Vendors left items that the F&F said they wanted

tomatta

Completed on my house yesterday. At the fixtures and fittings stage we had a bit of to and fro around the shed and the wheelie bins - we both wanted them. In the end I agreed the vendors could take them.

However neither the shed or the bins were taken. There's also some other things such as a BBQ which has seen better days.

Where do we stand legally now? Obviously I still want them so if they aren't claiming them then thats fine with me. However could they turn up in a months time looking for the items?

mysterymurdoch

I doubt they'll turn up in months. No harm using them for now is there? Don't the council own the wheelie bins anyway? I.e. they belong to the council and have been allocated to that property, so you can't take them with you.

Red-Squirrel_2

Bins normally stay with the house, I think you're fine on that one.

I bet they didn't actually want the shed, they probably just wanted to try and get you to pay them for it. I wouldn't worry if I were you.

marliepanda

mysterymurdoch wrote: »

I doubt they'll turn up in months. No harm using them for now is there? Don't the council own the wheelie bins anyway? I.e. they belong to the council and have been allocated to that property, so you can't take them with you.

It depends. Different councils have different view points haha. Personally in my council you buy them from the council (if a new build) so if I had bought them at £50 a pop I'd feel they were mine!

Anyway, a lot of new builds don't provide them, and some people will try to take them with them to avoid paying for them.

But some councils also have lists of who has a bin at a new property so can tell who they belong to (to stop no26 stealing no28s bin to avoid the charge) so it can get a bit complicated and messy over what is essentially, a bloody bin haha.

melstar11

If that's all they left count yourselves lucky. Next time we move I am going to ask for clarification of the fittings and contents list as our vendors left all sorts which meant we couldn't unpack properly.

moneyistooshorttomention

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Bins normally stay with the house, I think you're fine on that one.

I bet they didn't actually want the shed, they probably just wanted to try and get you to pay them for it. I wouldn't worry if I were you.

Agree re the bins - ie they belong to the Council and not an individual householder.

Re the shed - the vendors of my last house tried to charge me (exorbitantly - they tried to charge me more than twice the cost of a new shed!!) for the shed and I refused and took my chances that they would take it with them when they went. They did take the shed - well more fool them then (ie for the amount of effort they would have had to go too to remove it).

So I think it's safe to say that if the shed is still there now you've moved in - then they arent likely to try and claim it now. I believe the time limit for a firm to reclaim any unsolicited goods they send through the post is 3 months. Don't know how the law functions in this instance - but I would say it's reasonable after 3 months to start treating it totally as yours.

Livelongandprosper

Not all councils own the bins
Here we have to buy our own and because of that it is the norm to take them with you when you move

Davesnave

Proud owner of 4 bins here. All mine.

No one gets my bins!

PS. People leave stuff. It's normal.

davidmcn

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I believe the time limit for a firm to reclaim any unsolicited goods they send through the post is 3 months.

No idea where you've got that from, and the laws about inertia marketing (when was the last time anyone tried that anyway?) are nothing to do with the OP's query.

Assuming the contract doesn't deal with abandoned items, the relevant period would be the usual one for prescription (i.e. years rather than months). But in practice they're not going to come back for their shed.

Hoploz

I think as it is on the F&F form, legally they have notified you that they are taking them. It's unlikely they are going to take them later, but just popping in here because when we bought the seller had left their portacabin in the driveway. In our case it wasn't mentioned that they were leaving it. We were happy to keep it, but the sellers apparently wanted it and we were told they would be collecting it at a later date.

We were told at the time that just because items are left on completion day, they do not automatically become yours.

It was a month before it was removed.

So as you've asked what the legal position is, I'd say legally they are entitled to take something listed on the form. So legally you should consider giving them a deadline to collect the items. Of course, it's unlikely they are going to want them so it's up to you whether to bother to do this.

teddysmum

They probably decided that the shed was not worth the effort of dismantling and rebuilding and may have been informed that the bins belong to the council. (Our council provides 3 bins, but if one is vandalised while out for collection, you have to pay for a replacement, unless you live in a council property)