Private Parking Tickets discussion

trisontana

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Just seen on CAG....

"Just got home from court, OPC lost today for a claim of 5 parking tickets adding up to a total of £1044"

The case was lost by OPC because they could not prove the identity of the driver. This shows once again that the best plan is to ignore any correspondence with a PPC, and also be very careful what you post on forums such as this because of the PPC spies who trawl these message boards. Never say who the driver was, when posting on here.

jonnyalbert

Hi, I parked in a surgery car park (notice saying private) in September, on a Saturday afternoon. No surgery on Saturday afternoon, car park completely empty and I was only going to stay for Max Five minutes. If it had been a weekday I wouldn't have even contemplated parking there. I was in a shop for two minutes when the shop keeper said "is that your car over there?, you are getting a ticket. I was fuming to say the least, but the shop owner said that it happened all the time and and I would probably have to pay £75. All the way home I was incensed until a little thought came to me that I had seen or heard something on watch dog. Anyhow to cut a long story short I read with interest on this site that I didn't have to pay and that it was a Scam. I rang the surgery concerned and the practice manager said that they owned the land but didn't employ the company and didn't know who did , but that they covered all the Mansfield area. I now have several letters,three from CPS(Midlands)ltd. three from a company Called Debt Recovery Plus Ltd, this last one saying that their client, CPS(Midlands)Ltd would accept £100 if i paid within seven days(original £75 then up to £125) They set out costs totaling £230, if they took it to court, it all looks quite frightening and their web site shows a continuous list of CCJ's they have "successfully" obtained, I'm just looking for a little bit of reassurance to continue ignoring these threats.

Driver8

jonnyalbert wrote: »

Hi, I parked in a surgery car park (notice saying private) in September, on a Saturday afternoon. No surgery on Saturday afternoon, car park completely empty and I was only going to stay for Max Five minutes. If it had been a weekday I wouldn't have even contemplated parking there. I was in a shop for two minutes when the shop keeper said "is that your car over there?, you are getting a ticket. I was fuming to say the least, but the shop owner said that it happened all the time and and I would probably have to pay £75. All the way home I was incensed until a little thought came to me that I had seen or heard something on watch dog. Anyhow to cut a long story short I read with interest on this site that I didn't have to pay and that it was a Scam. I rang the surgery concerned and the practice manager said that they owned the land but didn't employ the company and didn't know who did , but that they covered all the Mansfield area. I now have several letters,three from CPS(Midlands)ltd. three from a company Called Debt Recovery Plus Ltd, this last one saying that their client, CPS(Midlands)Ltd would accept £100 if i paid within seven days(original £75 then up to £125) They set out costs totaling £230, if they took it to court, it all looks quite frightening and their web site shows a continuous list of CCJ's they have "successfully" obtained, I'm just looking for a little bit of reassurance to continue ignoring these threats.

The biggest reassurance you can give yourself is sit down with a nice bottle of wine, peruse all the forums on here regarding PPC tickets inwardly digest all the information then just sit back and think to yourself, how the hell can they get away with all their outlandish threats and not be up in court themselves.

Now you have realised it's all a sc@@ err i mean no marks threatening alsorts of dire consequences unless you pay the money they are trying to extort out of you just sit back relax and totally utterly ignore all their threats and tell all your friends, friends of friends and all your family to never ever pay a PPC ticket.

That's the best thing you can do. It costs THEM money not you to send you threatening letters and when you get them just laugh that you have cost them money.

Read the sticky at the top of the thread to see all the quasi legal crap filled letters they will send.

Ignore them and do not worry one iota.

Coupon-mad

Read the stickies at the top of the forum, showing the threatograms from debt collectors that you can safely continue to ignore because the whole generic parking industry are cowboys.

You will see the Debt Recovery Plus letter-chain is well-known and very common - and all their letters are shown in pictures on the thread by Crabman, just look for the DRP letters & links. You can just play 'snap' by referring back to that thread as each one arrives, maybe you are nearly at the end already but the thread will tell you.

The top stickies also include a link to that Watchdog programme from May this year, with a solicitor showing Anne Robinson how to make a paper aeroplane from a PPC bogus PCN (for it is bogus).

Here's the current board with stickies at the top plus LOADS of threads just like yours:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...play.php?f=163

Don't worry about it, join the club and ignore a PPC for Christmas. Nothing will happen at all to you, no effect on your credit rating at all. No need to buy a new suit for that day in Court because it's simply not part of the Debt recovery Plus standard letter-chain.

HO87

jonnyalbert wrote: »

I rang the surgery concerned and the practice manager said that they owned the land but didn't employ the company and didn't know who did , but that they covered all the Mansfield area.

If this is true you should report the matter to Trading Standards & the police. A Birmingham based group of clampers were recently imprisoned (following a TS enquiry) for, amongst other things, operating on land they had no authority to.

Oopsadaisy

HO87 wrote: »

A Birmingham based group of clampers were recently imprisoned (following a TS enquiry) for, amongst other things, operating on land they had no authority to.

Have you got any more details on this??? Names??

Oopsadaisy

jonnyalbert wrote: »

I'm just looking for a little bit of reassurance to continue ignoring these threats.

How much reassurance would you like??

Here's some for starters...

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Hope this puts your mind at ease.

HO87

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Have you got any more details on this??? Names??

Certainly. Click Here. Unfortunately the best write-up was in the Birmingham Post but the link I had to that article is now dead.

There is another case running which was due for trial at Worcester Crown Court on 6 December involving another set of clampers all of whom had been charged with blackmail (demanding money with menaces). It seems that the trial has been adjourned but I cannot find any reference to the adjournment. An original write-up can be seen here

Crabman

HO87 wrote: »

Certainly. Click Here. Unfortunately the best write-up was in the Birmingham Post but the link I had to that article is now dead.

There is another case running which was due for trial at Worcester Crown Court on 6 December involving another set of clampers all of whom had been charged with blackmail (demanding money with menaces). It seems that the trial has been adjourned but I cannot find any reference to the adjournment. An original write-up can be seen here

Looks like the hearing was adjourned, although the circumstances surrounding that are not clear at the moment and there is no news of a new hearing date yet.

monty-doggy

I parked my car on a car park of the gym where i am a member while i nipped into the church accross the road to watch my daughters nativity - there was no where else to park. When i returned half an hour later i had a parking notice demanding £150 or £70 if i pay within 7 days. I went into the gym told them i am a member and they said they would get it cancelled. they called me today and said that because i had not signed in at the gym i will have to pay the parking company £20 to get it cancelled. The sign outside says parking for members only - it does not say if you sign in first!!! I am not the registered owner of the car. The parking company is a private company. What should i do? I did not tell them i was going to the church i told them i was on my way to the gym when i had a call from my sister in the centre who had an emergency and i went to her.
Can anyone please help?