Should I pay?

PeterJames123

It turns out I accidentally entered an incorrect letter when paying for my parking ticket after viewing the evidence. 
I received this email;

Thank you for your correspondence appealing the issued Parking Charge Notice. 14/12/2020

Having considered your appeal and reviewed the evidence of the contravention it is clear our terms of parking have been breached and therefore the PCN was issued correctly. As per our terms of parking the PCN charges are due in full as per the notice sent to you.

Terms of parking state "A full and accurate vehicle registration number must be entered when making payment." The PCN was generated automatically due to the incorrect vehicle registration (VRM) entry.

A cost was incurred for requesting keeper details from the DVLA plus the manual work involved in checking the records for similar VRMs alongside the documents you submitted.

We appreciate your parking with us and therefore will accept a £15 administration charge, if paid within 24 hours as full and final settlement for this issued PCN.

I made a human error but I did pay for parking so should I pay the £15 as my 24 hour time is running out or should I let them take this to court as I feel it was just 1 letter and I clearly didn't mean it as I paid. 

Browntoa

No 

Have your read the "newbies thread" at the top of this section , it has all the advice 

And looked at other identical question where number plate has been incorrectly entered

Redx

If it was only 1 character , read what the relevant CoP says about minor keying errors

What did the landowner say when you complained about it ?

Did they offer to get it cancelled ??

Plan A

D_P_Dance

No-one should pay these scams, may judges regard them as a waste of court time, read this and complain to your MP..

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

Umkomaas

If you've got the next six months (possibly the next six years) available to undertake all the research into contract law and possibly the legal processes to fight this, then go for it.  Just read any other thread here with more than 20 posts to understand the workload. 

It would help us to give you even more targeted advice if you reveal who the parking firm is. 

D_P_Dance

Was the offer of £15 marked "without prejudice" ?  If not, and they go to court, be sure to bring it to the attention of the
judge.   

Coupon-mad

If this is a BPA AOS member then they had to cancel the PCN altogether if it is a minor keying error.

If it is an IPC AOS member, Lord knows because they make the rules up to suit the members (even more than the BPA do).

So, which PPC is it?

Half_way

What did the landowner say when you complained about it ?

See above - plus who's car park was this??

PeterJames123

Hi, the company is theparkingspace.co.uk

Coupon-mad

Never heard of them, probably because they jumped on the parking bandwagon this year and of course the IPC took them on:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12401234/officers

You're presumably too late to pay the ''24hrs'' offer of paying £15 so you may as well ignore them, same as any IPC member.  There is no appeal.

Umkomaas

PeterJames123 said:

Hi, the company is theparkingspace.co.uk

Incorporated less than 12 months ago. Directors also run (ran) a clothing and footwear outfit - Marco. Business possibly on the decline (their premises up for letting and unresponsive website), so have taken to penalising motorists by sticking tickets on their cars!