ES/Gladstones Claimform - PCN Kent Street Lpool - ***Claim Discontinued***

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Strange,

the first letter from parking companies is usually for around £50 to £60 then followed up with £100 if no contact is made by the motorist.

 

Don't bother answering any of their silly letters

 

but to give yourself the best possible chance to avoid paying anything

 

please could you answer the following to give us the full picture and so give you the best advice

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?462118-Have-you-received-a-Parking-Ticket

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They are dead in the water. NTK sent way after the date it should have been received.

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hayho1 in your first post you said that the charge was £100.

Did it also offer a reduced payment of around £60 if paid within 14 days of the notice?

 

If it didn't then Renegade Imp makes a good point that there was a ticket issued on the day which would have been around the £60 mark.

That would have been a Notice to Driver.

 

That ticket is some times removed by the company deliberately so that by the time the NTK arrives after the POFA protection has gone.

 

In this instance they apparently didn't use POFA anyway and even if they had, they sent the NTK too early.

 

So still nothing to worry about.

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RenegadeImp is quite right -just do nothing.

 

I don't think I have ever seen such a joke of car park instructions.

The IPC should be a laughing stock having them as a member.

And it makes a mockery of the DVLA claim that they have tough safeguards in place to protect motorists [though mostly themselves I fear].

 

Clamping has been outlawed on private land since 2012.

 

a] Vehicles must be parked legally and not causing an obstruction

b] your car must be parked in a designated bay

c] your car must be parked wholly within the confines of a marked parking bay

 

On notices it says all tickets expire at midnight on their ticket machine it says that all tickets expire at 23.59 .

So do next days tickets start at midnight or 00.1?

 

At the entrance it states £5 per visit;

on the tariff notice it says £5 all day

and £1 per hour

so it's not £5 per visit.

 

But does it mean that if you pay for an all day ticket then leave after a few hours,

you have to pay again even though you have an all day ticket in your possession.?

 

Confusion over whether the reduced payment is £50 as per the Notice or £60 as per the letter.

 

They also state on their Notice that failure to pay the charge within a set time will have the debt increased by £40 with further unspecified charges added after that if "debt" still unpaid.

 

To be fair to them on that one the IPC code of Conduct does allow for their members to add costs for unpaid charges in blatant disregard for POFA 2012 so one could postulate that IPC are aiding and abetting their members to break the Law.

 

DVLA when will you ever get a grip.

It's all going on under your nose which is probably a difficult trick when they have their heads in the sand.

 

HAho1 if ES has any sense they will quietly pack their bags and retire quietly from the scene.

We already know from their notices that they have no sense

so further letters will probably keep coming your way.

You know know that there is nothing to worry about with them.

 

A letter of complaint to Trading Standards for threatening to clamp and ditto to DVLA.

Wasting your time with IPC - too incompetent.

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Hayho1

I am pleased that you can now rest easy regardless of how much they add on to the bill plus threaten you with being hung drawn and quartered.

 

Whilst all the time you are having a laugh at their expense.

 

The only thing to watch out for is if you receive a Letter Before Action.

I cannot believe they could be that stupid.

Usually though when people don't respond these companies give up as they realise that their letters and threats do not appear to be scaring you into replying and they move on to those people who they can scare into paying without going to Court.

 

Please keep us updated with Trading Standards and DVLA.