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Two Spurious Charges - One Refund - LBA
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I paid two PCNs, one at the first letter and one at the second letter because I never received the first. I only paid to get them off my back.
Since then, I have discovered that there was a fault on their system and that lots of people were also charged wrongly on the same dates. I received my un-cashed cheque back for one (with an apology for a ticketing error) and I paid by debit card for the other. I haven't received a refund for the debit card charge and I'm going to write a letter before action.
Who should I send it to, the Parking Company or their debt collecting arm who actually took the payment?
Since then, I have discovered that there was a fault on their system and that lots of people were also charged wrongly on the same dates. I received my un-cashed cheque back for one (with an apology for a ticketing error) and I paid by debit card for the other. I haven't received a refund for the debit card charge and I'm going to write a letter before action.
Who should I send it to, the Parking Company or their debt collecting arm who actually took the payment?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
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The Parking Company - the debt collector was acting on their behalf, but don’t expect an easy ride. Watch one pass it to the other, then back again.
Which PPC?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.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street0 -
Britannia. I don't expect there to be a problem, they have admitted that their system had a problem on those dates and I'm quite prepared to take this all the way."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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I paid two PCNs,
WOW...you're a regular MSEer and paid two scams, three figures altogether!
Don't do that again.
And it's only Britannia. Why on earth do people ever pay these? It's a letter chain we've all laughed at for a decade, why pay the scam?
Also, being an MSEer, why not just put the debit card payment into dispute with the card company & get it reversed?PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD0 -
Was this in a retail park near Northampton?Although a practising Solicitor, my posts here are NOT legal advice, but are personal opinion based on limited facts provided anonymously by forum users. I accept no liability for the accuracy of any such posts and users are advised that, if they wish to obtain formal legal advice specific to their case, they must seek instruct and pay a solicitor.0
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Loadsofchildren123 wrote: »Was this in a retail park near Northampton?
No. It was South Essex College in Southend."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
Coupon-mad wrote: »WOW...you're a regular MSEer and paid two scams, three figures altogether!
Don't do that again.
And it's only Britannia. Why on earth do people ever pay these? It's a letter chain we've all laughed at for a decade, why pay the scam?
Also, being an MSEer, why not just put the debit card payment into dispute with the card company & get it reversed?
Yeah, thanks for the lecture.
At the time, I hadn't kept my receipts and had no way to prove I had paid. I didn't know I was one of many people wrongly charged and I paid up not wanting to have the anxiety of what might arrive in the post next.
But thanks for making me feel even worse. Well done.
The only good idea you've given me is the debit card dispute..."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
The point I was making was, the advice on how to beat these was here all along, and it's nothing to do with whether you were 'wrongly charged' or not, that's irrelevant.
None of these private PCNs is justified or payable.
No-one here pays these, nor worries about letter chains from DR Plus.
I am so upset that a regular MSEer paid hundreds to two scumbag parking firms, as if they were real parking tickets.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
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The 'within seven days' letter was sent but before it has even been signed for, they have agreed to refund me.
They said "I have looked into these PCN’s and they have been issued due to a delay in us receiving the machine transactions".
Hm, really? Anyway, when the money actually hits my bank account, I will be contacting the local press to see if there were any more unlucky punters fined while their system was borked.
South Essex College in Southend for the benefit of Google searches."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
A quick update.
Have now received a full refund for both PCNs. There is a problem with their system at South Essex College in Southend so if anyone else gets caught, contact the Facilities Manager at the college and he will sort it out."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
What dates are they admitting the information from the machines is faulty?0
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