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      Excel/DCBL ANPR PCN - Appealed - 5minutes overstay - iceland gravesend

      By FTMDave · Posted

      I do disagree with you regarding one thing - we are not very good with letters or these situations and are slow on the uptake. So far you have stood up to Excel and their threats, immediately given us the information in the sticky, done loads of reading up to educate yourselves, learnt from the mistake of outing the driver so you'll know not to do so in the future, got on to the organ grinder to try to get them to call off their dogs, etc., etc.  Good grief - we wish everyone who came here would do this!!! Most people who get these invoices sadly think they have been fined and if they don't pay a drone from Ukraine will be diverted and will fall on their home (or some such vague grand apocalyptic threat) and they fold and give in.  You haven't.  Well done. Don't worry - you won't be paying a penny.  Although it will take some time to see off this vile company.
    • FTMDave
      PCM vanishing windscreen PCN - Royale Leisure Park - W3 (London)

      By FTMDave · Posted

      Spot on!  You learn quickly. Who cares if the case gets sent to debt collectors?  They have no powers.  All the effort you will have to put in will be to open envelopes - and then spend time laughing at their daft "threats".  No stress at all!
    • AllianceParkingHater
      Alliance Parking ANPR PCN (NTK now LOC) - Appeal Refused - 17min Overstay - Harlyn Bay

      By AllianceParkingHater · Posted

      I did ask them why, but seems they have more spare cash than we do .. ;-( .. I doubt their bank would even support a chargeback after a year has passed. Anyway I've constructed my first DRAFT Snotty Letter .. so here goes ..   RE: PCN 4xxxxx Dear ALLIANCE PARKING Litigation Dept, Thank you for your dubious Letter Of Claim (dated 29th April 2024) of £100 for just 2 minutes of overstay. The family rolled around on the floor in amazement of the idea you actually think they’d accept this nonsense, let alone being confused over the extra unlawful £70 you had added. Shall we raise that related VAT issue with HMRC, or perhaps the custodians of the unicorn grain silos? Apart from the serious GDPR breach you’ve made with the DVLA and your complete failure in identifying the driver, we’re dumbfounded that the PCN is still not compliant with the PoFA (2012 Schedule 4 Under Section 9.2.f) even after 12 years of pathetic trial and error. We also doubt a judge would be very impressed at your bone idleness and lack of due diligence regarding the ANPR entry / exit periods compared with actual valid parking periods. Especially with no consideration of the legally allowed grace periods and the topological nature of the Cornish landscape versus a traditional multi-storey. And don’t even get us started on the invisible signage during the ultra busy bank holiday carnage, that is otherwise known as the random parking chaos in the several unmarked over-spill fields, or indeed the tedious “frustration of contract” attempting to get a data connection to Justpark.  We suggest your clients drop this extreme foolishness or get an absolute hammering in court. We are more than ready to raise the issues with a fair minded judge, who will most likely laugh your clients out in less time than it takes to capture more useless ANPR photos. We will of course be requesting “an unreasonable costs order” under CPR 27.14.2.g and put it toward future taxis to Harlyn Bay instead.  We all look forward to your clients' deafening silence. Legal Counsel on behalf of the Vehicle Keeper.  
    • sprouting
      Moorgroup (Moorcroft?) on behalf of eBay

      By sprouting · Posted

      Hi,t I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right subsection but General Retail appears to be the closest to it I think... About a year and a half ago I got a new phone so I listed my iPhone 10 on eBay.  The listed stated 'UK only' and 'no returns accepted'. Considering I had had the phone for about 4 years, I myself was amazed that I had kept it in such good condition all that time - apart from being slightly scuffed around the charging port there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. It had the original box, its unopened original Apple cable, plug, and earbuds, and I threw in a case for it and It had always had a screen protector on it. Someone wanted it from Armenia, and I stupidly agreed to it.  She paid and I sent it off, fully insured. Not long after she received it, she sent a message saying it 'was not as described', so I asked to see photos of whatever was the problem.  She sent two photographs of the box.  Just the box.  I said I wasn't even going to consider refunding her unless she told me what she meant by 'not as described'.  I thought, if it's been damaged in transit, then it would be covered by the insurance. Anyway, she didn't respond at all, even though I had messaged her several times, so she opened a case with eBay. I have sold a fair few things of mine on eBay in the past buy had never had had anyone come back to me asking for a refund.  I got in touch with eBay several times by phone and by email, and found out they always side with the buyer, no matter what with their 'eBay Seller Guarantee'.  She had been told she could keep the phone and told me they would recover the money from me from my account blah blah.  So I unlinked all of my cards etc and changed my bank account to one that I never use with no money in it. My account got suspended.  I continued to try to explain to eBay that I had been scammed but I got nowhere. My account was permanently inaccessible by this point. I reported the phone stolen and the IMEI blacklisted but I'm not sure if that would make any difference being in Armenia, but it was all I could think of to piss the buyer off. A couple of months later I was contacted by email by a debt recovery company (I can' remember who now), to whom I explained I will not discuss the matter with them until I had received an SAR I had requested from eBay. As I could no longer access my account, I couldn't review the communication I needed to show I was not in the wrong. The SAR was produced but I was advised that the information I was looking for would not be included but I said I wanted it anyway.  There were so many codes etc. and hoops to jump through to access it, that even after trying whilst on the phone to them, I still couldn't get into it, so I never got to see it in the end.  I think they said they would send the code by post but they never did and I forgot about it after a while. I've just come across a couple of emails from Moorgroup, asking me to phone them to discuss a private matter regarding eBay.  I haven't replied or done anything at all yet.  The amount they are trying to recover from me is £200ish from what I remember. I know it's not that much but I don't want to pay the b*astards on general principle. I've had a lot of useful advice from CAG in the past about debt collectors but it has always been about being chased by creditors, I've never been in this situation before. I don't know what power they legally have to recover the 'debt', and most importantly, I am two years into a DRO, and the last thing I want is another CCJ to shake off if I'm cutting my nose off to spite my face.   Any advice gratefully received!!
    • leighb3ta
      Problem with The Sims on Macbook

      By leighb3ta · Posted

      Hi, I have the Sims 4 on Macbook. Over the last year I have paid for multiple add on packs spending a lot of money on them. I bought them all in good faith as my Mac met all the minimum requirements to play them. I have been playing happily for about a year and bought my latest pack just over a week ago. The games were all working fine yesterday. Then suddenly today EA released a new app to launch the games and this new app requires a MAC OS that my computer cannot use. Now suddenly none of my games are accessible and I am unable to play anything. They did not warn us about this change in requirements and if I had known they would be doing this I wouldn't have bought all these add ons as they are now all totally unusable. The games themselves have not changed, only their app to launch them and I can't afford to buy a brand new mac just to play. So my question is how can they change the minimum requirements after I have paid for a game? I agreed to pay for them based on the fact my mac met their requirements and was not informed when purchasing that this would be an issue in the future. I understand new games (like Sims 5 which is to be released next year) might not be compatible but this is a 10yr old game that they have suddenly made inaccessible due to their new launch app. Does anybody know if I can do anything or anyway to get a partial refund from them? Thanks   Here are their T&C... I can't find anything in there about them being able to do this so not sure what to do https://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/

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      We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

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      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Holy Mackerel, Batman!

 

You thought Blair & Co were set on trampling on individual liberties?

 

Well, their problem was they obviously thought too small. Meet the man who's intent on doing it from the top:

 

Metro UK - 20/05/2010 digital edition

 

First, the 55%, then this? I knew he was related to the Queen, I didn't realise he was intent in becoming King himself! Well, when I say King... I think the correct word is actually "dictator". :-|

 

Ah well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get the chance to kick them out in 5 years, which is more than you can say for the people who make most of our laws. Plus, Gordon has gone!

 

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I have always thought that Lewis Hamilton was too young for his job. Does win some, but has lost many races through rash, ill judged decisions (just like a typical teenager). I think his younger age has a lot to do with it.

 

I have the same feeling with these 2 barn pots running the country. We are going to suffer more than we have done lately. Mark my words.

 

Metro UK - 20/05/2010 digital edition

 

 

And so it begins:(

 

 

(Thanks for that link Bookster);)

 

 

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

 

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That is absolutely fantastic. The whole thing has been totally ridiculous. You either like a house and want it, or you don't. You don't buy a house because of its energy certificate, and half the time a conveyancing solicitor will do the work again anyway.

 

Well it was probably all to do with Gordon's ever-growing list of stealth taxes. We're probably still lumbered with most of them and will be until the mess that Labour left behind is sorted out.

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Gordon Brown is not the Labour party :rolleyes:

 

ConDem will do far, far worse ;)

 

We shall see. For me, it's difficult to see how anything could be worse than Brown and the Labour party. Let's face it, we would be in for a tough time whoever had been voted in because of the mess Labour made of the economy. In a way, I would like to have seen Brown left where he was to clear it up, but it's been left to the other two.

 

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The thing about Gordon, and the Labour Party, is that actually they did lots of good things for some people. My elderly mother says she's now financially secure thanks to things like Winter Fuel payments, no tv licence and other minor benefits, but it's at the expense of lots of other people's tax bills, including mine ( when I was working;))

 

No matter how hard they try, Labour will always be a tax-and-spend party, and are too nervous to take the really hard decisions that the current economic realities demand. Take the VAT reduction for example. Who rushed out to spend because there was 2 1/2% off the prices, when the majority of retailers were already knocking 30% off their prices in an effort to get us to part with our money.

 

All it did was reduce the Govt's income by £12bn, and allow Gordon and his pals to say they were taking action to help the economy.........and that's the line they'd continue to adopt if they were still in power. All talk and not much action

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Good news also that HIP, (Home Information Pack) is also ending!

Hmmm... Not so good news for the people who have trained, invested, and got a job they thought would be for a long time to deal with them and are now out of a job with no warning. :rolleyes:

 

Not so good news for people who will now go back to pay for searches instead.

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Ah well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get the chance to kick them out in 5 years,

Here's hoping... But if you can't see that he is already changing things within 1 week so he can't get challenged or kicked out, then you need to wake up. This is just the top of the iceberg, mark my words. :-(

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Here's hoping... But if you can't see that he is already changing things within 1 week so he can't get challenged or kicked out, then you need to wake up. This is just the top of the iceberg, mark my words. :-(

 

Like I said before Bookie, I'm relaxed about things. Not because I particularly like what we've got, but because it's too early to tell yet. I can't see this lasting for too long to be honest but whatever happens we will all suffer because of the mess left behind by Gordon Brown and Labour.

 

One thing is for sure - not one of the tens of millions of voters got the government they chose on May 6th. I can't see Cameron getting too out of hand because his coalition partners won't let him. Let's just see.

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Hmmm... Not so good news for the people who have trained, invested, and got a job they thought would be for a long time to deal with them and are now out of a job with no warning. :rolleyes:

 

Not so good news for people who will now go back to pay for searches instead.

 

 

But that's the problem exactly......unnecessary, comfortable public sector jobs, to massage the jobless totals.

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But that's the problem exactly......unnecessary, comfortable public sector jobs, to massage the jobless totals.

 

Precisely. All at high salaries, inflation-busting pay rises and big pensions, paid for by those of us in the private sector, the wealth makers, who are not afforded the same luxury.

 

Before anyone whinges about that comment, my Wife works in the Public sector in a very non-cushy job and my Daughter is a student Nurse - also not a cushy vocation. I am not against the public sector per se, just those in it who do totally unnecessary jobs and I am sure there are plenty of those. Mind you, I'm not sure that we will see the back of all of the non-jobs while Clegg's mob have a say but that remains to be seen.

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Agree Fred!

 

This also looks to be a step in the right direction:

Credit Today online

 

Well if Credit Today and its cronies are against it, it must be good news for the rest of us.

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To pick up Fred's point about pensions, the average private employer's contribution to a pension scheme ( if they have make any contribution at all mind you!!!) is about 5% or 6% .

 

For teachers, the employer's contribution.....ie from the taxpayers...is 14%, and they can all retire at 60, instead of 65 like the private sector.,

 

Cushy ain't the word!!

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To pick up Fred's point about pensions, the average private employer's contribution to a pension scheme ( if they have make any contribution at all mind you!!!) is about 5% or 6% .

 

For teachers, the employer's contribution.....ie from the taxpayers...is 14%, and they can all retire at 60, instead of 65 like the private sector.,

 

Cushy ain't the word!!

 

Not to mention 13 weeks holidays a year! I know, I know, they mark homework at home and do a bit during the summer hols too. I have to go abroad now and then and I can assure you that getting up at 4 to catch a flight then finishing work at 8pm is not cushy. I'm not high up the scale either - it's much worse for the ones who do it frequently.

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Before you criticise another man you should first walk a mile in his shoes. Then, when you criticise him, you'll be a mile away and he won't have any shoes on.

 

Don't get me confused with somebody knowledgeable by all those green blobs. I got most of them by making people laugh.

 

I am not European, I am English.

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I see Diane Abbot has put herself up for the leadership of the Labour party. I wonder what her chances are. Another Labour hypocrite who likes to tell the rest of us to how to live our lives and would have all of us send our kids to state-run schools but has her own educated privately.

 

I hope she wins.

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I am not European, I am English.

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I hope Diane wins too. :D The rest of them are all the same. I think it would be good if the Labour party had a leftwinger in charge.

 

As far as being a hypocrite over her son's education is concerned though, I think Cameron is far worse.

 

Diane has at least said it's a fair cop and she is putting her son before party politics - and she is paying the fees. CallmeDave sending his daughter to a state primary to show he's one of the people is just ludicrous and doesn't fool anyone. His daughter does not go to the 'local' primary. She goes to a very successful middle-class primary in the middle of Kensington - quite a trek from his home. There are 22 other state primaries closer to his house. He could afford to pay for a place at a private school for his daughter, and by doing so make a place at that very good school available to a child whose parent(s) can't afford to pay fees, so will have to settle for second best for their child. :(

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The funniest thing to watch on This Week was when it first started many, many years ago. She and Michael Portillo would have a good six inches of space between them at the beginning of the programme and during the time it was on she would edge closer and closer to him, inch by inch, until she was touching him. Now they just sit touching from the beginning. :eek:

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The funniest thing to watch on This Week was when it first started many, many years ago. She and Michael Portillo would have a good six inches of space between them at the beginning of the programme and during the time it was on she would edge closer and closer to him, inch by inch, until she was touching him. Now they just sit touching from the beginning. :eek:

 

Didn't somebody compare the two of them to biscuits , saying one was a custard cream and the other one a bourbon!?

Before you criticise another man you should first walk a mile in his shoes. Then, when you criticise him, you'll be a mile away and he won't have any shoes on.

 

Don't get me confused with somebody knowledgeable by all those green blobs. I got most of them by making people laugh.

 

I am not European, I am English.

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