Link Parking Ltd

Pitches

Hi, I have used MSE template for appealing a fine with evidence, that i believe would have been sufficient to give us benefit of the doubt, but my son-in-law was trying to be helpful by appealing on line which was rejected, as i believe he didn't collect the evidence first. My question is, DO I Pay? following our attempt to show a lack of signage, which has been totally ignored, as i'm told the error we made was not in line with their procedure and therefore null and void, we have received a legal request from a Legal Firm to settle, which of course is more money. 

Coupon-mad

Where do you see any advice here to pay, at all, not even at court claim stage?

It isn't more money. No-one pays £170.  No-one rings these debt crawlers. It's only a bog standard letter from Gladstones or BW Legal presumably.  You didn't say it's a Letter before Claim.

You already know from the NEWBIES thread, what to do if you get a LBC.

Umkomaas

Hardly anyone ever wins an initial appeal with any private parking firm, even with all the evidence in the world submitted. 

Now, let's assess the precise stage that you are at. What exactly have you received and which 'Legal Firm' is writing to you. 

My question is, DO I Pay?

Guess what our answer is going to be!  Clue - if you're any good at word puzzles, it's an anagram of 'ON'.

Pitches

BW Legal with an offer to settle £100 & £60 costs, at £15 per month or of course in full via their portal, or presumably they may send yet another letter with more admin costs to tell me they are taking us to court. but i am only surmising at the moment. 

Umkomaas

At the moment (and I'm assuming they have given you a 14-day window in which to respond), this is at debt collector stage, where we advise ignoring the correspondence. A court claim may well follow, and it's at that stage, via a court hearing, you can get this put to bed, one way or another. The overwhelming majority of motorists the forum helps with their court cases succeed, and end up paying nothing. 

B789

Pitches said:

BW Legal with an offer to settle £100 & £60 costs, at £15 per month or of course in full via their portal, or presumably they may send yet another letter with more admin costs to tell me they are taking us to court. but i am only surmising at the moment. 

It is quite obvious that you have not bothered to read, re-read and read again the Newbies/FAQ thread near the top of this forum. Please go find that thread and study it to get an understanding of this scam you are now a part of. That thread will explain where you are in this process and how to deal with each stage of it and, eventually, make it go away.

Pitches

I'm sorry Coupon-mad, could you tell me in layman speak rather than assume i understand Letter Before Claim etc, as i appreciate the thread suggests a "No Pay" which i am totally for, and i really feel it is unjust. But what is likely to happen next. Do i respond to BW Legal or wait until their deadline and see what happens next?

Le_Kirk

You have been pointed at the Newbie sticky, which, when you read it, will have all your answers. 

fisherjim

BW Legal are acting as debt collectors and charging a fee of £60 just for frightening you, no you should not pay them and no you should not contact them, at this stage you only have an alleged debt.

Of course the parking company rejected your appeal they are greedy scammers that reject almost every appeal made because they operate in an unregulated scammers paradise.

If you had studied the newbies thread properly you would have realised, you don't reply to debt collectors, PPC's do not give any benefit of doubt they only want to scam money and they cannot issue "fines" it's an invoice.

Any letter before claim means just that will be entitled that and will not come from a debt collector, you cross that bridge when you come to it. You should be gathering evidence in case that comes, if you are claiming lack of signage you need dated photos to prove this for example.

B789

@Pitches, just to clarify for you... No paying anything. You past any appeal stage and now in the limbo period where you ignore everything that they throw at you such as reminders, final demands and any debt collectors threatening hell and damnation. The ONLY thing you now need to wait for, and it could happen any time within 6 years of the parking event, is a Letter of Claim. When you get one of those, it's time to come back after having read the Newbies/FAQ thread again.

Coupon-mad

Pitches said:

I'm sorry Coupon-mad, could you tell me in layman speak rather than assume i understand Letter Before Claim etc, as i appreciate the thread suggests a "No Pay" which i am totally for, and i really feel it is unjust. But what is likely to happen next. Do i respond to BW Legal or wait until their deadline and see what happens next?

All of this (everything, including a post about standard acronyms and an explanation of what a LBC is and what to do when you get your claim - start to finish) already exists in the 2nd post of the NEWBIES thread which is what you need to read first.  There is no short cut but it is easy enough.

We are here for you but we need you to read our resource first.  We are not trying to fob you off, we just have to do it this way. With the best will in the World, we can't do the basics piecemeal  - repeat what is already in the NEWBIES resource - every day on every thread (we answer around a hundred new posts per day, as it is...) or we'd drown.

This is why I wrote the NEWBIES thread: everything you need to know, in layman's speak.  Your stage is in the second post.  

There are no more fake 'admin fees' to add and they can't have the imaginary +£60