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    • Monika the first four pages of the Private parking section have at least 12 of our members who have also been caught out on this scam site. That's around one quarter of all our current complaints. Usually we might expect two current complaints for the same park within 4 pages.  So you are in good company and have done well in appealing to McDonalds in an effort to resolve the matter without having  paid such a bunch of rogues. Most people blindly pay up. Met . Starbucks and McDonalds  are well aware of the situation and seem unwilling to make it easier for motorists to avoid getting caught. For instance, instead of photographing you, if they were honest and wanted you  to continue using their services again, they would have said "Excuse me but if you are going to go to Mc donalds from here, it will cost you £100." But no they kett quiet and are now pursuing you for probably a lot more than £100 now. They also know thst  they cannot charge anything over the amount stated on the car park signs. Their claims for £160 or £170 are unlawful yet so many pay that to avoid going to Court. When the truth is that Met are unlikely to take them to Court since they know they will lose. The PCNs are issued on airport land which is covered by Byelaws so only the driver can be pursued, not the keeper. But they keep writing to you as they do not know who was driving unless you gave it away when you appealed. Even if they know you were driving they should still lose in Court for several reasons. The reason we ask you to fill out our questionnaire is to help you if MET do decide to take you to Court in the end. Each member who visited the park may well have different experiences while there which can help when filling out a Witness statement [we will help you with that if it comes to it.] if you have thrown away the original PCN  and other paperwork you obviously haven't got a jerbil or a guinea pig as their paper makes great litter boxes for them.🙂 You can send an SAR to them to get all the information Met have on you to date. Though if you have been to several sites already, you may have done that by now. In the meantime, you will be being bombarded by illiterate debt collectors and sixth rate solicitors all threatening you with ever increasing amounts as well as being hung drawn and quartered. Their letters can all be safely ignored. On the odd chance that you may get a Letter of Claim from them just come back to us and we will get you to send a snotty letter back to them so that they know you are not happy, don't care a fig for their threats and will see them off in Court if they finally have the guts to carry on. If you do have the original PCN could you please post it up, carefully removing your name. address and car registration number but including dates and times. If not just click on the SAR to take you to the form to send to Met.
    • In order for us to help you we require the following information:- [if there are more than one defendant listed - tell us] 1 defendant   Which Court have you received the claim from ? County Court Business Centre, Northampton   Name of the Claimant ? LC Asset 2 S.A R.L   Date of issue – . 28/04/23   Particulars of Claim   What is the claim for –    (1) The Claimant ('C') claims the whole of the outstanding balance due and payable under an agreement referenced xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and opened effective from xx/xx/2017. The agreement is regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ('CCA'), was signed by the Defendant ('D') and from which credit was extended to D.   (2) D failed to comply with a Default Notice served pursuant to s87 (1) CCA and by xx/xx/2022 a default was recorded.   (3) As at xx/xx/2022 the Defendant owed MBNA LTD the sum of 12,xxx.xx. By an agreement in writing the benefit of the debt has been legally assigned to C effective xx/xx/2022 and made regular upon C serving a Notice of Assignment upon D shortly thereafter.   (4) And C claims- 1. 12,xxx.xx 2. Interest pursuant to Section 69 County Courts Act 1984 at a rate of 8% per annum from xx/01/2023 to xx/04/2023 of 2xx.xx and thereafter at a daily rate of 2.52 to date of judgement or sooner payment. Date xx/xx/2023   What is the total value of the claim? 12k   Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? Yes   Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No   Did you inform the claimant of your change of address? N/A Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? Credit Card   When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? After   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? Online   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ? Yes, but amount differs slightly   Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim. DP issued claim   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? Not that I recall...   Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? Not that I recall...   Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ? Yes   Why did you cease payments? Loss of employment main cause   What was the date of your last payment? Early 2021   Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? No   Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No   -----------------------------------
    • Hello CAG Team, I'm adding the contents of the claim to this thread, but wanted to open the thread with an urgent question: Do I have to supply a WS for a claim with a court date that states " at the hearing the court will consider allocation and, time permitting, give an early neutral evaluation of the case" ? letter is an N24 General Form of Judgement or Order, if so, then I've messed up again. Court date 25 May 2024 The letter from court does not state (like the other claims I have) that I must provide WS within 28 days.. BUT I have recently received a WS from Link for it! making me think I do need to!??
    • Massive issues from Scottish Power I wonder if someone could advise next steps. Tennant moved out I changed the electric into my name I was out the country at the time so I hadn't been to the flat. During sign up process they tried to hijack my gas supply as well which I made it clear I didn't want duel fuel from them but they still went ahead with it. Phoned them up again. a few days later telling them to make sure they stopped it but they said too late ? had to get my current supplier to cancel it. Paid £50 online to ensure there was money covering standing charges etc eventually got to the flat no power. Phoned Scottish Power 40 minutes to get through they state I have a pay as you go meter and that they had set me up on a credit account so they need to send an engineer out which they will pass my details onto. Phone called from engineer asking questions , found out the float is vacant so not an emergency so I have to speak to Scottish Power again. Spoke with the original person from Scottish Power who admitted a mistake (I had told her it was vacant) and now states that it will take 4 weeks to get an appointment but if I want to raise a complaint they will contact me in 48 hours and it will be looked at quicker. Raised a complaint , complaints emailed me within 24 hours to say it will take 7 days till he speaks with me. All I want is power in the property would I be better switching over to EON who supply the gas surely they could sort it out quicker? One thing is for sure I will never bother with Scottish Power ever again.    
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I was at the university yesterday, I used to work there, I remember another company doing the the tickets before, and there was no pay and display then, so I also advised students not to back down, and just ignore!

 

That was always successful, never know any to be taken to court, as I explained reasons from here, also why should they pay for parking when paying for accommodation and even the workers having to pay.

 

Well I seen this sign in a pay and display on University grounds:

 

My question is if they do not pay, do the same rules apply as IGNO|RE!!

 

 

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The sign states that the a parking charge will be issued to "the vehicle's driver".

 

That is going to present them with a problem, they don't know who was the driver, and the Registered Keeper is under no obligation to inform them.

 

The University, holding data about drivers and passing it on, could, arguably, be another problem - others, more familiar with the Data Protection Act, may care to comment on that.

 

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I agree. For some strange reason they won't let us link to the MSE forum where there is a very informative list of all the letters sent out by PPCs and their DRCs. The reason given- it's classed as "touting".

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I see the board "police" have deleted posts criticising them. Why?. Come on please tell us why you did this. No wonder this forum is the laughing stock of other forums. You can't seem to be able to take any criticism.

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There are no problems posting links to MSE nor have there ever been any.

Not sure where this thought has come from.

There are frequent links posted to MSE throughout the site,as indeed there are links posted to CAG on MSE.

 

Insofar as posting any links at all go,The site has a post count of 30 which has to be attained before link posting is enabled.

It used to be lower than this,but was raised following a sustained period of spamming,which were taking up valuable time of site team in dealing.

 

Therefore,it is unfair to be referring to moronic rules,and brainless Mods,who give their time freely to keep things ticking over.

The rules and the need to raise the post count to address the problems we saw,was in fact nothing to do with Mods.

 

If any users without the 30 posts, is wanting to post important links to Court rulings and articles,all they have to do is contact a site team member,who will deal with it.

 

I hope that clears up any misunderstandings.

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I am afraid that's wrong . We have tried to post links to the MSE "letter chain" thread in the past and have been told that it's against board rules. This is the message I recieved when I tried to do it before:-

 

"Recommending CAG members to other sites is a form of touting for that other site and thus contravenes CAG rules."

 

And this is what another MSE member received:-

 

You have been advised on more than on occasion this evening regarding posting links to external sites, these notifications have been sent to you by PM from the site team.

 

Links or other directs to external sites can be dangerous as there is no way of verifying information provided there and CAG cannot be seen to recommend external advice.

 

This is why your posts have been either edited or removed.

 

Following these notices, you continued to post in the same vein and even in your response in open forum, you still inserted these links.

 

As a result I have now placed a restriction on your account and have put your account on moderation for a period of 7 days.

 

And another email I received from someone on your site team when I asked them to justify the ban on external links:-

 

 

 

 

'i' dont have too!!

 

but as you seem to be stupidly pushing this issue having been politely asked to drop it twice now......

 

for this particular subject, we DO NOT WANT THE LINKS PUBLISHED HERE.

 

regardless of it being a free site!!

 

other links are quite ok.

though ideally all links should go via admin [not us mere siteteam] for approval

 

do we understand this now?

 

or are you going to continually question things....

 

please drop it

 

your sand timer is almost empty

i have far better things to do

than debate this with someone respected

like yourself

there are VERY good reasons why we do not want it.

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Hi DBC

 

You need to get your facts right, CAG have always allowed links from moneysavingexpert, we also get quite a lot of Tweets from them, here's an example, scroll down to post no '6':-

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?351527-Purchase-from-BMCDigital-bmcdigital-**Refunded-in-full-following-escalation-to-Ebay-complaints**&highlight=moneysavingexpert

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All I can do is apologise for that DBC,I have alerted all the team to this thread to avoid further confusions.

While I cant really comment on specific incidents where a message has been generated,I will repeat again that CAG does not,and never has,had any issues with the posting of links to MSE.

 

Let me turn now to the other parking site,which in the past has been mentioned many times,without any problem.

CAG does not seek confrontation and is happy to see good debate and rational from others in the fight agains these PPCs.

But there was examples reported where it was being suggested that advice on xxx was far superior to here,and that users would be better off going there.

It is not unreasonable to be concerned at this and ask that if there is a feeling that this was the case,then it should have been discussed and debated openly.

We are not averse at all to criticism,but do not have any right of reply when users are being sent pms advising them to go to xxx.

If we are needing to improve or else there are problems with the advice,then its better we are made aware of it,so can take steps to address it.

That would seem to me to be the way to go.

We are after all,fighting the same causes.

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No he hasn't. Those of us who tried to post that link to the MSE letter chain had well over the minimum post count. We were told we could not do it as it was "touting" for other sites (whatever that means).

 

Regarding "good and bad advice". The link we were trying to post to was just a list of the many letters sent out by PPCs and their DCEs.We were told that this was not allowed and that we could create our own list on CAG. Which is a waste of time and effort when such a list existed elsewhere. A bit like reinventing the wheel.

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that we could create our own list on CAGlink31.gif. Which is a waste of time and effort when such a list existed elsewhere. A bit like reinventing the wheel.

 

There are people who are loyal to one forum for different reasons.

Some come here and dont visit MSE and visa versa.

There is an abundance of things that can be seen replicated on different consumer sites.At least an offer was made.

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Yes thats a good idea.

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Ok its now done.

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Thanks for that. Now, whenever anybody gets a bit nervous about letters they receive, we can point them to that list and show them that they are not being singled out by the PPC, but they are just receiving the usual computer generated letters that are sent out to everyone. They can even play "threatogram bingo" when each one arrives!

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Ok its now done.

 

 

 

Thankyou! At last!

 

I gave up with CAG completely a year ago because the admin team would not let me post that MSE link!

 

DBC was not making it up, and he wasn't quoting pm's sent to me either so lots of us were affected by the daft rule for many months. There were several of us whose posts were constantly pruned and deleted and sarcastic replies left each time. Look at my previous posts before this one - they date back to a year ago and here was the last one where I threw in the towel after being told NOT to help people ignore private parking tickets by showing them that link:

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?311501-Help-Parking-Ticket!!-Advice-please!&p=3473553#post3473553

 

Anyway, I may stick around again now I know I can link useful stuff. Can I link to 'pepipoo' or 'just answer' now as well or is that a step too far?

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I wonder if dx100uk would also like to apologise for remarks such as this ( from the above forum):-

 

listen last comment..........

 

links are not allowed read the site rules............

 

this is a self help site not a spoon feeders paradise.

 

the idea is people read the threads where the info and the videos are already posted several times.

 

simple ans is if you dont like CAG rules move elsewhere.

 

dx

 

last warning

 

Not only insulting but factually incorrect (links are allowed).

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I will raise this with Admin,as I understand things,there was some quite unpleasant things said,so obviously in those instances would have seen moderation,as in the case of some recent posts here.

There has to be some give and take from all sides.We dont always get things right,but I would like to think everyone can learn from mistakes.

I certainly have no problem holding my hands up.

But lets also remember that quite often theres more to the things than can be openly seen,unfortunately the absence of all the info for others looking in can very often see posts that really are unwarranted.

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UKPC, have sent me a letter in relation to parking at a Mcdonalds resturant, I was inside the resturant for over 2 hours buying their food and drinking with freinds of mine. At no point did i think i was overstaying my welcome until i received a letter from UKPC telling me that i have parked 2 mins over the time allowed to park at the macdonalds resturant in wythenshawe!!!!! I never saw any disply saying 2 hours stay only, i was to busy spending my money in mcdonalds and enjoying a get together. So what i am asking is whether i should pay this fee or not, has anyone else had a letter?

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Gina g

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UKPC, have sent me a letter in relation to parking at a Mcdonalds resturant, I was inside the resturant for over 2 hours buying their food and drinking with freinds of mine. At no point did i think i was overstaying my welcome until i received a letter from UKPC telling me that i have parked 2 mins over the time allowed to park at the macdonalds resturant in wythenshawe!!!!! I never saw any disply saying 2 hours stay only, i was to busy spending my money in mcdonalds and enjoying a get together. So what i am asking is whether i should pay this fee or not, has anyone else had a letter?

Regards

Gina g

 

First of all - you were in Mickey D's for 2 hours eating their food and drinking with friends ?! What MD's serves beer? I want to go to that one!!

 

Seriously just ignore UKPC, you owe nothing, they will send a chain of letters getting ever scarier threatening you with everything from paying their ridiculous uneforceable charge to giving up your first born as a sacrifice to the God Perkins, then they'll kindly offer you a discount if you do pay up (if the charge was enforceable why would they offer a discount!)

 

They will eventually give up and stop sending you beging letters when they realise you are not easily intimidated.

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