Overwhelmed & Unsure

TraceyB_1963

Hi there
I've just looked at a lot of the information on your thread for newbies and it is so helpful, so firstly thank you. However I am just a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information I've read and don't know where to start. We have a Parking Eye fine which I appealed online but they said no! And now we have received a letter 'Judgment for Claimant' and I'm not sure how to proceed. I stupidly gave details of the driver in my appeal and having read many of thread posts I feel I need to do something as we've pretty much ignored everything so far.
Any advice or guidance would be really appreciated.

bargepole

TraceyB_1963 wrote: »

... I appealed online but they said no! And now we have received a letter 'Judgment for Claimant' and I'm not sure how to proceed. I stupidly gave details of the driver in my appeal and having read many of thread posts I feel I need to do something as we've pretty much ignored everything so far ...

You seem to have missed out several stages here.

After PE rejected your appeal, you would have received a Letter Before Claim from PE, followed by a Claim Form from the CCBC at Northampton.

If you ignored those (why???) you're in a dark brown stretch of water with no visible means of propulsion.

It's unlikely you'd be able to get the Judgment set aside in these circumstances, so now the only real option is to pay the Judgment before some large gentlemen with short haircuts arrive to remove your TV.

TraceyB_1963

Thanks for your quick reply. Basically we took advice from other websites that said 'Do not pay!' and then ignores the letters we got through the post.
So annoyingly we will have to cough up in this instance!
How bloody annoying. Big lesson learnt! ��

Dave_TH

Can you name the web sites that said do not pay?

Lesson learned, only if you avoid private car parks and tell everyone you know what parasites run this industry

TraceyB_1963 wrote: »

Thanks for your quick reply. Basically we took advice from other websites that said 'Do not pay!' and then ignores the letters we got through the post.
So annoyingly we will have to cough up in this instance!
How bloody annoying. Big lesson learnt! ��

Umkomaas

Make sure it is paid by the due date, otherwise there's even more trouble ahead.

Thanks for your quick reply. Basically we took advice from other websites that said 'Do not pay!' and then ignores the letters

Which websites please?

Timothea

A growing problem with the worldwide web is that stuff is rarely deleted. Ignore may have been good advice before 2012 but it definitely isn't now. Unfortunately, there are many people who continue to repeat this advice, out of ignorance or malice.

It has never been a good idea to ignore court papers, even before 2012.

Coupon-mad

TraceyB_1963 wrote: »

Thanks for your quick reply. Basically we took advice from other websites that said 'Do not pay!' and then ignores the letters we got through the post.
So annoyingly we will have to cough up in this instance!
How bloody annoying. Big lesson learnt! ��

You ignored a court claim?? And you thought that was OK?! Sorry to say, it's victims like you that cause these parking firms to get so blinking rich, by not actually researching the matter properly and appealing it (or defending it, when you saw the COUNTY COURT CLAIM).

You are about to get a CCJ to wreck your credit and you let that happen?

TraceyB_1963

To coupon-mad
A) I am no victim.
I don't have hours to spend researching this sort of thing.
C) your spiteful unhelpful comments and neither welcome or needed you !!!!!

Quentin

Coupon-mad wrote: »

...You are about to get a CCJ to wreck your credit and you let that happen?

I do disagree with this.


We tell people (who panic that if the matter gets to court their credit rating will be wrecked) all the time that if they end up losing in court their credit status will only be affected if they don't pay in full within the month allowed after judgement


This also applies to default judgements. The OP has received a CCJ.


The OP is intending to "cough up", thus no affect at all on their credit rating

waamo

TraceyB_1963 wrote: »

To coupon-mad
A) I am no victim.
I don't have hours to spend researching this sort of thing.
C) your spiteful unhelpful comments and neither welcome or needed you !!!!!

You are a victim. A victim of the predatory practices of the ppc. It's the same principle as being mugged. You've lost money due to a very unsavoury "industry".

Pay before 28 days are up.

Coupon-mad

TraceyB_1963 wrote: »

I don't have hours to spend researching this sort of thing.

It would have taken maybe a couple of hours to have seen how to get this cancelled by the landowner, or won at POPLA. Even if you hadn't found this forum, you'd have found a Which? article on how to defend a claim, in one evening/afternoon of browsing what to do.

Quentin wrote: »

The OP is intending to "cough up", thus no affect at all on their credit rating

I agree, if they pay now then they have escaped the CCJ. But it's so late to come to the party and they can only now pay up. What a terrible shame, I feel for them and sadly they certainly are a victim of PPC World, but why (and which forum advises anyone to) ignore court papers?