PCN charge from a BPA member

Patjan

Can someone please advise if I have any chance of an appeal against a PCN sent by post in respect of my wife failing to pay for a parking ticket. Her stay was for 14 minutes. I'm not offering an excuse other than to say that the 'charge' of either £60 or £100 seems excessive and disproportionate for such a short parking time. Should I offer a reduced penalty chatge? The minimum on the ticket machine is for 30 minutes. This is an ex-Coop car park recently taken over by Britannia Parking, and previously used for free when the Coop closed down.
Thanks.

pogofish

Please read the Newbies Sticky at the top of this forum to inform yourself properly and see the range of options for seeing this-off.

Then post back here once you have something together to send them.

The_Deep

A penalty perhaps, you could mug an O.A.P. for less.

Read about unfair terms and condition in consumer contracts here.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents/enacted

Patjan

pogofish wrote: »

Please read the Newbies Sticky at the top of this forum to inform yourself properly and see the range of options for seeing this-off.

Then post back here once you have something together to send them.

Where exactly is this Newbies Sticky to be found, please?

Patjan

The_Deep wrote: »

A penalty perhaps, you could mug an O.A.P. for less.

Read about unfair terms and condition in consumer contracts here.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents/enacted

Thanks for this. It's rather difficult to apply the content specifically to my situation - at least as best as I can understand it.

pogofish

Patjan wrote: »

Where exactly is this Newbies Sticky to be found, please?

Exactly where I told you - in the same place as the stickies an any forum.

Patjan

pogofish wrote: »

Exactly where I told you - in the same place as the stickies an any forum.

Thanks for this unhelpful reply. I can't see "the Newbies Sticky at the top of this forum", otherwise I would obviously read it. There is nothing at the top of this page that indicates a Newbies Sticky. You might be familiar with this website - I'm not, so something of a more sympathetic reply would have been appreciated. I'm not here to waste my time or that of others, hence the help request. Reading other postings elsewhere, others also have had this difficulty, so perhaps some better guidance is needed.

Redx

go to the top of this forum , near the red button where you started your own thread

1st sticky thread is the POPLA DECISIONS thread

second thread down is the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread

click on it

read it

post #1 in there deals with appealing

pogofish

Patjan wrote: »

I'm not here to waste my time or that of others, hence the help request. Reading other postings elsewhere, others also have had this difficulty, so perhaps some better guidance is needed.

This is wasting time, on one of the busiest forums on the whole board, and pointing you straight at the best resource around for fighting a private parking ticket can hardly be considered unhelpful!

Before you even got to post here, you clearly confirmed that you had read and understood basic posting information that covers a range of things - including board navigation, Stickies and where to find them.

There is simply no reason for most new posters to have to ask this.

fisherjim

When you find the "newbies start here" thread have a good read it explains how this unregulated scammers paradise works.
You will also see that offering any form of reduced payment is futile as PPC's are greedy muppets, and you have received an invoice not a penalty.

Pogofish like all the regulars on here is very helpful, but every day the same questions are repeated and repeated, the forum exists to guide people just like you, but it is kept up to date by volunteers in their own time and you have to do the groundwork yourself.

Come back when you have familiarised yourself, your situation is just the same as 99% of the cases on here, and is winnable especially against Britannia!