Five Demands and a Cheque
Whilst at University, a young skintagain was "cruising" around in a Rio-Brown Peugeot 309D (an absolute klundge-magnet I am sure you will agree). He had chosen to insure the pimp-mobile with a local insurance broker and had taken the option of monthly installments.

One year, later and he returns for a new term to discover five increasingly threatening letters about an outstanding balance. To this day he is still unsure how, but somewhere along the lines the insurance company had failed to divide the annual premium by the number of months in a year. The final-demand stated that court action was inevitable unless the remaining balance of £0.07 was paid in full within 28 days (yes 7 whole British pence!). After spending the better part of an hour on the phone to a numerically-impaired troglodyte he decided enough was enough....

So he posted them a cheque for £0.08. An then wrote to them demanding his penny back... I still have the cheque they sent me somewhere
(skintagain, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 14:52, 4 replies)

Good work. A guy I used to get about with received a parking fine for £0.00, and then threatening letters.
He was advised it was due to a computer error, but if he sent them a cheque for £0.00 then that would sort it. Screw that, thought he.

I fell out of touch with him around that time - I'd love to have seen it go to threats.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 15:01, closed)

My mate

spend ten weeks arguing with BT Broadband installers before cancelling his contract. He sent a cheque ten weeks post-dated to show them how it felt.
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 15:32, closed)

Sadly
Dates on cheques aren't even looked at for less than 5k.
(dchurch bah, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 18:17, closed)

I have a cheque for a pound that I won back from BT
But a penny beats that hands down!
( Peej, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 16:29, closed)