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Excel parking charge please confirm to ignore???
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edenextensions wrote: »great advice folks thank you
also read somewhere....
The advice in the Telegraph's motoring section is to write and tell them you were not driving and you are under no legal obligation to tell them who was- their dispute is with the driver not the keeper. They also suggest you enclose a cheque for £5 as settlement 'for a minor breach of contract'. If they want anything else they will have to take you to court and they won't be bothered to do it, especially as you have made a reasonable contribution.
My husband was driving that day not that I would say you reckon worth doing the above????
They are right that if the registered keeper was not driving they cannot pursue the registered keeper nor force you to say who was driving. But you do not need to do anything at all and certainly do not effectively 'admit liability' by offering any payment at all. Here's the Guardian's legal advice about PPC fake tickets:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/sep/04/parking-ticket-private-property
You must not contact them further nor think there is an appeals process (they lie just to get information, I expect you have realised that now). You've already wasted an envelope and the recorded delivery postage, you obviously thought it was a real parking fine? No, it's a scam which was outed over a year ago on Watchdog and we have discussed these fake PCNs for several years on here. It doesn't actually matter who was driving or whether you can prove you got a P&D ticket or not - either way these fake 'tickets' are unenforceable.
Have you read the top info sticky threads:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163
You need to read the top thread first, 'PPC letters, what to expect' and see that this whole thing is a mail scam and that the registered keeper of the car (you) will receive some scary debt collector letters! You must ignore them, I know it goes against the grain and you are itching to put your 'case' but you MUST ignore the whole scam even if the letters appear to have come from a solicitor (they have not).
Also make sure you click on 'Welcome, please read before posting' (hahahaha, the irony of having to link that thread almost every time!). Read the info about PPCs there and click on the Watchdog link. You and your husband absolutely must sit down and view and laugh about the Watchdog link, we think seeing what the solicitor says he would do if ever his mum got such a scam ticket will convince you both that we are right. And the solicitor is...Tim Cary, the same expert as in the first Guardian link; he is the legal expert on this scam.
Finally, once you've read up on the scam you could complain in writing to the retailer/occupier/managing agents of that car park. The more complaints the better about scumbag PPCs to get them kicked out of car parks in the end. I always say wait for a few debt collector threats to arrive, then send the retailer/occupier a stiff letter of complaint about them allowing their agent to illegally harass visitors/customers with fake parking tickets and unfounded threats. Enclose a copy of the threatograms and ask if they realise that harassment is a criminal offence and did they even know that this series of threats is what is being sent out to customers who DID pay for a P&D ticket and DID display it? Do not word it like an appeal, do not bother to ask for the 'ticket' to be rescinded as it's fake anyway and you have nothing to worry about there - but why not give the PPC something to worry about with a serious complaint to whoever allows them to be there.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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