Defence against ParkingEye sent; Landowner just replied now but not very helpful.

spacey2012

Are you not sure someone else could have been driving so it can be re-set to a POPLA case, have a good think.

jsmcardiac

[Hot Bring;64305769]You might want to re-read the letter - PE normally offer the £55 costs as a get out clause - i.e without any of the original "charge".

Thanks for this. My mistake -- I re-read the letter and it actually said:

As this has now proceeded to a County Court Claim, we now require you to pay for the costs associated with this. These costs total £50. This is the further cost associated with your inaction. We do this on a without prejudice basis (save as to costs), and must warn you that if this remains unpaid within the next 7 days, the claim against you will remain. Should this matter be settled in court, ParkingEye believes that all of the associated costs will be found to be owed by you, especially as ParkingEye gave you ample opportunity to appeal this Parking Charge.

We will still try our best to have the store negotiate for us as soon as possible.

I will give you an update very soon.

Thank you all.

Coupon-mad

jsmcardiac wrote: »

They want the £55 on top of the £155 fine.

No they don't. We've seen the Without Prejudice template letter loads of times, and we know PE will often negotiate to about £30, certainly if a Store Manager rings on your behalf - or maybe the Store will cover it for you as you've had a hard time and don't need this harassment just for shopping at their store. Tell the Manager everything, get upset and show them the letters and how you feel about this rubbish.

jsmcardiac

Coupon-mad wrote: »

No they don't. We've seen the Without Prejudice template letter loads of times, and we know PE will often negotiate to about £30, certainly if a Store Manager rings on your behalf - or maybe the Store will cover it for you as you've had a hard time and don't need this harassment just for shopping at their store. Tell the Manager everything, get upset and show them the letters and how you feel about this rubbish.

I emailed the person from one of the stores who offered to help. She has now been in touch with ParkingEye negotiating to completely cancel the charge. Hopefully I can receive good news by tomorrow as they are threatening to proceed to court if I don't pay.

Parking-Prankster

Which retail park is this? PM me if you don't want this known online. ParkingEye are known not to have had contracts in place for a lot of their parks, so if this is one on my list I can help out.

jsmcardiac

My contact person from the store has been negotiating on my behalf late last week to completely cancel the court charges. As I was on edge regarding the deadline of payment whilst waiting for the result, I was advised by my contact person to email parkingeye and make an offer or appeal. So I was able to do that on friday afternoon. Today, she emailed me and told me that parkingeye has decided to cancel the court claim without cost to my husband. At the moment, we have not received anything from parkingeye and still awaiting the official letter stating this. However, I am still so relieved and happy to learn this. I am very thankful to all the people here and pepipoo who have given me helpful advice. We would really love to put all of these behind us, and cannot wait to move forward.

Again thank you all for your advice.

spacey2012

Hold on dear.
Stay with the court case and make sure you turn up to the hearing, they will go quiet and hope for an easy default.
Then they will use your case on the website where they forget to mention how they get naughty boy bottom spanked with a good defence .

Redx

its not over, until its over with a letter saying its over
until then treat it as still ongoing until you hear different

lainiee was promised the earth by aldi or somebody , then got took to court and got a CCJ for her troubles , which is still being fought on her behalf by well meaning members of this and other forums

promises mean jack s!!!! so make sure you get it cancelled , in writing , asap

Half_way

On the subject of a letter, try and get in in writing from the store/car park owner as well, should the parking company try any tricks that would sink them.

4consumerrights

Redx wrote: »

its not over, until its over with a letter saying its over
until then treat it as still ongoing until you hear different

lainiee was promised the earth by aldi or somebody , then got took to court and got a CCJ for her troubles , which is still being fought on her behalf by well meaning members of this and other forums

promises mean jack s!!!! so make sure you get it cancelled , in writing , asap

Redx and half- way are correct - get it in writing by the landowner and parking eye and still proceed as though it is still a "live" case until you receive written confirmation.

Lainee was issued with court papers from Parking Eye and was promised by the Range (Southampton) that they would cancel the parking charge. She took them at their word and it resulted in a default CCJ judgment - she is also covered by the Equality Act.