Parking charge in pub car park

dandroid79

Hi,

I received a charge from local parking security Ltd for parking in an unmarked Bay in a pub car park. I bought a ticket but didn't keep it after the event.

I ignored the notice stuck to the windshield and ignored the letter sent a few weeks later from local parking security Ltd.

Today I received a letter from quest debt recovery. See below-

Dear Sir/Madam

our Ref: *********

our client: Local Parking Security Ltd

Balance Dua: £117.00

our clients Reference: ******,,,

We have been instructed to contact you in relation to our faure so setta our clients outstanding

account You are now liabla for our cliants fixed nomnistrationdebt recovery costs of £39.00 which

includes VAT and interest pursuant to our donts Terms and concitions.

This letter serves as our elienrs fnal demand for Aug payment fromwau. If full pewment is not received

on or before 30 December 2013 then we are instructed to commence legal proceedings against you for

ful payment of the dobt togsther wish intareet and all nssocated legal feeseosts,

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http:haww.questdebrecovery.co.uksericescustomer-information or call our office to request a hard

Payment can be mada by BACsintomot Banking rio tha following Account:

IBAN GBES ABBY 0901 2745 83 63 SWFT Ble ABBYGB2Lox Bank SANTANDER, PO Box

363, 21 PRESCOTSTREET LONDON, E1 ERP. UK

Account Name: Quest Debt Rocovoy

Account No: 86966363

Son codo: 00-01-27

Payment Ref: 100107325

FAILURE TO PAY OR MAKE PAYMENT PROPOSALS WTHIN 14 DAYs wILL RESULT IN

FURTHER CHARGES BEING LEVIED ONTO THIS ACCOUNT A DISCOUNT WILL BE OFFERED

ON ANY FULL PAYMENT MADE WITHIN 7 DAYs.

OUEST DEBT RECOVERY

TAON SENFORCEMENT TEAM

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Should I pay this or continue to ignore. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Umkomaas

You need to get an understanding about how this stuff works. The more you know, the better you will be able to tackle it.

Coupon-mad, one of the foremost experts in private parking matters has written the following very detailed advisory thread for NEWBIES permanently attached to the top of the forum index (known as a 'sticky').

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822

Please read through this and determine where you currently are in the process (i.e. being chased by debt collectors), but you first might want to have a quick overview of the whole process by reading my 'Walk Through' which is also linked within this NEWBIES sticky.

Come back after reading if you want to ask any questions.

HTH

Redx

read the sticky thread at the top of this forum called NEWBIES-READ THIS NOW

then decide on your course of action dependent on your uk region

ideally you should have challenged the NTK with the PPC, then gone to POPLA

sounds like they passed it to DR who cannot spell

dandroid79

I didn't contest the the original ticket with anyone and I don't have the original parking ticket I purchased. Am I fighting a losing battle? If I pay will they continue to ask for money? To be honest my time is worth more than £117 but I don't want to open a can of worms where they think I'll pay anything.

Redx

if your copy and paste is correct it looks like a 2 year old wrote it !!

this PPC seem to be a member of the BPA so what you should have done is deny the NTK charge and got a popla code to contest it at popla

as you bought a ticket you dont appear to have done anything wrong, but you havent posted details from those NTD or NTK tickets so nobody knows what they are accusing you of

really need more details to help you but I would send the PPC a letter or email denying the charge and ask them to cancel or issue a popla code

we can then help you win at popla

unless the creditor is willing to go to court over this you dont have to pay anyone anything , but you should deny the charge, try and get a popla code, even get the landowner to drop the charge completely

ignoring letters is never a good idea as all you did was run out of appeal time and cause yourself this hassle

so its time to be proactive by challenging the ppc, and ignore DR

it even tells you in the NEWBIES thread to "APPEAL ANYWAY" (to the ppc)

ps:- you say you paid for a ticket, so it must be in their records, which you can insist that they check for your ticket and reg number which they have to do under BPA guidelines

if I received a parking ticket and I had paid for parking, there is no way I would pay a large payment out when I have done nothing wrong, But I would contest the charges at the earliest opportunity and certainly would not ignore the first letters at all, but I would take it to court before paying another penny out if I had complied with the terms of parking and paid as well !!!

Iceweasel

dandroid79 wrote: »

I didn't contest the the original ticket with anyone and I don't have the original parking ticket I purchased. Am I fighting a losing battle? If I pay will they continue to ask for money? To be honest my time is worth more than £117 but I don't want to open a can of worms where they think I'll pay anything.

To sort this without paying a penny would take a couple of hours to gen up on the system that you need to follow to beat them.

Just telling the truth and saying you don't intend paying wont work.

You'll need to follow the guidance on here and you'll need 2 or 3 well worded letters which can be checked on here before you send them.

But of course if your time is worth more than the £117 - just pay it and be done with it. For you it then ends totally - they won't ask for more.

Thereby perpetuating this unjust system of extracting cash from those who perhaps can ill afford it.

It's your money and your time - so it's your call too.

Half_way

there's no battle at all. do you know the pub in question?

Coupon-mad

dandroid79 wrote: »

I didn't contest the the original ticket with anyone and I don't have the original parking ticket I purchased. Am I fighting a losing battle? If I pay will they continue to ask for money? To be honest my time is worth more than £117 but I don't want to open a can of worms where they think I'll pay anything.

So what conclusion did you come to about appealing this anyway when you read the newbies sticky thread about exactly that situation re debt collector letters?