Making a court claim

[John Kennett]

OK, this isn't strictly RIB related, but I'm looking at options for getting back the $700 that I paid to the Yachtflag Co. The full tale of woe is here.

If it was a UK company I could take court action to get this money back - it's really simple and can all be done on-line. If PayPal didn't have a slightly useless 45 day limit on claims, I could get the money back through them. As it is, I'm a bit stuck.

Anyone know if how I could start proceedings against this company? Obviously for this amount of money it's not going to involve lawyers' fees!

Thanks
John

[603doug]

Not sure of the state of "PC"alifornia but in New(we have a hidden tax just for you) Hampshire we have small claims court and one can do all their own paper work with a fee paid to the court. Then it is on the crook oh i mean the persons or company to prove they do not owe it and alot of the time they will pay before court good luck

[alexm]

How did you fund the paypal payment? If it was by credit card you should be able to get the credit card company to do a chargeback on paypal, leaving paypal to try and scrape it back from Mr Yachtflag!