Part Paid for a Ticket, Must I keep paying?

frankocal

Hi, Having read many helpful things on this site, from 1p tesco buys to quick cheap receipes, I now need to ask for help.

Got a Parking Charge Notice from Vehicle Control Services, they said, pay £30 or it goes to £60. I paid £30, but too late, they wrote and said pay more, I paid a bit. I still owe £20 from their increased fee and now Graham White are writing on behalf of Roxburgh on behalf of Vehicle Control Services (VCS).

I know, I should have ignored it.

I know, I should have paid nil.

But I've got a bill for £62, and need to get off my plate, as it were.

Other than 'you shouldn't have been so foolish', any ideas?

Was gonna write to them to say that they can accept the last £20 and be done with it, but am not so sure now.

Any ideas?

ManxRed

Ignore.

Them.

frankocal

ManxRed,

Thank you.

ManxRed

No problem!

The_Slithy_Tove

frankocal wrote: »

Got a Parking Charge Notice from Vehicle Control Services, they said, pay £30 or it goes to £60. I paid £30, but too late, they wrote and said pay more, I paid a bit. I still owe £20 from their increased fee and now Graham White are writing on behalf of Roxburgh on behalf of Vehicle Control Services (VCS).

How did you pay the £30? Was it by cheque? Have the cashed it? If a cheque hasn't been cashed - call the bank and stop it now. If it has, then they have accepted payment (which you now know you should never have paid) and that's it.

prosnap

You must not pay them any more money.

They did not have any right to the money you have already given them.

They now obviously believe they have a "hooked fish" because you've paid them.

The whole private parking business relies on misrepresentation of authority. They are not the council, police or government, so they can't legally issue fines or penalties. All they have sent you is a civil invoice, which you have no legal obligation to pay or acknowledge.

Contacting them is generally a waste oftime, their appeals process is worthless as it is not run by an impartial third party but rather by themselves so it's obviously within their interests to reject it.

Over 99.9% of the time they will not take you to court, because the more times they take people to court, and lose, the more chance that other members of the public get to hear that the invoices can be ignored. This would then lead to parking companies having no income because there would be no more gullible people left!

Taking people to court actually hurts their business ... Which is why they hardly ever try it.