demand letter for private car park ticket

cproc

my daughter received a demand letter from T&s parking services on 29 june 2010 for an expired pay and display ticket which was never put on her car we have ignored this letter then on 27 aug she received another letter from Debt recovery plus ltd to recover the money due to the unpaid ticket there were all sorts of threats in the letter but we still have not been in contact with them ,now we have received another letter dated on the 2 sept which is a letter of intended litigation saying she must pay the outstanding amount of £135.64 within 7 days or the account will be referred to their client to apply for a county court judgement against her can any please help with some advice as to what she can do

david39

Continue to ignore - you are doing the correct thing.

It is the usual story of escalating threats trying to scare you into sending them some money - to have got this far without responding to them, you must be aware of the advice both on this board and the www.pepipoo.co.uk board which is : Never respond to these scammers.

If you re-read the last letter from them you will probably see that it says that the account MAY be referred for a CCJ.

It never will be.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

cproc wrote: »

.....or the account will be referred to their client to apply for a county court judgement against her...

They can't just "apply" for a ccj. They have to actually win a court case first. Funny how they never tell you that.
Carry on ignoring.

robredz

No contact, just ignore, they will go away eventually.

Coupon-mad

cproc wrote: »

my daughter received a demand letter from T&s parking services on 29 june 2010 for an expired pay and display ticket which was never put on her car we have ignored this letter then on 27 aug she received another letter from Debt recovery plus ltd to recover the money due to the unpaid ticket there were all sorts of threats in the letter but we still have not been in contact with them ,now we have received another letter dated on the 2 sept which is a letter of intended litigation saying she must pay the outstanding amount of £135.64 within 7 days or the account will be referred to their client to apply for a county court judgement against her can any please help with some advice as to what she can do

The Debt Recovery Plus letter-chain is predictable standard threatograms and pics of all the letters are on here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2214803

Now stop reading those letters so seriously! Laugh when each expected letter arrives like clockwork, they really have no other options but to send rubbish letters as they won't actually go to Small Claims court over it (they'd lose).

HTH

muirio

Absolutely ignore. You have to ask yourself why they would send you letter-upon-letter demanding escalating 'payment'...if they had even the faintest chance of recovering any supposed 'monies owed' you can bet they wouldn't bother down this pathetic track, they would have just gone and filed court papers already. They're not sending you these 'settle out of court' letters to be nice to you.

You've probably got another 2 or 3 letters to ignore and then you'll never hear from these clowns again.

landmark

The only time one would respond, is when one threatens to sue them for harassment.

muirio

landmark wrote: »

The only time one would respond, is when one threatens to sue them for harassment.

Haha possibly - but why waste the cost of the stamp?

landmark

muirio wrote: »

Haha possibly - but why waste the cost of the stamp?

The only time it that would happen is if I issue empty threats or if the company does not honour ccjs

d123

muirio wrote: »

Haha possibly - but why waste the cost of the stamp?

Send it without a stamp, just address it to the "Payments Department" and they are quite likely to pay RM the postage due in their greed.

landmark

d123 wrote: »

Send it without a stamp, just address it to the "Payments Department" and they are quite likely to pay RM the postage due in their greed.

Then there is the issue of the cost of issuing my letter. Hmm any ideas chaps:idea: