Moosey Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Legal myths... 1. Mistakes cannot be rectified once you leave the premises. 2. Any "enter at your own risk" sign (or just about any other disclaimer for that matter) 3. The whole parking ticket thing including the stuff about bailiffs. I could go on. There are loads I see quoted on here all the time. Number one applies in this case. If you knew the price, and agreed it, there's your contract - offer and acceptance. All they have to do is prove the technical error or mistake, dead easy, and off they go to small claims. Dispute it and you end up with a CCJ against you. I'd just pay it. You can chance it if its a small amount as they might not bother (I wouldn't for less than £100 or so if I were a business). Wait till the claim form comes through maybe and pay it. Don't try the argument that you want time to pay it as your finances have changed, as all the Court will do there is enter a CCJ against you and order you to pay in installments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willman Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Ditto MOosey By entering your pin details for the card(if used) r signing you accept you have checked the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 If this was the other way round and you discovered three months later you'd paid too much I'd imagine you wouldn't get any sympathy, help or a refund. Stick to your guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willman Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 If this was the other way round and you discovered three months later you'd paid too much I'd imagine you wouldn't get any sympathy, help or a refund. Stick to your guns. The same applies - you sign/enter a pin to accept you have checked the amount. Therefore in both cases the responsibility rests with you. I'm not syaing the op has done anything wrong - but legally he's accepted their offer which unfortunately was incorrect.tbh i owuldn't expect it to go further if its a small amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Bethel Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 If you know you were undercharged why not just do the honest thing and pay them what you owe them? This technically you stole to be fair, just pay up, you knew they'd undercharged you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 You must have known they'd taken the wrong amount? Didn't you check your statements against the invoice....? If it was the other way round you'd be on here jumping up and down about a "rip off garage" .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 If this was the other way round and you discovered three months later you'd paid too much I'd imagine you wouldn't get any sympathy, help or a refund. Stick to your guns. I suspect that if the garage had put too big a figure in the card machine the OP would have said something there and then.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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