Euro Car Parks Fine Ticket

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mrgolferman wrote: »

Last Month i was issued a car parking fine by Euro Car Parks and looked for advice on here and other places, where people were saying just to ignore it. Now they have sent me out a warning letter saying that if I don't pay the full fine within 28 days they will send a debt collector to my house. I was wondering if anyone else had received this letter as well recently and what they have done. As i heard that the law about they way they work might have changed, also I am from Scotland so would that make a difference? Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.

If you'd gone to the 'parking tickets' sub-forum first (rather than this Motoring Board which is for anything and everything else motoring-related) you would have seen the advice about private parking tickets in Scotland/NI which is in the 'Private parking ticket? NEWBIES please read this first' sticky thread. Shows you a nice Watchdog video which only applies to cases in Scotland/NI nowadays and would have answered your queries.

Here's a case where a person just posted the same old query as yours, on that forum the regulars get this every few days despite the sticky thread already covering it:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4901014

Of course you don't pay and neither do you contact them again (very naïve). It's not a fine. Have a chuckle at the Watchdog video in the NEWBIES sticky thread at the top of the parking forum.

NOTE TO NEWBIES - THE IGNORE ADVICE ONLY RELATES TO SCOTLAND/NI SINCE 2013 ONWARDS. IN ENGLAND/WALES WE WIN AT POPLA INSTEAD!

mrgolferman

Today i recieved a letter from Roxbourghe parking services, saying that I now owe them 118 pounds for the same offence as above. Has this happened to anyone, or does anyone know what to do now?

Iceweasel

mrgolferman wrote: »

Today i recieved a letter from Roxbourghe parking services, saying that I now owe them 118 pounds for the same offence as above. Has this happened to anyone, or does anyone know what to do now?

Yes - it's happened to me and several of my relatives.

It's normal and expected (especially as your wife contacted them previously)

But nothing has changed.

You continue to ignore them. There will be a few more more letters before they give up.

Just do not contact them in any way at all.

As we discussed several weeks ago there will be more letters threatening all sorts of things that can not, and will not, happen.

There is a chance in a million that they might attempt court - but in that case we will all be delighted to help you with the correct response to kill it dead.

mrgolferman

Continuing on from the letter today I received a call from Roxburgh solicitors, it was my son who answered the call but i wasnt in at the time so he just hung up. What should I do now?

Quentin

As before

Nothing

mrgolferman

What do I say when they call?

Iceweasel

Give your son a pat on the back - clever lad.

Iceweasel

mrgolferman wrote: »

What do I say when they call?

Word for word this:

"This debt is denied.

Refer this back to your client.

Any further contact will be considered harassment."

And say nothing else at all.

No discussion.

mrgolferman

And you are sure this will work?

Iceweasel

mrgolferman wrote: »

And you are sure this will work?

Oh yes.

Magic words.

If they actually are solicitors or debt-collectors that's enough.

But of course you can simply do what your son did - hang up on them - but they will ring you again every so often.

Nothing to worry about - toothless bull dogs - or Chihuahuas more like. :rotfl: