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Re: Civil Enforcement POPLA stage

Gr1pr

3 May at 10:53AM

You ignore powerless debt collectors letters You do not ignore a Letter of Claim or a Court claim

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Re: Civil Enforcement POPLA stage

NuckinFutz

3 May at 10:51AM

Unsurprisingly, the POLPLA result is unsuccessful. I'll post over in the POPLA decisions thread. A rather annoying response; they have completely disregarded one of my points, and used the date of th…

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Re: Company PCN parking fine

Gr1pr

3 May at 10:51AM

Seems to me that whoever the Registered Keeper is, they named you or your company as the hirer, hence why the new letter arrived to the hirer The contravention ( its not a fine , its an invoice ) wil…

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Re: Euro Car Parks - Vehicle Registration Entered Incorrectly

Coupon-mad

3 May at 11:59AM

Yep, they take only the first letter. There's even a video with FB ticket-fighter Lynda Eagan showing what the machine does. You will never pay this, @DistortedVision.

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Re: Water Leak Insurance - Best Plan While on Benefits.

glennevis

2 May at 5:41PM

You mention factors, are you in Scotland? I have a private flat in a block of 14 and when there is a water leak the factors sort it out, and the insurance pays so there is only the excess to pay. The…

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Re: +++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

redofromstart

3 May at 11:45AM

Funnily enough @Sun_Addict we had a conversation when I lost my best cat ever (miss you Mrs Brady) in which he said you have cried your heart out for her, but I bet if it was me you would just roll y…

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Re: Parking stories in the News/media

Coupon-mad

3 May at 11:52AM

Usually just 'free' parking management and they also fall for old spiel about ANPR being 'new tech' which promises them 'rich data' about trends and footfall. They lap it up.

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Re: Parking stories in the News/media

RavingMad

3 May at 5:04AM

Again, be naive, but what do supermarkets/hospitals etc get from using these services? A percentage of the money? A free parking management service? A fee?

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Re: Discretionary Trust & Probate

Keep_pedalling

3 May at 11:21AM

They also seemed to be extracting the maximum upfront fees for making such complex wills with worse than useless trusts and new complex LPAs where perfectly suitable LPAs were already in place. I dr…

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Re: Sainsbury's Parking - Euro Car Parks PCN

Gr1pr

3 May at 10:31AM

Yes that is the appeal template, although they wont cancel the PCN, so expect a rejection You won't find complaint examples in the newbies sticky thread, you will find examples in the Successful Comp…

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Re: Civil Enforcement POPLA stage

Re: Civil Enforcement POPLA stage

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Re: Water Leak Insurance - Best Plan While on Benefits.

Re: +++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

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