Debt collectors

[dicko45]

Rental company messed up their records in 2001 when we off-hired a rented washer. wrote (faxed queries) several times, and telephoned follow-ups but it was like the lights being on but nobody home. I offered to transport it for them after at least 4 failed collections, but twice they had moved so gave up. Their balance showed nearly �90 owing, sb nill. They promised in Jan 02 to sort it but there followed long silence, until April this year when MIL Collections of Truro sent a demand claiming to act for supplier, but it turns out they were working for a Sottish outfit who bought the "debt" nine months earlier! Now, neither the supplier nor the new owner of the "debt" can reassure us that although they're not going to pursue it, that nobody else will! How can I bring this Statute-barred debt to a definite conclusion and KNOW there will be no further action, as the DCA who now own it are "specialists in recovering old debts" without spending more than the claimed amount? And how can I get legally revenge for the bullyingand veilled threats, lies and inuendo and the general hassle their underhand tactics have presented?
dicko45.

[Hymie]

Since you know that it is a statute barred debt � tell them to f*ck off � end of story.

[barfgwyn]

One good way to get such people off your back is to ask them for a copy of the original credit agreement. If the debt has been sold-on once or twice, they probably haven't got it. If they don't give it to you once you've asked, the debt is legally cancelled. Write to them 28 days after your original request, point out their failure and say goodbye.