What to do when you HAVE told them you were the driver?

PearTree_2

Hello there,

I've read through a load of threads on here this morning, ( confused about where to find the hashtag pages, sorry) but keep saying just ignore and DON'T tell them you were the driver.

But I have told them I was the driver. I didn't know about this forum when I replied.

I parked in a bay, paid for parking, went to a trapeze class, fell and twisted my ankle and was half an hour late back to my car where my mum met me and drove me home. I hadn't realised I'd gotten a ticket because my mum took it off the door. I got a letter a few months later from NCP in Glasgow, Scotland for £100 which was ridiculous. I appealed over email saying - Yes I was the driver there, but I was hurt, couldn't get back or drive, £100 was ridiculous as they would have lost less than a pound, if they wanted a pound I would give them that. I didn't get a reply and got another duplicate letter not mentioning whether my appeal was rejected or not so I left it incase it was a mistake. Then found an email in my junk from them just repeating 'you were here longer than you paid for' etc.

I then didn't have a clue what dates I was meant to go with so ignored it and now have a letter from DRP. I have read lots of this forum about them not being enforceable and don't go to court and that there isn't an appeals body in Scotland etc - but they are all followed with don't say you were driving. But I did. So now I am worried I can be taken to court. Should I reply to DRP saying to leave me alone? Or leave it altogether? It's went to £149.00 now and I don't have that money.

Thanks for any help, or just a link to a similar case and I'll gladly read that!

bazster

Just ignore them. NCP doesn't do court, and they'd be mad to start with such a ridiculous case.

Herzlos

You ignore them until you get real court paperwork (phone the court to confirm) and then defend it.

Letting them know you were driving just means they can take you to a small claims court over it, but it doesn't make any of the rest of the scam legitimate. They probably won't anyway because the Scottish courts aren't as friendly to their scams (to date none of the parking companies in Scotland have made it to court, apart from the ones defending criminal charges - they've all been dropped at the last minute).