Van purchased HPI clear turned out to be a scrap van

[Guest]

So I purchased a van in November while I was waiting for log back to arrive back from dvla they sent me a letter around 5 weeks later that it had a notice of destruction order against it meaning it’s been scrapped by a disposal company, so I got in contact with dvla straight away saying that I had HPI’d the van and that it had came back clear, they told me to check again now as it can take some time to update there records which I did and now it is coming up as scrapped. I contacted the HPI company that I did the check with and they told me it’s not there fault that dvla can take some time updating there records. So then I contacted the person that I purchased the van from and he says he will pay me and keeps saying next week he will pay that was 6 weeks ago I payed £2900 for the van and spent another £900 on the van by doing a CAMBELT ,WATERPUMP , FULL SERVICE, AND GLOW PLUGS CHANGED. What can I do to get my funds back cheers.

[AMG Driver]

Forgot to add that I had paid the £2900 for the van by bank transfer.

[ploddertom]

The only way to make them focus is by starting a Claim against them, but only do so if you will continue it & do some digging first to see if they are likely to pay up.

[AMG Driver]

Do you think I Would be successful getting a chargeback from my bank for the purchase of the van.

[GoodOldBoy]

Do you think I Would be successful getting a chargeback from my bank for the purchase of the van.

How did you pay for it?

[AMG Driver]

How did you pay for it?

I paid by bank transfer for the van.

[AMG Driver]

So I checked with my bank to see if I can do a chargeback which they got back to me a day later to say there’s nothing they can do as I paid by bank transfer.