Suggested POPLA appeal template - core points.

GermanKeeper

Guys_Dad wrote: »

Note for Parking EYE cases.

Parking Eye have a letter sent by their director that actually states that their costs per case are £53. That being the case, their £100 obviously contains an element of profit. The letter in question is here http://imgur.com/a/vzLDq

A paragraph such as the following should be added in PE cases.

“ Furthermore, I attach a letter from Parking Eye in correspondence with another case, that admits that their estimate of cost in each case is actually £53, including operating costs, and this that the charge they are seeking to impose in my case has a considerable element of profit as well as operating costs incorporated. By their own admission, therefore, It can not, be a true pre-estimate of loss”

These 53 GBP per case seem to be a very high estimation:

ParkingEye employs 160 people, manages 830 car parks and is forecasting profits of £8.1m on projected turnover of £25.8m in the year to 31 August 2014. The most recently filed accounts for ParkingEye at Companies House show that in the year to 31 August 2012 it had a turnover of £13.9m and an operating profit of £4.47m

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4811121
So this means that they had costs of GBP 9.43m in the year to 31 Aug 2012 and their estimated costs in the year to 31 Aug 2014 will be GBP 17.7m. So their costs in the year between may be some 13 million GBP.

On the other hand they have "bought" 725,657 keeper data from the DVLA between 1 Okt 2012 and 30 Sep 2013:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4796479

The costs per case should then be about 18 GBP.

Of course this includes the running costs (erecting signals, installing maintaining ANPR), so their average "losses" should be even more smaller. And if the motorists pay up after the first letter, then the "loss" will be essentially smaller than the average loss.

Guys_Dad

Bumped the thread to highlight additional points added this month.

stanne

Thanks so much for your help.
After reading this and some other threads on here I basically copied and pasted and slightly amended a successful appeal to POPLA regarding the same car park where I had got a ticket (town quay southampton) and got my appeal granted !!
What a relief.
Apparently the company hadn't even bothered to send a copy of their proof I had contravened the regulations to POPLA so my appeal was upheld.
Thanks again

4consumerrights

Well done - could you post up the POPLA decision and Assessor's name in the POPLA thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4488337

Thank you for the feedback.