I will keep this short and simple.

Earliar in March I was charged with theft under 5000.

I just received a letter from a company asking me for $500 in damaged incurred do to their loss. Now the letter is obviously just a mass printed letter with my name intserted.

What should I do? Should I pay the 500 dollars and move on. Or should I ignore it and let them take me to court. I think it's a ridiculous amount considering they got all of the merchandince back. It seems like the store is not stealing from me.

Does anyone also know the legal precedent on cases like this??

It probably covers any costs they accrued... seems logical to me after stealing from them, and its far better than jail... or probation

I will assume this is in Canada? While not a expert on their laws, I have seen on here 100's of time where this is standard for them to demand civil settlement and they normally get it. And thus the form letters since they do this on everyone that steals from them.

Perhaps pay it and use this as a lesson learned to leave this life of crime behind

It just seems that $500 for nothing really they got everything back it just seems kind of ridiculous if you ask me