Civil Penalty Notice - Parked for too long

taffy056

Completely and utterly ignore them and their pleas for your money, these tickets are completely unenforceable and are nothing more than invoices, and as the shop was closed and its free parking they have not lost any business, the ppc would be laughed out of court should they dare take you there. By the way the dvla would have given them your details.

Coupon-mad

To jave, as you will have read on umpteen other threads, private tickets are not real PCNs and you don't have to pay them!

These scammers get your details from the DVLA which is allowed (shocking I know). For £2.50 the DVLA sell on motorists' private details to private parking companies and you cannot opt out! There's tons on the internet about this issue and about Civil Enforcement, look for forum posts on here, pepeipoo.com, consumer action group, all of which will tell you the same thing:

IGNORE IT. NO FURTHER ACTION IS NEEDED BY YOU.

Watchdog covered this last month, and their legal bod helpfully confirmed what we already know on here about what to do with fake parking tickets (whether you have 'contravened their rules' or not):

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

:T:rotfl:

You will receive debt collector letters telling you to pay. Do not panic, do not believe the lies on the letters about Court/CCJs/dire consequences! See examples here of what to ignore:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=2214803

Relax and forget about it, even if you get more letters (as per our examples, we can predict you'll get the same). But to be proactive - if the scam letters get tiresome - you may like to report the company and their debt collectors for harassment:

http://www.nationaldebtline.co.uk/en...=03_harassment

But don't forget this is NOT a debt, NOT a fine, just a mickey mouse ticket. Nothing happens, your credit record is NOT affected, so don't fall for this con!

Sir_Roger_deLodger

jave wrote: »

For fear of a ccj I attempted to pay via their automated service but the payment could not be confirmed or authorised.

For fear of a CCJ! This is a perfect example of how this scam works. Victims are led to believe that a parking company can somehow just "issue" a CCJ against them. You can ONLY get a CCJ IF:

1 They actually take you to court
2 They actually win
3 You still don't pay up.

You are lucky that the payment wasn't authorised. As others have said, IGNORE them from now on.

peter_the_piper

Consider cancelling your card if you got round to putting the numbers into the website.

Chris_Justice

Bit of bump/update:

Its now 10 months on and i'm on my third letter. This latest one is the threat of taking me to a court somewhere on the other side of the country haha. I'm remaining strong but my poor mum is in pieces because she thinks i'm going to go to jail or something. She is exactly the sort of person that these scare tactics work on unfortunately.

My own block of flats is now being aggressively patrolled by a company called Whites. So far all I have seen them do is clamp residents legitimately parked in their own bay. They have created a trick whereby they issue visitor permits for each flat (the permit includes the flat number) but in their small print it very ambiguously states that these permits are only for use in one of the three designated visitor bays and not your own space! Many people have had visitors to their flat parked in their numbered bay using these so called permits whod have been clamped. I've been quite vigilant in letting people know about this trick and also directing them here for advice but alas there are still plenty of innocent people getting stung.

backfoot

Chris_Justice wrote: »

Bit of bump/update:


My own block of flats is now being aggressively patrolled by a company called Whites. So far all I have seen them do is clamp residents legitimately parked in their own bay. They have created a trick whereby they issue visitor permits for each flat (the permit includes the flat number) but in their small print it very ambiguously states that these permits are only for use in one of the three designated visitor bays and not your own space! Many people have had visitors to their flat parked in their numbered bay using these so called permits whod have been clamped. I've been quite vigilant in letting people know about this trick and also directing them here for advice but alas there are still plenty of innocent people getting stung.

What I don't get is why a Landlord would think this is a good idea? Look at the economics of it all. Presumably,you are paying through your service charge for some sort retainer for them to patrol the parking.Perhaps if it is a huge block of flats then the economies of scale may justify the 'chimps' being there,but as a resident I would want to know how much its costing and why the rules are so inflexible.

The parking should be there as a benefit to the property not a constant worry that some low life is going to entrap you.

What is the latest on clamping? Wasn't it/going to be banned? Is there a thread which gives the current position,please.