Excel Ticket

[Tirnanog]

surely the correct thing for excel to do would be to cancel the PCN, not use it for blackmail, and to send a seperate invoice for the £10 admin costs. Surely they dont think it wouldnt get paid?

[Mossycat]

Surely they dont think it wouldnt get paid?

 

That's the whole point of discussion on this thread

 

Some of us think they would win some of us don't. Usually we are all agreed on what to do and what is likely to happen if it went to Court but this is not the usual scenario due to your actions.

 

Personally I think if it went to Court, you would lose and it would get paid.

 

Mossy

[Barnsley Boy]

Mossycat,

 

Gosh, this is awful lot of work for £10.

 

Q - If they just pursue the £10, dropping their claim for the hundred, all the way, would they win.

 

A - I still don't think they would but accept this is a moot point.

 

This is all hypothetical because of excel's actions. They have shot themselves in the foot because of own bullying ways - all helpfully recorded in print.

 

Try mistyping something in google - you get the helpfull message "did you mean .....". Excels system is highly automated, it would be quite easy to insert fuzzy logic into the programme so that typing one letter wrong in the reg is not the end of the world. Why don't they do it, they are a big enough company after all. The reason is of course that this system suits them just "fine". If 1 in 100 people pay but type in their reg incorrectly then that becomes a fantastic extra earner.

 

I accept excel have incurred costs, however these are largely self inflicted. I do accept that m'lud might just, on a bad day, see it differently.

 

Tirnanog,

 

None of this is going to happen,

 

£10 is not a lot of money, round of drinks for yourself and partner. I definately would not pay it, I wouldn't give them the steam from my morning micturation.

[MrShed]

Tirnanog,

 

None of this is going to happen,

 

£10 is not a lot of money, round of drinks for yourself and partner. I definately would not pay it, I wouldn't give them the steam from my morning micturation.

 

I think this is the important thing. They will do NOTHING - effectively any further conversation(in particular from Mossy and myself) is just the theory behind it.

BB - fuzzy logic would not work in this situation, as you would be including almost every vehicle in the world in your car park by introducing fuzzy logic.

[Tirnanog]

Barnsley Boy, you have to be in the health profession to use the word micturation!! Surely we havent stopped all the overseas doctors etc from coming into this country so that we are now having to rely on Barnsley? :D:D

Seriously though as I said earlier today this is ludicrous for £10 and of corse it is not about that at all but about what excel are squeezing out of people by very dubious methods. Before I came on here I had looked on the internet and without making any connection until today I now notice that you were on this forum in Feb abou the same company. Checking further around he internet there are an awful number of PCNs going missing in the post so that people have to pay £100 instead of £60 but if they have misentered as I did but not had the fortune to find the original ticket they have no chance and I have a feelin this could be a fairly common occurence

[Mossycat]

Yes I agree it's a lot of typing for £10, but I never cared about the amount.

 

I love this forum because I have learnt and learn so much from it, I will only ever give advice when I know that what I am saying is factually correct and if I don't understand the rationale behind something I will ask.

 

OK this was over £10, but one day it may be over a bigger amount or then again it may never come up again (these circumstances), but I think I know what I would answer should it ever do so.

 

What I really like about this forum is that everybody with different views took the time to reply and fully state why they felt what they wrote, no bickering, no falling out, just acceptance of different viewpoints, if Excel or any other PPC reading this was expecting us to all fall out big style and be at each others throats then they were wrong (and for that I am really glad).

 

OK BarnsleyBoy has drawn me a map of where my white hat was hiding and how to find it so normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

Mossy

[lamma]

well said mossy. and welcome back

[crem]

OK BarnsleyBoy has drawn me a map of where my white hat was hiding and how to find it so normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

Mossy

 

Was that the hat I saw with the nice shiny wheel clamp on it? :grin:

[Mossycat]

Was that the hat I saw with the nice shiny wheel clamp on it? :grin:

 

Yeah but I paid the £10 admin fee and they removed it, so now I can start wearing it again

 

 

Mossy

[alesianlarken]

Hi budy,

it really sounds like Excel sheet in the msoffice.

is that right?