Useless muppets

As many here are already aware, on Monday the 6th of September 2004, just
before 9:00AM, I was knocked off my bike by a small white Volvo. I was taken
to hospital with an assortment of broken bones, and my bike was taken away
by a recovery company, eventually ending up in the back yard of Fowlers in
Bristol. About a week later, my insurers arranged for it to be collected
from Fowlers, and that was the last I saw of it.

After I submitted a claim form for the accident, my insurers asked me to
forward all documentation etc, which I duly did. This was at the end of
September. Sometime in early October, I was told that the bike had been
written off, and I got a cheque in the post.

At this time, I did two things: I pointed out to my insurers that, as they
had all documentation relating to the bike, they should advise the DVLA that
I was no longer the owner/keeper of the bike; and I also sent a letter to
the DVLA advising that the bike was now the property of my insurers.

The bike was insured through Auntie Carole, and the actual policy was with
Equity Red Star.

I feel that I had, at the time, done as much as was reasonable to advise the
DVLA of the ownership of the bike.

So why do I now find myself in receipt of a nasty note from the fucking DVLA
demanding money with menaces because the bike has been untaxed since the 1st
of December?

When I bought the bike in April last year, I taxed it for 12 months. The tax
disc went with the bike, and if the bike shows up as being untaxed from the
beginning of December 2004, then the tax disc must have been surrendered in
November. The DVLA should have a record of who surrendered the tax disc, and
to whom the payment for unused tax was made. So why are they fucking chasing
me?

Anyway, I've written to the cunts pointing out to them the error of their
ways, in possibly slightly more measured tones...

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

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ERS are cunts. They operate the official BMW scheme and have been been the
subject of numerous complaints in recent months.

I thought AC had ditched them years ago as she has farmed my insurance to
Royal Sun Alliance and now some @Lloyds syndicate in the last few years.

 

This is a classic policy I'm on, maybe that's the only business she does
with them.

 

As many here are already aware, on Monday the 6th of September 2004, just

Into the Depths.......

Therefore the vehicle was written of and no longer your property so Insco
should have declared this to DVLA

Copy of letter to them AGAIN.

Because it's a huge department and don't know A from E

Because it's a huge department and don't know A from E

Good, you tell 'em big boy!


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Same as me with the Lammy

And again, same situation.
Mind you AC have managed to lose about half my documents, cunts.
suffice to say, im not insured with them anymore.
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Strikes me that Aunty Carol should give you money from the portion of
tax surrendered. Although it's almost certainly the recovery bods who
took it away from Fowlers that surrendered it. AIUI scrap yards and
the like tend to regard this as their *perk* although in truth they're
stealing.