After 'free' consultation I'm being chased by debt collectors for consultation charge

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

ThumbRemote wrote: »

The differences would be:
1. In a hairdressers and a bar the price list should be on display. It is uncertain whether this was so in the OPs case.
2. The cost of the contract being entered into is different in scale.
3. In the bar example, there is no ambiguity over where previous free drinks end and paid ones begin.

1. yes, we have no idea what communication passed between them. It's quite possible the OP received something in writing or ticked a box before the first consultation clearly setting out that only the first session would be free. We don't know.

2. £150? Not really.

3. Yes, but that ambiguity is why there is even a question.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

ThumbRemote wrote: »

In the event that clear pricing was on display, then of course the retailer would have a full defence and OP would be liable to pay it.

However it seems rather unlikely that such a price list was clearly on display, given that if it were it would have negated the point of OP posting as they'd have seen it.

It could easily have been clearly on display without them seeing it.