Parking fine (debt collector)

give_them_FA

Have you got any plans to pay them?

No, I didn't think so.

It will pass the £1 million mark early next year....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Kite2010

If they had a winable case in court then they would have taken you to court by now.

give_them_FA

But then again as you live in Scotland they wouldn't even know how....

Half_way

As long as this is a private car park...
you should offer them whatever the original parking charge was, say for instance if the smallest block of parking costs 50p for up to 1/2 hour and you were 18 minutes over you owe 50p.

you should offer this as a full and final settlement.

you can also go down the route of reminding them that they can not charge penatlys or fine people as only councils and the police can do that.
something like


"I note your recent letter asking for the sum of £470 for an 18 minute overstay in your car park, as you are probably aware private companies and individuals can not lawfuly issue penalty charges, neither do they have the power to fine people, only statatory authorites such as the police/local authorities have the power to do this, and as such the sum of £470 must be an administration error on your part.
please find attached a cheque to the value of 50p ( or however much the cost usualy is) to cover the parking charge, ias a full and final settlement. I am enclosing this as a good will gesture as this matter occured over a year ago, I also find your letter demanding the sum of £470 to be quite threatening, and intimidating, and verging on harrasment, any further comuncations from you, (with the exception of an acknowledgement of this letter together with an apology for the administration error demanding £470 ) that are threatening will be taken to be harrrasment, and i may take legal actions against your company, and whoever contracted you to opperate on the car park in question.
lots of love all the best etc etc, spam4083"


Its important to make sure that you go for the land owner/car park owner as they are liable for the actions of their agents ( the parking company) if the PPC is seen to be a pest/liabilitry by the land owners hopefuly the PPC will be denied permision to opperate in that car park.

give_them_FA

Hopefully the OP (Spam) has filed this ridiculous correspondence in the bin by now. The thread was revived today by someone who has an evenbigger demand! Can it be a record?

What IS the biggest demand made by a scammer for a single ticket?