Some newsagents are still unsure how to deal with letters they have received from Pepper Homeloans chasing payments they claim are related to the Bill Express equipment. The advice from the legal team behind the Bill Express class action is to write to Pepper and request details of the debt and to ask how they can be sure that no other party will make any claim in relation to this.
I am not aware of any newsagent who has paid money to Pepper Homeloans in response to their letter of demand.
It is my advice to do as Hank said on 12th September inst –
Pepper Homeloans.
Some of you will have received letters from Pepper Homeloans headed Over Due Notification and demanding payments.
These letters follow on from similar letters some time ago from Mobius.
I have today written to Pepper along the same lines as I did to Mobius, namely we regard the claims as invalid and their action unlawful. We have also asked them to prove the validity of their demands.
We have also said to Pepper, as we did to Mobius, that should they take any legal action against anyone in our group we will immediately move in Court against them.
In relation to the letter you have just received from Pepper I suggest that you either write back to Pepper saying that the matter is with solicitors acting for newsagents and newsagents associations or simply do not respond.
I cannot see where Hank Spiers suggested writing and asking proof of ownership of debt.
The least you say and write the better for all concerned in my book.
David,
The advice was provided by Hank through the QNF on September 2.
Mark
I rang Pepper ( nice to talk to ) said he was only following a request. Understood the situation and would simply make a note that I was waiting for a result of the class action. The part I was not happy with, was my bank details being handed on to them and the fact that they could deduct money so easily. But they seem to be happy to sit and wait.