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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 15:40 |
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 Please can any one help me make an effective dispute over an £80 parking charge.
I'm not disputing the offence, however, where the hell do these councils get off with NOT providing a FIRST notice and then justify bumping the price up cos I have not paid. Also my friend makes a good point about the period being over hols so do the 14days inc NY day ?
They apparently issued me a first notice on the 29th Dec 06  I NEVER got that!!!! Now they have given me 14 days to pay £80 by 12 March 07
Does any one know the law on such issues (i.e) not reciving the first £40 charge - WHAT DO I DO? Help.
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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 16:35 |
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Not sure about the legal rammifications but whenever this happens to me - a regular occurance it seems - i call them up and ask them to provide proof of postage, this usually gets them to drop it to the original cost.
This method has worked for me for years.
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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 16:45 |
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Mellisa really, I did think this would be a case of my word against the postal service! Im going to try it. Lord knows £80 at this moment in time is not going to that teef council. Thank you for you reply
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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 17:13 |
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Tell me about it!
Some b**tard baliff picked up my car for an unpaid parking ticket AFTER i had contacted him to make the damn payment.
He said he was busy and would call me back, 10 mins later hisphone was switched off an the main offices was closed - it was saturday.
By monday morning they had added £400 on top for the removal and 2 days storage!
There must be a law against these people just picking up your property and walking off with it when they have your phone number and address and you have not refused to make the payment.
To make matters worse, after checking my records it turns out I flippin paid the ticket !!!!
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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 20:23 |
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| OMG Melissa - pls tell me you lodged a stiff complaint? WTF what a piss take.
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Posted: Thursday February 8th, 2007 20:30 |
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Melissa..you need to contact the Ombudsman because it sounds like they scammed you hard!!!!!...
BFG as for you..I think you'll have to pay now contest afterwards..if you leave it they will ramp up the charges...
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 12:45 |
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It depends on the council that fined you some of them are actually not allowed to issue tickets
http://www.ticketbusters.co.uk
try them but thats gonna cost u as well
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 16:16 |
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| Lady S, thaks for that link. Very informative. I have writen my letter of appeal and told them I aint paying sh*t until they can provide evidence and bring the payment down to the original £40 cost. Bloody cheek of them. The joke is that I kept having these reocurring dreams about going outside and not being able to find my car, and then I had a dream which showed my car on a tow away truck. I then hear that a friend of mie had her car towed away last week then I get that stink letter. Eeerie or what.
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Posted: Thursday March 1st, 2007 10:32 |
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One of the problems of living in London. It happens outside london, but not at an alarming rate as in London.
The councils are only there to get your money, and it will get worse.
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Posted: Friday March 2nd, 2007 22:56 |
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| Tell me about it. Well there still looking into my 'representation' I got acknoledging letter about 2 weeks ago. I also called them yesterday, just in case they tried telling me they posted me a reply.
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Posted: Saturday March 10th, 2007 18:51 |
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News Flash!!!!
 RESULT. Just got a letter today from said council, they povided me with the evidence which I asked for, however they have also reduced the price to the rightfull £40 which I also recommended they do  Furthermore, my protesting the initial £80 enabled me to bide time. RESULT!
Let that be a lesson to us! if it aint right, just dispute the ticket. Dont pay, cos it's highly unlikely you getting that owo back.
Thank you to all those that gave advice.
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Posted: Friday June 8th, 2007 06:52 |
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As a matter of course (and I live outside London) I automatically dispute EVER ticket, regardless to whether I am wrong or not. EVERY TICKET.
If just one council allow their attendents to place just one incorrect ticket a day and they have say 20 workers, this is an easy £1.5 million pounds a year.. and we know this number is completely and total unrealistically low.
I always dispute and I always fight and so far I have always WON.
I also fight over potholes, my pride and joy hit a hole that was 4ft by 3ft and 6ins deep and they passed me from pillar to post but in the end they paid up £1600 to replace my shiny allows and disc brake and tracking and stuff.. do not just sit down and take it..
FIGHT.. even London councils can be beaten,, though having said that I am extra careful in London cos I hate the place with a vegence when it comes to traffic, cars and general moving around on transport.
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Posted: Friday June 8th, 2007 20:52 |
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'As a matter of course (and I live outside London) I automatically dispute EVER ticket, regardless to whether I am wrong or not. EVERY TICKET.'
I'm hearing you. Can you imagine I got another ticket whilst my car was parked on MY ROAD they called it footway parking - contravention 62
I've sent my letter of objection, which has been acknowledged.
Btw - Im guilty as hell - my road is narrow.
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Posted: Friday June 8th, 2007 22:01 |
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You have to think positive.. you are not guilty until the ink on the cheque is dry and the cashier says thank you..
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Posted: Saturday June 9th, 2007 05:32 |
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| Nowadays they take a photo of the issued ticket/offence so much harder to contest. Some are even sporting video cameras in their caps to rass.
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Posted: Saturday June 9th, 2007 06:56 |
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In our area, when you dispute, if it goes to tribunial/meeting.. our local tribunial guy is often on the side of the motorist.. once I was technically wrong and looking at a fine and he showed me a mistake that the council had made and let me off.. nice man.. that is not London though.. but along the way I have learnt a few tricks..
Please note I am nearly always 95% correct in my parking but it is when your bumper is over the line and stuff like that which drives me mad..
Now when my local council see my name they seem to have "oh not him again, don't bother he always win, just drop it now " attitude.. which is fine by me..
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