Given Ticket after warden instructed driver to park with disabled disk

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Pulsebab wrote: »

in a position of having to pay them more as we believe no one wins appeals with the ipc.

You know when I tell people that no-one wins v IPC firms, at appeal? Where do you ever then see me say that means anyone must pay?

Show me! :rotfl:

These are won at DEFENCE stage when they sue. The appeal stage is a scam.

we spoke to CAB today and they said not to leave it beyond the 21 days and to write to them to appeal. is this correct?

Yes; that's nowt different than we say in the NEWBIES thread, except I suggest you WAIT FOR THE NTK FIRST.

All acronyms are in the NEWBIES thread post #5. Take a look, it will help.

we have spoken to a family member today who is a solicitor and they have said to write to the company to tell them to deal with him. is this the right thing to do?

I doubt the solicitor knows about the Beavis case, ask him/her if they realise this cannot be argued based on no genuine pre-estimate of loss? We've seen solicitor friends advise people badly.

BaileysBoss

Thanks for all the advice everyone. We have now had the notice cancelled after writing to the landowners, who referred it to the land management company as a matter of urgency. They upheld everything on the signage, ie. disagreeing with everything that you all pointed out to us, but said the signs were being updated to remove the transaction charge, but as a goodwill gesture theyve asked the company to cancel the notice.

The_Deep

we have been told that appealing with ipc fails, so how do you win with this parking company?

You let a judge decide.

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 House of Commons recently

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

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.

beamerguy

BaileysBoss wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice everyone. We have now had the notice cancelled after writing to the landowners, who referred it to the land management company as a matter of urgency. They upheld everything on the signage, ie. disagreeing with everything that you all pointed out to us, but said the signs were being updated to remove the transaction charge, but as a goodwill gesture they've asked the company to cancel the notice.

BUT ,,, will they cancel ?? you need written confirmation

Goodwill gesture indeed ??? you have caught them with
their trousers down ?

BaileysBoss

yes its in writing by email from the managing agents and theyve confirmed we will receive no more communication.

beamerguy

BaileysBoss wrote: »

yes its in writing by email from the managing agents and they've confirmed we will receive no more communication.

That's good

In future be wary, these scammers are all around
especially IPC scammers

onlyfoolsandparking

beamerguy wrote: »

That's good

In future be wary, these scammers are all around
especially IPC scammers

Yes indeed, watch out watch out there's a crook about in a car park near you:D


As an aside, would an email from agent/landowner confirming cancellation/no further action etc be good enough or would you request it in writing from scammer too?