parking eye, now DRP Ltd, maybe going to court?

traceynob

My parking 'incident' was Feb 2015. The first time they give you a deadline to pay and threaten that they may advise their client to take you to court, blah de blah, it's a bit scary, but then you don't pay and they don't do anything except send another letter. At some point the letters stop being scary and start being funny! I'm surprised they don't try telling me I've won a DRP raffle prize and I just need to send them £160 to claim it.

Check out samples of DRP letters on the link below;

https://bmpa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203589972-Debt-Recovery-Plus

Like everyone says, ignore, they are not worth the effort it takes to respond....

hoohoo

babazub wrote: »

It was originally £60, then £100, now £150
If they take it to court, how much can it go upto?

The way PE and DRP interact is that if PE do not get paid they pass the charge to DRP who add on their own fee and send scary letters. Just before they give up, they reduce the price. You therefore have the last letter from DRP, who have now given up.

The charge now gets passed back to PE, and reduced back to the original £100.

If PE are allowed to go to court at this hospital they will next send you a letter before claim, and if you do not respond, file a claim.

If PE are not allowed to go to court, they will send a letter before claim, but then will go silent.

If PE do go to court, then if you behave reasonably, the cost will be £100 for the charge, £25 filing fee, £25 hearing fee and £50 filing fee.

If you are not reasonable the judge may add on £160 to £300 for whatever their lawyer cost.

As the filing fee is a parkingeye invention the judge may knock off the £50 filing fee.

The objective is therefore to be reasonable.

First up, you can engage DP in dialog and explain that the debt is denied and that you have appealed to ParkingEye in 2014 but that they did not deal with your appeal points.

Next check the original reply from ParkingEye. If this contained a POPLA code then you should have appealed to POPLA. It appears it wa sso badly written you did not realise this.

Write to PE (get proof of posting) explain that their original reply was so badly writen you did not ralise you could appeal to POPLA. Please send a new POPLA code so you can do this.

If they did not give a POPLA code, write asking for one, and also complain to the BPA.

Meanwhile also complain to the hospital that PE is not fit for purpose and that your ticket should be cancelled and PE removed from the site.

All this assumes the ticket should not have been issued. Tell us what happened to the driver on the day and why the driver fell foul of the system. Dont tell us who the driver was, and use, 'the driver' rather then he, she, me, I, them, etc.

ampersand

hoo-hoo - it's not a hospital.
#3 - 'no, it is in a town centre, with a few shops there'

babazub

hoo-hoo - it's not a hospital.
#3 - 'no, it is in a town centre, with a few shops there'

Does that make a difference to your very long and kinds response above?

enfield_freddy

babazub wrote: »

A friend has been given a £30 PCN, rising to £60 after 14 days by eurocarparks at Sainsburys site
He was over by 5 minutes.
Should he appeal it or ignore it?

yes!


please start a new thread , but before this read the notes in the "newbie" threads , all might be answered

Umkomaas

babazub wrote: »

A friend has been given a £30 PCN, rising to £60 after 14 days by eurocarparks at Sainsburys site
He was over by 5 minutes.
Should he appeal it or ignore it?

Far better if your friend comes on here to get first hand advice. Unless you're fully au fait with this stuff, you trying to translate what we are saying to him (via you), there is more than a possibility that this could end up badly for him.

Get him to post (on a new thread) for bespoke help.

babazub

@ hoo-hoo - it's not a hospital.
#3 - 'no, it is in a town centre, with a few shops there'

Does that make a difference to your long and detailed response above?

Umkomaas

I think this thread us getting confused between your PE ticket and your 'friend's' ticket from ECP.

Regulars will soon become disinterested (there's so many others who also need help) if you disregard what's being asked of you. Keep this thread about PE and get your friend to start a new thread about ECP - otherwise I'm out!

babazub

@umkomaas - i'm new to this forum and all forums. sorry

babazub

For the OP about the ticket from PE

@ hoo-hoo - it's not a hospital.
#3 - 'no, it is in a town centre, with a few shops there'

Does that make a difference to your long and detailed response above?