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lindamac20

Couple of days ago I received a "ticket" from UKCPS. I was parked in a disabled bay, unfortuneatly my blue badge had fall off the dash.
The details on the ticket were wrong (colour of car).
Someone said they had had the same experience and although they sent a letter of apology and a copy of blue badge they still had to pay fine. I have to respond by Monday 5th July or cost will go up from £60 to £100. What should I do?

lucylucky

Was this in a private car park?

If so just ignore everything from the company and do not contact them.

You have done nothing wrong.

trisontana

Was this in a private car-park (i.e. not one owned by the council)? If it was a private car-park, then the blue badge scheme does not apply, you have not broken the law and you don't owe them a penny. And it's not a "fine" it's an unenforceable invoice.

Do not contact the company and ignore all correspondence from them. For further reassurance please read the other threads on this forum that deal with private parking issues.

taffy056

Ignore them completely as they are a private parking company, the only tickets you must deal with are from the council or police, this is their website address, notice the first few words lol

http://ukcps.net/
UKCPS provides total ethical car parking management services across the UK

Oxymoron if I ever saw it

Once you have agreed and signed up to our system, we erect 'enforcement notices' and regularly patrol your car park to issue legally enforceable 'parking charge notices' to those who break the rules.

LOL

Coupon-mad

lindamac20, don't appeal, don't pay whatever you do! Do nothing at all. Honestly this is a scam.

Your friend who appealed - and was of course turned down - should NEVER have paid, he was conned. Only the Police and Local Authorities can issue enforceable parking fines - private PCNs are fake copies of the real thing - designed to make people pay money for no reason.

Whatever their signs say, Blue Badges don't apply on private land anyway!

There's tons on the internet about this issue, Google 'private parking scam' and look for forum posts on here, pepipoo.com, consumer action group, all of which will tell you that such tickets are unenforceable trash.

Watchdog covered this last month, and their legal bod helpfully confirmed just what we tell everyone to do with fake parking tickets (whether you have 'contravened their pathetic rules' or not):

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

:T:rotfl:

The registered keeper will receive a few 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 and be prepared for. Don't bother to actually read their threats:

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

To be proactive, if the scam letters get tiresome you may like to also 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.

Be angry about their illegal scary letters, tell your friends never to pay a private parking ticket, even if they have broken the car park's spurious 'rules'. Spread the word.

lindamac20

Thanks for your advice. Had a lot of response, all telling me same thing - ignore it!! So that's what I'll do. Do feel little nervous though!

trisontana

lindamac20 wrote: »

Thanks for your advice. Had a lot of response, all telling me same thing - ignore it!! So that's what I'll do. Do feel little nervous though!

Please don't feel nervous. That's what these bullies want you to feel with their hollow threats and meaningless paperwork. Hold firm, you have the support of everyone on this forum.