Parking Eye ticket 'debt collection'?

Chickenbrain2009

Hi,
I got a ticket from Parking Eye for overstaying and a free retail site.
I got sent a series of official looking letters, to which I did not reply. Today, months later I got a 'debt collection letter from 'Debt Recovery Plus Ltd' Whats the latest on this? At the time I followed forum advice to ignore all letters unless they come from a court. I see stuff about appealing......but it looks like a hassle ...and does give it legitimacy. The amount they are claiming is 135 pounds!
Thanks

Pam

Redx

just read the debt collector section in the NEWBIES sticky thread, tells you all you need to know

but bear in mind PE take people to court a lot, so do not ignore any LBC or MCOL letters from PE or the courts

Dee140157

And the forum advice has been NOT to ignore for the last year and a half, so unless the PCN was pre. Oct 2012 you weren't following it from here!

Coupon-mad

Chickenbrain2009 wrote: »

Hi,
I got a ticket from Parking Eye for overstaying and a free retail site.
I got sent a series of official looking letters, to which I did not reply. Today, months later I got a 'debt collection letter from 'Debt Recovery Plus Ltd' Whats the latest on this? At the time I followed forum advice to ignore all letters unless they come from a court. I see stuff about appealing......but it looks like a hassle ...and does give it legitimacy. The amount they are claiming is 135 pounds!
Thanks

Pam

Oh dear - oh dear! WHY did you ignore the most madly litigious PPC (over 13000 court papers issued in a year)? PE sue ignorers. That's you! Their charges are considered legit by the Judges who find in their favour every week...we help people win some but what a risky position to put yourself in such a long time after the advice changed!

Here's the stage you will be at next:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/66224594#Comment_66224594

Whats the latest on this?

The 'latest' was 2 years ago when the POFA 2012 was made law and soon after, we stopped saying 'ignore'. You won't have read to ignore these since early 2013 so sadly you are well out of date and risking the next round of PE small claims coming your way. Silly mistake, especially when you read the NEWBIES thread and realise that it would have just needed a simple, tried and tested 2 stage appeal which we win at POPLA, EVERY TIME against PE!

Try an urgent complaint to the retailer, Monday morning in person, ask for the Store Manager only and DO NOT be fobbed off!

Also submit an online appeal to Parking Eye anyway, late, as keeper (not saying who was driving) saying that the charge is not a genuine pre-estimate of loss and has no commercial justification. Don't reply to the debt collector.

sezzie24

Hi ,

My story is exactly the same as Pam s !
Stupidly read an archive thread I guess .

Only difference being that I work as a builder and was delivering and collecting materials from one of the units in the trade park at the time .

I'll read the proper advice now

oldgirl99

I received a ticket from Parking eye and ignored it as I thought I was looking at the most resent advice from the forums ��
But alas I now see it was Old advice and now have to pay a debt collector Grrrrrrrrrr feel completely stupid �� Why is there no way of clearing old posts that have out of date info ???

surfboy1

You DO NOT have to pay a debt collector!!
Please read the newbie sticky !!

Coupon-mad

oldgirl99 wrote: »

I received a ticket from Parking eye and ignored it as I thought I was looking at the most resent advice from the forums ��
But alas I now see it was Old advice and now have to pay a debt collector Grrrrrrrrrr feel completely stupid �� Why is there no way of clearing old posts that have out of date info ???

Pay a debt collector WHY?! Are you made of money or just still haven't bothered to read current advice (clue - the top sticky thread) which tells you about debt collector stage?

To me this looks like the problem of people sadly not knowing how to use a forum properly (particularly common for newbies).

If you didn't look at the date of the thread you read then sorry, that's not MSE's fault...you are only ever one click away from page one of any forum (see the little 'forum jump' 'GO' button bottom right, that's all you ever needed to do if you found an old thread). Even my signature tells you NOT TO IGNORE and my replies are pretty much everywhere on this forum, even on very old archive threads (with the obvious red writing in my signature there for all to see).

TBH I have no idea at all why or even how anyone would find an old thread on MSE, seeing as surely you'd just go to this parking forum, you can't exactly search meaningfully for 'Parking Eye' after all as that's a stupidly unworkable search term on a PARKING forum where every thread has that word in it! If I was looking for help with an Airline flight delay case, for example, I wouldn't randomly search 'Flight delay' on Google or on MSE and read a thread from 2010 as if it meant something useful! I would go to the Airlines/Flight Delay forum board, to the top sticky threads and start there.

Reading an old thread is like reading an ancient newspaper article on Google - why would anyone read an old result?

But for the love of God no-one is telling you to pay Debt Recovery Plus.