MSE News: Private parking firms failed to fight more than 21,000 appeals

Thanks for flagging folks,

We don't have a "right" or "wrong" board for forum content, it's simply where it may help the most people.

MSE staff often just want to get the news out there to make people aware so pop the discussion thread on the Forum board they feel makes sense.

They're working hard to save people money and don't always have the time, especially on Tuesday when they're working on the weekly email, to think about the best board for it to go on.

The motoring board might even reach more people who check that board but don't think about parking ticket appeals, rather than the ticket appeals board where people generally just head if they've received one.

Either way, it doesn't take long to move a thread.

Thanks for your understanding everyone

Andrea

It would be great if you could explain to them exactly what we do say in the guide so there's no confusion.

The guide is fatally flawed, MSE Andrea!

So very bad, it would be better to have no guide at all.

MSE still needs to put right the awful 'Fight Unfair Private Parking Tickets' article 'appeal' where MSE wrongly (and with a dangerous impact on the appeal outcome) tells people to:

- start with: ''you issued ME with a parking ticket'' NONONO. ''The driver''.

- include mitigating circumstances (which POPLA can't even consider, and puts the person in more danger of blabbing naively about who was driving)

- ''insert where YOU PARKED and explain''!! NONONONO. Just no.

- this ridiculous sentence which has not had legs since the Beavis case 3 years ago and WILL LOSE:

''the charge is disproportionate and not commercially justifiable''...''exceeds the cost to the landowner''... ''not a justifiable loss''...''the fee is excessive'' (e.g. ''I only overstayed 15 minutes nut the parking charge os £100''

That weak excuse for an appeal (sorry MSE Towers, but that horrendous template gives away the driver) WILL LOSE and it is dangerous to wealth. You continue to cause people to lose money to parking scammers by giving them that) needs removing from the main site urgently.

FREE template statement to cut and paste: Challenge a private parking firm (Problems opening it? See template letter help)

Even worse, MSE even tells victims to appeal a non-BPA or IPC member's scam ticket and TO GIVE THE SCAMMER THEIR DATA that they can't get otherwise ! Unbelievable - a generally terrible article for MSE to present to people.

So, to any newbies, go here instead for a template that works:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4816822

So frustrating that all efforts by pm and email to put right these issues have been ignored by MSE, only MSE Marcel about 3 years ago, listened and made a few tweaks. Since then, nothing.