Please help with my parking charge!

BleddyClueless

I understand that all the information I need is in the sticky thread but I've read it over and over, I just don't understand it (it's driving me mad and I know it's driving you guys mad having to repeat it!) Any clearer help would be greatly appreaciated!


1. I Received PCN from a UKPS Ltd, I overstayed by roughly 15 minutes as marked on the PCN. IT has my full name and address on it. The charge was £60.00!! Down from £100!!!!- I ignored it


2. 1 month later I received a NTK. this was one week ago now. The charge is now £100.


So what is my next step? Do I continue to ignore? do I appeal now? I'm considering trying to contact the land owner and explain how disgraceful this charge is.



I had a parking charge before somewhere else issued by the council for overstaying in a busy car park in the centre of town (I most likely would have been losing them money). The charge was £25.00 and I paid it the second I saw it, it was an honest mistake and that charge was reasonable I thought.


I just think this is horrendous. Please help!:(

Umkomaas

1. I Received PCN from a UKPS Ltd

2. 1 month later I received a NTK.

Can you explain more fully what exactly you've received? Was this a windscreen ticket initially?

UKPS - please confirm exactly what the initials stand for, because there are a number of parking companies with similar initials. Advice may differ depending on us knowing who we are dealing with.

Fruitcake

We cannot help you further until you have answered the questions above by Umkomaas.

You should first edit your post to remove information about who overstayed. Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper. This assumes you haven't already given the scammers the driver's identity.

If the car received a windscreen ticket, and you have yet to contact the scammers, then The Keeper should appeal using the blue template in the NEWBIES thread.

If this is not the case then we need more information.

The_Deep

I've read it over and over, I just don't understand it

The stickies are what they are, there are no short cuts. it is complicated, but it is not rocket science, you just have to persevere.

You have been co-opted into a game where the other side bite, cheat and tell porkies, it is a huge scam, and you are their target. However, MPS are n the case, get yours involved.


It is the will of Parliament that these scammers be put out of business. Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers. Read this one which I wrote earlier

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.