Originally Posted by HD462

While that's true, the problem I'd be worried about is them putting a black marker on the address with a credit reference agency for non payment. You'd probably not find out until you went to get something on credit, and they did a credit check and had to refuse you. It's very embarassing, it happened to us once.

You could contact Experian (credit reference company) and see what's held against your record, costs about £5 I think.