goods conviction? Hardly career-enhancing is it?

DevCoder

George_Michael wrote: »

A county court judgement issued against you leaving you with a trashed credit record.
You will probably be unable to get any form of credit (Mortgage, hire purchase, loans, credit cards etc) and if by some chance you do get any of the above, the interest rate will be far higher than it would normally be.

If the company concerned do take you to court and win, you will be required to repay the money and if you fail to do so, they can arrange for court appointed bailiffs to chase you for the money.
Even if you don't pay them, every time they visit your property or write to you, you will be getting charged for this and it will be added to the amount that you owe.

Correct, although for that amount they could also petition for the posters bankruptcy.

vinie

Right.. Are you/were you guys like accountants and law students who never made it! So now you just hang around forums for hours daily and tell someone off for receiving the wrong delivery and using it while it hasn't been requested! You call me a thief!! Everyone I spoke to from a landlord to a stock exchange expert etc said keep it.. Wish at least one person said you can argue this or that as it would tell me something different about the kind of people i would be getting advice from
You have been watching too much judge Judy
But thank you for effort though

DevCoder

Enjoy your time in court. Just a hint, it's nothing like Judge Judy either.

What the people (landlords to stock exchange experts) say doesn't matter, it's not their neck on the line.

visidigi

I do hope the work colleague is unaware where you got it from?

And Im guessing by the silence to the question, your work colleague gave you cash for the item?

A very silly thing to have done to be honest.

miduck

vinie wrote: »

Right.. Are you/were you guys like accountants and law students who never made it! So now you just hang around forums for hours daily and tell someone off for receiving the wrong delivery and using it while it hasn't been requested! You call me a thief!! Everyone I spoke to from a landlord to a stock exchange expert etc said keep it.. Wish at least one person said you can argue this or that as it would tell me something different about the kind of people i would be getting advice from
You have been watching too much judge Judy
But thank you for effort though

Why would you ask a landlord or a "stock exchange expert" for legal advice?

merlot123

So your Landlord and Stock Exchange Expert says keep it, and then you give it away to your co-worker! At least if you'd followed their advice you would have it to return it!

At the end of the day, you had something which isn't yours to keep, you have pay the consequences for that....

aliasojo

vinie wrote: »

Everyone I spoke to from a landlord to a stock exchange expert etc said keep it..

You have been watching too much judge Judy

So if 'everyone' has already given you a united answer, why on earth ask here too then? Go with what they say. It's no problem, they are all right, ignore everyone here, no-one here has a clue.

I'm sorry but you really have no clue about the legalities of this. Spout Judge Judy insults as much as you like, it's water off our backs and it doesn't change your situation.

visidigi

Theres no 'give away' here, I suspect the OP made at least £1k out of this if it was cash paid...