highview parking ltd fine!

Coupon-mad

miiicra wrote: »

Hi Althel
thanks for the response, it does worry me as they are still persistently contacting me.. I am going to ignore the letters but have fear they may turn up at my door with bailiffs.

thanks again

Debt collectors are not bailiffs, they just write letters (or occasionally make phone calls - which you can stop easily).

As posted just above your post, we have told you that you can SAFELY just play a nice game of snap with each letter that matches our sticky thread called 'PPC letters & threats'. There will be no Court, no bailiff, no CCJ, no sending anyone round, no effect on your credit rating.

NOTHING AT ALL.

It's easy, for gawd's sake - we have all done it ourselves!!

Did you actually read the forum information? You cannot have read the third from top thread I advised you already, to look at. If you had you would have seen it's JUST A MAIL SCAM and you would have seen the Watchdog video with an expert solicitor called Tim Cary, telling you in his inimitable way that this is unenforceable rubbish!

Please look at my previous post where I said where to click to see the forum thread list - it's only ONE click away so not difficult to find the thread mentioned.

They won't and can't send the boys round. Do you honestly imagine that a company can allege a charge is due and then just send a bailiff round without Court? If that were the case then I could tell you now you owe me £75 for this reply and that I would send a random bailiff round if you don't pay me!

It cannot happen without them winning a Small claim in Court first (won't happen).

craigy*boy

I have received a very formal looking "Charge Notice" from Highview Parking.......INITIAL PANIC SET IN !!! I read all the above comments and have no intention of paying the £70.00 charge. The only reservation I have relates to the previous comment "blot my credit". Could anyone confirm if this bogus company can do this. Also, what are the chances of being taken to Court ??????

Paperbird

Look at the list for 2011 for the chances of being taken to court.
The heading is.
Those 845 court claims - PPC league table

craigy*boy wrote: »

I have received a very formal looking "Charge Notice" from Highview Parking.......INITIAL PANIC SET IN !!! I read all the above comments and have no intention of paying the £70.00 charge. The only reservation I have relates to the previous comment "blot my credit". Could anyone confirm if this bogus company can do this. Also, what are the chances of being taken to Court ??????

muckybutt

craigy*boy wrote: »

The only reservation I have relates to the previous comment "blot my credit". Could anyone confirm if this bogus company can do this. Also, what are the chances of being taken to Court ??????

Yes they can take you to court, and they could win, and they could blot your credit BUT
They would have had to have won the court case 0% probability, then you would have had to not paid the courts, then they could register a ccj......so in reality IT AIN GONNA HAPPEN IS IT

taffy056

There was only 25 successful cases last year from all these parking companies out of 1.8m phoney tickets issued, this is fact as the proof has been obtained by some respectful members on here. So you do the maths on that, also consider that this company never went to court once.

Stephen_Leak

The more unpleasant threats usually include mentioning that, if the case goes to court, a county court judgement (CCJ) will be issued, that bailiffs will be appointed and that your credit rating will be ruined. For things to actually get to this stage, the car park owner would have to take you to court and win the case. Then, you would have to refuse to pay, to get a CCJ issued after 28 days. Then, you would have to still refuse to pay, to get bailiffs appointed.

esmerobbo

Going to court for any PPC is pure propergander, it costs them more then they would recover, they do it for point scoring. Luckily most of them know this and don't bother.

It seems Highview realise this and simply move on to the next victim after exhausting the letter chain.

LincolnshireYokel

taffy056 wrote: »

There was only 25 successful cases last year from all these parking companies out of 1.8m phoney tickets issued, this is fact as the proof has been obtained by some respectful members on here. So you do the maths on that, also consider that this company never went to court once.

1 chance in 72,000

or 0.0000138%

taffy056

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

1 chance in 72,000

or 0.0000138%

And probably most of them are default judgements as it wasn't defended for whatever reason so closer to 1 in 100k chance of losing a defended case.

trisontana

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

1 chance in 72,000

or 0.0000138%

I wish I could get that fact through to a couple of mods over on CAG who have taken the figures out of context, and keep proclaiming that the PPCs have a "50% success rate" when they take people to court.