Skip Hire

macman

Contact the receivers and register your interest...

mandm65

macman wrote: »

Contact the receivers and register your interest...

Forgive my ignorance, how would i get that info, like i said before checked the companies house website but the status is active?
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mandm65

kwmlondon wrote: »

Tell the company that called you that you have a credit card receipt for hire of the skip. If they retrieve the skip and dump the contents you will inform the council and report them for fly-tipping. Explain that you are going to retrieve the payment from your credit card company and will be happy to then pay that over to him/them but threats will not work. It may even be worth putting this in a letter and copying in your local council's refuse department.

Just an idea.

Done, also returned the declaration form back to the bank, still unsure how to find who the receiver is and how to log our interest?
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Leif

kwmlondon wrote: »

Tell the company that called you that you have a credit card receipt for hire of the skip. If they retrieve the skip and dump the contents you will inform the council and report them for fly-tipping. Explain that you are going to retrieve the payment from your credit card company and will be happy to then pay that over to him/them but threats will not work. It may even be worth putting this in a letter and copying in your local council's refuse department.

Just an idea.

Also tell them that if they leave the skip on your property after you have asked them to remove it, then after a set period, 1 month say, you will assume that it is your property, and you will sell it.

It might be worth contacting Trading Standards, Consumer Advice or whatever.

keystone

kwmlondon wrote: »

Tell the company that called you that you have a credit card receipt for hire of the skip. If they retrieve the skip and dump the contents you will inform the council and report them for fly-tipping.

Is absolutely correct.

Explain that you are going to retrieve the payment from your credit card company and will be happy to then pay that over to him/them

Is absolutely wrong. OP's contract is with the company that has allegedly gone bust not with the skip hire company. If they reverse the CC transaction then they are open to claims from those that currently administer the company with which they contracted for breach of contract. It is totally up to the internet company to pay the skip company and NOT the OP.

......threats will not work. It may even be worth putting this in a letter and copying in your local council's refuse department.

It's absolutely a must to put this in writing and send it recorded delivery but missing out the bit about paying direct.

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mo786uk

If I am reading right - you hired a skip from business A via the internet but they were just a middle man that subcontracted the hire out from business B.

Therefore business B are the ones that delivered the skip and are responsible for taking it back. Business B are obviously owed money by business A who have probably done it on purpose.

If you cannot get your money back from business A then I would not pay business B. Your contract is with business A.

Practically speaking the difficulty is 1) the skip never gets picked up or b) they start dumping stuff on your lawn

If you can afford it then maybe consider a smaller payment for them just to come and take it and if they don't take it then they get nothing.

If they come and come all the contents then you report them for fly tipping (which may or may not amount to much).

Finally, if they totally refuse to come and get it send them a letter inline with the Torts (Interference of Goods Act) explaining that the skip will become yours after X amount of days. Send this to business A and also business B.

You are then still let with a problem of owning a full skip - so maybe it will cause more hassle in the long run.

Kiran

Had a friend have a similar experience, company B tried to fleece extra money out of him. After telling them politely to jog on he asked them in writing to pick up their skip, again they asked for money. My friend then called a different skip hire company, explained that he had a very shiny new skip free to a good home if they would take his rubbish (all of which was hardcore so win win for the skip company). The skip went away and was presumably repainted for future use!

Not suggesting you do that but it's a plan B!

mandm65

Kiran wrote: »

Had a friend have a similar experience, company B tried to fleece extra money out of him. After telling them politely to jog on he asked them in writing to pick up their skip, again they asked for money. My friend then called a different skip hire company, explained that he had a very shiny new skip free to a good home if they would take his rubbish (all of which was hardcore so win win for the skip company). The skip went away and was presumably repainted for future use!

Not suggesting you do that but it's a plan B!

Thanks, just for info, your friend wrote to company B asking them to remove their junk within a specified period i suppose?