LCS Debt Recovery

Ignore them, the is nothing they can do unless you acknowledge the debt to them.

Trust me I bumped loads, best one was from British gas from 2006 I forget the name of the company but they hounded me to death.
I sold the house and the was £60 pound outstanding on the gas. I don't even know if I owed it or not. Note that debt will have cost them about 60p to purchase from BG.

I still get the odd letter now and again at my mums. :rolleyes:

I am currently on the dodge job of about £15k only 2 more years to go and am debt free. :D

If you do not acknowledge a debt within 6 years its null and void, unless its a tax or is secured. ;)

Debt is good, paying it back is stupid! :p
 
itchy said:
Ignore them, the is nothing they can do unless you acknowledge the debt to them.

Trust me I bumped loads, best one was from British gas from 2006 I forget the name of the company but they hounded me to death.
I sold the house and the was £60 pound outstanding on the gas. I don't even know if I owed it or not. Note that debt will have cost them about 60p to purchase from BG.

I still get the odd letter now and again at my mums. :rolleyes:

I am currently on the dodge job of about £15k only 2 more years to go and am debt free. :D

If you do not acknowledge a debt within 6 years its null and void, unless its a tax or is secured. ;)

Debt is good, paying it back is stupid! :p
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This certainly explains a lot
 
demonix said:
If you don't know where the previous owner is, you'll have to tell them since they are the ones charged with collecting the money not eon, and if you don't give them the information they could consider you to be the original debtor and they can gain access to your property without your permission and change the meter to a pre payment meter linked to the original supplier leaving you to pay off a debt that you don't owe.
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nonsense, to do that requires a warrant and OP will first get letters etc.. if they were considering trying that

if he gets a letter from EON he just needs to contact EON and refer to his previous correspondence - he's got no need to communicate with the debt collection monkeys

given that EON aren't even the supplier to that address it is all rather fanciful for them to apply to court to cut off a utility they don't supply
 
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Haggisman said:
Did you buy the house from the previous owner? Surely their responsibility ends at the point they no longer own the property and any energy used after that point is the responsibility of the new owner? It's not the previous owners fault you didn't move in/take a reading till after 2 weeks.
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The previous owner moved out 2 weeks before we signed the contract. Although he moved out and gave EON the readings two weeks prior to the move, because the heating and fridge were still left on for those two weeks he is responsible for that energy as he was the legal owner of the property.
 
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swain90 said:
The previous owner moved out 2 weeks before we signed the contract. Although he moved out and gave EON the readings two weeks prior to the move, because the heating and fridge were still left on for those two weeks he is responsible for that energy as he was the legal owner of the property.
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Correct, if you gave them the readings as soon as you signed the contracts then anything before that would be the responsibility of the previous legal owner.

Whats to stop someone moving out and not being to sell the house for 6 months, the energy companies can't hold the new owners liable for a debt 6 month prior to them taking legal ownership.
 
EON created the account for you... surely they know by that alone when you moved in :p

and a quick search on the electoral register would likely bring something up. Ontop of that, they can do a credit search on all people that have lived there and get more info than that crappy sheet
 
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