Morrisons substitutions

shrinking.clare

I am just the same - all the subs seem to be more expensive and they sent chicken pasta as a sub for my veggie daughter. So frustrating not to get money back and not to turn off subs for some items.

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jeanniec said:

Has anybody had problems with morrisons substitutions? I have always used Tesco for food deliveries but were forced to look elsewhere due to coronavirus. I managed to find a delivery for morrisons over 2 weeks ago. No option to delete substitutions on their site. Had an email 2 hours before my delivery to say I would be receiving substitutions for a lot of my items. More than half of these i did not want. I couldn't do anything to change it and reading on line it said that due to covid-19 the drivers will not accept any returns! It refers to an online form ...it does not exist! When you are able to get back on their site (as quite often you are put in a queue for up to 10 minutes) and access your delivered orders there us supposed to be the option to request a refund...that doesn't exist!! I have tried calling several times but the wait times are 30mins plus. It says to send an email. I have sent four emails now and just have an automated response to say that they are too busy to answer!!! This is shocking. I feel that they are taking advantage of this current situation to boost their coffers by sending out stuff that is much more expensive than the original items that were ordered and not offering the option to return and refund. 

I am in exactly the same situation, but am glad I have found this thread as further evidence that the "Need a refund?" above the non-existent "Welcome back" message does not exist and that there is no Refund Request option under My Orders.  In my case I ordered some packs of Savers Jaffa Cakes.  They sent one but a further two packs were not available.  Instead of substituting the remaining 24 for even a 30 pack McVities at £1.50, they sent two packs of 20 at £1.60 each!  Thus charging me more than twice the cost for 40 jaffa cakes than a pack of 30 and more costly for 40 than 60.  They may have been out of the 30 pack, but even so...  One pack of Savers is fine, I am not accepting the further McVities which is far beyond the total 36 of Savers I originally ordered.  Last time they replaced 2 boxes of 80 pack Savers Tea Bags with two small packs of standard range - 40 bags each, thus providing half of what I ordered and charging more for each box and swapped some own label cup soups for branded cup soups at full price each no offer.  Morrisons are the only store of the big four to charge more for their subs.  As you mention, there isn't an option for no subs. and, as I am likely to have picked the best value range in the first place, all of the subs. they provide will be more expensive unless they swap for another item in the same range on the same price.  What is galling is that the list of items in my order is now claiming "Accepted" alongside the two expensive boxes of jaffa cakes.  They are emphatically rejected, not accepted.  Because of the Covid-19 situation I just took all items in as drivers aren't able to give refunds or take items back.  I was silent and did not say I accepted anything - I wasn't going to trouble the driver with anything precisely because they couldn't do anything and because the website gave the procedure for refunds, including a request within 48 hours of a delivery involving a non-existent refund request section.

I wasn't aware Customer Services phone lines were open as I got a message to the effect that staff were working from home, the call lines therefore closed but messages by email still being dealt with.  I used the normal contact form and got a message back staying they aimed to reply within 5 working days.  As this was only yesterday, I am therefore waiting.  I think it is a case of being patient (but in case they later dispute the absence of a refund request within 48 hours, which would be an unfair restriction anyway if attempted to be stuck to, I have kept a note of this thread).

I think in the Covid situation, where we can't actually hand goods back rejected to the drivers, people ought to be given the option of denying subs altogether particularly as almost every sub we get will be much more expensive, whilst I took the soups and tea as a goodwill on my part as we can't be putting things onto drivers in this situation.  Like a previous poster, I have cut them some slack on this before due to the current situation but the replacement by the way too many Jaffa Cakes and cost £3.20 instead of 60p has overstepped the mark for me.  If we are on this website to be money-saving we will therefore tend to be ordering the best-priced item in the first place which will mean, unless they simply replace with another variety of the same range of item, that any sub. they can provide will be more expensive and often much more so.  Therefore, in future, if this is their policy, if they won't allow me to exclude subs., as they will be more expensive, every sub. will simply have to rejected, so they are wasting their time picking any or sending them and may as well not bring any.  Their policy of bringing the more expensive items though does I think pay them dividends as it shifts the onus onto us and has us more likely simply to take the items than to want to cause embarassment or be rejecting them.

In the meantime, I am keeping the McVities packets safe and available for collection at any reasonable time - in fact as these products are goods I didn't order, I am treating them as unsolicited - I have been considering writing to them to inform them of my own administration and storage costs but here is a proforma we may be able to use - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/template-letters/letters/problems-with-goods-or-services/letter-to-say-you-received-goods-or-services-you-didnt-ask-for/ - which perhaps we should try to send as I don't believe they can restrict or exclude our consumer rights by terms which may be unenforceable or challengable under the Consumer Rights Act unfair terms provisions.  Please note I am not a lawyer and I provide no legal advice or any expression or suggestion that there has been any illegality.

I have also been able to get slots with Asda and my experience is that they have been a lot better, mainly because they have had someone available on the telephone.  I don't think Asda are trying to shortchange me, instead that someone at my Asda store perhaps needs re-training as to how to make substitutions so that, where available, the customer doesn't get less than they ordered.  On a number of occasions, the picker has replaced my items with a smaller quantity of a substitute but charged the same price as the number originally bought, thus in effect charging me more.  Their subs policy is that you aren't charged more.  One example was a tin of SP Irish Stew - I ordered two of these at 75p each, but instead received one tin of standard range at £1.50, therefore the normal price for those tins and charging me twice the cost of what I ordered.  Two packs of apples were replaced by a single pack of six - the original products would not have been only 3 apples in a pack and I was charged the full cost of the two ordered, which would have been about 5 or 6 apples had they been available - therefore only one pack of 6 seeing me effectively charged twice as much.  My Asda Breakfast Biscuits 8 pack 400g has been replaced by a Belvita 5 pack and not happy that it is 225g.  The same price was charged but in order to see I don't get charged more, I should have had two boxes of the Belvita product so that I had as near to the same weight and at least 8 as ordered originally.

The Asda customer services person was so far helpful and have said they chase my order after it is delivered and refund the products, so in effect I get to keep the single items I have got for nowt.  If this happens, it will make up for the previous delivery which I didn't bother to press but I'm afraid a further three items today pushed me - I think it is just a picker at my store who doesn't know the correct approach to be taking rather than anything intentional.  I got just two standard range tins of soup last time for the cost of three smartprice soups - not how it works, to pay more than the 24p per can that the Smartprice would have cost.  They couldn't do this again this time as I ordered a single can thus forcing them to sub it with a single standard range at the 24p price, although given the refund on the other items I wondered whether I should have ordered more and complained.  The previous order had a number of items unavailable which I had asked not to be subbed but also the odd item that I had ticked for subs to be provided, including bottles of water.  It was surprising that my store could be completely out of the original product in the first place but, despite the sub request in the event of out-of-stock, it came back "Unavailable" and no sub thus apparently no other bottles of water were available at all in the entire store.  I doubt it, I think they just didn't want to carry the extra bottles with them in additional to all of the rest of the order.

However, whilst the advice from the Citizen's Advice website involves the pro-forma legal letter, I think that sometimes, if a legal letter is sent, a company receiving one simply digs in and matters get delayed as the legal process has been invoked whereas a quick word with someone, which doesn't involve any legal references, is more likely to result in goodwill being given and often giving you more than the strict law.  The informal approach, that isn't the one set out formally by Citizen's Advice, may well therefore be much more productive.  (I have learned - please see last paragraph below - that things don't quite work out according to the formal, written, stated situation but instead there is nearly always the informal situation that no-one ever states to you in advance and instead leaves you to discover without any clue that it even existed.)  So the quick word informal approach seems best.  Except that it doesn't seem a quick word with the appropriate place at Morrisons HQ Customer Services is possible at the moment but instead, due to the Covid situation, it is a case of being patient and we'll probably keep the goods and get the money refunded in the end.  Since 'too much' has been taken from my bank account, that I didn't order albeit that their terms purport to allow them to substitute much more expensive items and then place the onus on us, I've also thought about chargeback but for £3.20 it doesn't seem worth that approach.

I have, as usual, gone on way too long in this post - I also happen to be on the autism spectrum which causes me to go into all this detail and in fact was also part of the reason (there is always a reason!) why I didn't pipe up to the driver to reject the item so of course all Morrisons' proactive avoidance, anticipatory in advance of anyone even using their service, of disability discrimination may come to the fore if needed later.

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pumpkin89 said:

It sounds like you've already done this, but here are the full instructions if anyone else is struggling with the same issue:
"Sign in to your account and click on the 'Orders' tab. Go to previous orders, find the order you're looking for, and then click on the 'Request' link under the 'Refund' section to request a refund on that specific order."

There isn't a Request link in Refund or anywhere else that I can see.  In fact I have failed at the first hurdle after signing in itself which I would have done already.  There isn't any Orders tab.  If what they mean is "Your orders" rather than "Orders" with no capital letter in the "orders" of "Your orders" - I am being pedantic - as an autistic person, I am very precise and accurate over exact wording whereas clearly the person that wrote the instructions for Morrisons is undoubtedly not autistic and also isn't precise - I can click the "Your orders" section that gives a list (incomplete I might add) of my orders, I can find the relevant order there however.  But within it is its items and the only links are to a receipt document (that doesn't link to anywhere else) and "ADD ALL TO TROLLEY" (not me shouting, original capitals).  As we already know, there isn't any tab or link that says "Refund" or "Request" or "Request Refund" or anything similar.  There is a button to "CONTACT US" and that's the best I can do.  The instructions are therefore wrong or out of date or both (and/or some other thing I haven't thought about) and are at least partially asking the impossible, since there isn't any "Request" link that I can click or do anything else to or with.  Unless they are inaccurate and they mean a different word than the word "Request" that they have written.  If so, I am not a mind-reader and do not know what they mean me to click.  Suffice it to say, I've been everywhere I can find and found no way to request a refund through online links in my account.  The only way I can see is to contact them and wait for a reply eventually.

The fact that more than one person has tried to follow the instructions without success shows its not us that is doing anything wrong, instead there simply isn't a way to request a refund through the online system as they seem to have stopped us from doing so.  Otherwise they need to be more accurate about which page and which thing on the screen we need to be looking for.

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I've now decided to look at our rights when Morrisons provides substitutes that are not of equivalent price.  These are items we haven't ordered or asked for, albeit that we have contracted to something that claims to allow them to provide these items at extra cost to us.  As goods I never ordered, I thought they were unsolicited goods - but careful as we are not always allowed to use and dispose of unsolicited goods as we see fit.  I am drastically out of date with consumer law as I am still stuck in the mid 1990s.  I have been very pleased to see three separate sets of regulations have been introduced over the years, under which it seems our rights have been strengthened since I lost track years ago, bearing in mind that I am not a lawyer and any information I give here could be wrong.  Apparently the old Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 (presumably as amended, irrelevant to the current situation, in 1975) still applies but the main law is now in the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.  These insert an additional regulation into the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 dealing with inertia selling.  This is closely related to switch selling, in which sellers hope to switch consumers to a much more expensive product and then bill them for it - the original goods don't exist but the aim is to get the consumer to buy more expensive products, a practice that has been generally illegal for many years.
I've been through three sets of law by each one referring me on to the other and I'll start where I've ended up, looking at the position in relation to Morrisons substitutions.  Firstly therefore I was led to the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.

Regulation 19(7) says: "Where the supplier is unable to supply the goods or services ordered by the consumer, the supplier may perform the contract for the purposes of these Regulations by providing substitute goods or services (as the case may be) of equivalent quality and price provided that—

(a)this possibility was provided for in the contract;

(b)prior to the conclusion of the contract the supplier gave the consumer the information required by regulation 7(1)(b) and (c) in the manner required by regulation 7(2)."

Ignoring whether the replacement by a branded item or standard range product for a value range item is or isn't of equivalent quality, the goods provided by Morrisons (or Ocado on their behalf) are much more expensive, they are therefore not of equivalent price.  Whether or not they are "accepted substitutes" within the meaning of Morrisons terms and conditions of supply, they therefore do not qualify as substitute goods that fall within regulation 19(7).  The seller has therefore not performed the contract for the purposes of the Regulations.

I was looking specifically at whether I can keep two bags of 2.5Kg Maris Piper Potatoes which were delivered instead of one bag of 2.5Kg White Potatoes where the Maris Piper Potatoes were not identified as a substitute on the receipt, so I have not paid for them, but I have been charged (at multibuy adjusted price) for the one bag of White Potatoes which was said to be supplied which I did not receive.  Doubtless if they were an "accepted substitute", Morrisons would wish to charge me more for each bag of the Maris Piper Potatoes.

Schedule 1 to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 sets out a list of unfair commercial practices. These practices are unfair in all circumstances.  Among these is Paragraph 29:

"Demanding immediate or deferred payment for or the return or safekeeping of products supplied by the trader, but not solicited by the consumer, except where the product is a substitute supplied in accordance with regulation 19(7) of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (inertia selling)."

The product is not a substitute supplied in accordance with Regulation 19(7) and, even if it were an accepted substitute under their terms and conditions (the bags weren't even listed or identified as a substitute to me but even if they were...), it is not a substitute in accordance with regulation 19(7) as it is not of equivalent price, unlike the substitutes provided by Tesco and Asda (although whether the substitutes provided by Sainsbury's are of equivalent price may be a matter up for debate as they still charge you the full higher price but give you a voucher off a future - maybe hypothetical - shop - if you choose not to shop with them again, the substitute still isn't provided at equivalent price).  So it seems to me Morrisons can't demand payment for these unsolicited items that are not products supplied in accordance with regulation 19(7).

Regulation 39 of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 inserts an additonal regulation into the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.  It says:

"Inertia selling

27A.-(1) This regulation applies where a trader engages in the unfair commercial practice described in paragraph 29 of Schedule 1 (inertia selling).

(2) The consumer is exempted from any obligation to provide consideration for the products supplied by the trader.

(3) The absence of a response from the consumer following the supply does not constitute consent to the provision of consideration for, or the return or safekeeping of, the products.

(4) In the case of an unsolicited supply of goods, the consumer may, as between the consumer and trader, use, deal with or dispose of the goods as if they were an unconditional gift to the consumer.

Although headed "inertia selling", which might be understood as the sending of unsolicited goods in the hope of making a sale, the practice described in Schedule 1 Paragraph 29 is the practice that falls within the 2013 Regulations, whether or not people think it is inertia selling.  As a result, regulation 27A of the 2008 Regulations applies.  "Consideration" is money or payment for the goods.  It therefore seems to me even if you accept the substitute, this isn't a substitute provided at equivalent price in accordance with regulation 19(7) and therefore you don't have to pay for it even if Morrisons terms and conditions, that we agreed to, say that we have to pay the cost of the substitution.  We may have agreed to this obligation in the contract.  However, we are exempted from the obligation by virtue of regulation 27A(2) of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 as "The consumer is exempted from any obligation to provide consideration for the products supplied by the trader" as higher priced substitutes are not substitutes provided in accordance with Regulation 19(7) of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.  It seems to me, if I am right - surely I have gone wrong somewhere and someone with better knowledge can put me right? - we should [Strike]accept[/Strike] take the higher priced substitutes and then remain silent about them whilst they charge us for them and then say we cannot have payment taken from us for them as we don't have any obligation to do so as a result of regulation of 27A(2) of the unfair trading Regulations and any money they take from us for an obligation we are exempted from is unlawful.  We are therefore, I say, entitled to a full refund for the higher cost of the goods and can keep or dispose of them as an unconditional gift.  These goods are unsolicited as they weren't ordered - we accepted them later but they weren't substitutes that fell within regulation 19(7) of the Distance Selling Regulations, so as the original supply was unsolicited, we can use, deal with or dispose of them as an unconditional gift under regulation 27A(4) of the unfair trading Regulations.  Surely I have gone wrong somewhere?

As the original goods we ordered were never supplied, we are still entitled to them as Morrisons did not perform the contract under the Distance Selling Regulations - they provided a substitute that was more expensive, that didn't qualify under regulation 19(7).  Even though they have provided separately unsolicited goods in substitution, their substitution is not within regulation 19(7) as it is a substitution of higher priced goods and therefore not of equivalent price.  The contract may say they can perform it by the substitution of higher priced goods, however our obligation to pay for those is removed by reguilation 27A(2) of the unfair trading Regulations.

greyteam1959

Who on earth can be bothered to read posts as long as this !!

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greyteam1959 said:

Who on earth can be bothered to read posts as long as this !!

People on the autism spectrum that have a special interest in the matters mentioned.  It is clear, again, that people who don't have an autism spectrum condition often don't have the energy to read more than a few lines.  They seem to lose interest or attention (probably because they do in fact lose both of those things).

Nonetheless, it was posted as (hopefully) useful information to someone somewhere and felt, by me, to be suitable for a money-saving consumer website as it is discussing what consumer rights might be in respect of substitution by a company by higher priced items than the ones people ordered.  I hope someone finds the detailed information useful, even if they may have to extract a relevant bit.  I can't tell what may be relevant to each different person who may have a slightly different situation, all falling within the same general issue (substitutions higher priced than unavailable ordered items).  I am going on in detail again as I can't help it!

Unbelievably perhaps, I was returning here and was going to add a bit to what I posted last time.  Namely that I have found the "loophole" that runs counter to some of what I said.  Paragraph 29 of Schedule 1 to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 - I did mean to provide links last time although all the Regulations are searchable online and retrieved from legislation.gov.uk website - this one http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/schedule/1/made - says an automatically unfair practice is "Demanding immediate or deferred payment for or the return or safekeeping of products supplied by the trader, but not solicited by the consumer, except where the product is a substitute supplied in accordance with regulation 19(7) of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (inertia selling)."  (The substitution by higher priced products isn't in accordance with those Regulations.)

It could be said that Morrisons isn't demanding any payment as it isn't sending a bill to the consumer after the delivery - not sending invoices through the post pestering for payment for example.  However I suppose there is a demand for the payment being raised against the bank and they are immediately taking the payment from your bank before the delivery is made.  Besides, even if this precise paragraph wording isn't breached and therefore the practice Morrisons is doing isn't automatically unfair, the list given in Schedule 1 is merely indicative and does not rule out other practices being unfair - as Morrisons practice comes close to this paragraph, whether or not it actually falls into it, it is along similar lines and therefore probably unfair.  They are taking payment and putting the onus on the consumer to reject a higher priced substitute that has already been delivered and the consumer may feel under some pressure to accept merely from politeness - it may be an unsolicited item anyway and the consumer exempted from an obligation to pay and Morrisons not entitled to it back as the consumer entitled to keep it as an unconditional gift as it was a substitute provided that didn't qualify as a substitute under Regulation 19(7) of the Distance Selling regulations because it is not of equivalent price.

I am not a lawyer and I may be wrong.

The Covid situation puts more pressure onto the consumer as drivers can't take items back so you feel like not rejecting anything and the Request Refund option provided online doesn't exist.  Whether this adds to unfairness may depend on individual circumstances - are drivers complying with clause 6.13 of Morrisons terms and conditions of supply (that no-one bothers to read) by identifying each substitution on delivery and allowing people the opportunity to accept or reject each one?

Anyway, that may or may not be the legal situation, hope it is helpful - I think it is case of writing to Customer Services asking for a refund and waiting patiently due to the Covid situation.  A rejection of each substitute from now on in until they get the message not to bring them made to Customer Services with a request for a refund via the general online form or by email as we can't do so via a refund request option.  That rather than a rush to law (companies often provide things even if we aren't legally entitled) although good to be aware what your legal rights may be in the background.

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My post of 8.05pm - I've gone back and re-read it - it was actually a quick read for me, done in less than two minutes lol.

I was just setting out everything from start to finish in a logical matter.  That's where I think it goes wrong, as each stage is mentioned and people generally can't understand that.  They do top-slicing of each bit, that doesn't accomplish anything in each section, rather than doing the whole job from start to finish.  I am sorry - if I flapped around at random with three incomplete words on each bit, then I might be understood (even though such technically incorrect gist that doesn't have any detail or any clue on what to do on any part will leave me wanting clarification on numerous unmentioned aspects in each).  Anyway - the quick answer: just keep trying with Customer Services and being patient I think.  Though I've said this several times - felt had to repeat because overall gist in what I say gets lost in all my detail!

Even I have no idea whether Morrisons are or are not providing the information required by regulation 7(1)(b) and (c) (...zzzzzz!!!...), still less in any matter required by regulation 7(2).  It was irrelevant, as they aren't providing substitutions that are of equivalent price here.  So, no need to consider such further detail.

(If anyone has noticed a late amendment made just now to my post of 8.05pm, it was just the correction of a typo., over the format of a section number - no substantive change made.)

I will go to bed now - less said the better.

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Completely out of date as the Distance Selling Regulations no longer apply - https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/distance-selling-regulations
Now the Additional Charges regulations instead.

TheBanker

I was able to find the request a refund link - but I believe it's only live for the 48 hours after your delivery. I cannot talk you through it as mine has expired now. 
Rather than legal action, can I suggest you simply make other arrangements to receive your shopping and leave the Morrisons delivery slot for someone who will appreciate it? 

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TheBanker said:

I was able to find the request a refund link - but I believe it's only live for the 48 hours after your delivery. I cannot talk you through it as mine has expired now. 
Rather than legal action, can I suggest you simply make other arrangements to receive your shopping and leave the Morrisons delivery slot for someone who will appreciate it? 

I am sorry for causing you misunderstanding.  I wasn't saying that people should rush straight into legal action - indeed I said exactly the opposite earlier (set out at the foot of this reply) - instead I merely felt that, on a consumer help website that moneysavingexpert.com is, it may be useful to know what our legal rights in the background are (even though I initially got it wrong because I found a law that no longer applies to people doing online shopping today).  One key aspect to money-saving I feel is to stay away from the courts as much as possible.
You can suggest anything you want to.  The suggestion seems to be one of 'if you don't like it, lump it' or 'take it or leave it'; however that seems to me not in the spirit of money-saving which includes when ordering and finding traders replacing items you've ordered by more expensive items, because the original item ran out of stock, stopping them doing so and how to reject the items as we don't wish to be buying stuff at higher prices.  That's only reasonable for those saving money to wish to avoid.  In my occasion, I've already given some leeway due to the Covid situation being difficult for all supermarkets and the efforts they are making, as well as a wish not to clog up customer services, however this is the end of a series of events that finally tipped me over and they've gone too far for me now by replacing items with much more expensive items that don't even give the best value on the more expensive range.  I have in fact already taken items away from Morrisons shopping and got them from elsewhere precisely due to the risk of them replacing them with more expensive items but this does not resolve the charging of the expensive items from me last time and the taking of that from my bank account with them making the assumption I accept the items when I emphatically do not.  The reason I did not actively pipe up at the door was because Morrisons set out a procedure to do online afterwards which I was following exactly as their website told me to do and I therefore did not wish to trouble the driver with something I feel they could do nothing about, since they aren't currently able to take items back anyway.
You say you found the request for refund link, although you can't go through it with me.  I know that according to their website an option to request a refund through the method they state is apparently available for 48 hours after a delivery.  However, I have searched for it through that time and didn't find it in any section of the website to which they referred.  It is now over 48 hours, but my screens haven't changed in any way from what they have been showing before.  I have not seen the request refund link anywhere.  In any event those that deal with consumers are not able to impose strict time limits on making complaints or requesting refunds or to put administrative hurdles in the way of doing those things and, if anywhere tries to do any of those things (there is no suggestion at the moment that they have tried or done this), this will only be a further matter added to the others that I think are unfairness.
I think we have answered the problem raised by the OP.  If I ever get any further time to do so, I may go back and amend the information I posted earlier and remove the out of date law or if anyone thinks I should delete the entire post let me know.

Savvybuyer said:

However, whilst the advice from the Citizen's Advice website involves the pro-forma legal letter, I think that sometimes, if a legal letter is sent, a company receiving one simply digs in and matters get delayed as the legal process has been invoked whereas a quick word with someone, which doesn't involve any legal references, is more likely to result in goodwill being given and often giving you more than the strict law.  The informal approach, that isn't the one set out formally by Citizen's Advice, may well therefore be much more productive.