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Parking Ticket @ Fistral beach. no time given to apeal or pay.

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  • pappa_golf
    pappa_golf Posts: 8,895 Forumite
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    the annoying thing is , its only been cancelled with external assistance


    this thing should have been cancelled when you appealed!!!!


    as Smart read your appeal , inc grounds and had photographic evidence , I still think you need to escalate this
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  • Well done Stacey.

    Newquay is a fab place with fab people.

    When someone posted a pic on FB of SMART's camera that had blown down in the recent storms down here, the pic recieved over 600 "likes" within 3 hours.


    If you're down here agsin, let me know A few of us want to buy you a drink, and maybe get you back on the sand ☺
    Illegitimi non carborundum:)
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,402 Forumite
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    You will be getting something in writing soon telling you the charge has been cancelled.

    The least Smart Parking could do is send chocolates and some flowers. Better would be to pay for a nice break for Stacey and John. But I suspect the letter will be a 'gesture of goodwill' claptrap, issued through gritted teeth. Let's see.

    Smart Parking - if you're reading this, do something nice to apologise for all the hurt, upset and anguish you have caused to someone who has more than enough crosses to bear in life. Show us if you have any modicum of compassion! We're waiting ...............
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

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  • Ivor_Pecheque
    Ivor_Pecheque Posts: 745 Forumite
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    edited 17 June 2016 at 4:51PM
    Stacey, hope you're having a well earnt rest from Parking.

    There is a lady from the press who is interested in running your story.

    She is lovely, and I spoke to her after my wife wrnt through a simillar situation at Fistral somevyears ago.

    If you check your "private messages" button above, she has sent her details.

    I have suggested that she contacts you through this forum.

    When she printed our story last time, it went national, and ended up with the previous parking company getting booted out.

    The choice to talk to her is yours though. You may have been through enough for one week !
    Illegitimi non carborundum:)
  • Stacey81
    Stacey81 Posts: 116 Forumite
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    thank you lots for tell me Ivor me was about post that me got message from someone and was they real


    I will talk them cause it important other people KNOW they no should be scared like me was.


    it important they know there nice people here can help them like help me.


    it important people KNOW it OKS ask for help and it NOT OKS let people scare you who no sould scare you.
    I glad I find this forum :A:T
  • Stacey81
    Stacey81 Posts: 116 Forumite
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    coupon mad


    I wanted say special thank you to you for all help you give me. me know you do more help me than do others. you did do lot me appeal draft for me and I is lot lot grafeful for all you help.


    but I also wantd say thank you for respect me to. cause you NOT did do it ALL for me. you did let me try do some for me self which was important to me.


    I nos me get som wrong and has get help find write bits but me get thera in ends and cause you let me do some for me self it make me feel no hopless but make me feel I help me self to.


    thank you fo be amazing.
    I glad I find this forum :A:T
  • No, your the amazing one. Tell Alex from the paper all about it. Let's put a stop to this☺
    Illegitimi non carborundum:)
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,309 Forumite
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    edited 17 June 2016 at 5:46PM
    Stacey81 wrote: »
    coupon mad


    I wanted say special thank you to you for all help you give me. me know you do more help me than do others. you did do lot me appeal draft for me and I is lot lot grafeful for all you help.


    but I also wantd say thank you for respect me to. cause you NOT did do it ALL for me. you did let me try do some for me self which was important to me.


    I nos me get som wrong and has get help find write bits but me get thera in ends and cause you let me do some for me self it make me feel no hopless but make me feel I help me self to.


    thank you fo be amazing.


    I am so glad the Prankster has got this cancelled! We look forward to seeing a news story which doesn't praise Smart Parking for cancelling it - they needed to do that immediately at appeal stage and their refusal to cancel it earlier was discriminatory.

    With all the work you had done towards the POPLA appeal, we would have tweaked it a bit and we'd have won at POPLA I'm sure. Your efforts towards this POPLA appeal, after just a few bullet points to start you in the right direction, were far better and stronger than many other newbies who come here. And far better than some template POPLA appeals peddled about, using old arguments and not moving to meet POPLA head on like we do here when newbies make an effort like you did.

    Hope you go to the beach soon. If ever you come to Brighton, mention it to me on this forum and I will show you the best bits and the places to park without scammers getting at you! There isn't much sand at Brighton (pebbles make life difficult though...).

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  • Parking-Prankster
    Parking-Prankster Posts: 313 Forumite
    edited 17 June 2016 at 8:40PM
    Coupon-mad wrote: »
    I am so glad the Prankster has got this cancelled!
    I am just the messenger. Many thanks to the people behind the scenes.

    I have been assured this is cancelled and therefore Smart should contact you to confirm this. However if you do not receive this by the POPLA cut off date I would still recommend filing your appeal. Lets wait a couple of weeks first though. You have 28 days from the date of the appeal dismissal to file your appeal.
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  • beamerguy
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    edited 17 June 2016 at 8:45PM
    Stacey, having followed this horror story, I am so pleased you are the victor and you can now rest easy.

    You certainly should do the story which hopefully will go to the main media so any company who uses parking companies will avoid Smart as being very dangerous for their business

    Yes you deserve a full apology from Smart at the very least, be interesting to see.

    Smart have always had a bad attitude problem akin to school bullies, that's from the Directors downwards.
    Maybe that is why Asda sacked them

    Well done
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