Lost popla smart parking

Fairjs8

Lost my appeal to popla recently with almost identical claim from Smart Parking to forumite Little Biddy on 28th June 2018 relating to ticket machine not printing the full registration only the last three letters.I am new to the forum and would appreciate help as I expect to receive letters demanding payment in the near future. Thank you.

Coupon-mad

Wow, no-one loses at POPLA v Smart. You must have blabbed about who was driving.

All you do is ignore debt letters, as per post #4 of the NEWBIES thread.

Oh, and send Smart a RECTIFICATION NOTICE under the GDPR.

Search the forum for that, and submit it to Smart's Data Protection Officer.

The_Deep

If this were to get to a court, it is probable that the claimant would crash and burn. A wrong VRN in a contract is a trifling matter, and the law does not concern itself with trifles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis

Popla were wrong imo not to consider this, and therefore are complicit in this scam.

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.

Fairjs8

Apologies for slow reply.Thanks for advice.will keep you posted if they decide to pursue me further.Thanks again.

Fairjs8

Apologies for slow reply.thanks for advice,will keep you posted if they decide to pursue me further.thanks again

The_Deep

Do not forget to complain to your MP.

Fairjs8

Have now written to my MP,no reply as yet.

Fairjs8

Have now received two letters from DRP Debt Recovery plus Ltd.Headed notice of intended court action unpaid parking charge £160.If you haven,t paid in full by 4th December 2018we,ll pass your file to our client with a recommendation that they take court action against you.
At the same time I received a letter from Smart Parking.I had written to them saying I owed them nothing and that the only way they would ever get any money from me would be by a court order,and not to send any more debt letters as I would ignore them.Their letter ignores everything I said as follows.
We note the comments in your appeal(I haven,t made an appeal),However please be advised that as per British Parking Association code of practice(paragraph22.7) all appeals must be submitted to us within 28 days of the Notice of keeper being issued.Due to the length of time your PCN has been open we have now referred this to debt recovery who are handling the matter on our behalf.Please contact them directly if you wish to discuss this further.
What do you make of this dual pronged approach?

Umkomaas

Both 'approaches' are template-based. Ignore both.

Check out the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #4 about dealing with debt collectors.

You only need to come back here if you receive a LBC or MCOL Claim (see NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #5 for acronyms). Smart hardly ever go near a courtroom. Described by Pete Wishart MP in the House of Commons a couple of days ago as the 'Lone Ranger of the parking cowboys'.

nosferatu1001

Ignore DRP, as the insanely clear advice tells you to do.

Did you send the rectification notice as you were told to do? Yes or No answer only

Fairjs8

Apologies, no I didn’t,