VCS now Rossendales Collect parking at Doncaster Airport

dannygdesigns

Hi, I've been reading previous threads and I cant find solid updated information on what to do but basically this is where I am:

I am the registered keeper of the vehicle and my car was used to pick my mum up from Doncaster airport on 27/09/2013.. The care was parked off a roundabout waiting for my mums arrival. The car was parked at 2:55am on the exit of a small roundabout as there was no traffic around at the time, the car wasn't obstructing anyone or anything.

As the registered keeper I received a letter from VCS on 12/03/2014 with a parking charge notice at a reduced fee of £60 if paid within 14 days. Photos of the car parked up were included. The letter was received 5 months after the event!

As the registered keeper I received another letter on 12/03/2014 saying that the amount is now £100 .

As the registered keeper I have now received a letter from Rossendales Collect dated 6th May 2014 stating that It is now £136 and has been passed to them from the above client (Vehicle Control Services Limited - Parking Charge Notice) and unless it is paid within 7 days or contact immediately with proposals recovery action will commence.

I am a little worried after following advice before to "ignore" the letters and nothing will come of it but the debt collector letter has scared me, Should I keep ignoring? or should I just pay it asap?, please help!

Redx

you can always try an appeal but they are unlikely to accept it given its not within 28 days of the NTK

neither has it been this forums advice to ignore such letters like an NTK in over 14 months so no idea why you did

given that you have followed this route, also that a DC can do nothing about it , maybe you should carry on ignoring unless you get an LBC or court papers

also read the NEWBIES sticky thread, there is a whole section regarding debt collectors in there

dannygdesigns

Could I not just play dumb, ignore and if anything else comes of it ie. court papers I could say I received no letters? as there is no proof of me having received them? or that I was driving the car at the time

or also the photographs of my car parked showed my car off the roundabout, could it not be argued that it had a mechanical fault and was stopped there due to this?

Coupon-mad

Why would you argue when the keeper isn't liable anyway, in law, on Airport land covered by byelaws? Which you'll know once you read the zillions of other Airport threads on this forum that we read & reply to, day in day out.

Amend your first post by editing anything about who the driver was because the keeper has no liability (so stay in registered keeper mode on here). Don't go appealing or saying who was driving of course!

P.S. Same as this thread, it's Groundhog Day again!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4967527

A good first step on any forum is to search an unusual word to find all the other threads already here...e.g. the name of the debt collector or the main word from their name - such as 'Recovery' or 'Rossendales' or Newlyn' as your keyword using the 'search this forum' heading next to forum tools about the top sticky threads.

dannygdesigns

I have been reading for days on other threads and still leaves me at a loss as to know what to do! Nothing is clear in black and white as to what I should do as of know. Should I continue to ignore any further letters, should I try and appeal or should I just pay the fine now before it accumulates further? What I don't want is to run up a bill for thousands of pounds or have the debt collectors knocking at my door! I would rather just pay the amount of £136 now before it gets to that stage. Any help would be much appreciated!

Stroma

Can I ask, what the hell are you reading????? Its not a bloody fine! And we don't say to pay these companies, read this thread in full first!

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

dannygdesigns

i have read the thread and the general thing is to either appeal or ignore so which do you advise in my case?

Redx

dannygdesigns wrote: »

i have read the thread and the general thing is to either appeal or ignore so which do you advise in my case?

only YOU can decide what to do , that is YOUR decision to make

we as forum members will give you all the info we can so that you can make your own decision , based on probabilities , laws , facts , likely outcomes , but if we told you what to do (as happened on here 16 months ago with another poster, then 16 months later the proverbial hits the fan , you and he would blame us for giving out bad advice)

so sorry to say this, but you need to make your own mind up

if you feel you can see it through , even at court OR if in the pre court stage it was referred to popla , ignore (but do not ignore any LBC or court papers)

your other choice is - pay up

the choice is yours to make , but I would go with option 1) if it were me , even if it costs me , in order to have my day in court , or to force it to popla in a pre-trial stage

I already told you this in my post #2 reply !

HO87

dannygdesigns wrote: »

i have read the thread and the general thing is to either appeal or ignore so which do you advise in my case?

With respect, the only two points at which the thread uses the word "ignore" is where:

a) It explains what actions you can take, at which point you can take them and by explaining that if you have read through it at least you could make an informed decision about continuing to ignore.
b) You are in Scotland or Northern ireland - where POFA does not apply

There is no "general advice" to ignore. It is proferred as an alternative but you are not advised to do so given that the other courses of action would eliminate the problem. Ignoring has risks attached and that is made amply clear.

Also within the same thread are details of how to approach the debt collector stage highlighting the fact that it is never too late to appeal.

Have you appealed to VCS? That is what is advised.

dannygdesigns

Hi no I havent appealed as unfortunately when i received the first letter i read old posts which said you should just ignore them. Still dont know what to do for the best, dont really want to pay as I feel they just like to put the fear of god into people as they have me now with this debt collector letter so that people are scarred into paying the robbing dogs!

Stroma

Debt collectors are powerless vermin (and I say that in general), they cannot force you to pay, they cannot take you to court, their only function is to send letters to you, or if they get a telephone number they harass people to pay.