Wrong car park post code?

Baltas_tigas

Well I read, it's just a bit difficult, when English is not my native language. So i should make an Apppeal with POPLA now, right?
Or I could just write them saying they have no right to send me the letter about the parking fine, as the carpark belongs to Excel parking not VCS and see what happens?

Redx

you have no chance of POPLA, as VCS are not BPA members, they are IPC members, same as excel , plus if you could have appealed back then , you have no chance of appeal now, not to anybody

as for why they make it so confusing, its a sc@m where they want to make things as difficult as possible, because its about trapping victims into paying large sums of money, its nothing to do with parking at all

the car parks are honey traps and the more confusing it is , the easier they can shaft their victims

and although those 2 companies belong to the same people, they are separate, so if the signs say excel and the tickets say VCS, then it will get thrown out in court

nothing you can do at this stage will change the outcome , it is what it is so stop looking for a way out

if you get a formal LBC from them or their solicitors, respond by reading post #2 of the NEWBIES faq sticky thread

if an MCOL arrives from Northampton CCBC , then you have a court claim to defend

even us natives find this confusing, so it must be double dutch to non-natives , but it is what it is and we have had to put up with this sc@mmers paradise industry for over a decade

Baltas_tigas

Thanks you all a lot. We'll be waiting for the news from solicitors then

Baltas_tigas

So, I've been reading this hXXp://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=73208118#post73208118, and I would like to know how to address them properly? Should I change 'your client' into 'you', because THE LETTER BEFORE CLAIM came from VCS Legal Department, and was signed by Mr. Jake Burgess A.CILEx. Or VSC is a client of Mr. J Burgess? I have checked the second letter, where they send us the photos of the car, and it's signed by another person Y. Courser, paralegal....

KeithP

Baltas_tigas, are you reading the guidance you are being given?

Re-read post #9, especially this bit:

Don't contact them, make NO offer, and certainly don't pay them money!

Baltas_tigas

Yes I'm reading post #2 for small claims, where is written: If you have a Letter Before Claim (LBC, sometimes referred to on forums as a LBCCC), you must respond robustly. Look at examples of replies <....>Daniel san's one from October 2017, which references the RECENT change in the pre-action Protocol.
And after in the same post #2 is written in capitals : DO RESPOND - if it later goes to a hearing then the Judge will see this correspondence. Seize the moment to point out how the firm have been unreasonable, and not complied with the new pre-action protocol for debt claims....
WE are not going to pay, but we already received LETTER BEFORE CLAIM

KeithP

You told us your husband received the Letter Before Claim 'a few weeks ago', and you list in your opening post your response to that LBC.

You have replied to the LBC.

Having done that, it is appropriate that you wait for any Claim Form that might be sent from the County Courts business Centre.

Of course if you still have questions there is nothing to stop you asking them.

Meanwhile, to keep ahead of the game, you should perhaps now be reading post #2 of the NEWBIES thread to work out what to do when you do get that claim form.

Baltas_tigas

Coupon-mad wrote: »

You are wasting time wondering about the wrong things.

Start reading what I suggested, this is all over the forum and several Parking Prankster blogs.

Right, so we drove today to that Albert st. car park to check the signs. And unfortunately they have been changed:
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Although everywhere are boards with Excel parking logo, on a main board it's written that you enter into contract with VCS not Excel anymore.....
So I suppose Parking Prankster cases about Albert street car park can't be used anymore?

The_Deep

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences.

Parking Eye, Smart and a smaller company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (who take hundreds of these cases to court, and nearly always lose), who have also been reported to the regulatory authority.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas