A new tactic?

NeverAgain_2

A threatening letter from one of my ignored private tickets arrived last week after a gap of several months.

It was from Ethical Debt Recovery, and related to an 'offence' nearly a year ago.

I wonder if the scammers think people have heard about the proposed new legislation, and are frightened by it.

So they are now having a go at some old cases in the hope the parker will make an offer.

peter_the_piper

OPC were good at that. As a ""debt"" is viable for 6 years they dredged up very old tickets in the hope people did not remember and keep paperwork so cough up.

RENEGADE_2

peter_the_piper wrote: »

OPC were good at that. As a ""debt"" is viable for 6 years they dredged up very old tickets in the hope people did not remember and keep paperwork so cough up.

Are you saying there are skeletons in the cupboard??!!

peter_the_piper

Moi? This was a favourite ploy 12 mths ago when there was a spate of OPC court cases, all of which they lost so have now gone a lot quieter. I don't doubt that some more will resurrect old cases in the hope people have weakened/forgotten. Another ploy they usee us ANPR (soon to die a death) where they clock someone coming in, then out and then in and out the same day and only notice the 1st in and the 2nd out, et voila an extended stay.

bromsgrovebarry

Peter, why will ANPR die a death? Its unreliability has given me many good laughs over the years. Is this because of new laws or pressure from BPA? What will Parking Eye do with their 'cutting edge' technology?

trisontana

bromsgrovebarry wrote: »

Peter, why will ANPR die a death? Its unreliability has given me many good laughs over the years. Is this because of new laws or pressure from BPA? What will Parking Eye do with their 'cutting edge' technology?

It's to do with a clause in the new Freedom Bill which says that the ticket must be placed on the car at the time of the "offence", and not sent retrospectively using "evidence" from CCTV or ANPR.

RENEGADE_2

Sure, but ANPR is so hopeless that we NEED IT!!!

How easy is it to obscure your number plate prior to reaching the camera! Given you've entered private land you're not even committing a real offence, so long as you uncover it immediately after passing the cam.

I've recently started a new tactic at the local motorway services; given I use the back roads and not the motorway itself, and all at night when it is quiet, I reverse in. Even if they should accept that as entrance, their evidence is faulty and the unreliability of ANPR can mean that you really did enter and exit the premise twice, it just never caught you coming in for some reason.

I suppose the reverse lights are a bit of a giveaway but by and large they mean nothing.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

NeverAgain wrote: »

It was from Ethical Debt Recovery,

We really should have an "Oxymoron of the month" award.

esmerobbo

Sir_Roger_deLodger wrote: »

We really should have an "Oxymoron of the month" award.

Thinking that myself how can you ethically pursue a debt that doesn't exist??

robredz

Easy set up as a PPC and send out speculative invoices, register with the BPA, Nope that just doesn't cut it