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[dave996]

Originally posted by swannymere
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My thoughts exactly

[Carbon749]

Sounds to me as though they have a buyer lined up for your bike. I've heard before of cars and bikes being classed as right offs and sold when they actually have very little damage.

[hogfisch]

This shouldn't surprise me really. I think there is something seriously dodgy going on with a lot of these 'storage' facilities for crashed vehicles. One local to me charges 15 quid a day for storage and it seems that pretty much any vehicle involved in a prang in the Oxford area gets instructed by the police on the scene to be collected by this company, to the extent that a friend of mine had her car collected after an accident when it wasn't even in the way. She ended up in hospital for a number of days and was unable to do anything about the rapidly growing bill.

I wonder if the police xmas ball fund gets well supported by said company......?

[swannymere]

:r odent:

[Screwy]

Not to sure if it benefits the xmass ball fund personally i think its just a case of immediate clearing of the scene so the police dont end up hanging around for 2 hours waiting for someone to turn up , unfortunately the recovery people see it as a licence to print money , my bill works out at £145 for recovery , £85 because they had to crane it (load of b*ll*cks , it was moved to the side of the road by a member of the public with no trouble) and their charging £14.50 a day storage all plus VAT

[ttstu]

Tossers.

[swannymere]

They'll say the crane was involved because of 'Health and Safety'

[yorkshire pud]

utter *******s. you need legal advice. just out to screw you , take care.

[Screwy]

Quick update : After a relaxing holiday i get back to find that the bike is still at the recovery yard , a quick call to the insurance company confirms my worse fear , uneconomical to repair so a write off .

I have to wonder if what must by now amount to nearly £600 salvage and storage fee,s have something to do with that

Just have to see what they offer and maybe consider buying the bike back if its offered cheap enough .



Paul

[swannymere]

Best of luck