advice on ppc ticket (disabled badge)

vix2000

Thanks all. Will do. Should I publish the letter for the forum?

DaveF327

vix2000 wrote: »

Photo 1 this is the entrance from the main road to the so called 'car park' there are no signs at either side of the road entrance to say that it is not a road and is a car park, so basically you are just driving onto a side road????? also note the notices on the wall down the rh side of the road only.

Where is this exactly? I cannot see any street name on the walls, but I'm wondering if there is a council traffic regulation order in force for the double yellow lines on that road. That would be your watertight defence if you could find out.

vix2000

This is, apparantly, not a street but a car park. By parking on the yellow lines, my ticket says that I was parking in a ristricted area of a car park.

Coupon-mad

Ignore it all and stop panicking about this con.

PPC tickets are unenforceable whether you have supposedly contravened one of their made-up 'rules', or not. I got a private parking ticket last year and the driver of my car overstayed by about 2 hours - but of course we didn't pay the scammers, how would that have helped the situation? The car park was almost empty and we had shopped in the Supermarket in question - even though you don't actually have to shop there to park there - so no loss occurred. Same for you.

There's tons on the internet about this issue, 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 rules' or not). Pleeeeease watch this:

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

Apparently Watchdog are covering PPC scams again next week, don't miss it! :T

The registered keeper will receive a few more debt collector letters telling you to pay. Did you not notice, have another look at the letter - it says 'we MAY take legal action' (not 'we will' - because they won't!). It's just scare tactics with rubbish like 'we will have no alternative but to proceed with litigation' or some such rot. Rubbish!.

Do not panic, do not believe the lies on the letters about Court/CCJs/dire consequences! See examples here of what to ignore, it's funny when you then receive the real letters and can just tick them off the list and laugh at them. This thread has pictures of typical letter-chains and after the final letter nothing happens, the end:

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

Some people deliberately park again and again trying to collect private tickets, to cause the scammers to spend money pointlessly! Someone on pepipoo has ignored over 200 private parking tickets and nothing has happened of course, ignoring their pretty-coloured letters is like ignoring phishing emails (same sort of scam).

But 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

Or report them for a breach of the DDA as they have provided what purports to be a double yellow line but not made clear their scam terms which they may claim mean you shouldn't have parked there.

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 because there is no valid/lawful debt, no credit agreement to have fallen foul of. So don't fall for this con.

Be angry about their illegal scary letters, spread the word.

NEVER PAY A PRIVATE PARKING TICKET. YOU OWE NOTHING.