Argos trying to charge for cancelled order

waamo

London50 wrote: »

Agreed but the OP thinks they will get away with theft and all I am saying is that in the end if it goes to court the costs will be even higher

Indeed. Add on the £50 solicitors fee then the claim and hearing fees they are looking at around £200 for a £100 debt.

Korkyb

I think everyone is missing the fact that its school holidays up here in Scotland ;-)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jumblebumble wrote: »

I find some of the responses here hilarious and wonder if some of you live in the real world or if you have read too many legal books
My take on this is that Argos will simply write this off on the basis that to persue a lost rug that retails at £100 and probably cost them £50 will not warrant management time to engage a solicitor to a small claims court which will cost them many times this only perhaps to find the defendant simply claims that the rug was collected and the courier must have lost it or any number of other fairy stories never mind a counter claim of storage, never mind having to explain to the DJ why they thought it reasonable to behave as they did.

I would be absolutly furious if Argos delivered something to me having cancelled the order and then refused to collect it and then hassled me. I never asked them to deliver after the order was cancelled and I never agreed to store it
I personally would not pay and let them take me to court if they wanted
I am not a lawyer and these opinions are mine

Regards JumbleBumble

Boo Gar me Mary!

Come back when you’re refused a mortgage!

NotRichAtAll

I am really annoyed as none of it was my fault and they have been so incompetent.

It's quite clear that the only incompetent person is yourself

London50

I see Mary is back online, I wonder if she will thank Jumblebumble for the support :0)

TadleyBaggie

London50 wrote: »

I see Mary is back online, I wonder if she will thank Jumblebumble for the support :0)

What a surprise, she did!

bris

Bottom line is regardless of the fact Argos would easily win the simple fact is it will be ignored because the cost to go to court far outweighs the cost of the item.


It's only really £50 to Argos as that's what they would have paid for it. A letter or two and then it's all forgotten.

Keep_pedalling

bris wrote: »

Bottom line is regardless of the fact Argos would easily win the simple fact is it will be ignored because the cost to go to court far outweighs the cost of the item.


It's only really £50 to Argos as that's what they would have paid for it. A letter or two and then it's all forgotten.

What do you base this on? You don’t have to look very hard to find many threads of people being pursued for debts of £100 or less.

photome

bris wrote: »

Bottom line is regardless of the fact Argos would easily win the simple fact is it will be ignored because the cost to go to court far outweighs the cost of the item.


It's only really £50 to Argos as that's what they would have paid for it. A letter or two and then it's all forgotten.

probably, but you cant know for sure

unforeseen

They have their own in house financially recovery service and have used moor croft and Lowells before now so do have a record for chasing debts