Letters from Debt Collectors

assura

I have now recived letters from debt collectors regarding a ticket from Athena (Lidls)
and
TCP(Asda)

So to give you a quick background picture: Asda's ticket was a mistake. There is another Asda the driver uses regularly which does not require a ticket purchase for your window. They simply forgot and went shopping for an hour.

Lidls is a camera mistake. They are claiming the car was parked for NINE hours which it was not.

So now i have threatening letters from debt collectors

Just wanted to ask advice about dealing with them from here in

Should i write to them?
or leave it?

I have enough evidence to deal with both of them especially Athena's.

brightonman123

i believe these 'fines' are not enforceable.. check other threads on the section..

trisontana

Just ignore both. It's as simple as that!

robredz

They are about as enforceable as me asking for £60 or so for advising you to ignore them, so you know what you should do, ignore then ignore some more

assura

Here's my 'problem' I am battling with the thought that it is unpolite to reply! i know it's very british but one half of me says write back even to reply. So sad, i know.
Also, what i do not want to happen is they keep ramping it up with debt collectors costs so they can then make a so called genuine claim in court. No point making a claim for £50, so we'll keep sending debt collectors and add the charge to the 'debt'. This makes it worthwhile going to court.

What do you think?

giraffe69

I think there is no point in continuing to ask if you won't accept the answer. Read posts 3 and 4 which put it succinctly.

1. Don't pay
2. Don't reply
3. Don't appeal. It is about 101% it will be rejected.
4. Read the stickies at the top of this page concerning the letters you may/will get
5. Keep the correspondence
6. Relax and pour a drink

Coupon-mad

assura wrote: »

Here's my 'problem' I am battling with the thought that it is unpolite to reply! i know it's very british but one half of me says write back even to reply. So sad, i know.
Also, what i do not want to happen is they keep ramping it up with debt collectors costs so they can then make a so called genuine claim in court. No point making a claim for £50, so we'll keep sending debt collectors and add the charge to the 'debt'. This makes it worthwhile going to court.

What do you think?

Do you battle with yourself not to reply when you get a phishing email?

Same sort of scam but this one is by mail. And you can even predict each letter and play PPC snap with each one as it arrives. thanks to the pics in our top thread 'PPC letters, what to expect'.

Look closely at the letters on that thread; nothing else happens. No Court, no CCJ, no bailiff (neither T&C nor Athena ever do Court. Ever). Even if there had been no mistake by them we would say ignore it all; hopefully you do realise these fake PCNs are always a scam and the tickets are not real?

And watch the Watchdog link on 'welcome, please read before posting (again, it's another sticky thread by Crabman, cunningly placed a the top of the forum in the hope people will look there first...).

assura

giraffe69 wrote: »

I think there is no point in continuing to ask if you won't accept the answer. Read posts 3 and 4 which put it succinctly.

1. Don't pay
2. Don't reply
3. Don't appeal. It is about 101% it will be rejected.
4. Read the stickies at the top of this page concerning the letters you may/will get
5. Keep the correspondence
6. Relax and pour a drink

Asking does not mean I won't accept. It is not suggested in anyway. But i will take from your response you have first hand experience of the process and have been through the same thing, so confident in your response.

I will read the stickies as you have suggested.

assura

thanks for all the responses.

I will read through the stickies and letters.

Thanks again

bromsgrovebarry

Rest assured that nobody is telling you to do something that we have done ourselves. This is why we can advise with total confidence that you can ignore these Mickey Mouse 'fines'.

Flyboy152

robredz wrote: »

They are about as enforceable as me asking for £60 or so for advising you to ignore them, so you know what you should do, ignore then ignore some more

giraffe69 wrote: »

I think there is no point in continuing to ask if you won't accept the answer. Read posts 3 and 4 which put it succinctly.

1. Don't pay
2. Don't reply
3. Don't appeal. It is about 101% it will be rejected.
4. Read the stickies at the top of this page concerning the letters you may/will get
5. Keep the correspondence
6. Relax and pour a drink

bromsgrovebarry wrote: »

Rest assured that nobody is telling you to do something that we have done ourselves. This is why we can advise with total confidence that you can ignore these Mickey Mouse 'fines'.

And you can all gave that same advice without even knowing who manages the car parks the OP was in.

WOW! Do you all do the lottery numbers as well?