Apcoa Manchester Airport appeal rejected

Foreveryoung2025

Thank you, what is the Public Consultation that needs doing before Friday this week ?

Umkomaas

Foreveryoung2025 said:

Thank you, what is the Public Consultation that needs doing before Friday this week ?

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/private-parking-code-of-practice/private-parking-code-of-practice

and 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6617396/parking-code-of-practice-consultation-remember-remember-the-5-september-it-closes-next-week/p1

doubledotcom

APCOA and all the other scavenger parking firms rely on you being low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree and will eventually pay up out of ignorance and fear.

Foreveryoung2025

Thank you for your help.

Today I rang Apcoa Customer Services to ask which house the demands for payment would arrive at, considering the parking charge went to my son’s but the form had been filled in with my name as the driver.

I was told my son needed to email them passing the responsibility onto me.

In a friendly manner, I explained as I had already paid for both drop off and pickup I wouldn’t be paying the parking charge, but instead contacting my MP, and complaining to both Apcoa and Manchester Airport.

I suggested no-one had read my appeal as any right thinking person wouldn’t have rejected it.

I asked if she would kindly spend a few minutes reading my appeal on her system, which she did and afterwards cancelled the charge. We will hear no more about it.

My appeal letter is elsewhere on the forum. On reflection it may have been too long.

Thank you again for all your help, you do a marvellous job.

Coupon-mad

That is great news. Nicely done. 

Polite conversation doesn't work with most PPCs but I find APCOA better than most.

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Le_Kirk

Foreveryoung2025 said:

My appeal letter is elsewhere on the forum. On reflection it may have been too long.

This is your original thread: -
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6625861/apcoa-airport-charge-notice-your-urgent-help-required/p1

Tillymint_77

Hi looking for a bit of guidance - we've just had a parking charge through for Manchester airport when we didn't even realise we had entered the drop off zone, so haven't paid on the way out. We basically took a wrong turning - following google maps directions as we'd gone to the wrong Holiday Inn hotel and were trying to get to the Holiday Inn express and looks like Google maps took us that way. We've seemingly driven through and been in the zone for 66 seconds. So if we dropped anyone off it was from a moving car!

For those of you that have been successful in appealing, I'm assuming this is barrierless? What is the best advice to include in the letter and I've seen suggestions about not admitting you were the driver - can anyone clarify this?

Thanks

Coupon-mad

Just use the 100% winning appeal in the Airport Drop off Group thread. You can't lose.

Tillymint_77

@Coupon-mad is there a link to this you can share please? I've looked through tons of threads and struggling to find a clear template thank you 

DE_612183

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6500170/group-thread-heathrow-gatwick-manchester-other-airport-drop-off-pcns-easy-how-to-appeal-win?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=Airport+Drop+off+Group+thread