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Is Parkingticketappeals.org.uk a scam?

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Justsusan
Justsusan Posts: 7 Forumite
edited 19 December 2018 at 5:37PM in Parking tickets, fines & parking
Hi
I paid this website (parkingticketappeals.org.uk) to appeal my parking ticket last week. The site has been down since yesterday and they are are not replying to emails.
Is it a scam ????
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  • excellent company , well though of on most forums


    I also tell lies


    perhaps the bailiffs took there computers

    or perhaps you have got the website name incorrect , (org?)
  • It's definately org.uk . Why would bailiffs take their computers?
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Read this and decide

    https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/privateparkingappeals.co.uk

    Also, the PCN you received is probably also a scam, most MPs think that it is

    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.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • But that relates to a different website. I paid parkingticketappeals.org.uk . Am confused now.
  • The_Deep wrote: »
    Read this and decide

    https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/privateparkingappeals.co.uk

    Also, the PCN you received is probably also a scam, most MPs think that it is

    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.


    umm
    Parkingticketappeals
    privateparkingappeals


    50/50 or phone a friend time
  • Justsusan wrote: »
    But that relates to a different website. I paid parkingticketappeals.org.uk . Am confused now.


    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08981061
  • MistyZ
    MistyZ Posts: 1,820 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    [QUOTE=The_Deep;75207669https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/privateparkingappeals.co.uk[/QUOTE]

    Gordon Bennett! Scam? Sounds like plain old theft.
  • Have i been conned ?
  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Justsusan wrote: »
    Have i been conned ?


    You might say that, we couldn't possibly comment!
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