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im looking for some advice, I have recently received a claim form (claimant is KBT cornwall / Amtrac / BW legal) in the county court business centre Northampton, the dispute is over a parking PCN dated 23/12/2019, over the last 2 years I have received many letters, phone calls and a reply form they sent, asking if I agree I owe the parking fine, I’ve not once admitted I was the driver, but did agree that the only money owed was the £6.50 to park, my disagreement is because on the day of parking I had no change for the parking machine, but was able to pay for my parking with my bank card, I put my card into the machine, put my registration number in and how many hours I wanted to park, the total was £6.50, I entered my PIN number and after a couple of minutes the ticket dropped down and removed my bank card, I put ticket in the window of my car, on returning I had a PCN, I couldn’t understand why, I didn’t realise the ticket that I put in the window of my car was a void transaction (printed on same paper as parking ticket) as the machine had network failed, I didn’t look at the ticket when I put it into my window as I knew the time we had to be back to the car before ticket ran out, i did write them a letter explaining all this and said I was happy to pay the £6.50, as that is what I owe, I have kept all correspondence to and from them including the original car park ticket and the PCN, I feel the car park ticket machine was at fault, I have never and would never not pay to park my car, do I just give up and pay the £258, or should I keep arguing it, I know I have a limited time now to respond to them, my other question is if I argued this and it went to court, I wouldn’t be able to attend, the car park in question is in cornwall, I live in cornwall and the claimant KBT are based in cornwall, yet the court is in Northampton, any advice would be gratefully received.
Many thanks Mark Carter
im looking for some advice, I have recently received a claim form (claimant is KBT cornwall / Amtrac / BW legal) in the county court business centre Northampton, the dispute is over a parking PCN dated 23/12/2019, over the last 2 years I have received many letters, phone calls and a reply form they sent, asking if I agree I owe the parking fine, I’ve not once admitted I was the driver, but did agree that the only money owed was the £6.50 to park, my disagreement is because on the day of parking I had no change for the parking machine, but was able to pay for my parking with my bank card, I put my card into the machine, put my registration number in and how many hours I wanted to park, the total was £6.50, I entered my PIN number and after a couple of minutes the ticket dropped down and removed my bank card, I put ticket in the window of my car, on returning I had a PCN, I couldn’t understand why, I didn’t realise the ticket that I put in the window of my car was a void transaction (printed on same paper as parking ticket) as the machine had network failed, I didn’t look at the ticket when I put it into my window as I knew the time we had to be back to the car before ticket ran out, i did write them a letter explaining all this and said I was happy to pay the £6.50, as that is what I owe, I have kept all correspondence to and from them including the original car park ticket and the PCN, I feel the car park ticket machine was at fault, I have never and would never not pay to park my car, do I just give up and pay the £258, or should I keep arguing it, I know I have a limited time now to respond to them, my other question is if I argued this and it went to court, I wouldn’t be able to attend, the car park in question is in cornwall, I live in cornwall and the claimant KBT are based in cornwall, yet the court is in Northampton, any advice would be gratefully received.
Many thanks Mark Carter
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