POPLA appeal- non winnable? Pls help

Redx

I agree with the above comments


as mentioend above, they like to give out smoke and mirrors and claim that people owe them money, yet when failed with the truth they choose to duck out at popla and try to save themselves the popla fee


had they done their due diligence in the first place, these cases would not get as far as they do, but they play the numbers game to try to frighten people into paying


until parliament approve Sir Greg Knights bill later this year and it gets royal assent (perhaps next year) - nothing will change


so as mentioned, complain to your MP and get them to support Sir Greg Knight


https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/parkingcodeofpractice.html

Coupon-mad

mystique81 wrote: »

Hi Umkomaas


I had the POPLA decision today which says:


An Appeal has been opened with the reference xxx.

NCP have told us they do not wish to contest the Appeal. This means that your Appeal is successful and you do not need to pay the parking charge.

Yours sincerely

POPLA Team


I want to sincerely thank you for your advice . without you and some others here I would have definitely lost! You are brilliant! Thanks again :-)

POPLA appeals v NCP are pretty much always winnable, and end up like that, with NCP throwing in the towel when they see a forum appeal.

Any chance you can change your thread title by doing an advanced edit?

POPLA appeal- non winnable?

mystique81

Umkomaas wrote: »

In regard to membership cancellation - if your loyalty to the gym is only important one-way, then do you just simply suck it up that they are point blank refusing to help, or do you do something that makes them think hard about how they treat their loyal customers. Cancellation is of course the Armageddon option, but threats of it might be enough. (Notwithstanding what arrangement there are between them and the PPC, not that they appear to have tried to explain it to the OP. But we hear so many mealy-mouthed lies from retailers and the like, trying to distance themselves from the dispute, leaving their customer cast adrift, that it's hard to know what the reality is).

If my (well, Mrs U's) supermarket refused to help with a ticket, costing us £100, for sure that would be our final visit. But we won't get caught out!

I hear what you are saying, but the thing is it is the closest gym to me and open 24h a day which suits my needs at the moment therefore don't want to change or cancel my membership.
I also believe they should have fought this but who knows what would have been said, what arguments would they have used etc. At the end of the day, the gym itself is not charged with a £100 fine so in my opinion they couldn't care less. I also don't think they would care if they lost one member due to this dispute. I will forward my complaint to our MP at some point though.

This experience has taught me to be very vigilant when I park on privately owned land that's for sure!:rotfl:

Umkomaas

This experience has taught me to be very vigilant when I park on privately owned land that's for sure!

In all seriousness, this is the way motorists will have to proceed in future, or risk exposing themselves to the crap that you've just been going through.

It really should be included as an element of the driving licence theory test.