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Parking Eye Appeal Refused by Popla

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  • bumblbee
    bumblbee Posts: 10 Forumite
    Stop worrying

    Why do people not simply take the advice they are given

    it wont cost very much should you loose, less then £200

    Because for someone who has no experience of this stuff it is intimidating...
    Also, I can't afford the 85 let alone upto 200.

    Noticed on several forums that in letters they use the word "may" when talking about taking you to court. Checked mine this morning... it says "will".
    Sorry if I am doing your heads in but I am a worrier by nature and lets be honest, I'm the one facing this! lol
  • surfboy1
    surfboy1 Posts: 345 Forumite
    bumblbee wrote: »
    Because for someone who has no experience of this stuff it is intimidating...
    Also, I can't afford the 85 let alone upto 200.

    Noticed on several forums that in letters they use the word "may" when talking about taking you to court. Checked mine this morning... it says "will".
    Sorry if I am doing your heads in but I am a worrier by nature and lets be honest, I'm the one facing this! lol
    You are the one facing this, correct, but you are not facing this alone if you will ley us help you.
    Most of us posting on this forum have been in your situation before and are now offering you the advice that has got us through this. A fair few of us have even seen of genuine court papers and we are still here to tell the tale.;)
  • bumblbee
    bumblbee Posts: 10 Forumite
    OK... I will take your advice and dig my heels in. Thank you everyone for all your help... I will be back I'm sure for help with the court case! CouponMad - thank you particulary.
    I have read on another forum that writing to the landowner helps... anyone know if it does? I plan to do so...
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 162,021 Forumite
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    bumblbee wrote: »
    OK... I will take your advice and dig my heels in. Thank you everyone for all your help... I will be back I'm sure for help with the court case! CouponMad - thank you particulary.
    I have read on another forum that writing to the landowner helps... anyone know if it does? I plan to do so...


    Yep I always encourage a complaint to the organ grinder which contracted with the monkey.

    :)
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  • bumblbee
    bumblbee Posts: 10 Forumite
    :cool:Well as you may have guessed from the title, I am rather happy!:j

    I wrote to the landowner and they ignored my letter, I then got a court date for 14 days away. I phoned the landowner who apologised for not getting back to me and CANCELLED my ticket there and then!
    I got a letter from Parking Eye a couple of weeks later to confirm that the ticket was cancelled... So it went from £2 that the machine wouldn't accept to £50 if "you pay with 2 weeks", to £85 because I appealed, to £150 because I refused to pay that to absolutely NOTHING!!

    Cannot believe it. Thank you SO much to all of you who convinced me not to give in. It was pretty scary stuff for a while there but I'm SO glad I stuck it out!! WOO!! :T xxx:beer:
  • nigelbb
    nigelbb Posts: 3,823 Forumite
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    Great news!

    Can you tell us who the landowner was?
  • pustit
    pustit Posts: 277 Forumite
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    Wonderful news. So pleased for you.
    Can you stay on the forum and encourage newbies in the same position as yourself with the outcome of your case ?
  • bumblbee
    bumblbee Posts: 10 Forumite
    I will stick around yes :-)
  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
    Uniform Washer
    Well done to you :) and you are right they try and bully people to pay by going after the little guys
    When posting a parking issue on MSE do not reveal any information that may enable PPCs to identify you. They DO monitor the forum.
    We don't need the following to help you.
    Name, Address, PCN Number, Exact Date Of Incident, Date On Invoice, Reg Number, Vehicle Picture, The Time You Entered & Left Car Park, Or The Amount of Time You Overstayed.
    :beer: Anti Enforcement Hobbyist Member :beer:
  • Really good to hear
    Proud to be a member of the Anti Enforcement Hobbyist Gang.:D:T
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