Administrative Charges
I missed this months rent.
It is normally paid by my mum into my account at the end of the month. It clears in time for the direct debit to pay to letting agency. Not this month. February has 28 days. So money goes in on the last day of the month, it needs three days for the customary bankneedstoholdyourmoneytomakeabitanextraofmoneyclearingperiod. So i miss the direct debit.
Blam! £20 bank charges.
Blam! £100 letting agency administrative charges
Blam! £17.50 Value Added Tax
£137.50 gone in a blink of an eye nothing i can do about it. Fuck. Those are not administrative charges they are just profit, plain and simple. Fuckers.
I was, to say the least, angry.
At the moment all my money is counted as days at sea. My trip to Brazil will cost around £10 a day. So today i lost nearly two weeks sailing. That is two weeks of relaxation, sunshine, fair winds and nice times that i have to work hard to get back. Alternatively it is twenty-four hours working at the shitty supermarket where i work. Or sixty eight reasonably priced pints.
posted by Ben @ 1:43 PM
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1 Comments:
Hey man that sucks big-time.
You are not defenceless. Have a word with your local Trading Standards office. A charge of £100 for "administrative costs" is so clearly disproportionate to any possible cost they actually incurred (such as - a few clicks of a mouse and a couple of phone calls - which costs £100 how?) that in all likeliehood it would fall under the Unfair Contract Terms (Scotland) Act 2005, and they'd have to pay you back if you threatened them with that.
Try it on. What have you got to lose?
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