McDonald's & MET - almost a month later

You will get nowhere now, you missed the POPLA deadline so go back to pre-POPLA old rules and just ignore the letters from now on. MET do not sue people, but if you did get court papers, come back and we will help (defendable, similar to that POPLA appeal).

Yes, ignore them, no contact, nothing.

Please join our campaign of complaint about this industry's conduct to the Government:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5524754&page=6

In your case I would wait for the BPA to fob you off, then use that pathetic email to complain about THEM as well to Mrs May and your MP, pointing out that the BPA are an old boys' club who are at pains to tell consumers that they are 'not a regulator' but they appear to relish the way Parliament assumes they are.

The BPA and (considered even worse) the IPC use their apparent 'status' to lobby for their grubby members' interests alone. Parliament lap up everything the BPA says and swallowed hook, line and sinker some utter bilge when the BPA lobbied to get 'keeper liability' into the POFA 2012 (Schedule 4 being an insult to consumers and a widely-considered 'scammers rights' piece of legislation). compare Parliament's cluelessness with the informed and victimised British public, who know that there is evidence that the entire industry is rotten. Read and show your MP and Mrs May/Mr Corbyn, the Plain Language Commission's article on a BPA member's antics at a Derbyshire Hospital:

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/plcdev/app/public/system/pdf_files/files/000/000/191/original/QueensHospitalEd1copy.pdf

That contains this:
Quote:
"The BPA does little to curb its members excesses. Its previous investigations into similar concerns have tended to produce reports that exonerate the parking firms. As a private company the BPA is held accountable only to its members. given its Hypocrisy about 'raising standards', its pious annual adoption of a 'presidents charity' which it urges members to support ( using money taken from drivers ) and the way it seems to retain the trust of government ministers, the BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"

A Trade Body for ex-clampers and money-grabbers is no better than leaving a parking firm in charge (self regulation) which will never work. No wonder consumers get short shrift and are certainly not (BPA spiel coming up) 'at the heart of our thinking'.