DRP Letter

DBlackshaw

Good afternoon.


I have received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus on behalf of Excel Parking Services. I parked on Peel Centre Stockport back in April. Honest mistake on my part, Peel Centre used to allow 30 mins free parking so never got a parking ticket as I am normally in out of PC World. I just assumed it was the same and didn't pay for a parking ticket. I didn't get any parking tickets on my windscreen at the time when I came out.


Last week I got a letter from DRP demanding £160 as they had been trying to contact me for a few months. I moved house in April, updated my driving license details with DVLA but they were still sending the original letters to my old address. My new license was issued on 18th April and the parking offence was the 21st April.


I rang DRP and explained this but still said I owe the whole amount which I am most certainly not paying. I asked for the original letters and evidence to be emailed to me which they did. The original parking fine was £60. There was no fine or ticket issued and was instead one of these ANPR systems. The photograph evidence was poor. 2 small pictures of my reg plate entering and leaving the car park.


I know some people have posted things about this but was wondering if there has been any change with regards to these so called parking fines and if my circumstances are different as don't plan on paying this? I don't mind paying the original £60 but certainly not £160.


Thanks
David.

Nodding_Donkey

Read the Newbies thread.

Especially the bit about IGNORING debt collectors

enfield_freddy

its the date on the V5 that matters , not your driving licence , there is a date on it , doc REF , what date is this , because quite often it takes several weeks to update.


PS NEVER RING SCUM

Redx

ANPR pictures are supposed to record the number plate, not qualify as passport style photos !

Peel Centre is notorious and there are hundreds of threads about it on here , but as its now IPC version of "justice" (kangaroo style through their IAS) then its ignore for 6 years unless you get an official LBCCC or an MCOL in the post

the sticky threads by coupon-mad and crabman have all the details, and post #4 of the NEWBIES sticky thread tells you about debt collectors and IGNORING them

it is possible that Excel may try a court case, so keep all paperwork for more than 6 years

if you want to learn more , use the forum search box and put in PEEL CENTRE STOCKPORT , but ignore anything about popla as it no longer applies

that car park is pay and display , no grace period or free periods

its your V5C details that Excel obtained, debt collectors use all knids of methods to track you down, but its the VRN license plate that triggered this, because no ticket was bought so the cameras recorded entry and exit and the computer noticed there was no corresponding payment ticket issued for the VRN

hence the speculative invoice to the RK, now the debt collectors are on your trail and its too late to appeal

DBlackshaw

Just checked V5 and the date next to the doc ref is 28 05 2015. Is there still some grounds to use the crossover of addresses with the DVLA as a reason not to pay the £160? I feel its unfair given that all the original letters were going to my old address even though I notified DVLA soon as I moved house.

Redx

you dont have to pay the £160 at all !!

its a speculative invoice for an alleged debt from a debt collector

this is no longer about parking

the lack of a paid for parking ticket has now allowed excel to send you a speculative invoice for up to £100 and to pass it to debt recovery who add on their wages too (if you were stupid enough to pay it)

this hassle can go on for 6 years as they now have you baited and dangling on their hook, all cos you didnt pay a couple of quid to park

its a honey trap that you fell for and they have 6 years to try to get an extortionae amount of money from you

but DRP are toothless and powerless debt collectors, all they can do is send out demands for payment, if they dont get any money they dont get paid

after that, EXCEL could try an LBC and then an MCOL from Northampton or Salford , sometime in the next 6 years under the small claims which started in 1973

its all about fleecing rule breakers for extortionate sums of money , the car park is a honeytrap for the unwary like you

IGNORE DRP

if this went to court, fight it and then if the judge decides you should pay, pay within 28 days to avoid a CCJ

ps:- even if you had received the NTK from Excel and appealed in good time, they would have turned it down and insisted you pay their full fee of say £85 , even an appeal to the IAS would have been turned down and the full fee would have been charged

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5203934

this sc@m featured on Watchdog in 2011 and I have posted about it hundreds of times on here in the last 2 years alone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/30Dq1nhqfvfClyLyRk3BZJb/excel-parking-services-ltd

see this parking prankster blog from 12 months ago

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/excel-parking-pay-for-failure-to.html (when it was popla and the BPA, not the IPC and IAS)

and then

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/excel-parking-pay-for-failing-to-inform.html

and

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5041004

Coupon-mad

DBlackshaw wrote: »

Just checked V5 and the date next to the doc ref is 28 05 2015. Is there still some grounds to use the crossover of addresses with the DVLA as a reason not to pay the £160? I feel its unfair given that all the original letters were going to my old address even though I notified DVLA soon as I moved house.

You still think you need a 'Reason not to pay the £160'?? I assume you have not yet read the NEWBIES thread yet as advised by Nodding Donkey. I wrote a whole post there about ignoring debt collector letters like DRP (with links to the stupid letter chain) and begging newbies not to start any more threads about the letters...

You will see why we don't need new threads about DRP when you read some of the thousands and thousands of repetitive threads about DRP/Zenith.

Another letter will arrive within a fortnight, then they unleash the Zenith version!! OMG big deal...not.