18 Jan 2014 10:30 PM:

As of April 2013 PARRA MELLADO ( Parra Mellado) are now in receivership having applied for voluntary bankruptcy.

Because of this NO ONE is authorised to deal with financial issues OTHER THAN the administrators.

Please please please do not part with a penny of your hard earned money to pay any outstanding sums to this company without the express consent of the administrators.

We have recently nearly lost our life savings, when a solicitor acting for them purported to be acting for the administrators, when in deed he was not.We have been legally advised that had we paid this money  the administrators would have reclaimed the debt in years to come and annulled our paperwork with our life savings lost. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Thread: Parra Mellado and FLO

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05 Oct 2013 1:55 PM:

That doesn't work for me baabaabing as I have the "all hire car" cover for the year. I don't need the additional insurance and feel that this is a rip off. You hire a car, you need full insurance, and it's about time the hire companies were fair and open about these practices. 80 euro's may not be that much, it used to be 10 euro's, but when the advetised price of the car is around that figure, sometimes even less adding that on at the point of sale with no alternative but to buy their insurance is not fair.

In addition the DYS paperwork said in advance that you may have a charge of up to 300 euro's held against you card but it was twice that for me and not just held, taken.

If the hire car companies are doing this to many of its customers and not returning these funds for several days they are holding considerable liquid assets that are not their own. The intrest alone on that must be considerable.

Along with this I returned our car with well over half a tank of fuel as we simply didn't get chance to use it. Now it is made clear that if you don't use it you lose it but again if many return the cars with fuel in them it's a plus and they know that no one likes driving around with the fuel light on.

They are making more than enough profit so to get back to original post providing unroadworthy vehicles is inexcusable.

Thread: To what extent is Spain a police state?

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05 Oct 2013 11:52 AM:

The 600 euro charge to your credit card for not taking out their insurance is a growing problem. We have a UK cover all hire for 12 months policy. We hired in June and the charge was only "held" against the account pending the successful return of the car. In September it was actually charged to the card and not returned for around 10 days after we got back to the UK, and only then after a lot of pushing from us at the hire company who never replied and DYS who were not too quick to reply either.Unfortunately this charge dropped right in the end of a credit period and became due before the company returned the money and it's not a small sum to cover.

I got to thinking, had we just thrown the hire papers away and not kept them for reference we would probably never have got the money returned. The credit card company was less than helpful.

The car was brilliant but the service poor from the start and I doubt we would use that company again.

We always look around the car before we drive away and take photo's of it as we return it including its registration number, keeping all documentation until the refund of the bond comes. It pays to be careful even though you shouldn't have to.

The hiring of an illegal car by a comany who are responsible for the documentation is wrong on all levels regardless of the drivers responsibility to have the correct documentation. Surely you should take that as a given if hiring a car?

Thread: To what extent is Spain a police state?

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21 Feb 2009 11:03 AM:

Does this mean that PM have woken up and the Town Hall have started to get paper work going after such a long time? See how long that lasts, who's up for a bet?

Thread: Parra Mellado Developers, Huercal Overa, Almeria

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20 Feb 2009 4:49 PM:

If our build is anything to go by once they start the job it is amazing how quickly things come together. Different builders now to when they did ours as they all got fed up and left, shame because they were good. One piece of advice is once they do get going, push until it is fully complete, don't let them go away just because your roof is on or even if the house is fit enough to live in, get the complete lot....ie. road, street lights, mains services etc. and if you get that then you are ahead of us a little further up the valley. after four years of waiting....you lucky things..

You can't by the way get a LOFH from the council without  the road and mains services being in place. Pay nothing more than you absolutely have to until you have a house on a street with the services that you are completely happy with and it's fully licensed.

Thread: Parra Mellado Developers, Huercal Overa, Almeria

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