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On a rating of 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy giving your stock away? It seems a daft idea but regrettably it’s happening.

So how are cars going free?  

In these times a customer can issue a claim which has no bearing on the legal position.  The claim can be looking for a tidy sum of compensation-stress, vet bills, holiday cancellations etc etc, AND a rejection of the car with full purchase price back.  If you don’t deal with such a claim in time you will receive Judgement for the whole lot!  Car and money!  You’ve then got an uphill struggle requesting the case gets back on track.  It will cost you and you’ve got no guarantee it will succeed.

To stop this, anyone who is on the end of a County Court claim must make dealing with the dreaded paperwork top of the agenda and most importantly keep in the deadlines.  Don’t leave any paperwork, get advice from Lawgistics if you don’t know what needs to be done, and do it NOW. 

Remember – deal with County Court paperwork before it has time to take residence on your desk!

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