Missed POPLA deadline appeal for B'ham airport PCN

developer_2

Thanks Coupon Mad. I have read all the Newbies thread and still don't know how to approach this now. I think I'm over-thinking it reading all the advice on here. I do have a POPLA code from APCOA but as I'm well over the 28 days it seems pointless. I'm happy to ignore the DRP letters but obviously want to get it sorted. I've clicked on your link posted in your reply but am still confused! Should I just write to APCOA again?

Guys_Dad

developer wrote: »

Thanks Coupon Mad. I have read all the Newbies thread and still don't know how to approach this now. I think I'm over-thinking it reading all the advice on here. I do have a POPLA code from APCOA but as I'm well over the 28 days it seems pointless. I'm happy to ignore the DRP letters but obviously want to get it sorted. I've clicked on your link posted in your reply but am still confused! Should I just write to APCOA again?

And say what?? At this stage they are unlikely to write the charge off, particularly as you have not used the POPLA code.

You have probably told them who was driving with your initial appeal, and I guess it was you. So they can come after you as the driver and any advantage you had with no keeper liability has been lost.

You can either pay or ignore till any Northampton Court papers arise, or see if these guys are willing to help http://www.parkingticketappeals.org.uk/

Coupon-mad

We are saying you missed the POPLA boat - so what! - you are just like everyone used to be before POPLA existed ... so ignore the letter chain. No need to do anything and yes you are over-thinking it. Pretend POPLA never existed - because you missed it so cannot use it as an option. Just do what people have done for a decade, file & keep all the letters just in case of a small claim (will never happen but don't throw the letters away). Keep them in a file marked 'scam'.

Please can I beg - like I do on all DRP threads - please, don't bump the thread every time you get the next tedious letter in the chain. Please don't! We don't need more threads talking about the same old letter chain already covered ad infinitum by other people also over-thinking the scam. By all means read other threads as much as you can manage without getting as bored as we are by the letter-chain (we've had a decade of reading the same old stuff). And when you get a letter, just Google search a whole phrase from it, you WILL find your letter already pointlessly discussed all over t'internet every time!

...and you could swap notes with the other poster I linked, by pm or email so you can see where you both are in the letter chain. But we don't need to know...!

developer_2

Guy's Dad - no I wasn't the driver and no I didn't disclose who the driver was. Northampton? It was at Birmingham Aiport.
Coupon mad - thanks for the advice. I can see it's tedious for you but when it's the first time this sort of thing has happened to you, it is a little stressful. I'll only post the outcome.

Ryan_Bryan

Developer. Northampton is a bulk clearing court for small claims. The claim is lodged there and if a case is brought, which it won't be, you have the option of having the case moved to a court of your choosing.
It won't reach that stage though.

Coupon-mad

developer wrote: »

Coupon mad - thanks for the advice. I can see it's tedious for you but when it's the first time this sort of thing has happened to you, it is a little stressful. I'll only post the outcome.

No it's really not, just had the exact same conversation with yet another poster thinking the letters are more than junk mail:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5094007

Compare notes between you with other posters but spare us the letter chain here again, please. You will know why I say that when you search the forum for 'Recovery' or 'Zenith' and get as bored as I am, from reading the umpteen thousand threads wasting their time talking about those letters.

First time I got a PPC debt collector letter chain about six years ago, when people here always ignored this entire scam, I laughed - and no I wasn't a regular poster on this forum (I just knew from MSE and Martin Lewis that it was rubbish). I must admit I had to explain to my husband it was just crap, as he is the sort to think 'looks serious, has a proper letter heading, must be true' and he also thinks 'must be a real parking ticket, they have signs up'. He also used to think clamping was OK due to signs being up as well. We agree to disagree on such things, I am a natural cynic, he is not. But the letters are funnneeee!

developer_2

Thanks - I'm not worried about the DRP. It's just old advice was to do nothing then recent advice is not to ignore it, but that's what I'll have to do. Confusing!

Umkomaas

developer wrote: »

Thanks - I'm not worried about the DRP. It's just old advice was to do nothing then recent advice is not to ignore it, but that's what I'll have to do. Confusing!

Please don't be confused. Personal advice from Coupon-mad should be anything but......

C-m is one of the country's foremost experts in all things 'private parking'. Follow her guidance and you won't go wrong.

Coupon-mad

developer wrote: »

Thanks - I'm not worried about the DRP. It's just old advice was to do nothing then recent advice is not to ignore it, but that's what I'll have to do. Confusing!

Nope it's just because you missed the chance to appeal.