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    • Morning, I purchased a car from Big Motoring World on 10th December 2023 for £14899.00. On the 15th December I had a problem with the auto start stop function of the car in which the car would stop in the middle of the road with a stop start error message. I called the big assist and the car was booked in for February. The BMW was with them for a week and it came back with the auto stop start feature all fine and all error codes cleared on the report from big motoring world. within 5 days I had the same issue. Warning light coming on and the car stopping. I called big assist again and the car was again booked in for an other repair in May. Car was taken back in may, they had the car for a week and returned with the report saying no issue with the auto stop start feature and blamed my driving. Within 5 days of having the car back it broke down again. This time undrivable. I had the rac pick my car up and take to Stephen James BMW for a full diagnostic. The diagnostic came back with the car needing a new fuel system as magnetic swarf was found.  I have sent big motoring world a letter stating all the issues and that under the consumer rights act 2015 I have asked for a replacement vehicle. all reports from Stephen James BMW have been sent over to big motoring world. Big motoring world have come back and said they will respond to my complaint within 14 days for the date of my complaint letter. I am not feeling confident on the response from them, what are my next steps?   Thanks in advance. 
    • That is really good is that a mistake last off "driver doesn't have a licence" I assume that should be keeper? The Court requested me to send the Court and applicant proof of my sons disability from their GP this clearly shows he has Severe Mental Impairement, he is also illiterate.  I naively assumed once the applicant received this that they would drop the claim.  It offends me that Bank has asked the Judge to throw the case out at the preliminary hearing and to make us pay up.
    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
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I spent £300 on tickets I never received from these bunch of crooks. They sent me an email like 2 days before saying I could receive my tickets at the venue or they would issue me with a refund. I emailed them back asking for a refund as from other reviews I know they wont turn up at the venue. Suprise suprise no reply.

 

This morning I sent special delivery letter asking for a refund. Will they actually sign for this or will it get returned to me? I never threatened them with court I only asked for a refund. Do you think I will get one?

 

If not what do I need to do to make them refund?

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Hi becky

I sent a letter before the concert threatening court and our order was deleted from their system. Our account was refunded before I had the chance to threaten anything else! My leter was sent SD.

I have reported them to trading standards. I printed off online receipts for everything just incase my pc crashed.

Good luck and post any results you may get for other people dealing with them.

PS My oh had also bought tickets for Cold Play from them........he is now banned from purchasing tickets unless he is supervised;)

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PS My oh had also bought tickets for Cold Play from them........he is now banned from purchasing tickets unless he is supervised;)

 

I definitely think you have done the right thing cymruambyth......

 

Anyone who wants to see Cold Play needs 24 hour supervision:p.

 

 

If all else fails, kick them where it hurts and SOD'EM;)

 

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Hi becky

 

I sent a letter before the concert threatening court and our order was deleted from their system. Our account was refunded before I had the chance to threaten anything else! My leter was sent SD.

I have reported them to trading standards. I printed off online receipts for everything just incase my pc crashed.

Good luck and post any results you may get for other people dealing with them.

PS My oh had also bought tickets for Cold Play from them........he is now banned from purchasing tickets unless he is supervised;)

 

So did you get the refund before you sent the small claims letter or after. I am at that stage now (after following your advice and trading standards) in that I have already sent a SD letter threatening court action if they do not pay within 5 days. Tomorrow I will be issuing the small calims on line procedure. I was not receiving any responses from emails and phone calls and was being fobbed off.

 

My situation is slightly different where I have sold tickets and have not had payments.

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Hi I sent this letter the same day as I had notification of late arrival of tickets and that they would have to be collected from venue.

Dear Sirs

 

On xxxx 2009 I purchased 4 tickets for the Bruce Springsteen Concert at Hyde Park, London on 28 June 2009. The tickets cost £XXXX, including all fees.

 

I have yet to receive my tickets and have been unable to contact your company by email, phone or text. Please advise me when I will receive these tickets.

 

If these tickets do not arrive in time for the concert, I will be taking action through the small claims court to recover my money and any sundry expenses.

 

Yours faithfully

The next day my order was deleted from their system :(. Two days later the money was credited to my card. I only know this because I was doing online banking. I have had no correspondence from them.

I think TS are investigating them, so complain to them.

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They appear to have had some problems......;);).....and are now clearing their paperwork.

'They are a big company.....would never do anything wrong......it was Michael Jackson wot done it for us my lord......'

Good luck to everyone

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They appear to have had some problems......;);).....and are now clearing their paperwork.

'They are a big company.....would never do anything wrong......it was Michael Jackson wot done it for us my lord......'

Good luck to everyone

 

 

Yes, I have had several excuses including Michael Jackson and the fact that two book-keepers left in the same week!!! Also when you phone up you get "Hello"...not "Hello, this is such and such". One man also claimed he was not part of onlineticketexchange and was in fact ticketmate sharing an office...until the next day when he miraculaously became onlineticketexchange again!! Shambles!!!

 

I have today filed a small claims proceudre against teh company so hopefully will get my money back??? Who knows, I willl et you know.

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Wow I got a phone call today explaining that they were going to refund my money and it wasn;t there fault that the tickets were released late and that there had been a postal strike Ha. But due to the death of MJ then it could take up to a week. If I don;t get a refund in a week which I probably won;t then I will send another SD letter threatening court action. I can see why people just give up trying to claim the money back the amount of time I have wasted and the cost of all the phone calls.

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They told me that in May their phone lines were cut by the Met for 6 weeks............so don't give up hope. I didn't have anything from them, just discovered the money in my account! They may realise that they will be prosecuted if they aren't careful, plus they will lose all their customers if they don't start getting some positive feedback!!!

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Wow I got a phone call today explaining that they were going to refund my money and it wasn;t there fault that the tickets were released late and that there had been a postal strike Ha. But due to the death of MJ then it could take up to a week. If I don;t get a refund in a week which I probably won;t then I will send another SD letter threatening court action. I can see why people just give up trying to claim the money back the amount of time I have wasted and the cost of all the phone calls.

 

Just to let you know I had the same response when they receive my letter threatening small claims if they did not pay up. They actually phoned me(!!!!) YES..THEY PHONED ME!!!! Said teh cheques were going out and they were busy and they said they are normally quicker...I think wanting future business...as if!!! I was (naively I suppose) optimistic.

 

But no payment!!!

So yesterday I issued a small claims procedure online. I will let you know if they pay up because of that. I suppose they have to since I have all the emails saying they owe me money. I think you are right, that they bank on most people just giving up!

 

I will keep you posted...but don't give up.

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Sorry can't help any more as I've said before, my mney appeared before I asked for it! they have been in trouble with the Met Police, so maybe you could contact them. I think their local station is Sothwark.

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I have now had several phone calls from them and they keep telling me i will get a refund, and I still haven't. I have contacted my bank for a chargeback but I don;t know how I will get on.

 

Mangoo please let me know how you get on with the small claims procedure.

 

Will do becky as soon as I hear something.

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Hi everyone, just a further word of advice............having received my money, I've just discovered that they appear to be quietly helping themselves to money from my bank account.:mad:So, if you ever get your money back, check over the following few months for any rogue payments :-x

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Mangoo just wondered if you had got anything back. Im going to start small claims procedings on monday as its been ages now and still no luck

 

 

Still nothing. They are really dragging their heels on this one. You may or may not know but the small claims has several stages. Yesterday I entered the final stage, called issuing a warrant. This essentially means that they have not replied to the small claims summons and no it gets handed to the local court who basically send round the bailiffs to get the money from them personally. I hopefully should hear what happens with respect to that next week. In the meantime I have had email contact with them where they keep coming out with excuses, and hinting that they are about to pay...but you know the rest.

 

Do go ahead with the samll claims, and push it through. Hopefully it will resolve positively. It will cost, but in theory they are liable for those costs too. I really did not want to go this far, but now it's got to the point that I just want my money, and it's a point of principle. I can't really let them get away with it. I just wished they had responded to the first part of the small claims. I will let you know if anything happens.

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6 weeks ago, I bought and paid for tickets for the V festival this weekend. As of this morning I had still heard nothing other than the tickets had been delayed. I emailed and got no response but I did get through on the telephone this morning to be told that it would be a pick up at the venue affair. I told the gentleman that having read the reviews online, I was making my way to their office so someone could explain to me in person. He said I was welcome to do so but the tickets weren't at the office, I would only be able to get them at the venue. I went down and was given my tickets then and there. He explained that they only received the tickets themselves in batches and hence the delay.

In short, if you're lucky enough to live nearby, go in and get the tickets - don't be put off if they say they don't have them.

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Yet another installment:mad:

 

OH bought 3 sets of tickets for sons................

Last ones were for Coldplay. 'Yes tickets will be despatched next week.' 'The tickets will be sent SD tomorrow.' 'Sorry manager has left the office....'

Email to say, can only get seated tickets for an extra amount or full refund, reply FULL REFUND.

Email can get standing tickets from Ticketmaster, can have credit note. Email want FULL REFUND or else.

Letter requesting FULL REFUND and LBA......7 days.

Email tickets can be collected from Henry on a mobile outside Wembley before concert.

Phone call pointing out all the above 'go call the police then' and phone slammed down.

 

Next installment will involve how to sue through mcol (I don't know how) and possibly who I have complained to (logged with TS :()

 

PS Ticketmaster supplied tickets face value at Wembley, excellent service.

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Latest update:(. I have sent 2 RD letters, spoken to people and sent emails.....guess what still waiting. On last phone call was asked why I kept ringing and told to 'go report us to the police'.

They have been given until the 10th for my refund.

Monday I'm going through mcol and the police. How easy is mcol and does it cost anything?

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