Armtrac Security Services!, Parking charge notice in Falmouth Options

[Decado]

Hi

Hope someone here can give me some advice. I have had a look through the topics and see the name of Armtrac coming up regularly.

I parked in a car park in Falmouth yesterday and put in £2.20 (for two hours) into the ticket machine, took the ticket and placed it on the dash board. Came back 1.5 hours later to find a Parking Charge Notice on the windscreen. We were puzzled as we had paid for two hours. However, looking at the ticket the fee is shown as £2 and the expiry time 30 minutes before we got back to the car. It would appear that the 20p was not accepted by the ticket machine or it is faulty.

Having done some research on KBT Cornwall Ltd trading as Armtrac Security Services it would appear that the best advice is to ignore them. is this still the case?

The ticket that has been issued is really poorly hand written and I can't work out which car park I was supposed to be in as it is unreadable.

Any advice gratefully accepted.

Regards

Paul

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[hoohoo]

The OP said their POPLA appeal was 'due on the XXX'. I'm assuming this means 'due to be adjudicated by' and not 'has to be submitted by'. You only know when your appeal is due to be adjudicated once you have started your POPLA appeal.

I think therefore, that they have already been charged £27. Let's hope POPLA don't do refunds!

[swellchaser]

They could always 'appeal'.....

[Decado]

The OP said their POPLA appeal was 'due on the XXX'. I'm assuming this means 'due to be adjudicated by' and not 'has to be submitted by'. You only know when your appeal is due to be adjudicated once you have started your POPLA appeal.

I think therefore, that they have already been charged £27. Let's hope POPLA don't do refunds!

I just took the date from their "rejection of appeal letter" and the date of my receipt of said letter and added about 28 days to get the date of XXXXX. My heart bleeds for their loss of £27 + VAT :-)

[Jack155]

I have been reading this forum with interest since being ticketed by these guys a while ago, and have found out a couple of things that may be of use to you guys

Firstly there is no charge to the PPC for issuing a POPLA code, it is formulated in house based on their unique 3 digit code (first 3 digits), followed by numbers formulated from the date that the appeal was rejected (so POPLA can tell if they have appealed to them within the required time scale) i.e. the number of the day of the year (jan 1st being 001 and 31st dec being 365), followed by the year as a single digit (2013 being 3 and 2014 being 4) and finally a 3 digit number representing your position in the number of appeals they have rejected on that particular day (so if your appeal was the 5th rejection of the day then its 005).

Secondly, the BPA rarely issue sanction points as they believe that it is more appropriate to issue warnings i.e. address this issue and prove that it has been done or we will give you sanction points. Therefore your wasting you time solely complaining to POPLA or BPA. Wait for them to get your details from the DVLA, then complain to the DVLA; that way the BPA will be forced to act appropriately/effectively.

[nigelbb]

Firstly there is no charge to the PPC for issuing a POPLA code, it is formulated in house based on their unique 3 digit code (first 3 digits), followed by numbers formulated from the date that the appeal was rejected (so POPLA can tell if they have appealed to them within the required time scale) i.e. the number of the day of the year (jan 1st being 001 and 31st dec being 365), followed by the year as a single digit (2013 being 3 and 2014 being 4) and finally a 3 digit number representing your position in the number of appeals they have rejected on that particular day (so if your appeal was the 5th rejection of the day then its 005).

That's very interesting information to stored away & used if necessary. You must have some insider knowledge to provide this method of decoding.

[bama]

seconded. very interesting to see the algorithm.