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Actually this happend to me a few years back, where my ADSL provider failed to direct debit me after a year, and did so for a very long while (about 3 years!) -- thing is, I was receiving invoices, and even filed them in my taxes!
Lo and behold, one day a collection agency contacts me telling me that I owe them a ridiculous amount of money (at the time, ADSL was very expensive)
Of course I wouldn't pay because they knew /exactly/ where I was (heh, they had my phone number) they were invoicing me, claiming it was direct debit, and I was in good faith as the debit /had/ worked at some point.
so we went back&forth for a while until I realised the collection company is not trying to get the full amount... ANY amount will allow them to make some margin.
So I told them I was broke (I wasn't) but was willing to pay for what I considered was worth, as a goodwill gesture, importantly at a price ADSL was worth /today/ not back then... So made them a vere small payment that they were very happy to accept, and I never heard anything from them ever again....
So my suggestion would be to tell them you'd be willing to pay something like 100 as it's what you resold it for a year ago, as a goodwill payment, and that it would be ridiculous to claim a 'new' price in an item that is no longer worth anywhere as much as that anyway.
Alternatively, if they refuse, offer them to buy an equivalent laptop of the same date/specs and ship it back to them as you are 'broke'... you'll quickly see that the cash payment of /any/ value will interest them a lot more...
Lo and behold, one day a collection agency contacts me telling me that I owe them a ridiculous amount of money (at the time, ADSL was very expensive)
Of course I wouldn't pay because they knew /exactly/ where I was (heh, they had my phone number) they were invoicing me, claiming it was direct debit, and I was in good faith as the debit /had/ worked at some point.
so we went back&forth for a while until I realised the collection company is not trying to get the full amount... ANY amount will allow them to make some margin.
So I told them I was broke (I wasn't) but was willing to pay for what I considered was worth, as a goodwill gesture, importantly at a price ADSL was worth /today/ not back then... So made them a vere small payment that they were very happy to accept, and I never heard anything from them ever again....
So my suggestion would be to tell them you'd be willing to pay something like 100 as it's what you resold it for a year ago, as a goodwill payment, and that it would be ridiculous to claim a 'new' price in an item that is no longer worth anywhere as much as that anyway.
Alternatively, if they refuse, offer them to buy an equivalent laptop of the same date/specs and ship it back to them as you are 'broke'... you'll quickly see that the cash payment of /any/ value will interest them a lot more...
