Bluto10 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537034/Father-two-takes-16-year-battle-PC-World-Supreme-Court-250-000-row-laptop.html screams out computer nerd to me; my moneys on harcus or tup. Link to comment
Henry Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Works offshore and is fighting a legal battle over £1500. Tight as fuck. Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 They gave him the £50 back...he could have used that money to buy a fucking modem!!! Link to comment
daytripping Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 He's a man of principle, I'd have done the same. Doesn't matter that it's ruined his life, as long as he gets a result. Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I got my money back on a PC component today, without trouble, and this was after they had already swapped the item for a replacement Link to comment
spamspamspam Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 He bought a pc from pc world. what the fuck did he expect, customer service? Idiot Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm surprised the Daily Mail isn't blaming it on the amount of immigrants coming into the country. Link to comment
E-P-K Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 There was some other cunt on the TV the other day with the same issue, he tried to cancel after taken out a credit agreement with a caravan or motor home, same shit, they would not refund. But in the end, many many years later, won. Link to comment
zig-a-zig-ah Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 They gave him the £50 back...he could have used that money to buy a fucking modem!!!Incorrect Link to comment
tup Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 So the OP is allowed to stand but any subsequent retort gets deleted? Pathetic. This board has lost the plot. Link to comment
Poodler Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I can understand his point, how soulless do the people behind the defendants case have to be to refuse him money. The money he wanted would come from a business which could not give a fuck about anything else other than profit. Fuck them, hope he wins Link to comment
dervish Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Same here they can get right to fuck. Also the brand damage will be costing them much more than the lawyers. He does seem a bit of a nob though. It's a bit more complex than it might seem though because of the credit agreement which seems to be the thing he's actually having problems with. It's quite separate to buying the laptop from PC World. They (the bank, HSBC ultimately) are still cunts for not allowing him to cancel it but it depends what was in the agreement (which he signed). Hypothetically he could have used the credit he signed for and a top up of cash to buy a laptop (with a modem...) I'd guess. Link to comment
chaos_defrost Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Fair play to the man for fighting for what's right. Probably a lot of other cases of this happening to other people but most people would deem it not worth the hassle to fight. The bank's basically tried to bully him into paying for something he never wanted. He must have known the consequences of having such a shit credit score rating, even though he says he didn't. Good luck to him though. Link to comment
caledonia Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hope he winstheir prices go upthey go bustscumbags Link to comment
Ke1t Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 While I believe in standing up for your principles I'm also a great believer in choosing your battles. This man has no mechanism that allows him to judge the size of the issue versus expenditure of time, money and energy. "'I've spent so much on lawyers I'm bankrupt already - I might as well go bankrupt for doing the right thing." ..is about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. Certainly if it was a worthy cause, like the hospital had accidentally killed your kid. or if your wife was snatched by immigrant gypsies, then fuck aye, that's deserving of single-minded, pathological bloody-mindedness in order to see justice done. But bankrupting yourself over a hokey laptop that doesn't exactly meet your expectations is just stupid beyond belief. I'd like to punch him in the throat... but I don't think 16 years of court cases that ultimately put me out on the street is a reasonable price to pay for the pleasure. See how that works? Link to comment
beef_sister Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I was working offshore with him down in Baku earlier this year, The boy was abit of a weirdo Link to comment
Guest Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Saw the guy on North Tonight. Any principles I may have had on the matter have gone oot the windie. Hope he loses. Horrible guffy weirdo cunt. Link to comment
zander Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Saw the guy on North Tonight. Any principles I may have had on the matter have gone oot the windie. Hope he loses. Horrible guffy weirdo cunt.Said that just before he spoke "guarantee this cunts a guffy" and sure enough. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Said that just before he spoke "guarantee this cunts a guffy" and sure enough. Fucking weird. I was exactly the same just by looking at the cunt, before he opened his guffy moo. Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Has the look of someone who was buying a laptop to look at pictures of kids. What the fuck else was on the net in 1998 apart fae dodgy porn? Link to comment
Ke1t Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Has the look of someone who was buying a laptop to look at pictures of kids. What the fuck else was on the net in 1998 apart fae dodgy porn? Link to comment
Guest Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The original AFC chat was online then. It was awesome. And follow follow. One spontaneous late morning, a heap of us decided to hijack it. Probably the funniest thing I've ever seen and been involved in. Was howling out laffing for a solid half hour. Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The official AFC chat on the club website. Think I joined it about 1999 barely ever posted on it so. Link to comment
dervish Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Saw the guy on North Tonight. Any principles I may have had on the matter have gone oot the windie. Hope he loses. Horrible guffy weirdo cunt. Had on his story is different in the video too. He said before the guy told him it did have a modem now he said bloke wasn't sure but couldn't open the box.... Turned down £100k then lost the lot. fuck you, you utter bam! Link to comment
Old Wing Stand Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Fucking weird. I was exactly the same just by looking at the cunt, before he opened his guffy moo.Always like that on North Tonight any local issues and you'll get some guffy cunt yapping a load of shite Link to comment
NorthernLights24 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 In March 2008, a decade after he bought the laptop, Mr Durkin was awarded £116,000 damages by Aberdeen Sheriff Court, which ruled that he was entitled to return the computer and cancel the credit agreement. But two years later, the court of session in Edinburgh overturned the decision, saying that Mr Durkin was not entitled to cancel his credit agreement. Having watched the video on the North Tonight site it seems the Daily Mail failed to mention that it was Mr Durkin who went to the Count of Session as the cost of his house in Spain had doubled so he was after more money. Greedy bastard. Glad he lost that appeal and hope he loses this one too. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The cost of the house that he WANTED TO BUY in Spain, you mean. I can understand him wanting to live there. Nae cunt in the UK likes him. Link to comment
NorthernLights24 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 He won, well kind of... A man has won a 16-year dispute over a laptop bought at the Aberdeen branch of PC World. Richard Durkin, 44, claimed the HFC bank ruined his credit rating after he tried to back out of an agreement to buy a £1,499 computer in 1998. Mr Durkin took his case to court and initially won, but it was overturned. The Supreme Court in London has now allowed his appeal and ruled he should receive £8,000 in damages. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-26731192 Link to comment
tightbreeks Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 dick durkin - the highway robber. stand and deliver. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 dick durkin - the highway robber. stand and deliver. Link to comment
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