Received a parking charge because the parking permit slipped and was not fully visible

ritwolf

Umkomaas said:

ritwolf said:

D_P_Dance said:

Can you please explain me what do you suggest I should do from here? 

We have all done so, you have not been listening 

I have and I still am... I've just posted the doubts I had in the same post you quoted. Knowing that I have paid... if you can please let me know the steps from here that would be helpful.

You've paid the charge?  To offer advice further on how to pursue it for recovery would take resources away from people who are fighting parking firms, not succumbing to them.

Seriously, have you paid them?

Yes, I have paid earlier today stating "Paying under protest". This is only so that the amount doesn't increase after the 14 days.

Jenni_D

Since you've already paid then there's no point in taking this thread any further - the folks here can't help you now as it's not something this board deals with (post-payment recovery).

cajef

ritwolf said:

Umkomaas said:

ritwolf said:

D_P_Dance said:

Can you please explain me what do you suggest I should do from here? 

We have all done so, you have not been listening 

I have and I still am... I've just posted the doubts I had in the same post you quoted. Knowing that I have paid... if you can please let me know the steps from here that would be helpful.

You've paid the charge?  To offer advice further on how to pursue it for recovery would take resources away from people who are fighting parking firms, not succumbing to them.

Seriously, have you paid them?

Yes, I have paid earlier today stating "Paying under protest". This is only so that the amount doesn't increase after the 14 days.

Well it was a lot of use coming on here when you have ignored all the advice posted by several knowledgeable people who have a lot of experience in fighting these scammers. 

Umkomaas

ritwolf said:

Umkomaas said:

ritwolf said:

D_P_Dance said:

Can you please explain me what do you suggest I should do from here? 

We have all done so, you have not been listening 

I have and I still am... I've just posted the doubts I had in the same post you quoted. Knowing that I have paid... if you can please let me know the steps from here that would be helpful.

You've paid the charge?  To offer advice further on how to pursue it for recovery would take resources away from people who are fighting parking firms, not succumbing to them.

Seriously, have you paid them?

Yes, I have paid earlier today stating "Paying under protest". This is only so that the amount doesn't increase after the 14 days.

This would take months to unravel (maybe 2022 at the earliest). If you weren't up for the relatively straightforward fight of defending a small claim against you, the workload, intellectual and emotional drain of prosecuting your own claim against someone you've already paid, when you appear to have minimal understanding of the issues involved, just looks a totally futile mission. 

My advice is to suck it up and learn from it, get on with the rest of your life.  

Fruitcake

The amount was always zero. It could never increase above that because your lease or tenancy agreement does not mention or even allow it. The problem is that the scammers ignored your existing rights and made a claim of £100. Even if it was a genuine debt, it could never increase above that amount.

Paying it means you have effectively agreed that it is a genuine debt, and you will now find it much harder to get your money back, and have also exposed yourself to further claims because you will have been marked as an easy target.

Now that you have paid the scammers, I do not see how the regulars on this forum can help you further unless you get another scamvoice, and I believe you will, and decide not to pay in the future.

ritwolf

Ok, I will wait to hear back from the Trading Standards and from the lawyer. If I find something useful for others I will post it here.

Also, I will try to speak with other residents to see if I'm not the only one and see if I can raise it further.

Thank you everyone for your help.

Half_way

By paying you have potentially caused more issue long term than you think you have solved in the short term.
There is a reason why with residential cases people are advised to be pro active in challenging this scam
By paying it could be said that:
you are now bound to pay any further tickets, as you agree to the terms, paying under protest means nothing, performance, that is what you do means everything.
 You have essentially/possibly forfeited any rights to that part of the property, as you have agreed that a third party has greater rights to it than yourself.

And that's just for starters

nosferatu1001

The principal is who hired the PPC 
They are the people who have interfered with your lease. 

D_P_Dance

You have wasted a considerable amount of our time, and probably made life more difficult for your neighbours.   .

Trading Standards   will do nothing as the PPC has acted within the law.  Lawyers cannot help you for the same reason.  You can now do nothing more. .  Be very careful how you park in future, a wheel over a line could be costly

ritwolf

D_P_Dance said:

You have wasted a considerable amount of our time, and probably made life more difficult for your neighbours.   .

Trading Standards   will do nothing as the PPC has acted within the law.  Lawyers cannot help you for the same reason.  You can now do nothing more. .  Be very careful how you park in future, a wheel over a line could be costly

The neighbours have nothing to do with my tenancy agreement terms. If someone has a lease/tenancy agreement and he decides not to pay, his terms apply and they could be different than mine.

I will continue talking to other residents and lawyers, and check if I can complain to my local council or write a letter to my local MP.