Highview Parking LTD and Debt Collection Plus LTD

ManxRed

Its a real piece of legislation, but don't panic, it changes very little indeed.

All it changes is that the PPC - if they do not know the identity of the driver, and the RK is invited to provide them with that information - could pursue the RK instead of the driver, if that driver was liable for any charge.

It doesn't make their charges any more enforceable - they would still lack sufficient landowner rights to form a contract with a driver, and the charge still represents an unenforceable contract penalty, so it still wouldn't stand up in court.

Provided its not a lease or hire car, and you know the RK (who is the one who will get hassled) you can continue to ignore these things.

taffy056

Yep fully endorse the above, ignore the scammers

Coupon-mad

You only have to search the forum as this question is asked every other day on threads. Feels like Groundhog Day on here sometimes. Why look on the direct.gov website and not actually look on the current threads on this forum, it's been done to death.

But here you go, I copied and pasted yet another previous reply which I gave only today to one of the dozens of people who can't search a forum:



Only the Council and Police (and some Train Operators) can issue a real parking penalty. This is a FAKE PCN.

Any fake PCN issued for an incident from 1st October 2012 onwards:

- if you were parked in Scotland or NI = IGNORE IT as the new law doesn't apply, there is NO appeal that's worth trying.

- if your 'ticket' is from a firm who are NOT members of the BPA's 'Approved Operator Scheme' (AOS) = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from an AOS member (Highview are, but it means not much!) in England/Wales, there are 2 choices:

a) IGNORE IT, as ever, playing snap with the threatograms that match our sticky thread 'PPC letter chains' (5th from top of this parking forum),

or

b) Appeal it with help from here in how to word it, and insist on a referral to the POPLA appeals service if it's not cancelled. Costs the PPC £32 plus, costs you nothing, it's not binding on you but it is binding on the PPC. IF you do not win your appeal then revert to ignore mode. This option is for those who want to fight back, cost the PPC money and test the POPLA system whilst also getting their PPC's tactics scrutinised; if you are that sort of person then start by reading threads about POPLA.

If you would prefer a quiet life and would not be confident to write a couple of appeal letters - then I recommend you just go for option a) and ignore the whole scam completely. Just play 'snap' with each letter against the 5th from top thread 'PPC letter chains', that's what the preview pics are linked there for (look at the old letters pre-October as there are more of those and I suspect most PPCs won't change their letters much).

Most importantly never pay it. Despite what the debt collector letters say, there are no repercussions. There will be no Court, no CCJ, no bailiff, no-on can come knocking, there's no effect on credit rating. ZILCH because it's a scam like a phishing email trying to extort money using an impersonation of authority, passing off an invoice as a PCN.

Look at the preview letters on the PPC letter chains thread right now.

Finally, if anyone gets any fake PCN anywhere in the UK in a retail, cinema, fast food or Supermarket car park then COMPLAIN IN WRITING to the CEO of the retailer (not verbally in store) if you were a customer. Complain about this protection racket against their paying 'soon to be ex-customers'.

It's not hard to ignore, it's quite amusing to read their threatograms. Even my 18 year old new-driver niece has ignored a few fake PCNs - six I think. I have only ignored two but would very happily laugh at more!




HTH, I really do want to help but get a little jaded with repeating all this when it's here in every other thread already.

ntypeman

Thanks to ManxRed & Coupon-mad...

We'll just ignore them I think & wait got the threatograms to come through... I take it in the unlikely event that we have any problems I can shout out for help???

Thanks again

Eric

Spider_Soprano

ntypeman wrote: »

Thanks to ManxRed & Coupon-mad...

We'll just ignore them I think & wait got the threatograms to come through... I take it in the unlikely event that we have any problems I can shout out for help???

Thanks again

Eric

The only problem you will have is deciding what to use the letter from the PPC, debt collector and solictor for. I used mine for my cat to crap on. In other words, there won't be any problems so continue to ignore and after a few months, come back and thank the regulars on here for saving you money.

Forgot to say:
I got 2 letters from Excel parking, 2 from Roxburgh DC, 2 from Graham White, all spouting off how they will come round and kick me head in in court if I didn't pay. That was in March, I didn't pay and guess what? Yup, nowt happened, the letters stopped, and heard nowt since.

Coupon-mad

ntypeman wrote: »

Thanks to ManxRed & Coupon-mad...

We'll just ignore them I think & wait got the threatograms to come through... I take it in the unlikely event that we have any problems I can shout out for help???

Thanks again

Eric

Yes of course, but I am sure you won't need any help to play snap with the letters as they'll match those shown on the links in the 'PPC letter chains' thread (currently 5th from the top of the parking forum). It's like sussing an obvious phishing email, only by post instead!