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Dundee_vet
Dundee_vet Posts: 1 Newbie
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We are thinking about buying a kitchen from homebase and using their interest free offer (why wouldn't you). I just wonder if anyone knows what happens IF homebase goes into administration? Would the administrator be able to call in the debt (because of small print) or would they sell the debt to a purchaser who is required to honour the trrms of the agreement?

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  • [Deleted User]
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    They won't call in the debt but it would pass to the administrators.

    However, you would likely get an offer for early settlement.
  • Brock_and_Roll
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    Homebase will not be providing the credit themselves - it will come from one of the financial providers that they work with, usually Barclays or Clydesdale - so your contract will be with them.

    Nevertheless I would be very cautious here - risk is obviously that Homebase could go belly up before kitchen installed but after signed up for the credit - of after it is finished, rendering any warranties worthless.
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    Would be a good idea to pay a token amount on a CC even £1 to get section 75 protection.
  • Willing2Learn
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    venison wrote: »
    Would be a good idea to pay a token amount on a CC even £1 to get section 75 protection.
    I'm unsure about this. But thought I would mention it anyhow. Aren't you covered under s75 with ordinary finance? After all, it will still be a CCA agreement...I *think*... :)
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  • T-G-C
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    venison wrote: »
    Would be a good idea to pay a token amount on a CC even £1 to get section 75 protection.

    Doesn't the token amount paid on the credit card have to exceed £100 to become eligible for Section 75 protection or is it the total amount of the purchase that counts?
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  • Willing2Learn
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    T-G-C wrote: »
    Doesn't the token amount paid on the credit card have to exceed £100 to become eligible for Section 75 protection or is it the total amount of the purchase that counts?
    It is the total amount that counts. For example, just make a token deposit of £1 on the credit card, the rest by debit card and you get the full s75 protection (as long as the total cost of the item is £100 or more). :)
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    Willing2Learn wrote: »
    I'm unsure about this. But thought I would mention it anyhow. Aren't you covered under s75 with ordinary finance? After all, it will still be a CCA agreement...I *think*... :)

    from the financial ombudsman:
    ""Section 75 only applies where goods or services are bought using types of consumer credit where arrangements are already in place between the supplier of the goods and the provider of the credit. When the consumer uses that credit to make a purchase, this creates the necessary connection between the consumer, the lender and the supplier.

    For section 75 to apply, the provider of the credit and the supplier of the goods need to be separate businesses. Occasionally we see a complaint where the supplier of the goods has itself made the loan to the consumer to buy the goods - so no claim is possible under section 75
    In some cases we see, the consumer has bought online, using a credit card on a website that uses a secure third-party payment system to process credit card payments.

    Section 75 may not always apply to transactions made this way, because this payment mechanism can break the chain of arrangements that must be in place between the consumer, the lender and the supplier.

    But there are many different types of payment mechanisms used on suppliers' websites and not all of them prevent section 75 from applying. Where there is a dispute on this point, we look at the specific payment mechanism used and decide whether section 75 applies in the particular case.""
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