Bloody MET!!

Gas-Man

Hi, recieved a PCN from them yesterday on my car. Now before I left the car park I asked someone there if you pay when you come back he said yes. So I came back and put £2 in there and the ticket came out I thought **** done it the wrong way.

Went back in the car and saw the PCN. :mad:

Then I read one of there annoying notices, they want me to pay £50!!

If it was a reasonable fee like the £2 +£5 for the PCN costs then fair enought but £50 no way.

I remember once I took my wife to hospital and the same thing happened, bailiffs rang us and I paid in the end.

But I really dont want to pay these !!!!!!s, am I legally bound to pay them they said when you enter you agree to a contract but I never signed nothing.

Will bailliffs ring or knock?

AltheHibby

If it is a private parking company the bailiffs will do neither. Sit tight and wait for good advice from this forum.

give_them_FA

No way will bailiffs call. You should simply ignore them. At the end of the day if you paid the parking charge you owe them nothing.

I have the feeling you were conned with the ticket you mentioned about the hospital. In fact I have more than a feeling, I am certain. You need not have paid that either and the "bailiffs" would not have been bailiffs at all, just some scammers pretending to be. Bailiffs only get involved with Council tickets, and hospital ones aren't council.

In short don't pay don't appeal and simply ignore anything you get. They WILL go away when they realise you are not one of the suckers that takes them seriously!

But, hey, no need to take my word for it, here is what a senior solicitor on national television advises you regarding demands from MET:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

Good enough? Start ignoring!

Gas-Man

Nah I mean i paid the first one by APACOA or something this is a new one by MET.

I intend to ignore it.

Gas-Man

the first one was a year ago at a hospital this is a new one in a car park.

give_them_FA

Yes, I gathered that you had paid the first one and was saying if you had asked us on that one, you could have avoided paying that one too.... but now you are "in the know" just don't ever pay any more private parking tickets, no matter from which firm or for what reason. All of them are totally unenforceable. Only council and police tickets need to be dealt with!

Coupon-mad

Gas-Man wrote: »

Nah I mean i paid the first one by APCOA or something this is a new one by MET.

I intend to ignore it.

You should have ignored the APCOA one as well. Any private parking ticket is just an impersonation of authority - a scam.

The only phone call you may have got was from a pointless and toothless debt collector, like Roxburghe (or Newlyn acting as debt collectors only). It was NOT a bailiff. No-one ever comes knocking, it's only a matter of ignoring letters and the odd phone call from an office, a call centre. What a shame you fell for the APCOA one because nothing would have happened whatsoever.

Never mind, at least you know now.

Please look at the thread near the top of this parking forum, called 'PPC letters & threats'. Not only does it show you the whole letter chain in preview pictures, so you know what to expect, but it also has a link to a Watchdog clip. A clip where a solicitor is holding a MET parking 'ticket' and shows you exactly what the score is with it!