Ok, irrelevant was a bad choice of word, unimportant would have worked better because 14 months is fully acceptable under the law. As for the car example you would have nobody but yourself to blame if that happened because you would have to be stupid not to notice they only took half the money, its an easier mistake to make with £40 obviously but still, he owes money for something he received and is legally bound to pay it.
Can they/Should they do this?
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Ok, irrelevant was a bad choice of word, unimportant would have worked better because 14 months is fully acceptable under the law. As for the car example you would have nobody but yourself to blame if that happened because you would have to be stupid not to notice they only took half the money, its an easier mistake to make with £40 obviously but still, he owes money for something he received and is legally bound to pay it.
I bought a hard drive (from a competitor) and they contacted me about 4 years later saying they hadn't taken any payment from my CC.
As I try to keep my bank statements/cc bills etc. for at least 6 years I thought it'd be no problem to check my statement, unfortunately I had 2 statements missing covering the last 8 years and as you can probably guess 1 of them was the month in question.
Did receive about 4 letters in total over a few weeks and just ignored them, haven't heard anything more. Funnily enough the letters only seemed to appear just after the company was bought out and rebranded (they're still trading), hope I'm not credit blackmarked somewhere.
As I try to keep my bank statements/cc bills etc. for at least 6 years I thought it'd be no problem to check my statement, unfortunately I had 2 statements missing covering the last 8 years and as you can probably guess 1 of them was the month in question.
Did receive about 4 letters in total over a few weeks and just ignored them, haven't heard anything more. Funnily enough the letters only seemed to appear just after the company was bought out and rebranded (they're still trading), hope I'm not credit blackmarked somewhere.
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That's not true. They can decide not to honour the advertised price up until the item is despatched.
However, as I understand it once the transaction has taken place it's legally binding and they can't turn round and decide to charge you more. If they could where would it all end. Tell your bank not to pay and tell the retailer you've contacted TS.
The transaction is still open because they were not fully paid, he still owes them money.
Is it though?