excel parking services limited

pustit

Good to see you back Bondy Lad. I take it you have been away on Holiday. Hope you had a good time.

chiefuk

You will eventually get a letter from Roxburghe debt collection then 4 solicitors letters then they will stop but dont answer any of then, I had the same when I over stayed in a Morrisons car park near my dentist, its all down to them recording number plates. if future if you have over stayed your time in a car park that photos number plates the trick is to cover your back number plate with paper or tissues just while you exit then remove it as soon as your leave the car park. it works every time for me now

bondy_lad

pustit wrote: »

Good to see you back Bondy Lad. I take it you have been away on Holiday. Hope you had a good time.

yep, hit florida for two weeks, did not get any fake tickets though???.

RENEGADE_2

pineapples wrote: »

I'm only worried as it's my first ticket of any kind. So I guess I have to sit back and watch the letters roll in through the letter box then ey?

Why are you "worried"? It means absolutely nothing and does not constitute a single blemish on your character. Not only is your antagonist going nowhere but once the last of these apologetic attempts at authority-immitation has been discarded along with the rest of them, the slate will be wiped clean. It will be as if it never happened; if like me you have had multiple cases with one company at the same time, you'll know that each case is pursued individually with no ackowledgement that you are already involved in other matters - so they certainly don't consider your previous rejection of their demands when trying their luck in future cases. They plough ahead regardless, it is a faceless scheme. Nobody's name is known to them for his defiance: THREE AND A HALF YEARS my friend has been receiving CP Plus tickets for overstaying a two-hour limit on an M4 service station on average FIVE TIMES a week, and it hasn't dawned on any of those retards working at that company that the guy they are writing to who is the keeper of the vehicle ISN'T RESPONDING to a single mail. Literally (a word I do not throw around casually like second year university students do for anything that is most definitely non-literal - "my mate was literally DEAD, then he got up and walked!") , literally, my mate would by now have owed hundreds of thousands if the skeleton in the cupboard were brought to light, escept there isn't one because the demands are wholly illegal as is yours.

You sound like a law-obiding citizen - and even in the impossible occasion that you were successfully defeated in a county court by those imbeciles; it would merely be a case of you having lost a civil disupte, not broken the law, so your record will still be clean. But like I said, after they post their last letter, your name will drop off their system; because at that stage it doesn't matter whether you pay or not, they have exhausted themselves.

bazster

RENEGADE wrote: »

THREE AND A HALF YEARS my friend has been receiving CP Plus tickets for overstaying a two-hour limit on an M4 service station on average FIVE TIMES a week

Sorry but someone's gotta ask: just why does your mate spend so much time at a motorway service station?

Just curious...:)

Stephen_Leak

Motorway service stations are useful for all sorts of things. Keep typing, Steve, keep digging.

RENEGADE_2

bazster wrote: »

Sorry but someone's gotta ask: just why does your mate spend so much time at a motorway service station?

Just curious...:)

Bazster, I apologise but I hadn't logged in for a few days.

As you know, these places are open 24/7 and after a certain time they are the only place left that serve coffee if you fancy sitting somewhere public - as long as you don't mind paying stupid money. And over time, you get to know the decent staff members, those who realise that the whole caper is one squalid money-grabbing exercise and have no intention of staying there for ever and so they happily look after you (eg. charge you less, let you off with the odd thing, etc.). I originally started using these places in the night when doing nearby security work and needing a breakfast...great days they were 2001-2003. Now they don't always do hot food - the idiots!

That said, my friend needs to go careful. The situation is such: two hours free, then a £10 charge for anything between two and 24 hours. If the PPC's architects had any brains, they'd wait until a car did it four of five times and they could then legally seek losses and these amount to an ordinary ticket most issue.

Thankfully they are a bunch of greedy narrow-minded rats and we can walk rings around them.

bazster

Some service stations don't do hot food during the night? That is a bit rubbish.

I don't think your friend needs to worry. Not sure the PPC could save them up and hit him with them all in one court case (after all, each occasion was - allegedly - a separate contract entered into). And anyway they're not interested in chasing a tenner a pop - in fact, they probably don't even know what the parking charges are, all they are interested in is their highway robbery scam.

RENEGADE_2

bazster wrote: »

And anyway they're not interested in chasing a tenner a pop - in fact, they probably don't even know what the parking charges are, all they are interested in is their highway robbery scam.

Correct - your whole statement from top to bottom.

I am a bit peeved that many service areas don't even operate 24 hours - they might just run the filling station and inside newsagent (WH Smith franchise mainly) but there are still those that will do food overnight. The Road Chefs are probably best as many have 24-hour McDonalds and the prices are akin to what you'll pay in an average in-town restaurant. Some even run their Subway overnight - for night drivers like me there is still some service station night life, OK food served by fit Polish girls whom I endeavour to impress with my attempts at their language!

It's the rest of your comment that is of interest. It was the activities of this acquaintance of mine which brought this whole caper to my attention in the first place. Originally the service areas were not enforcing their conditions but when in April 2009 he received his first invoice and decided to ignore it, even I was waiting to see what will eventually happen - as one year before that I paid £73 to APCOA's "debt collector", something I bitterly regret.

But as I have said before, my friend and I know that it is a faceless scheme; nobody's case is dealt with by any individual, the issuing of invoices is an automated process with staff doing little more than tapping digits into the computer to say that someone has paid - or their alarm bell rings when a vehicle's keeper hasn't paid and so much time has passed. Nobody stops to think that the same individual is being pursued for four other live cases.

Roll on 1st October and down with clamping!

pineapples

Since the so called incident, I have received 2 final demand letters, stating that I have ALLEGEDALLY breached their rules, one letter from Roxburgh debt collectors who have added £42 on top of the £100 and following that I have received a letter from Graham White solicitors stating that i could pay up to £207 in court fees and that I have to ring them.

All of whcih I have ignored. I feel positive about it but every time I get a letter im nervous again.
*sigh*