Ok, new thread- as advised.

POPPYUK

Hello, new here.

My son has had numerous letters from parking eye, all of which I told him to ignore. Today he has been sent a claim form ( Northampton County Court) So, what do we do from here.? He was parking in Mac Donald's chatting to a girl, on night in question. After I goggled, I thought ( perhaps wrongly ) just to ignore. Now I am worried, what to do. Any help/ advice would be appreciated. He is on a very low income & cannot afford the £160.00 they are asking, obviously plus court costs.



As a mum, I have now given him I feel, bad advice. Thanks

edward123

POPPYUK wrote: »

Hello, new here.

My son has had numerous letters from parking eye, all of which I told him to ignore. Today he has been sent a claim form ( Northampton County Court) So, what do we do from here.? He was parking in Mac Donald's chatting to a girl, on night in question. After I goggled, I thought ( perhaps wrongly ) just to ignore. Now I am worried, what to do. Any help/ advice would be appreciated. He is on a very low income & cannot afford the £160.00 they are asking, obviously plus court costs.



As a mum, I have now given him I feel, bad advice. Thanks

You gave him the right advice.

But you need to start your own thread and give certain details(w/o identifying who your son is etc)

Do not respond to a pm unless poster has a 1000 posts.

Start your own thread and a 'regular' will come along soon to help you.
And its easy to say, but your son has little to worry about.

surfboy1

POPPYUK wrote: »

Hello, new here.

My son has had numerous letters from parking eye, all of which I told him to ignore. Today he has been sent a claim form ( Northampton County Court) So, what do we do from here.? He was parking in Mac Donald's chatting to a girl, on night in question. After I goggled, I thought ( perhaps wrongly ) just to ignore. Now I am worried, what to do. Any help/ advice would be appreciated. He is on a very low income & cannot afford the £160.00 they are asking, obviously plus court costs.



As a mum, I have now given him I feel, bad advice. Thanks

Its not BAD advice, He needs to register to defend all of the claim, then with help you will submit a defence. Don't even consider paying £160. Someone with more knowledge than me will be allong to assist with defence.
Do not worry.:)

POPPYUK

edward123 wrote: »

You gave him the right advice.

But you need to start your own thread and give certain details(w/o identifying who your son is etc)

Do not respond to a pm unless poster has a 1000 posts.

Start your own thread and a 'regular' will come along soon to help you.
And its easy to say, but your son has little to worry about.

Ok, thanks. I was concerned about starting a new thread, as I had seen a few. Will post up in a bit. Thank you for response.

POPPYUK

Hiya, I posted earlier about parking eye.

I am posting on behalf of my on, as he is in work all week. I just rang him to tell him, he has another letter from parking eye, & that I was going to ask for advice.

A few months ago 15/10/12 he was in Mac Donald's late at night, sat chatting to a girl. He did buy a burger via drive through, but then sat in car park, apparently overstaying his maximum time.

I told him, after reading up on this, after first letter, to just ignore.

Today, he recieved a Claim Form, with claim number

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From Northampton County Court. We live in Wales.
They are asking for £160.00 £25 of which is court fee.

It states: you have a limited time to respond & that he can vist a website moneyclaim etc ( sorry cannot posts links as I am a new user.
It also provides a password.

Now, I am worried & as previously stated, feel I gave him, bad advice.

Help, thanks.

hoohoo

Your advice was still good, but unfortunately he was one of the tiny minority of Parking Eye 'customers' where they decide to try court proceedings.

Don't worry; this is just a scare tactic by them. They have to spend £25 to issue these papers, and they hope that the word 'court' will frighten you into paying. It works with a lot of people, but you came here, so you won't be part of their cannon fodder.

What we have found from all the cases Parking Eye have started so far is that when presented with a robust defence, they slink off with their tail between their legs, never to be seen again, and let the court case lapse having wasted another £25.

So how do you present a robust defence? The best place for that is possibly not this forum (although I'm willing to stand corrected if any regulars are around and can take this on), but probably here at pepipoo

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60

Sorry if you feel you are going around the houses and having to create yet another username on yet another forum, but you will win, regardless of whether you find someone one here to help or on pepipoo, and we will all cheer you on when Parking Eye fold.

POPPYUK

Thanks, I shall take a look now.

Crabman

Hi POPPUK and welcome to MSE :hello:

I've moved your earlier posts on this topic into this new thread to keep all the information in one place.

POPPYUK

Crabman wrote: »

Hi POPPUK and welcome to MSE :hello:

I've moved your earlier posts on this topic into this new thread to keep all the information in one place.

Thank you. I did pop to the other forum I was directed to. It seems very conflicting issues, regarding, ignore or not. I feel stressed by it all.

edward123

Go here , post #7 and follow bargepole's advice. It can be confusing but either there or here good advice and help is at hand.

Coupon-mad

POPPYUK wrote: »

Thank you. I did pop to the other forum I was directed to. It seems very conflicting issues, regarding, ignore or not. I feel stressed by it all.

You looked at the wrong threads on pepipoo then, you need to read ones like yours where there's a (rare) small claim being attempted. It's a great forum and we can't stress enough, it's the place for your son to win this ridiculous case!

See these threads, which are like yours, much better for you to read:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=78210

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=78113

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=78139

There is no confusion on those threads, there is positive action to help those strangers defend these speculative claims and get PE to back down. We suspect that PE are cherry-picking some cases in the hope of flushing out some weak defences and victims who either pay up in a panic now, or people who are daft enough to carry on ignoring a Court claim(!). Then PE will be planning to crow about any such wins on their website.

But you don't fall into that bracket if you get yourself over to pepipoo and give the forum experts a chance top help your son here. All your son needs to do is start his own topic and pepipoo will let you use their free defence and help you all the way if you keep the thread bumped & current when you need more help.

Here's what happens when pepipoo help with a defence (read it to the end):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=77364

The advice to ignore was not wrong - it was the best advice at the time for many years. It's just that the Protection of Freedoms Act in October has given PPC World delusions of grandeur and power! And they are certainly deluded. PE and CE are a couple of PPCs who have decided to break the habit of a lifetime and try to win a few cases in small claims all of a sudden.

Your son needs to return the Acknowledgement of Service saying that he intends to defend the fake PCN and then he'll have 28 days I think to submit that defence (pepipoo will advise so start a new topic and ask them first as they are the experts).

Remember that a 'claim' isn't a 'win' and won't be if you get a pepipoo defence in.