Private Parking Tickets discussion

smitty2482

so if i do cancel my cheque i believe my bank does this for £10 so £20 saved there.Wont it give these chancers a big oppertunity to take things further?

peter_the_piper

There is nowhere for them to take anything further. They will send you about 6 ever more threatening letters all of which are empty threats.

Coblcris

It is possible to sue on a cancelled cheque, it is a Bill of Exchange after all.
The possibility in these cases seems remote.

smitty2482

peter_the_piper wrote: »

There is nowhere for them to take anything further. They will send you about 6 ever more threatening letters all of which are empty threats.

so your saying cancel the cheque?what should i say to the bank for doing this?bwt i greatly appreiciate your help in this

Coupon-mad

smitty2482 wrote: »

so your saying cancel the cheque?what should i say to the bank for doing this?bwt i greatly appreiciate your help in this

It's your cheque and you can stop it just by telling the Bank that you want to stop it. You could tell them you've now realised this is a scam if you want to!

It shouldn't be a problem as long as the cheque wasn't guaranteed by your cheque guarantee card. I presume you didn't write your own cheque guarantee card number on the back of the cheque (a pointless exercise anyway if you do this yourself and then post a cheque!).

I used to work in a Bank...for too many years...and if I were you I would stop this cheque, there's nothing to lose except the 'stop' fee you'll pay to the bank. I assume it will cost you a fiver or so to stop it, then Britannia won't get their money and you've saved £25.

Britannia are really tame, they only send about 3 letters then they give up and I can't see them getting too bothered about a bounced cheque. What can they do about it, they never take people to Court anyway (and if they did they'd lose...).

So on balance I would stop that cheque tomorrow morning and tell your friends never to fall for PPC scams like this. You owe Britannia nothing at all.

smitty2482

have you had any dealing with these lot?

Coupon-mad

smitty2482 wrote: »

have you had any dealing with these lot?

Britannia are in a Supermarket Car Park near me and I have tried to get a ticket from them just for the fun of it but they've never bothered.

I have overstayed & have also discussed with Britannia parking operatives, the futility of their pointless invoices. I asked if anyone ever pays their fake tickets 'yes of course' was the reply. 'Why, when they are not 'real' fines, they're unenforceable in law & you never take anyone to Court, why would anyone just pay £50?' I asked last time I saw one frantically recording number plate details into his hand-held gadget (I do like to bait them!). 'Because they are real fines'...came the ill-informed reply. I explained he was mistaken - but he didn't get it...

I got bored & walked into town for a couple of hours - still no ticket! :rotfl:

Anyhoo, to learn more about this scam just read some other posts, there are plenty of people in your shoes! Read in particular the first post in the first thread on this board, by Crabman:

Link to whole sub-board (some light reading for you)

The first thread there gives scanned examples of the sort of letters these companies send - then they give up. Britannia and Euro Car Parks (who I did get a fake ticket from!) are among the tamest in that they only send 3 or 4 letters.

Did you miss Watchdog the other week? They showed you what to do with private parking tickets (whether you've supposedly committed some sort of contravention or not). See their legal expert chappy make a paper aeroplane with such a ticket - from another scam private parking company called MET - on this Youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

So stop worrying about this, it's a scam. Stop that cheque asap.

Would you worry if you got a series of phishing emails? No, you'd delete them without a second thought! Same with these scammers and their tickets and threatogram letters.

PvtPyle

Smitty - as it will cost you a few bob to cancel the cheque, you should park for free at the same Britannia car park the next time you are nearby. That way you're evens with them, and when they send you another "fine" you'll know what to do!

smitty2482

right big breath.

i am going to phone my bank and ask them to cancel the cheque.just a few questions before i do it.since i have already sent the cheque isnt that me admitting fault and also they now they have my bank details.what is the likelyness of this going to court.am i right in saying baliff cant simply turn up at your door demanding payment as you would have to go thro court and lose before this happened.iam fairly confident this would all go away naturally but at the same time iam worried that a measly £30 charge could go in the hundreds.has anyone ever lost one of these?apologies for the multiple posts as i really want to do the right thing.

thanks

Oopsadaisy

Smitty...read the rsst of the thousands of threads that all say the same thing.....


ignore, ignore, ignore...nothing else [other than letters] ever happens.

Grow a pair, for god's sake!!!...lol