Met parking ticket

pbc_2

I am a middle aged nurse who was recently in a McDonalds with a colleague, handing over my cases to her. We stayed over our allotted time and I have now received a ticket asking for £100 from MET Parking Services.
Having read your threads I assume I just ignore it..............is this ok??

Stroma

Well ignore is an option, but if you are in England or Wales you can actually challenge them, and if rejected to appeal independently through popla. You should do this also if the vehicle is leased/hired/company . You should also be making complaints to McDonalds as you were a customer of theirs. The other option is to fund this scam by paying, you really don't want to do that do you?

The_Slithy_Tove

Appealing to Met, having it rejected, and then appealing to POPLA costs Met £27+VAT and more (as it costs POPLA a lot more, those costs end up back with the PPCs ultimately). If you're up to causing them such expense, go down the appeal route.

AndyWest_2

Surely pbc needs grounds on which to appeal to POPLA (as listed on the Parking Ticket Appeals page)? It sounds like he/she was caught fair and square. Unless MET aren't following the rules, which I am sure they are, there is no basis for an appeal. Ignorance of the rules is not a defence. By encouraging pbc to appeal, he/she will miss the earlier payment discount.

hoohoo

Thank you AndyWest, PPC troll.

Please ignore anything this PPC employee says.

prosnap

AndyWest wrote: »

Surely pbc needs grounds on which to appeal to POPLA (as listed on the Parking Ticket Appeals page)? It sounds like he/she was caught fair and square. Unless MET aren't following the rules, which I am sure they are, there is no basis for an appeal. Ignorance of the rules is not a defence. By encouraging pbc to appeal, he/she will miss the earlier payment discount.

Spoken like a true troll ... :T

Coupon-mad

AndyWest wrote: »

Surely pbc needs grounds on which to appeal to POPLA (as listed on the Parking Ticket Appeals page)? It sounds like he/she was caught fair and square. Unless MET aren't following the rules, which I am sure they are, there is no basis for an appeal. Ignorance of the rules is not a defence. By encouraging pbc to appeal, he/she will miss the earlier payment discount.

Hmmmm how come there have been MET cases won at POPLA then? We have one such example on the POPLA decisions thread; read it and you may learn something.

PPC scum.

Coupon-mad

pbc wrote: »

I am a middle aged nurse who was recently in a McDonalds with a colleague, handing over my cases to her. We stayed over our allotted time and I have now received a ticket asking for £100 from MET Parking Services.
Having read your threads I assume I just ignore it..............is this ok??

IGNORE IS THE OLD ADVICE.

Hope you can see how desperate the scumbags are in PPC World, from this troll on here?!!

Do this but write it in the third person as the registered keeper (NO naming the driver nor giving any info at all). See examples on other threads you can read on page one or two here; Stroma posts a decent 'short but sweet' challenge letter on many of these threads.

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

Appealing to Met, having it rejected, and then appealing to POPLA costs Met £27+VAT and more (as it costs POPLA a lot more, those costs end up back with the PPCs ultimately). If you're up to causing them such expense, go down the appeal route.

AndyWest_2

Whoa!!!! What a welcome to the MSE forum. "Troll", "scum", what nice people you are, and just because my post didn't agree 100% with your previous advice.

For the record, I am not an employee of a PPC, and never have been, but please don't get distracted by that.

The issue here is pbc has no grounds for an appeal or if he/she does, this hasn't been included in the post. They admit to overstaying the maximum time. So, come on experts, in this case what should the appeal be based on? This website talks about unfair parking tickets, why do you think this one is unfair?

Stroma

And that is your informed deduction Sherlock Holmes , tell me why don't you think the OP has no grounds of appeal?

AndyWest_2

pbc states "We stayed over our allotted time". No mention of anything else, just an admission of guilt. If there are further details perhaps these could be posted (so long as they wouldn't prejudice the case). We could all then work on better information.

In their absence, I repeat my 2 questions, what basis should the appeal be made on? and why do you think the ticket is unfair?

I think a lot of motorists who have been caught out in similar ways would be interested to here the answers.