Thanks guys

Hi, I have a Disabled Blue badge issued by my local authority. In London, if you are not sure you have to ring the local council of where you want to park to make sure they recognise your blue badge, signage usually provide a number. There is no standardization. IE, If Islington issued your badge, you cant park in Hackney on a resident permit only bay. But you can park on Islington bays with a hackney blue badge. So it's best to check. Anyway, I drove up to Ipswich today. I parked in a resident parking bay and visited a house in that street (which I can prove). There were no signs with phone numbers to check (which, as I stated, is what you do in London). There were no disabled bays in that street or outside the house I visited. I have mobility problems so needed to park close. I rang 118 and could only get phone number for an automated payment line for Ipswich Parking. Anyway, as you can guess I have a ticket dispite displaying my blue badge and clock. Is it worth appealing on any grounds? Thanks

Thanks all, Simply Acer and Acer are useless. Dont buy their products. Thats my opinion and I'll back it up any way I can

Hi there, I bought two laptops from Simply Acer on Jan 4th 2008. I paid 50pounds each for 3 year extended warranty. Just last week the power supply packed up. I rang the Acer warranty number and they told me that I hadn't registered the warranties. To cut a long story short, within the paraphanalia that came with the laptops were sealed booklets that had numbers and passwords that have to be registered online. I did the process and rang them back. They then said that they could see that I had registered but didnt accept the warranty because I didn't do it within 1 year of purchase. I didn't know the warranty had to be registered, the retailer didn't tell me this. Sure enough it does confirm this in the sealed booklet but I think it's a little unfair because untill last week I had no reason to open the warranty booklet. If I've messed up I'll be gutted but I'll accept my error. But I was just wondering if I do have any rights. They are totally unforgiving at Acer, even though I've stated I don't want my warranty to begin when I registered, and its only the power supply: it's not like its the motherboard or something expensive. I tried to argue that if I'm not told specifically to open the seal, or there is not a message on the back telling me to open it, why sould I assume that it's something I have to do: I didn't do it with the warranties I got when I bought my TV from Currys or a laptop from Comet. Can anyone advise? Thanks

Hi All Recieved the final letter as you predicted and have heard nothing since. I never contacted macdonalds or the parking company and ignored but kept all their requests for payment. So thanks for your help and if anyone else is worried, the advice on this site is accurate, ignore it all and it goes away. The only problem I had was due to the fact that all the letters were addressed to my wife and she was worried but its all worked out fine

ok...and then? thanks

Hi, Ignored all the MET letters, recieved about 5 in total. I now have a letter from a debt collector giving 7 days to pay 150 pounds before passing matter to solicitors. What next? Many thanks

Point taken, I agree to a certain extent. However, they tracked us down by our number plate. That gives the letter an air of legitimacy: can I track down someones address from their number plate? This is not something covered by life skill knowledge Also, this company is mimmicing the tactics of the PCNs that councils send out if you are unfortunate enough to be caught by one of their money making (legitimate) scams. This makes it look real too. Finally I didnt learn about motgages untill I needed to get one. Then I did the reasearch. Thats what I'm doing by gaining advice on this forum: I got the letter today and now have the life skills to deal with it. So... Thanks

Hi Lamma It's her credit she's worried about. She's never had problems before, luckily, but I know people go to get a loan and find they are unable to because of unpaid parking tickets. Is such a credit problem possible in this instance. Can they maliiciously cause her such problems or is that not relevant? Thanks again

Hi All. I recieved one of thes 50 pound finds today for sitting in their car park for 80 mins. Is ignoring the letter still the way forward? I was driving but it was my wife's car and she got the letter. I don't want to get her in trouble Thanks