Parking Eye Claim form received due to exceeding time in free car park

pogofish

jackiemawr wrote: »

I had a claim form from Northampton county court today, I have also binned all letters that came before as I understood they were illegal, now worried, awaiting operation, what should I do, please help.

This has nothing to do with the OP - the POFA 2012 changed the landscape of private parking two years ago. It stopped being OK to ignore in England and Wales back then.

Rather than hijack a dead thread, please read the Newbies Sticky at the top of this forum - which outlines all your various options for dealing with PE and start you own thread!

Coupon-mad

jackiemawr wrote: »

I had a claim form from Northampton county court today, I have also binned all letters that came before as I understood they were illegal, now worried, awaiting operation, what should I do, please help.

Use the 'Forum Jump' and click 'go' to get to page one, and read the 'Private Parking Ticket, old or new? Newbies please read these FAQs first!' thread near the top - BUT only post #5 of it is relevant to you.

Only when you have read all of post #5 of that thread, all links there, and got the Parking Prankster's Guide to defending a PE small claim, should you then start a new thread on that first page (where you will see a new thread button but DON'T just post before reading up on what has to be done to defend, it's pointless posting from scratch again when I have told you where to read). Once you have your head around it all, start that new thread only then, perhaps showing us your draft defence to make sure you are on the right lines.

Also you should urgently complain to the retail CEO because a strong complaint usually causes the store to contact PE who then write and offer to settle for £60. Which most posters refuse as they want to defend, but at least if you did settle then £60 is a lot less. It was DAFT to ignore this without researching current forum advice - always only start at page ONE of a forum, not a random old thread you find by Googling. As I said to someone yesterday, reading an ancient thread & believing the advice is like reading the football league tables from 5 years ago and thinking that Man Utd are the best team...