Now I'm getting scared......Parking Eye Fine

Dottymol

Hi,

I would really appreciate some advise. Back in May, I received a parking ticket from Parking Eye. At the time, I was attending to my friend's small children when he had broken down and asked for my help with the children while he waited for the AA.
The only place I could safely pull my vehicle off the road was a private car park next to his broken down vehicle, where I loaded the children into my car and discussed with him if I needed to take his children home. This took 14 minutes.
In my opinion, I hadn't parked. When I received my first ticket I returned to the car park and was unable to find any signs, it was as though the private parking company had left the site. I took photo's around the car park.
I was very grateful to this site when I saw the copies of the expected letters, I received all of them and chose to ignore them.
However, today I had a letter from a solicitor saying in bold letters, 'notice of intended litigation'. The 'fine' has gone up to two hundred and seven pounds, twenty five pence.
I'm terrified and feel sick, I don't know what to do. Please can someone put my mind at rest?

angel_islington

Chill.

It's not even a real solicitor. I bet you (£207.25?) that it's from the next desk along in the Parking Eye office. You can safely ignore it, which you can do with the entire chain of threat-o-grams. Unless you get actual court papers, from the court themselves but that's incredibly unlikely.

Check the sticky thread on the main page, that will show you the Parking Eye chain, your letter WILL be there. It will also show you the next one, so you will know what to expect and when they will give up and crawl back under their rock.

Don't Panic.

peter_the_piper

Please relax, there is no likelihood of parking eye doing anything more than give up, providing you hold your nerve and continue to ignore. They always send the "notice of intended litigation" right before the end. See the stickies for the letter chain and you will see yours is very common.

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

The_Slithy_Tove

Dottymol wrote: »

I was very grateful to this site when I saw the copies of the expected letters, I received all of them and chose to ignore them.
However, today I had a letter from a solicitor saying in bold letters, 'notice of intended litigation'. The 'fine' has gone up to two hundred and seven pounds, twenty five pence.

If you really have seen copies of the expected letters, then you'll know that this is just another one, and as meaningless as all the ones that you have very sensibly ignored so far. Just keep on ignoring, and relax.

And well done for checking out this forum before attempting to appeal the inital ticket!

bromsgrovebarry

I have been threatened twice with court action by this comical outfit. Guess what? See my signature!

Sir_Roger_deLodger

Parking Eye are a complete joke. I have a drawer full of their stupid letters and have tried, unsuccessfully, to goad them into issuing a court claim.
Please don't waste your time worrying about them.

esmerobbo

£207.25 Its Graham White then? If so it can be safely ignored!

Dottymol

Thank you everyone!!
It is a letter from Graham White. I feel great today, thanks for your support.

HO87

To add to your joy Graham White's is hardly what you'd call a normal solicitor's and is in fact an arm of a debt collector called Roxburghe's. There is actually a solicitor associated with the company. He's called Michael Sobell, and he's well into his 70's. Last week he failed to make it to court in Birmingham where he was supposed to be making a claim and it will not be surprise to learn that he lost the case. In the only other known case that he issued, earlier this year, so badly was the the paperwork put together, court deadlines and appearances missed that the judge eventually lost patience and he lost that case too.

To make matters worse, Roxburghe are currently under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading having been informed in May of this year that the OFT is "minded to revoke" their debt collectors licence.

SCUDY_2

I have today received a PCN from Parking Eye, this is for a car that I am registered keeper but never drive. Having read all the posts on this site and copied Martins suggested template letters I am about to post to PCN the letter "I was not the driver and have not driven that car for 2 years and can further prove with witnesses that I was nowhere near that Hotel at the time you quote".

I have no doubt that I will get all the threatening letters but having read everything I think I am on safe ground. A comment would nevertheless be helpful and I will further post on my progress, if Darmoor beckons I know the book I shall choose !!

trisontana

Please don't send that template letter. That's old advice. The current thinking is that you don't contact the parking coompany, at all and to ignore all letters from them.