Originally Posted by
Krisz
But the under what law a credit card company can ask money from a trader where the transaction never took place??
OP will have paid the taxes using a card. If it was a credit card, then under UK law if the overall value of the product is over £100, the card company is jointly liable for breach of contract - which this is.
Thus the only issue is whether they would argue the product was not actually over £100.
Originally Posted by
Krisz
Credit card companies are not courts and they just can't claim money back what was never spent.
They absolutely can. And it's not just that they claim the money back on your behalf - they are actually liable to you directly whether or not they can claim it back from the supplier. Their liability is not limited by the cost of the product either. The product just has to have cost between £100 and £30,000 in order for s.75 liability to apply.
Obviously if
EuropeanPete is not UK-based then the above will not apply, but I think there are some protections in Europe which may be similar.