I have been issued a Court claim on Saturday claimant as private car parking company.
I have a good parking history (over 30 times) on the site in question and every time I have parked onsite I used the “pay by phone” app to make payment.
On the 4 occasions that I have not paid, the application could not load or kept crashing.
I was issued with PCNs that’s I ignored and then when they wrote in November 2017 demanding payment, I responded and offered to pay £6.30 x 4 which is the cost I usually pay.
I also sent copies of receipts for previous parking and the “paybyphone” app update history to prove that I was in no way pulling a fast one on them.
They returned the cheques and in the letter demanded payment of £125 x2 PCN and £115 x2 PCN.
They in fact duplicated one of the PCN in that letter.
They also had an ambiguous calculation of the costs incurred I.e about £10 per letter etc.
I have received a total of 6 letters as all the 4 PCN have been addressed in one correspondence since the November.
So total of any correspondence costs would be £60 for all PCNs plus some other costs they have detailed.
They also said that there would be no further correspondence in relationship to the matter.
No room for sorting the issue out was offered.
About 2 or 3 months ago they sent a pre court action letter that I ignored as it demanded £100 per PCN.
The charges had gone down for some reason with no explanation.
Most recently was a county court claim amounting to £640 in parking charges.
The land is a previous post office sorting office purchased by private developer (unlikely to be Parking company).
They did not accept payment offered and has not proved consequential loss amounting to £160 per PCN.
They have also seemed to adjust charges from £125 and £115 to £100 plus an additional £60 for each PCN.
These cost a quite ambiguous.
I intend to admit only to the £6.30 x 4 that I paid in November and was subsequently rejected by the parking company.
My question is where I stand with this?
All advice is welcome and appreciated.
I have a good parking history (over 30 times) on the site in question and every time I have parked onsite I used the “pay by phone” app to make payment.
On the 4 occasions that I have not paid, the application could not load or kept crashing.
I was issued with PCNs that’s I ignored and then when they wrote in November 2017 demanding payment, I responded and offered to pay £6.30 x 4 which is the cost I usually pay.
I also sent copies of receipts for previous parking and the “paybyphone” app update history to prove that I was in no way pulling a fast one on them.
They returned the cheques and in the letter demanded payment of £125 x2 PCN and £115 x2 PCN.
They in fact duplicated one of the PCN in that letter.
They also had an ambiguous calculation of the costs incurred I.e about £10 per letter etc.
I have received a total of 6 letters as all the 4 PCN have been addressed in one correspondence since the November.
So total of any correspondence costs would be £60 for all PCNs plus some other costs they have detailed.
They also said that there would be no further correspondence in relationship to the matter.
No room for sorting the issue out was offered.
About 2 or 3 months ago they sent a pre court action letter that I ignored as it demanded £100 per PCN.
The charges had gone down for some reason with no explanation.
Most recently was a county court claim amounting to £640 in parking charges.
The land is a previous post office sorting office purchased by private developer (unlikely to be Parking company).
They did not accept payment offered and has not proved consequential loss amounting to £160 per PCN.
They have also seemed to adjust charges from £125 and £115 to £100 plus an additional £60 for each PCN.
These cost a quite ambiguous.
I intend to admit only to the £6.30 x 4 that I paid in November and was subsequently rejected by the parking company.
My question is where I stand with this?
All advice is welcome and appreciated.
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