Parking eye threats

net60

I had a parking fine from parking eye in early January, I ignored about 3 letters from them and then heard nothing until about a week ago. I have now received a letter saying if the fine is not paid in 2 weeks court proceedings may follow. I have looked through a few threads on here and the general consensus seems to be just ignore them. Is this still the case and has anyone actually had court proceedings against them upheld ? I can ill afford to pay £70 but would rather pay that than end up with court costs as well !
Sorry that some of you seem to have answered similar questions many times before but the advice seems to be start a new thread l would be grateful for any advice that anyone has.

Umkomaas

net60 wrote: »

I had a parking fine from parking eye in early January, I ignored about 3 letters from them and then heard nothing until about a week ago. I have now received a letter saying if the fine is not paid in 2 weeks court proceedings may follow. I have looked through a few threads on here and the general consensus seems to be just ignore them. Is this still the case and has anyone actually had court proceedings against them upheld ? I can ill afford to pay £70 but would rather pay that than end up with court costs as well !
Sorry that some of you seem to have answered similar questions many times before but the advice seems to be start a new thread l would be grateful for any advice that anyone has.

Aldi by any chance?

edward123

Only take notice of court papers. Parking Eye being litigious presently. Strategy seems to be to get people to cough up with threat of court. If that happens came back here for advice. PE can't take all ignorers to court. They will cherry pick. The likelyhood of you being picked is still slim. If they try it on some here or over at pepipoo will help with a defence that will either mean Parking Eye backing off or losing in a small claims court.
One thing you could do....if its Aldi....post on their Facebook and tell them what their agents are doing to one their customers(as many have this last week). Bad publicity for Aldi.

Stroma

Hi there, just a few questions

Is this in England or Wales ? Have you been in contact with them at all ? Did your Notice to Keeper arrive within 14 days of the incident ? Have you had Debt Recovery Plus and Zenith Collections contact you ?

Don't identify yourself on here per my signature below vvvv

net60

Yes it was in England or Wales, I have not responded to any of their previous letters. The first contact was within 14 days....i think, but it was obviously some time ago now and no I have not been contacted by any debt recovery companies.

net60

yes it was.

Umkomaas

net60 wrote: »

yes it was.

Get yourself over to the Aldi FB and hit it wih a further strong complaint. You should eventually get a template reply asking you to contact them. Do that.

I thnk it's important to lodge a complaint on their FB as at least it identifies publicly that you've fully followed their procedure, then if they still don't remove the charge as they suggest they will, then it's back, full guns blazing, adding more excrement to their already rapidly spinning fan.

https://www.facebook.com/AldiUK?filter=2

Coupon-mad

net60 wrote: »

yes it was.

This is your best week to make a MAJOR complaint to Aldi:

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-to-get-parkingeye-charge-notice.html

Also see the facebook page in question, as already linked, things are kicking off big time as we have discussed:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4660007

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4664761


HTH, don't let it lie, get Aldi hopping about cancelling these fake PCNs.

sunwoodsunwoodnt

Hi,

Im new to this and not sure if doing correctly , but I got 2 parking eye fines last November and have ignored there asking for money, however today I got a claim form from county court bulk centre, 4th floor St Kathrine's house, 21 St Kathrine's street,Northampton. They are now asking for £170 claim,£15 court fee, £50 solicitor fee so total £235 and have sent a response pack from Northampton county court, I think I better pay now? or do I goto court?

Coupon-mad

You acknowledge the claim and say you will defend in full. Don't feel you suddenly have to pay because a specualtive claim does NOT automatically = a win for the PPC unless you let it (by ignoring it or not defending it fully).

Have a look on pepipoo at all the other cases like yours. People are generally not just paying up, people are defending, LOOK:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60

Only one case has gone to Court that I know of recently, and that's where PE cherry-picked it because it seems the silly defendant tried to just rely on 'I wasn't driving' as a defence. Obviously that person lost but there's no reason to think people will lose who submit a strong defence with pepipoo's help. Quite possibly most cases won't evn go to a hearing if PE just cherry pick a few and collect money from others who panic and pay.

BTW this wasn't an Aldi car park was it?! You need to start your own thread if you want to discuss it further though. This isn't your thread.

sunwoodsunwoodnt

Hi , Thanks for advice will take a look into.
This was pizzahut car park.
As I was saying im new to this and not sure how to start a new forum sorry