There is an interesting article in today’s FTMoney supplement about the merits of pursuing claims using the small claims court versus the financial ombudsman. The former seems to be both quicker and more effective from the comments of FT readers. My own experience of using the small claims court a few years ago was likewise positive. I complained about a headboard delivery from Dreams and after some lengthy correspondence I filed a claim in court, which is very simple to do electronically, and promptly received a response from their finance director resolving the issue. A letter from a court clearly grabs attention. To show there was no hard feelings as a result we recently ordered two new beds from Dreams and are totally satisfied with both them and the delivery process.
I mentioned the problem of missing dividends on a company held in two different ISAs back in November – see https://roliscon.blog/2018/11/21/missing-dividends/ . They have still not arrived. I could complain to the Financial Ombudsman but it might prove to be best to file a claim in the small claims court instead. I’ll give the ISA suppliers a final warning before doing so but I am certainly losing my patience over the matter.
Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://twitter.com/RogerWLawson )
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