Help......

Loretta

estimator wrote: »

I got two parking tickets.
The car is in my ex name and I drive the car.
I got the parking tickets, appealed when they went to my ex address, they wouldn't respond as I as the registered driver and tickets went up.
The letters went back to my ex and I got them when the company equita had taken over the debt.
Tickets have at this stage now gone up to 100 each. I called equita to pay and they told me that they had that day passed it to a road baliff.
Called him and gave him both the ref numbers and he said the fee was now 344. I wasn't happy but said I would pay it as didn't want him going round to my ex house and he said he hadn't gone round their yet and if I paid it now, it would be clear. I asked him for a break down of charges and he said he couldn't do that but that the company would.I paid the 344 that day. I called and asked them and they informed me that they couldn't discuss this with me as I wasn't the registered owner of the car. So asked my ex to call them. They said he had to write in. Did. Still no break down. A couple of weeks later, my ex went mad and said a bailiff letter had been put through his door and why hadn't I paid the bill. I called the company and they gave my the bailiff number. I reminders him that I had already paid this debt a few weeks ago and he then informed me that that was for one ticket and had to pay 344 for the other! I asked for a break down and again he wouldn't give it. I paid the 344. I asked for a break down of charges again and my ex had to write in. I just a letter via my ex, with the charges and it states that visits had been made before the first letter tat equita had wrote to my ex? I have asked the company to look into this and I have been charged for visits that were not made. I made the payment for the first ticket before the bailiff had even been their.the dates on the letter and all wrong. I have heard nothing from equita and I has been 4 weeks. So I have just filled a form 4, which my ex has completed and signed. Does anyone know what I should do next. Does the court refund you for overcharges. WhT else can I do.

These are called 'phantom visits' and are very common it just means that they pretend they have called a your house, the clue is no card through the door, and they charge you for them, it is normal practice for these scummy lying thieving dishonest bullies but I am sure that they can explain to you why what they are doing is all legal!

robredz

post up on the bailiff forum on CAG for focused advice imho

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?168-Bailiffs-and-High-Court-Enforcement-Officers