MET Parking Services

palvi

URGENT HELP NEEDED.

My son got one of these notorious parking tickets and on a friends advice ignored it.

Keep getting told that these companies are cowboys and issuing unnecessary fines. My son is a student and has NOT got money to throw away. Who has these days and these vultures are just preying on people with their illegal fine methods!!!!

There has to be a way to stop them trading at all.

Now have received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus threatening court action etc.

Please can you suggest what course of action to take? Your help and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks muchly

P

bod1467

Please read the NEWBIES sticky thread. Also search this forum for MET.

We get dozens of DR+ threads every day.

stluke023

Send them a nice letter saying there is no standing to be legally able to threaten such action and suggest they talk to MET
What has MET issued to him so far

Coupon-mad

palvi wrote: »

URGENT HELP NEEDED.

My son got one of these notorious parking tickets and on a friends advice ignored it.

Keep getting told that these companies are cowboys and issuing unnecessary fines. My son is a student and has NOT got money to throw away. Who has these days and these vultures are just preying on people with their illegal fine methods!!!!

There has to be a way to stop them trading at all.

Now have received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus threatening court action etc.

Please can you suggest what course of action to take? Your help and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks muchly

P

You don't need 'URGENT help' seeing as this is just the expected, boring, usual template, computerised letter chain...and you have known about the NEWBIES thread for months and were directed to it when you first posted. I don't think you read the replies you got in January, or at least you didn't actually read further than the first part of the NEWBIES thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4858493

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4876655

It seems, perhaps, you took one look and assumed the NEWBIES thread is only for early appealing; it is not, that's why it's deliberately headed up 'Private Parking ticket, old or new?'. And that's why there's a whole section on tedious old debt collector letters even though there are threads every day pointlessly talking about the letters again and again and again. And it's why I stifle a yawn on the sticky thread begging not to post about...you guessed it. You can't have read the NEWBIES thread (despite the advice given to you on your last 2 threads) or you wouldn't have started this third thread and you'd have been ready for these letters!

Once you have read the debt collector post in the NEWBIES thread and seen the links to some info about the letters, please just search this forum for 'Recovery' and read the hundreds of other threads. We cannot write the same reply several times a day about this boring letter chain everyone laughs at, which has been discussed to death every week for YEARS (yes, really, YEARS!).

For the sake of a search, you'd know how common this is. No-one pays - it's a poxy letter chain, that's all.

palvi

Thanks Stluke023.

so far have been sent a penalty and reminder for same penalty from MET and now letter from DRP.

Custard_Pie

Remember it is NOT a parking ticket. Only the police and council appointed traffic wardens can issue them under law. It's a speculative invoice for monies for parking on private land. This is covered by the civil tort of trespass for preventing the trespass or remedy for damaging caused to property or land by trespassing or economic loss for being there. History has shown that these invoices are not enforceable for numerous reasons, the main one being that there has been no genuine pre-estimate of loss. Search the forum for how to approach this and get the invoice cancelled. Note, common sense and mitigation will not work.

palvi

Thanks Custar Pie.

Have checked forums and have managed to find samples to both MET and DRP.

Gonna give it a go.

prjohnsonnn10

Palvi, what location was this in where they gave you the ticket ?

palvi

Hi prjohnsonnn10,

The location no was 271. Willesden Sports Centre

Wrote to DRP saying debt denied and refer matter back to client. They have now replied saying as per BPA code of practice, point 22.7 driver was allowed 28 days to appeal which has now expired.

Am I right in thinking I can send them a letter stating still have no intention to pay?

Cheers

Coupon-mad

You can but no need. Just ignore the debt collector now. Try this as a Google search if you really want to read more about the letters (it will do the search itself):

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Debt+Recovery+Plus+too+late+for+POPLA+site%3Aforums.moneysavingexpert.com

Custard_Pie

palvi wrote: »

Hi prjohnsonnn10,

The location no was 271. Willesden Sports Centre

Wrote to DRP saying debt denied and refer matter back to client. They have now replied saying as per BPA code of practice, point 22.7 driver was allowed 28 days to appeal which has now expired.

Am I right in thinking I can send them a letter stating still have no intention to pay?

Cheers

So, they are saying that you missed the boat to soft appeal and hence, PoPLA. You now have three choices as I see it.

1) Ignore. MET don't have a reputation for taking people to Court, but this does not mean that they won't for you. You will get all different kinds of colourful templated letters and maybe even phone calls. Eventually they should dry up. Make nice hamster bedding apparently.

2) As the driver, are you also the registered keeper of the vehicle? If not, get the RK to lodge an appeal, as this by law resets the clock. Soft appeal, then PoPLA appeal.

3) Pay up, which for me, was never an option.