Euro Car Parks- POPLA appeal, please help!

Umkomaas

The Beavis case- is it possible that mine could go that way?

All the way to The Supreme Court?

Do you recommend not bothering with POPLA? 

No. 

One more question (sorry!)- if it did go to court, I honestly would not be able to attend and represent myself due to anxiety. Would that be marked negatively against me on my credit file? If a judge asked me to pay, obviously I would pay immediately.

You've answered your own question. 

crazyzombienurse

Coupon mad- that made me chuckle about keeping some in your handbag!! Right ok, I shall leave the POPLA appeal and await these nasty letters then.
Do ECP pay these debt recovery agencies to chase people? It seems like a huge waste of money if these agencies have no power to enforce...

Coupon-mad

They pay nothing, it's no win no fee because idiots pay...and DRP then keep a chunk because they've inflated it to £160 (that is in fact more than a Judge would allow!).

crazyzombienurse

Me again with my paranoia/anxiety haha...
I’ve been reading through loads of ECP threads and I notice that it’s often said that ‘only an idiot ignores a PCN’. I mean, I’m ignoring it now by not appealing to POPLA- should I just go through the motions and submit a crap appeal to them (knowing it’ll get refused), but just so it looks like I’m ‘complying’, so to speak?

KeithP

You have already been given good advice.

Keep reading and you may eventually find some guidance that matches exactly what you want to do. 

Good luck.

Redx

crazyzombienurse said:

Me again with my paranoia/anxiety haha...
I’ve been reading through loads of ECP threads and I notice that it’s often said that ‘only an idiot ignores a PCN’. I mean, I’m ignoring it now by not appealing to POPLA- should I just go through the motions and submit a crap appeal to them (knowing it’ll get refused), but just so it looks like I’m ‘complying’, so to speak?

not true , you did not ignore the pcn , you appealed it

at the moment you are ignoring a popla appeal , not a pcn appeal (the pcn appeal has already been done)

the whole point of any appeal is that you should have a winning argument, a failure by the claimant on a technical point , such as no landowner authority, poor signage , POFA failures , BPA CoP failures etc are examples of technical failures

the same can be said of any court case in examples of where a court case has followed

If you can detect that chink in their armour , then go for it , but detect it first

MistyZ

crazyzombienurse said:

Me again with my paranoia/anxiety haha...
I’ve been reading through loads of ECP threads and I notice that it’s often said that ‘only an idiot ignores a PCN’. I mean, I’m ignoring it now by not appealing to POPLA- should I just go through the motions and submit a crap appeal to them (knowing it’ll get refused), but just so it looks like I’m ‘complying’, so to speak?

Have a good old read of this forum.  The experienced regulars are very good indeed as familiarity with the forum shows.  But as you've had a few replies from Coupon-mad, the long-story short is 'read Newbies' thread & relevant past posts, work with the regulars till you're clear how to proceed.  AND, if Coupon-mad suggests a course of action: just go for it!'

torvil

Watching this post with interest.

Le_Kirk

There has been no activity since May so you could be waiting for a while!