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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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      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.

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Hi there,

 

I was wondering if any of you had, had dealins with a company called 'Bank Complaints' run by a man called Martin Knipe?

 

If so, what are they like?

 

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I wouldn't have anything to do with this lot. Or any of the other no win/no fee brigade.

 

Their website seems intent on compounding your fears about the process of reclaiming YOUR charges back. THIS site does exactly the opposite. It shows you that YOU are now in control, and CAN do it all yourself.

 

Start a thread in the forum for your own bank, tell your story, and above all, spend time reading around the site to see what others have achieved. And how YOU can do it too.

 

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Nver had any dealings, but as they are obviously a profit making firm, I would suggest that if you want your charges back (without champertous (does that word exist?) dealings), I would just read the info here and get them back - for free!

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Quite right! you dont want the bank to profit from YOUR money so why should these companies profit from YOUR money!

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Hey everyone,

 

Thank you so much for all your replies. I do appreciate your support. I took the bull by the horns last year and spent in excess of 4 months battling with my bank, to only be told in short 'get lost!' I followed your processes to the T but they just kept saying no. Maybe it's time I started again. The problem is the charges mount up to over 5K and they just don't want to give it back.

 

Have any of you managed to successfully claim back this amount of close to it? If so I'd really appreciate any advice you have to give.

 

With kind regards, thanks again.

 

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Hey everyone,

 

Thank you so much for all your replies. I do appreciate your support. I took the bull by the horns last year and spent in excess of 4 months battling with my bank, to only be told in short 'get lost!' I followed your processes to the T but they just kept saying no. Maybe it's time I started again. The problem is the charges mount up to over 5K and they just don't want to give it back.

 

Have any of you managed to successfully claim back this amount of close to it? If so I'd really appreciate any advice you have to give.

 

With kind regards, thanks again.

 

Wills x :???: :???: :???: :???:

 

Where were you trying to claim Wills, Scotland or England? If it was England, you really shouldn't have had any problems, and should really have seen this go to court to get it sorted. NO just isn't an option for them if you really did follow the advice all the way through here.

 

If your final reply from the bank was less than 6 months ago, you are entitled to complain to the Financial Ombudsman in relation to your initial claim. That's the way I would go now if your bank hasn't paid up. Despite the scare story on the site you have mentioned.

 

Don't give up. They just can't win. I'm over 3 months into my claim, and there's no way I'm giving up. It's MY money, NOT theirs.

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  • 11 months later...

I have just discovered my sister is using them to reclaim (no idea why though) she started the claim about the time i did at the end of 2006! i got my money in 3 months. She is still waiting. Surely this company are a [problem]? If they stuck to the timetable she would've got the money before the OFT case started as I did.

She now doesn't know what to do, they have her bank statements for a start.

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Now then, I received £1500 back off HSBC last year through this company. YES they do charge, but if like me you dont have the time, ability, knowledge or patience to battle your bank yourself, it's still a small price to pay. WHAT?? 25% SMALL? well i got over a grand back that I thought I didn't have at all - still a bonus to me.

 

For those stating that it has taken ages: all bank charge claims were suspended last year and will not resume until the court cases have been completed and an outcome reached (which, by the way, is in OUR favour - Martin Knipe's company does provide all its subscribers with regular updates as to all of the necessary information regarding this).

 

Again, yes 25% fee may seem steep but it does cut out a lot of time and hassle if you can't stomach it. However, their services ARE very effective, and due to my experiences, I won't have a bad word said against them UNLESS you have personally had bad experience. Too many people comment on things they have not experienced, and it makes it much harder to find a product or service that we WILL trust. Please let people judge this company for theirselves (Bank Charges & Martin Knipe), unless someone has had a bad run (which i'd like to hear about).

 

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now why would you be coming here, digging up old threads, and posting an ad for a no win no fee crew on a self help site? perchance you work for them?

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now why would you be coming here, digging up old threads, and posting an ad for a no win no fee crew on a self help site? perchance you work for them?

If you want to pay someone to do what you could easily do yourself, then that's upto you.

Our users, however, joined this site to get the information, etc. to do the job themselves.

 

They can and do reclaim their money, probably faster than the ambulance-chasers.

The difference is that they get to keep EVERY PENNY themselves.

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:eek::mad: NO I DON'T work for the company. I am merely tring to point out that you can't go around discrediting businesses that offer a service without a basis or your complaints.

 

I run an IT business, and I provide some basic services that many of my customers could perform themselves. Does this mean that I'm wrong for advertising these services? Is it wrong for public transport to offer short distance services where people could easily walk? Is it wrong for greengrocers to sell vegetables when most people could grow their own? NO.

 

Yes, I agree that it can be done on your own for free, and yes it's great that the help and information is here to assist people in doing just that, and yes, I wholeheartedly believe in recommending that people go about it in this way. But, regardless of who you are, you CAN NOT slate a service offered without reason. It is up to the people who need these services which route they take, and recommending they do it themselves by trying to discredit the services someone else offers without basis other than cost, is no way to go about it.

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Yes, I agree that it can be done on your own for free, and yes it's great that the help and information is here to assist people in doing just that, and yes, I wholeheartedly believe in recommending that people go about it in this way. But, regardless of who you are, you CAN NOT slate a service offered without reason. It is up to the people who need these services which route they take, and recommending they do it themselves by trying to discredit the services someone else offers without basis other than cost, is no way to go about it.

 

I think you may have just answered your own argument here - nobody is 'slating' the company and the only argument against using them has been the cost (well the only one mentioned so far!). I agree that people have the choice which route to take but they must be in full possession of the 'facts' before they do so - so to point out that this can all be done without charge is scarcely 'slating' the company.

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I have just discovered my sister is using them to reclaim (no idea why though) she started the claim about the time i did at the end of 2006! i got my money in 3 months. She is still waiting. Surely this company are a [problem]? If they stuck to the timetable she would've got the money before the OFT case started as I did.

She now doesn't know what to do, they have her bank statements for a start.

 

All claims management companies must be regulated by the Ministry of Justice - Claims Management Regulation, Monitoring & Compliance Unit - CMR: Claims Management Regulation. If your sister has a complaint, she should raise it first with them and then with with the unit.

 

They released guidance a while back that all companies dealing with bank charges must advise their clients what is going on with the test case and the ongoing issues. They must also keep their clients informed.

 

There has been a problem that these claims touts [and I mean the touts who call you up at home] have been putting their address in the service address for claims against banks. This is against the Civil Procedure Rules [CPR] & Practice Directions [PD's]. The only addresses that can be put on court documents for service of documents are the Claimant's / Defendant's and their Solicitor's [or with an underage claimant/defendant or mentally incapacitated claimant/defendant the parent or guardian as a 'litigation friend' normally - except where the rules dictate - with permission from the court]. The claims were therefore struck out and the touts claiming the costs from the customers.

 

Check first that they are approved and still in existence. If you have any problems call them - number on website - and they will help.

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