When bad data entry costs money,
posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 by Kevin in [Consuming]So somewhere along the line, our Car Tax Registration details where wrong between the us, the dealer and the DVLA. This means our car was registered on the DVLA database against the wrong house number and hence we didn’t get a renewal form, which because you don’t look at those sorts of things means the car tax slipped, and we got fined.
I’m quite annoyed, while at the same time in a typically British way resigned to the consequences.
It looks like from the form we have, the DVLA entered it wrong into there database, but they deny all culpability for these types of things, so we will still have to pay ?80. and ruth is now having to spend tommorow running to chester (because liverpool doesn’t have a DVLA office!) to get the new disc. That’s just so annoying!
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[...] No we thought we’d sorted this; you may remember in march we got fined because the DVLA entered some data wrong on there computers. This resulted in us nearly getting the car clamped and towed away. [...]
[...] After last year’s debacle, I was fairly keen to get it sorted out, but some some reason, our local Post Office, which does issue tax discs, was closed when we got there. The shop was open, but the Post Office bit at the back wasn’t. There was a small sign up saying it was due to unforeseen circumstances. I blamed Kevin, but he wasn’t that keen to take responsibility for other people’s unforeseen circumstances, for some reason. [...]
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