Private parking ticket advise please.

Coblcris

uktyler wrote: »

If you had read the rest of my post, you wold have seen that I also stated there would be an increase in the use of private clamping firms.

There have been lots of threads in the motoring section, and the vent board about people not being able to find parking spaces in supermarket car parks. One of the reasons why is some people know the tickets are worthless, and bin them.

When they are no longer a deterrent clamping is the next probable step.

Car parks in retail parks are mostly not owned by the retailers located there. very rarely in facts. The issue is with the landowner.
Not uncoincidentally just about every PPC operation will not have proprietary rights to make the offer of parking in the first place so that ruins their 'contract' claims from the off. as do several other things.

As you say only some people know that their tickets are worthless - but the word speads through forums like this. Which is why there are so many posts here made by the PPCs themselves trying to convince people otherwise. they just jump from the page don't they ?

PPCs love unmoderated forums where they can propagate their myths and further their scam.

littlemisspiggy_2

bargepole wrote: »

The "debt recovery company" is just someone sitting at another desk in the parking company's portakabin. They have no more powers than you or I, and you can only get a CCJ if it goes to court, you lose the case, and don't pay the judgement in 28 days - all about as likely to happen as you winning the lottery.

Continue to ignore their rubbish letters, and any posters on here talking about "moral" issues, which have nothing to do with this.

Thanks for your replys guys...I am sitting fretting about this issue again today as I have now received two phone calls from the debt collection agency. I was going to write to them saying I have written to UK Parking Control and until I have received a satisfactory responce from them this matter remains in dispute. What do you think, I'm just worried that ignoring it is going to escalate the problem/money they ask for.

I was then going to write to UKPC and say To the best of my knowledge I was parked in a mother and baby space as there is a big sign that say's MOTHER & CHILD PARKING and until they can provide proof to contrary then this matter remains in dispute....

Oh yeah and the fact that the conditions of a blue badge dont apply on private land and they could get "fined" for the rest of the stupid conditions of parking doesnt really seem "moral" either does it !!!!!!!........

downhiller

Littlemisspiggy, ignoring everything they send you.

Contact the debt collectors and tell them the debt is in dispute. They cannot contact you after that.

Ignore all correspondence from UKPC. Do not write to them.

For more advice go to http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/parking-traffic-offences

sarahg1969

Don't tell them the debt is disputed. Tell then it's denied.

bargepole

littlemisspiggy wrote: »

What do you think, I'm just worried that ignoring it is going to escalate the problem/money they ask for.

Have a read around these forums, the ones on pepipoo, ticketfighter, roadsidelawyer, etc etc - there are about 38 million instances where people have ignored PPC letters and nothing has happened, and about 3 or 4 cases where people have written "appeals" and it's ended up in court.

Now, what do you think?