parking eye + Equita PLEASE READ

pappa_golf

todays newspapers = tommorrows chip papers , One new story that day and it goes to page 47 and lost I would prefer the Financial Conduct Authority to hit them hard revoke licences and hit them with very large fines .


it is obvious that this mail shot has been put out to frighten people , often people who know nothing of the original charge. the amount being asked for is extortionate and not reclaimable in court .


several options ,


1: forget about it
2: write to debt collectors denying the claim and ask them to refer it back
3: wait for a letter before action , then court papers from PE.




yes you can fold at this point , and by doing so , you have dropped the mystical £200 down to £175 OR


you can demand full facts and dates , allow them to take you to court , play the 50/50 gamble with the judge , if you win fingers up to them , if you loose , its the £175 , cheaper than the letter and satisfaction that PE have paid for a solicitor to travel to YOUR local court at a cost (to them) of £300.


at some stage the "pen punching" bosses at crapita are going to count up the 100s of £125 losses and ask why?

salmosalaris

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pappa_golf wrote: »

todays newspapers = tommorrows chip papers , One new story that day and it goes to page 47 and lost I would prefer the Financial Conduct Authority to hit them hard revoke licences and hit them with very large fines .


it is obvious that this mail shot has been put out to frighten people , often people who know nothing of the original charge. the amount being asked for is extortionate and not reclaimable in court .


several options ,


1: forget about it
2: write to debt collectors denying the claim and ask them to refer it back
3: wait for a letter before action , then court papers from PE.




yes you can fold at this point , and by doing so , you have dropped the mystical £200 down to £175 OR


you can demand full facts and dates , allow them to take you to court , play the 50/50 gamble with the judge , if you win fingers up to them , if you loose , its the £175 , cheaper than the letter and satisfaction that PE have paid for a solicitor to travel to YOUR local court at a cost (to them) of £300.


at some stage the "pen punching" bosses at crapita are going to count up the 100s of £125 losses and ask why?

I do not agree with some advice here .
1. Never ignore a letter before action and wait for court papers , this is a chance to kill it
2. Don't assume any award if you lost at a hearing will be limited to £175. Unlikely but you could be unfortunate and have some costs awarded against you .
3. I think your chances of winning in court are way less than 50:50 without obviously seeing all your details .
4.I've posted here the options as I see them

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69686132&postcount=60




Personally I'd send the letter to PE as I've never believed ignoring anything is great advice . You must be aware though that contacting them could open up a hornet's nest that you have to deal with .
Don't forget to take the opportunity to name the driver if you were not to reset the clock .

MrSink

Hello
I too recieved a standard letter from equita chasing for payment after over 2 year.
Since the British justice system voted in favour of crooks to obtain cash for nothing, I am convinced that this is another test to see how many now will cave in a pay above the odds.
I do intent to write to parking eye and ask them to forward copies of all the communications between us, as quite simply after 2 years I had considered any actions as over. I belive this could be a resonable request. After all I do have a right to prepare myself for any court action they may take.

salmosalaris

MrSink wrote: »

Hello
I too recieved a standard letter from equita chasing for payment after over 2 year.
Since the British justice system voted in favour of crooks to obtain cash for nothing, I am convinced that this is another test to see how many now will cave in a pay above the odds.
I do intent to write to parking eye and ask them to forward copies of all the communications between us, as quite simply after 2 years I had considered any actions as over. I belive this could be a resonable request. After all I do have a right to prepare myself for any court action they may take.

In which case use my letter as posted IMHO

Coupon-mad

You don't have to write, in fact don't post a letter. Much better to use the Parking Eye contact/appeal page and keep a screenshot. ONLY call yourself the registered keeper and DO NOT talk about who may have been driving.

Blackstuff

Doesn't there have to be some kind of expediency to this type of enforcement, tied to some kind of time restraint? My parking fine was issued in 2013 and although they sent me quite regular letters for the first year (5 in total), surely after hearing nothing/no court summons for more than a year the matter is no longer enforceable?

Herzlos

6 years in England before it's not enforceable.

nigelbb

Some of us think that there should be a right to tell these bullies to put up or shut up so that once the alleged debt has been denied they should only have a short period to either go to court or the alleged debt becomes statute barred. It's ludicrous that years after the alleged 'crime' that debt collectors should threaten that they 'may' recommend legal action especially when it's likely that the PPC is in fact forbidden by their employer from taking legal action against the motorist.

It must be contrary to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to threaten legal action when there is no prospect of it happening either because the PPC never takes legal action e.g. Smart or the PPC is forbidden by their contract e.g. PE & ALDI.

libriarian

Zoee wrote: »

Two Equita letters arrived today (8 Dec 2015)and had no mention of dates, times or where these incidents had occurred except ‘Parking Eye Ltd has written to you recently’.

So I telephoned Equita and learned on 3 Dec 2015, Equita received instruction from Parking Eye to collect on fines for 28 Mar 2013 23:30pm and 21 Jul 2013 14:09hrs for 'parking' in a Morrisons carpark.

Yep both incidents occurred 2013!

The Morrison store in question closes 22:00pm and the parking sign stated:

‘This car park is private property and for the use of customers only, whilst shopping in the store’

Being there at 23:30pm and with the store closed, didn’t think it feasible to punch a ticket

Why has it taken over 2 years, 8 months and the other 2 years, 4 months to be passed to bailiffs?

There were no reminder letters of the outstanding payments this year or last year and am left wondering is this bailiff instruction legal?

Surely there are procedures and deadlines from ticket issue to Equita intervention. Is there?

Any suggestions on what I can do is appreciated.

Keep all the letters and details.
Contact the Morrison store in question, and arrange to meet with the manager. Talk to them in person, as a regular customer, and let them know what you have said here. Let them know it was after hours. If you were shopping before hand, show some evidence of this, have a look at your bank statements for this time, give or take a couple of days for transactions to show up on the statement.


The store has the authority to get the fine cancelled. I read this earlier in a thread, I think it was in the parking fine section, the newby read this, thread. Have a look there for more info.


Also, I was outside a major supermarket and saw a parking inspector one day. I talked with him, because unless I had seen him I never would have known they had started having a time limit. Anyway, he said don't worry, because if you do get a fine, they will cancel the first one anyway.


I had a couple of letters from my local Tesco store, fines, and when I called, they dropped each one. And the next time I got a fine, they said they would drop it this time...SO the supermarkets are very helpful, especially if you can prove that you shop there a lot, like a loyalty card.


Keep all the letters, for your evidence, should it further.
Don't ignore them, but also DONT WORRY about them. If they are serious they will threaten, and then act on the threat, of court action. If not, they just send you letters every month in an attempt to get you to pay out of fear.


I would not ignore the letters but I would not worry about them either.
When ever I get letters from a third party collection agency I never deal with the company itself, instead I go to the company that the issue is with. Because the collection agency are acting on instruction from the company itself. Once you sort it out with the company directly, THEY then tell the collection agency.
So personally, I would not deal with the debt company. If they were on your back however, you may like to tell them you are going to deal with it directly, so they are aware and get off your case a bit.


Instead I would deal directly with parking eye. When you get the letter from the store. Send it with a covering letter to them. Case closed....Hopefully.


All the best.




Hope that helps.

pappa_golf

Parking eye can shout to the debt collecting company , as they are in the next room , they are sister companies!!! and adding extortionate charges on illegally , see cash genie and Twyford Developments, trading as Carter Forbes and how they were fined £20 million http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33675522