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MET Parking Services PCN
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IF YOU HAVE GOOGLED AND ARE NOW READING THIS ANCIENT THREAD FROM 2012 PLEASE ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU HAVEN'T YET CLICKED THE ONE CLICK NEEDED TO HOP TO PAGE ONE OF THIS FORUM?
Where you will learn that the advice is old and the current view in 2014 is to appeal and win at POPLA, as we currently always do with template appeal letters.
TEMPLATE APPEAL LETTERS ARE OF COURSE ON PAGE ONE, NOT IN AN ARCHIVE 2012 THREAD OF OUTDATED AND IRRELEVANT STUFF.
STOP READING THIS OLD THREAD. SEE MY SIGNATURE BELOW, JUST CLICK WHERE SHOWN, THE LINK TO PAGE ONE AND READ THE STICKY THREADS AT THE TOP INSTEAD.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD0 -
I've just won my case against the scumbags that call themselves MET PARKING. They sent me a PCN for £100 for overstaying in McDonalds car park for 16 minutes over their free hour.
I appealed to Met Parking's better nature. They don't have one. I appealed to the CEO of McDonald's as there was an elderly person and a medical condition involved, but it seems that she doesn't have a better nature either and passed my letter to a numpty in Customer Services who sided with Met Parking.
I appealed to POPLA. The good thing about appealing to POPLA is that it costs you nothing but costs the parking company about £30.
When you complete the POPLA appeal form, the only thing you need to say is that "the charge is not a genuine pre-estimate of loss". You don't need to say anything else. POPLA will throw it out because basically the parking company is only allowed to charge you for any loss incurred, and if it's a free car park and no way of paying for extra time, there isn't any loss to them. Also if there were other spaces available, there isn't any loss to them.
My case is documented on the Parking Prankster's blog here on 15 March 2014.
parking-prankster.blogspot (add co uk to the end to reach the site)
It's a very amusing blog, updated daily0 -
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/2014/03/are-met-parking-ws-mcdonalds-charge.html ... this one?
PS - OLD THREAD ALERT!!
Please don't necromance old threads from 2012 - people may read them and get confused versus current advice.0
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