Parking ticket on a car park after hours

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Smith2992 wrote: »

Right after sending LBA letters to the car parking owners (cms uk), graham white solicitors and roxburghe stating that by law only the police and the council can demand money for parking fines on private car parks not themselves in which then I went on to offer them as full and final settlement the cost of the car parking ticket at that time ( which was £2)
Roxburghe have sent me a reply in which says;

"Thanks for your recent correspondence, to confirm the terminology, this is not a penalty but a charge added in accordance to the terms and conditions advertised at the car park that our clients manage.

We note your comment regarding harassment but should inform you that as our client has a valid claim for payment for unauthorised parking, acting as the contracted managing agent for this site, they have every right under contract law to request payment of the outstanding debt.

Graham white solicitors are our 'in house' solicitors firm, with Mr Sobell as its principal solicitor. They are properly registered with the SRA no.

It is now necessary to settle the outstanding amount due above within the next 14 days to prevent any further action. If it becomes to redress through the small claims court, our client will produce further evidence of the incident and will request the parking attendant who issued the ticket to give evidance if required.

I trust that this explains the situation but if any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact us quoting your reference."

They have given a contact number for me to call but I haven't done so yet, I am just after any advice were to go from here please?

Thank you.

Haven't done so yet? Ever!!

You sound as if you are taking this far too seriously and I don't understand why you sent a letter before Court action but then offered them money? Sorry but they would have laughed! A LBA is your letter warning them you are going to sue them for money.

With givethemFA's help you can have another go properly but don't phone the scammers! Roxburghe's CCA licence is still being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading who are 'minded to revoke' it. This is not a company to be phoning up and attemptiong to have a reasonable conversation with.

esmerobbo

Never make an offer in a LBA unless its one to reimburse you. By making an offer you have admitted you owe them something! The time to make a full and final is before the LBA if they persist in contact after the offer then issue the LBA.

Also never quote something that is not correct the councils and Police cant fine people on private car parks, quoting incorrect facts encourages them.

However as we are talking about Roxburghe/White you don't to need do anything except ignore them!

robredz

LBA for the harassment, never offer payment if you are going to sue THEM! It weakens your case

Smith2992

Thanks for the responses the fact regarding the police and council only being able to issue tickets I didn't state only on private car parks I just put they are the only persons who can issue legal parking tickets demanding money,
I made the offer of paying the £2 parking ticket to cover myself as "give them FA" adviced as full and final settlement.

So do you believe I should just ignore anything else that comes through?
Again I sent them the letters as the last letter I received before I sent them basically tried to say if it wasn't sorted within 14 days. then another saying it would go to court if necessary and no payment was made. ( this letter came from graham white 2 days after I had sent the letter)

"give them FA" that would be great help and much appreciated if you could send me your email to help me please.

angel_islington

So you offered them what they were entitled to ask for and they refused it? I'd like to see how they respond to that in front of a judge.

The important thing with sending an LBA is you HAVE to follow it up. If you say you are going to take them to court if they don't stop harassing you (which they haven't) then you have to actually do it. Give them FA will help you and it's not difficult. Sending LBAs but not following through undermines everyones work here as we come across Graham S*ite all the time and we don't want him thinking we don't follow through.

We should ALWAYS follow through.

give_them_FA

Yes I have now PM'd the OP. For the avoidance of confusion, the offer of paying the undisputed amount actually owed was in my opinion correct. This is a case where it is necessary to remove any justification the company have for writing was needed. Paying or offering them what they are indisputably entitled to (not the £150 they will be demanding) was necessary. Their response has hanged them anyway.