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11 Nov 19, 08:45 AM |
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I have changed sofas quite a few times in my life, my DH and his brother once found a charity to take one but they had to get a van and take it themselves. I have never yet found a charity wiling to collect at all! Hence why I would be so annoyed by this, it usually costs £80 to get someone to collect and remove a sofa.
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11 Nov 19, 08:48 AM |
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This. It is not your responsibility to get rid of it. You should contact your solicitor today.
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11 Nov 19, 08:53 AM |
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BHF do collect- but of course they could be fussy and say they don't want it.
I've just been googling and the seller SHOULD collect it, but if they say No we are essentially stuck unless we want to take them to court over it, which we obviously don't. So I'll try contacting the solicitor but I'll still wait and see if BHF will have it. |
11 Nov 19, 09:11 AM |
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You should contact your solicitor, you should look have done immediately but you didn’t know how bad this is. Your solicitor will tell them that they need to remove it within a very short time frame, by this I mean a day or two.
I would leave it to my solicitor, but I would expect them to give the seller a short time frame to collect it. They should be told that if they do not remove it within that time frame that it will be removed at your expense and all costs will be recovered from them via the small claims court. There is no reason for you to not want to follow this process, you can lodge a small claim online for a small upfront cost. You will definitely win this and you will recover your small upfront costs via small claims too. |
11 Nov 19, 09:47 AM |
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BHF do collect near us but I don’t know of any other charities that do. I was just so annoyed that they were going to throw a practically new sofa into landfill because there were no armchairs so might take a little while extra to sell. I certainly won’t donate a thing to them again, it’s really tarnished my view of the charity as a whole. I agree in this case though, the seller should be removing it. They probably haven’t because as you say, it will cost them about £80. I think they are being darn cheeky in leaving it!
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11 Nov 19, 09:48 AM |
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Wow. All that anger over a sofa. It is just possible the sellers were trying to be nice and left the sofa as a gift. Yes OP needs to contact her solicitor and tell them she doesn't want the sofa but it's just possible the sellers will sort it without any fuss. I don't see the point in getting irate until you know for sure you have something to be irate about. Life is too short for all that angst.
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11 Nov 19, 09:57 AM |
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We also moved into a house full of furniture and junk. Our solicitor did try to get the sellers to pay for a skip, but since they were selling to save being repossessed, they had no money and wouldn't pay. We'd have had to sue them.
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11 Nov 19, 10:03 AM |
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I am not angry as it isn’t my house. But actually, yes, if I find a relative stranger has dumped their unwanted sofa in my house or garden without my permission, I would not assume it was a thoughtful gift, I would be angry and I make no apology for that. If you are happy to let people dump unwanted furniture on your property then that is great for you, but most people wouldn’t like it. It is also illegal.
The seller did not leave it as a gift, they left it because they couldn’t be bothered finding a free way to dispose of it. Naive to think otherwise. Edited at 10:05 AM. |
11 Nov 19, 10:05 AM |
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So you would be happy to pay to get it removed? OP needs it gone do she can fit her own furniture in. For all the sellers knew the OP might have turned up with a van full of her own furniture on completion day and have no where to put it because of the sofa they had left. If they were being nice then the sensible thing would have been to contact them to ask whether they would like it. They have probably decided it wasn’t going to the new house with them and didn’t want to pay the £80 to get it taken away.
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11 Nov 19, 10:07 AM |
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There is definitely reasons for us not wanting to pursue them through the small claims court, mainly that we are moving and having a baby and are just too busy for that. I barely have time to pack!
We are not living in the house yet and are a 40 minute drive away so unless they have been very naughty and kept a key they won't be able to gain access to remove it until the weekend. So at the moment I'll wait for a reply from BHF rather than charging in all guns blazing. |
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