Sanjay,
How long since you posted the cheque? Clottie is right, there is a 2 week cooling off period. This law doesn't apply if the contract was made in their own premises, but they generally hire out a conference hall and that does not count for the purposes of the law.
A family friend was mis-sold a property course at a WIN investing 'free property seminar' (read a high-pressure sales pitch appealing to the hopes and dreams of the unwary and employing a lot of NLP techniques). She coughed up 2 grand, and we had a job getting the money back for her. They tried to argue that the conference hall was their business premises, but as they only rented it by the day they couldn't make it stick, and we got her cash back. She also contacted CAB and I think the FSA who were extremely helpful. She also appeared on a TV programme exposing this company.
If for any reason we had not been refunded, I would have orchestrated a campaign of protesters outside, and infiltrated myself inside, to make it impossible for them to make any more sales in Bristol until the gave her a refund. I make far more friends than enemies, but I’m a very bad man to have as an enemy. I was almost disappointed when we got the cash back. I would have had a lot of fun heckling them with a few home-truths about their organisation, and I’m not worried about getting roughed up a bit as I’m a trained Thai boxer and MMA fighter.
Rich
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