Excel (Peel Centre) Offer Reduced Fine From £154 to £15!!!

Purrsncurls

So happy 😁
This parking fine was from way back in April 2013!! At the notorious Peel Centre in Stockport.

We started to receive solicitors letters from BW Legal demanding payment of £154 or face court.
I have been absorbing ever single BW Legal/Excel thread on this forum and learning every aspect of legality surrounding it all, fully prepared to fight this in court.
However, I came across a post (can't find the link now to thank them) saying they had their charge revoked by emailing the manager of the Peel Centre.
Worth a go i thought, even at this late stage.

This morning I got an email offering the reduced fine! Have I accepted? Hell yeah!
My case is now closed and my legal learning curve has come to a halt.
You guys on here are amazing by the way! With your support as a complete legal novice, I would have without a doubt gone all the way to court with this had I needed to. Too stubborn to roll over and pay up when it is so wrong.

Oh the email address for the manager of the Peel Centre for anyone in the same position is -a.jolley@peel.co.uk
Try and appeal nicely, and not offensively it's worth a go!

Merry Christmas everyone :beer:

Coupon-mad

I don't blame you for accepting to pay £15. It is worth complaining and we've seen more Peel Centre ones cancelled recently by Adam Jolley/Nicola Dearden than used to be the case.

Excel are nasty and the BW Legal letters normally lead to a claim these days, even though the machines at the Peel Centre and the signs and apparently dark/hidden P&D machines, have a lot to answer for. So complaining and paying just an 'admin' fee, if close to court after 3 years of rubbish threats, is a result.

Umkomaas

Whilst I guess for the purists among us having to pay £15 admin fee (disguised mini-fine!) sticks in the craw, sometimes pragmatism becomes the sensible way forward.

You will no doubt be relieved that this should now be all over for you, but I suspect that there's part of you hating the fact that your hard earned £15 is now nestling in the pocket of Simon Renshaw-Smith. But at least he looks very pleased that you've just added to his millions.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/27/article-0-0085E7CB000004B0-99_1024x615_large.jpg

trisontana

That photo of Renshaw Smith always reminds me of Alfred E Newman from Mad Magazine:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman

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Anybody like my mods to the picture?

beamerguy

Umkomaas wrote: »

Simon Renshaw-Smith. But at least he looks very pleased that you've just added to his millions.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/27/article-0-0085E7CB000004B0-99_1024x615_large.jpg

What a Mugshot, I am sending that to Watchdog, hopefully for their next series, it is must photo to go into their Rogue Gallery

The_Deep

Oh dear, you have just bought a new length of rope for SRS's yacht.

Purrsncurls

Umkomaas wrote: »

You will no doubt be relieved that this should now be all over for you, but I suspect that there's part of you hating the fact that your hard earned £15 is now nestling in the pocket of Simon Renshaw-Smith. But at least he looks very pleased that you've just added to his millions.

:mad: Yep, that is definitely a face to make your blood boil!
There is more than a small part of me that would have loved to have gained the smugness of this going to court and watching them lose. But also a big part of me that felt way out of my depth with all of the legalities and holding my own in court. Although I would have given it my best shot before parting with £154!!
Still, I have the smugness of knowing that it has probably cost them more than £15 in solicitors letters that I have received.

Purrsncurls

The_Deep wrote: »

Oh dear, you have just bought a new length of rope for SRS's yacht.

...feeling less smug by the second! :embarasse

pappa_golf

perhaps the £15 might go to repairing the faulty machines http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/excel-parking-services-ticket-machine.html

The_Deep

This offer, is it headed "without prejudice". If not surely it could be used as a stick with which to beat them should they take you to court.