The Scary Letters.... RLP and DWF

[Amethyst]

Re: The Scary Letters.... RLP and DWF

Notice given by some stores to suspected shoplifters at the time of the incident.

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More letters - one from RLP entitled 'Letter before Claim' with associated FAQs and 'how to pay'

[des8]

Re: The Scary Letters.... RLP and DWF

I note how well it complies with new Pre action protocol !!

[Mat123]

If you ignore the civil recovery company long enough, will the actual client take action against you?

[wales01man]

If you ignore the civil recovery company long enough, will the actual client take action against you?

Never had action by retailer posted on here to my knowledge not worth their time

[ostell]

RLP tried once, got badly spanked by the court and haven't tried again since. Look for Oxford and RLP

[Mat123]

Although I’m curious... if people just ignore these demands from RLP, wont the retailers not get any recourse?

[ostell]

It's not the retailers wanting the money it's the companies and they can not take it to court themselves because it was not their loss.

[Mat123]

If the retailers don’t get the money, why would they engage RLP? More as a deterrent against future acts?

[ostell]

They engage them for their security "Expertise". (The power of the hard sell!). RLP are looking for a bit extra cash above what they have been paid by the retailer. If the goods have been recovered then the argument that money has been lost in dealing with the incident doesn't hold water because the RLP staff would have been paid anyway even if there wasn't an incident to deal with, ie they were doing what they were being paid to do.

[Mat123]

That’s the thing. If the retailer pays RLP to engage them to recover sums of money that they hope (and expect) will be more than what they pay.....surely they will not be happy if RLP isn’t able to recover it?

[Kati]

I doubt the retailers will actually see much (if any) of the money rlp manage to get out of people. Once it's been passed on to rlp the retailer has basically washed their hands of it anyway

[MIKE770]

what this country runs on = call centres and ambulance chasers also money making ideas from un-suspecting people, FCA etc useless see how many companies they state are cloned yet they do nothing only warn people not to use hem - yet they can operate,, go back to the days of English Shop keepers not some conglomerates

[davenewbergr]

How on earth is a shop or RLP going to establish evidentially that the action of a particular shoplifter on a particular occasion was the cause of the prevention procedures that the shop already has in place?

[ostell]

Have a look at the "Oxford Case"

They tried that then and got smacked down.

[davenewbergr]

Have a look at the "Oxford Case"

They tried that then and got smacked down.

So I understand. I'm expressing astonishment that anyone who'd done the LPC or the Bar course could think otherwise.