Covid refund hell!

James_Timpson

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thegreenone

Trading Standards?  Trading Standards (bournemouth.gov.uk)

I hope you get it all sorted.  A tale of not doing bank transfers.

unholyangel

Presumably you had or can get the address of the rental property? Serve him there

Thrugelmir

Who owns the property you were going to rent? 

James_Timpson

Thrugelmir said:

Who owns the property you were going to rent? 

I don't want to name him on here just yet, but he is a private landlord who owns a number of properties in the area. The properties do exist etc as ive weirdly stayed in another he owns years ago for someone elses stag party.

James_Timpson

unholyangel said:

Presumably you had or can get the address of the rental property? Serve him there

Does it not have to be sent to his business address? Would that hold up? If its empty and he doesnt receive it what happens then? 

Thrugelmir

James_Timpson said:

Thrugelmir said:

Who owns the property you were going to rent? 

I don't want to name him on here just yet, but he is a private landlord who owns a number of properties in the area. The properties do exist etc as ive weirdly stayed in another he owns years ago for someone elses stag party.

Wasn't expecting you to name him. Land registry will provide an address that correspondence can be sent to. 

Tokmon

James_Timpson said:

The property was in Bournemouth where the landlord owns a number of rental properties. This was booked at the back end of 2019 to take place in April 2020. For obvious reasons this could not go ahead in 2020 and we pushed the date back to August thinking that by then everything would be back to normal. As August approached and we knew that coronavirus was not going anywhere anytime soon, we pushed the booking back too April of this year 2021.

In February of this year when Boris made his road map announcement, it was made clear that we would not be able to use the rental property in April due to coronavirus restrictions. At this stage I asked for my money back as my partner and I did not want to postpone our wedding for the 4th time to which the whole problem started…

 

Are you sure? Because from 12th April staying in self contained accommodation was allowed and you were allowed to travel.

k3lvc

Tokmon said:

James_Timpson said:

The property was in Bournemouth where the landlord owns a number of rental properties. This was booked at the back end of 2019 to take place in April 2020. For obvious reasons this could not go ahead in 2020 and we pushed the date back to August thinking that by then everything would be back to normal. As August approached and we knew that coronavirus was not going anywhere anytime soon, we pushed the booking back too April of this year 2021.

In February of this year when Boris made his road map announcement, it was made clear that we would not be able to use the rental property in April due to coronavirus restrictions. At this stage I asked for my money back as my partner and I did not want to postpone our wedding for the 4th time to which the whole problem started…

 

Are you sure? Because from 12th April staying in self contained accommodation was allowed and you were allowed to travel.

This is the crux of the matter - the accommodation is still available - just not for the stag party of 15 unrelated people.

The end result is likely to be resolved via contract (and probably not in the OP's favour unless they had a specific clause built into the contract) or subsequently via court

James_Timpson

Tokmon said:

James_Timpson said:

The property was in Bournemouth where the landlord owns a number of rental properties. This was booked at the back end of 2019 to take place in April 2020. For obvious reasons this could not go ahead in 2020 and we pushed the date back to August thinking that by then everything would be back to normal. As August approached and we knew that coronavirus was not going anywhere anytime soon, we pushed the booking back too April of this year 2021.

In February of this year when Boris made his road map announcement, it was made clear that we would not be able to use the rental property in April due to coronavirus restrictions. At this stage I asked for my money back as my partner and I did not want to postpone our wedding for the 4th time to which the whole problem started…

 

Are you sure? Because from 12th April staying in self contained accommodation was allowed and you were allowed to travel.

The booking was for the start of April so no it was not possible. 

James_Timpson

k3lvc said:

Tokmon said:

James_Timpson said:

The property was in Bournemouth where the landlord owns a number of rental properties. This was booked at the back end of 2019 to take place in April 2020. For obvious reasons this could not go ahead in 2020 and we pushed the date back to August thinking that by then everything would be back to normal. As August approached and we knew that coronavirus was not going anywhere anytime soon, we pushed the booking back too April of this year 2021.

In February of this year when Boris made his road map announcement, it was made clear that we would not be able to use the rental property in April due to coronavirus restrictions. At this stage I asked for my money back as my partner and I did not want to postpone our wedding for the 4th time to which the whole problem started…

 

Are you sure? Because from 12th April staying in self contained accommodation was allowed and you were allowed to travel.

This is the crux of the matter - the accommodation is still available - just not for the stag party of 15 unrelated people.

The end result is likely to be resolved via contract (and probably not in the OP's favour unless they had a specific clause built into the contract) or subsequently via court

The booking was for the start of April so no it was not possible. 

I would take him to court but i cant get an address for him anywhere. If i send it to the address of the property will that suffice?