MET - PCN - Should I pay?

Debs149

Hi everyone,
I received one of these "Parking Tickets" from Met Parking Services in early December, I followed what others had done on the site and ignored it and the following 3 letters, I have today received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus asking to pay or they will take it to court - has anyone actually let it go this far? What happened?
Thanks for all posts and adivse

trisontana

Debs149 wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I received one of these "Parking Tickets" from Met Parking Services in early December, I followed what others had done on the site and ignored it and the following 3 letters, I have today received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus asking to pay or they will take it to court - has anyone actually let it go this far? What happened?
Thanks for all posts and adivse

Your case is no different to the many others featured on here. They won't take you to court. It's just part of their pathetic efforts to frighten people into paying. Just relax.

taffy056

Debs watch the video in the post just above yours, that nicely outlines what these invoices are

Coupon-mad

Does no-one read the stickies? Sorry but sometimes saying the same thing every day when the links are there at the top of the forum gets tedious.


FORUM JUMP AND CLICK GO.

GET OFF THIS ANCIENT THREAD - IF YOU ARE READING THIS OLD NEWS IN 2014 OR 2015 - WHY WHY WHY?


FORUM JUMP AND CLICK GO.

bigdeal_2

Look at this:
NB: MSE didn't allow me to post a link, so add the following at the end of youtube url (or search for this in youtube "How to deal with Penalty Charge Notices issued by private companies
")
/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

And that's what I am doing with a ditto looking letter I got from MET for the first time. Well almost, except I would still file it in the bottom of the waste lying around in my drawer as all of these are pretty old now and don't know if anything's changed.

Hope this helps and thank you all!

-M

Stroma

It would have been better to create a new thread instead of bumping a 2 year old one with outdated info on it.

Watchdog videos
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3164256

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

blondie1612

Hi everyone i received a parking charge notice from MET parking services with photos claiming i exceeded the time by 30 mins i have never done this before so i appealed against it refusing to pay the fine and they have sent me a letter saying i am admitting to being the registered keeper of the car and there is a popla code on the sheet of paper if i want to appeal to them. Theyve told me if i ignore them they will follow the data collection procedures which may result in going to court? what does this mean and what will happen if i ignore them and dont pay?

Umkomaas

You do need to start a new thread of your own, as we work on the basis of 'one case, one thread' so advice doesn't become confused and/or we have a complete free for all with any number of random cases being tagged on.

But first of all you do need to read thoroughly the NEWBIES FAQS sticky at the top of the forum index (one page back from here) which will give all of the initial information you need. It was written by Coupon-mad, one of the country's most knowledgeable people in dealing with private parking tickets. You won't find anything more comprehensive than this anywhere online.

The sticky is detailed and you might need a couple of 'passes' to digest it, so bite sized chunks with a cup of tea over a couple days might be the best approach. You do need to make the effort to do some research via the sticky before asking for further help from regulars - we are so busy each day it's impossible to type and constantly repeat basic information - hence the sticky with all that stuff covered. But do come back after reading it if anything isn't clear to you.

BUT - via a new thread of your own please.

HTH

Coupon-mad

blondie1612 wrote: »

Hi everyone i received a parking charge notice from MET parking services with photos claiming i exceeded the time by 30 mins i have never done this before so i appealed against it refusing to pay the fine and they have sent me a letter saying i am admitting to being the registered keeper of the car and there is a popla code on the sheet of paper if i want to appeal to them. Theyve told me if i ignore them they will follow the data collection procedures which may result in going to court? what does this mean and what will happen if i ignore them and dont pay?

Step one - locate one of the two places that you can see 'FORUM JUMP' on the right, click GO.

Step two - read the newbies thread, this is all covered but you will never find it by staying on and actually READING a 2011 thread that you should never even have bothered to stop on, people should hop straight to page one on any forum. Boy oh boy, this thread is old and out of date, why read old news at all?

Step three - win at POPLA using the examples in 'How to win at POPLA' in the newbies thread post #3.

NO LINK TO THE NEWBIES THREAD IS EVER PROVIDED BY ME. Use the Forum Jump and you will learn to hop around any forum.