Missing half my VRN on letter

Khaggis

LDast said:

That "appeal" is a wasted effort. MET are going to reject no matter what. Keep it simple at this stage and wait for the rejection and a POPLA code where this should be put to bed and have a bit of fun at their expense at the same time.

A simple appeal along these lines should get the POPLA code issued:

I am the registered keeper. Your NtK shows no evidence that the keepers vehicle is the same one that entered the car park as the one that exited. Therefore, there's no evidence of a period of parking. 

As a matter of fact and law, MET will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions to hold the keeper liable because of the failure of your ANPR system to identify the vehicle correctly and establish a period of parking. As your embarrassing excuse of an NtK has failed to identify the period of parking, you have failed to fully comply with the requirements of PoFA 2012 and therefore cannot transfer liability from the driver to the keeper.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed to have been, nor pursued as the driver under some twisted  interpretation of the law of agency.  As the keeper, I am under no legal obligation to identify the driver and I shall not be doing so.

Your choice. Cancel the PCN or send me a POPLA code. MET have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN or confirm your intellectual malnourishment and contest my appeal to POPLA where you will undoubtedly waste your money for an assessment of METs failures. 

Haha I acty love this, and part of me is tempted to send it word for word. Though I feel like that could have a negative effect on it and just make them want to challenge it more.

Umkomaas

Khaggis said:

LDast said:

That "appeal" is a wasted effort. MET are going to reject no matter what. Keep it simple at this stage and wait for the rejection and a POPLA code where this should be put to bed and have a bit of fun at their expense at the same time.

A simple appeal along these lines should get the POPLA code issued:

I am the registered keeper. Your NtK shows no evidence that the keepers vehicle is the same one that entered the car park as the one that exited. Therefore, there's no evidence of a period of parking. 

As a matter of fact and law, MET will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions to hold the keeper liable because of the failure of your ANPR system to identify the vehicle correctly and establish a period of parking. As your embarrassing excuse of an NtK has failed to identify the period of parking, you have failed to fully comply with the requirements of PoFA 2012 and therefore cannot transfer liability from the driver to the keeper.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed to have been, nor pursued as the driver under some twisted  interpretation of the law of agency.  As the keeper, I am under no legal obligation to identify the driver and I shall not be doing so.

Your choice. Cancel the PCN or send me a POPLA code. MET have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN or confirm your intellectual malnourishment and contest my appeal to POPLA where you will undoubtedly waste your money for an assessment of METs failures. 

Haha I acty love this, and part of me is tempted to send it word for word. Though I feel like that could have a negative effect on it and just make them want to challenge it more.

You're overthinking it. They won't 'challenge it more'. Face up to them, and watch them wither. 'Faint heart never won fair maiden'.  Lead in your pencil time. 

Khaggis

!!!!!! it, I've sent that. I take it if I do get the POPLA code, then I proceed with my original one and give the points properly to a much more mature standard like last time? (Even though my last one failed at POPLA

LDast

Trust me, a verbatim response will not escalate anything. The term "intellectually malnourished" is applicable. Unfortunately, it will be wasted on whoever is tasked with pressing the "reject" button. Think "Oafish" and you will be in the ball park of an impression of the person responsible. (Apologies to any actual Oafs out there. Other equivalents of similar description could be "dolt", "imbecile", "moron" and so on. You get my drift.)

Think of knuckle dragging and drooling with only one thought going through the gnat sized brain, which is... "money, money, gimme money". I don't know how I can better describe the owners and employees at MET Parking.

Khaggis

Hey all, just a little update. 
I got an email from MET and they've cancelled the charge. Turns out that strongly worded letter did the job and they knew they didn't have a leg to stand on. So I just washed to thank you all for your help. You've been amazing!

Coupon-mad

Khaggis said:

LDast said:

That "appeal" is a wasted effort. MET are going to reject no matter what. Keep it simple at this stage and wait for the rejection and a POPLA code where this should be put to bed and have a bit of fun at their expense at the same time.

A simple appeal along these lines should get the POPLA code issued:

I am the registered keeper. Your NtK shows no evidence that the keepers vehicle is the same one that entered the car park as the one that exited. Therefore, there's no evidence of a period of parking. 

As a matter of fact and law, MET will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions to hold the keeper liable because of the failure of your ANPR system to identify the vehicle correctly and establish a period of parking. As your embarrassing excuse of an NtK has failed to identify the period of parking, you have failed to fully comply with the requirements of PoFA 2012 and therefore cannot transfer liability from the driver to the keeper.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed to have been, nor pursued as the driver under some twisted  interpretation of the law of agency.  As the keeper, I am under no legal obligation to identify the driver and I shall not be doing so.

Your choice. Cancel the PCN or send me a POPLA code. MET have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN or confirm your intellectual malnourishment and contest my appeal to POPLA where you will undoubtedly waste your money for an assessment of METs failures. 

Hey all, just a little update. 

I got an email from MET and they've cancelled the charge. Turns out that strongly worded letter did the job and they knew they didn't have a leg to stand on. So I just washed to thank you all for your help. You've been amazing!

Nice result!