Parking Eye - Nasty tricks

samguy75

Hi,

I need a bit of re-assurance please. My third letter came today from Parking Eye saying the £50 amount had expired and had to pay the £80. If not paid by 9th June it will go up to £110 and if this is sill not paid then I could receive a CCJ and a bailiff will attend my address to remove goods.

Scary stuff and I am tempted to pay it. Should I still ignore it? I haven't contacted them at all but this last letter has me worried. All comments greatly appreciated.

trisontana

samguy75 wrote: »

Hi,

I need a bit of re-assurance please. My third letter came today from Parking Eye saying the £50 amount had expired and had to pay the £80. If not paid by 9th June it will go up to £110 and if this is sill not paid then I could receive a CCJ and a bailiff will attend my address to remove goods.

Scary stuff and I am tempted to pay it. Should I still ignore it? I haven't contacted them at all but this last letter has me worried. All comments greatly appreciated.

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esmerobbo

As usual Parking spy have missed the important bit. Like they would have to win first!!!!;)

arfabrane

Damn damn damn! I wish I had found this thread a couple of days ago!

I've have my invoice from PE which I have foolishly paid (please don't shoot me down in flames!)

However, I am now wondering whether I can claim this money back through my credit card (Egg) due to being misinformed of the legalities and being bullied into paying? Is this an option worth investigating, or should I just chalk it up to (an expensive) experience?

esmerobbo

You can try a charge back but I would not hold my breath. Unfortunately these charges are not illegal they are just unenforceable.

Now there is a case of someone taking Parking Spy to court who won and had the charge repaid!

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/trainee_solicitor_wins_parking_ticket_case_for_brother_1_777088

You may have to put this down to experience, at least you now know for the future!

trisontana

Also just in, CAG and Pepipoo are reporting that Excel recently took somebody to court for stopping a cheque, but have had the case struck out because they failed to pay the court fees.

esmerobbo

trisontana wrote: »

Also just in, CAG and Pepipoo are reporting that Excel recently took somebody to court for stopping a cheque, but have had the case struck out because they failed to pay the court fees.

Probably could not afford too after they have had to pay all that unpaid VAT, after losing their appeal against HMRC!

Coupon-mad

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trisontana

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I remember that case on CAG, Excel knew they would fail as they did not send out the required Notice in time, immediately after the cheque was returned unpaid. They must have seen the defence that pointed this omission out, and realised they would lose.

Their charge was "dishonoured cheque", which means there were insufficiency funds to pay the cheque. That wasn't what happened. The cheque was cancelled by the motorist once they found out the truth about private parking tickets.

The reason they sent the cheque was because of the intimidating and threatening nature of the letters from the PPC and debt collectors.

baz_on_solent

samguy75 wrote: »

Hi,

I need a bit of re-assurance please. My third letter came today from Parking Eye saying the £50 amount had expired and had to pay the £80. If not paid by 9th June it will go up to £110 and if this is sill not paid then I could receive a CCJ and a bailiff will attend my address to remove goods.

Scary stuff and I am tempted to pay it. Should I still ignore it? I haven't contacted them at all but this last letter has me worried. All comments greatly appreciated.

I recieved the third and FINAL NOTICE from them some weeks ago. They are trying it on and if you pay they will have won by intimidating you and that's what they rely on. I have never heard of anyone ending up in Court due to this.
There many people contributing to this Forum but none have ever been charged with an Offence related to this subject. Stop Worrying.