Parking ticket problem with excel, BW Legal

unhappycustomer82

Hi I have recently been threatened with a ccj and court action due to an unwarranted unpaid ticket issued by excel parking on 28/11/17 at the peel centre car park which i recently learned to my horror is free for 30 mins. I shopped for 49 mins in the pet store on the car park. As my car was being repaired I was in a hire car after returning the car the company issued me the first parking charge subsequently more followed I ignored them after some questionable guidance, culminating in £160 new charge plus threats of court from bw legal this worries me. To summarise the car park is poorly signed on my return to investigate plus the £100 charge for 19 min over sight seems excessive the £160 they now want seems scandalous please help!

Le_Kirk

All new posters are advised to read the NEWBIE sticky at the top of the forum and there you will find the guidance you need. Here is a link.

ampersand

op - well done for starting your own thread, but now learn to access the up-to-date advice in the newbies threads.

Writing in paragraphs helps, too. Many regulars spend hours on here helping posters. Solid chunks of text make this less likely.

Start mining the gold-dust info. and guides here, by learning how to research mse Threads, parking scumpanies, templates for tweaking etc.etc.

Only you can do this, but you CAN do it. Always post drafts up for critiques and note deadlines.

Peel Centre - [hahahahaha] search.
Excel - ditto.

Another friend - Parking Prankster's blog:
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/

Keep using those same search terms. Trust long-term posters on this forum. You are among friends, but must do your own homework :-)

Coupon-mad

As my car was being repaired I was in a hire car after returning the car the company issued me the first parking charge subsequently more followed I ignored them after some questionable guidance, culminating in £160 new charge.

So did Excel write to the hire firm first, then got your details as hirer, but no-one has ever told them who the driver was? Keep it that way. Obviously the hire firm CANNOT have named the driver, only the hirer (you).

Excel cannot hold a hirer liable because they will not have issued you with a complaint 'Notice to Hirer' as per para 13/14 of Schedule 4 of the POFA.

Go and read it (Sch4 is linked in the NEWBIES thread) and see what they should have enclosed.

They didn't.

However you really MUST respond, if only to prevent the possibility of Excel reverting back to the hire firm, given that you have played this wrong and are giving the impression of a hirer who doesn't exist. Worst case with hire firms is, they then just PAY £160 and bill you, plus their own 'admin fee' for handling it, and you'd be stuffed for over £200.

NEVER NEVER ignore a parking ticket of any description (private, Council, Police) in a hire car.

plus threats of court from bw legal this worries me.

Covered in hundreds of threads for a year or more. The NEWBIES thread, and the zillions of other BW Legal threads (search the forum for BW Legal Excel) tell you how to reply.

beamerguy

Time to highlight again the workings of BWLegal

BWLegal - the list of failures growing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5672664

parkingadvice23

Hello,

I was issued with a ticket for driving into Booths car park in Manchester media city in 2011. A colleague used my car and literally turned round in the car park so was in there less than 2 minutes. Advise online at the time said VCS could not uphold the PCN and to send payment for the time I was in the car park for. I did this and heard nothing for years. Then a couple of years ago I started to get hounded by BW legal and have now been issued a CCJ. Should I pay the CCJ and also pay to have the CCJ removed or is this worth appealing retrospectively? Should I request evidence I was in the car park?

Umkomaas

parkingadvice23 wrote: »

Hello,

I was issued with a ticket for driving into Booths car park in Manchester media city in 2011. A colleague used my car and literally turned round in the car park so was in there less than 2 minutes. Advise online at the time said VCS could not uphold the PCN and to send payment for the time I was in the car park for. I did this and heard nothing for years. Then a couple of years ago I started to get hounded by BW legal and have now been issued a CCJ. Should I pay the CCJ and also pay to have the CCJ removed or is this worth appealing retrospectively? Should I request evidence I was in the car park?

You need some serious advice which no one is going to give you when jumping in on someone else's thread - as it is likely to complicate issues for the original poster (OP) whose thread this is. Please start a new one of your own and we will try to guide you through your next steps.

In your new thread, please put some paragraphs in to make it easier for the forum's small number of regulars to read - we are dealing (and reading) dozens of threads each day.

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, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

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.
This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

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.