Private parking fines

Coblcris

bassaph wrote: »

Dept collections can take anythink of value as long as they dont damage anything in the process of takeing it. Regardless of where it is. If its beleived to be yours and if you cannot proove you are not the owner they can take

What an appalling thing to post.

Wrong and still wrong if the subject was a bailiff enforcing a valid warrant - which it is not.


As for Debt Collectors, they are powerless.

honeyrabbit

On the advice of all you good people I am in the middle of ignoring threats from one of these cowboys. Thanks for your advice and it was nice to have it confirmed by Watchdog

toffe

there was an interesting segment on tonights watchdog programe regarding this subject tonight, they had a solicitor on who specialises in private parking contracts.

He said no one has any obligation to even reply to a private parking firm if they send a demand for payment and when asked by anne robinson what his advice was to anyone who gets one of these demands he rather amusingly suggested they should make a paper aroplane out of it and see how far you can make it fly.

Just about sums it up really, as i said above just a bunch of chancers trying to get rich quick off the back of peoples ignorance as to what their rights or obligations are.

bassaph

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Sorry but you are confusing court appointed bailiffs with debt collectors. D/C's have no more power to take anything from you than I have. Bailiffs ,as above and not renamed D/C's are a different matter. Even then they are limited with what they can take.
Roxgburgh are only D/C's and have no powers and rely on intimidation and misinformation to do the work for them.

Sorry Im going by personnel experience. I got a ticket and didnt pay, i disputed it. But a baliff opened the back gate and walked in my freinds house and demanded the car. Id bought it of him and had already sold it on. I latter got the ticket cancelled.:T he showed the baliff the receipt from dvla saying car was no longer registered to him and dates ment he didnt own it on the day the ticket was issued:rotfl:

peter_the_piper

Then it could only have been a council one (NOT a ppc)or a debt collector lying about being a bailiff.
Would you care to give chapter and verse on the incident?

DVardysShadow

bassaph wrote: »

Dept collections can take anythink of value as long as they dont damage anything in the process of takeing it. Regardless of where it is. If its beleived to be yours and if you cannot proove you are not the owner they can take

You are well mistaken in this. Perhaps you should stand aside from giving advice.

Only a bailiff with a court order can do this.

Coblcris

No. Bailiffs can not just take anything. there are limitations.

RobertoMoir

bassaph wrote: »

Dept collections can take anythink of value as long as they dont damage anything in the process of takeing it. Regardless of where it is. If its beleived to be yours and if you cannot proove you are not the owner they can take

A debt collector can't take someone's goods like this. Period. End of discussion. If this has happened to you then you've been the victim of a thief, basically.

You appear to have confused debt collectors with bailiffs. However you're still wrong even when talking about bailiffs. Bailiffs cannot take "anything". And if they take something that isn't the debtor's, it's trivially easy for the owner to have their goods returned.

09075100

Thank you all for your advice!

after having a second look at things and in particular the original tickets I decided to send another letter to BGS services and to Roxburghe debt collectors saying that I wouldn't be paying the fines. For interest for yourselfs that tickets have all been signed by "officer name - 999" in a very distinct handwriting style, however the top of the ticket with my car details has quite obviously been completed by a another two completely different people with totally different handwriting styles.

That aside, today I have received another three letters, one for each fine, this time from a solicitor stating the intention to take me to court, and charging me another £208 PER TICKET! for the privelage of receiving this letter.
Advice please! is this one that I should ignore totally? and am I going to end up paying these solicitors fees even if I get off the parking fines?

Thanks guys

trisontana

09075100 wrote: »

Thank you all for your advice!

after having a second look at things and in particular the original tickets I decided to send another letter to BGS services and to Roxburghe debt collectors saying that I wouldn't be paying the fines. For interest for yourselfs that tickets have all been signed by "officer name - 999" in a very distinct handwriting style, however the top of the ticket with my car details has quite obviously been completed by a another two completely different people with totally different handwriting styles.

That aside, today I have received another three letters, one for each fine, this time from a solicitor stating the intention to take me to court, and charging me another £208 PER TICKET! for the privelage of receiving this letter.
Advice please! is this one that I should ignore totally? and am I going to end up paying these solicitors fees even if I get off the parking fines?

Thanks guys

Once again these are not "Fines", they are invoices. You are taking this too seriously. Please follow the advice on here and ignore. Do not contact the company, or their "solicitor" again , it only encourages them.