Excel parking ticket

abasker

I am in dispute with Excel over a parking ticket I received last November. I parked in a retail car park with my car over the bay lines. At the time I had my wheelchair using mum and 2 year old son with me. I was also 4 months pregnant. I wasn't causing an obstruction, and the car park was really quiet at the time. I needed to park like this to open the front door wide enough to transfer my mum into her wheelchair. Dispite writing to Excel to explain this, I have now received a "final Notice" from a solicitor threatening to take me to court in 7 days if I don't pay. Is this just an empty threat or am I going to end up in court? Also, if I do go to court, how much will I end up paying if I lose? Has anyone else won against this company? Any encouragement or advice will be welcome.

Boa21

abasker wrote: »

I am in dispute with Excel over a parking ticket I received last November. I parked in a retail car park with my car over the bay lines. At the time I had my wheelchair using mum and 2 year old son with me. I was also 4 months pregnant. I wasn't causing an obstruction, and the car park was really quiet at the time. I needed to park like this to open the front door wide enough to transfer my mum into her wheelchair. Dispite writing to Excel to explain this, I have now received a "final Notice" from a solicitor threatening to take me to court in 7 days if I don't pay. Is this just an empty threat or am I going to end up in court? Also, if I do go to court, how much will I end up paying if I lose? Has anyone else won against this company? Any encouragement or advice will be welcome.

Read through the other threads, it's empty threat.

Do not contact them - you'll get increasingly threatening letters - payup or they'll kidnap your kids, mug your disabled mum and so on.

Coupon-mad

Let me guess, is it this letter from Graham White?

http://i46.tinypic.com/2rpp9co.jpg

We have examples of all the known Roxburghe/Graham White letter-chain on the sticky thread at the top of this board. I got this from that thread, surprised you missed it as it's the first thread on this board if you know how to view a forum board.

To see the whole board re parking fines, just look below the Banking Saving Orange tab above (under the 'com' of MSE.com), hover your mouse over 'parking fines, tickets & parking' in blue just under there and voila!

Read that first thread, you'll see the whole letter chain (it may be the last letter or you may get daft desperate phone calls or another letter from someone else as a last-ditch attempt to see if you are going to pay). By the way, did I say Graham White NEVER do Court, not ever?

Then click on any other threads on the board that interest you - there's plenty on here already about Excel and about the Roxburghe/Graham White series of rubbish threatograms. Pretty much every single thread you see on that link are people like you, ignoring letters just like you.

Ignore the lot, GW is just Roxburghe under another name. Their letters are pointless drivel. Stop considering yourself 'in dispute' with them, and start considering yourself IGNORING A SCAM.

Finally, once you understand the scam, have a look at the insider knowledge posted by Alexis on pepipoo forums, showing you how Roxburghe staff pass themselves off as Graham White (GW). Shocking insight into the scamming world of debt collectors chasing a debt that doesn't exist:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=52809

HTH

Sir_Roger_deLodger

abasker wrote: »

I have now received a "final Notice" from a solicitor threatening to take me to court in 7 days if I don't pay.

You won't be going to court in 7 days or 700 days. All you will get is a series of increasingly desperate letters. Don't contact them again, it only encourages them to send more tat.

abasker

Thank-you to all for your advice. I have now read more of the other forum pages and I am kind of looking forward to their next move. I certainly won't be contacting them!!:j

bromsgrovebarry

Good for you, once you know that scammers have no teeth, they really can be quite amusing.