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Parking fine

I was issued with a £90 fine (£60) if I paid in 14 days. After looking at posts on here I ignored it. Was issued another letter and ignored that one also. I received a letter from debt recovery plus for £150. I am in Scotland and haven't kept my other letters (stupid I know). Tempted to pay up. Opinions please. I also spoke to my aunt who had one of these too. She ignored her's and eventually they left her alone.

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  • Redx
    Redx Posts: 38,084 Forumite
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    edited 5 September 2016 at 12:08AM
    its not a fine , its an invoice and they can only chase the driver in Scotland

    so read the NEWBIES sticky thread, then IGNORE

    after 5 years , its dead and buried

    dont be tempted to pay the sc@mmers , just continue to IGNORE

    treat it like a Nigerian sc@m letter aka a 419 advance sc@m
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    edited 4 September 2016 at 2:52PM
    Belle30 wrote: »
    I was issued with a £90 fine (£60) if I paid in 14 days. After looking at posts on here I ignored it. Was issued another letter and ignored that one also. I received a letter from debt recovery plus for £150. I am in Scotland and haven't kept my other letters (stupid I know). Tempted to pay up. Opinions please. I also spoke to my aunt who had one of these too. She ignored her's and eventually they left her alone.

    DRP are blithering idiots. You ignore them as they have as much power as a dead haggis run over by a car.

    Do not contact them ...... they are after who the driver was .... YOU are not going to tell them are you ??

    The Scottish courts have shown they are not very keen on these scammers. You are lucky living in Scotland where the law is different to England and Wales about this, so rest easy and just laugh at the DRP letters, they are good for firelighters of bonfires or ... cat litter trays where they belong
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 150,394 Forumite
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    edited 5 September 2016 at 12:06AM
    Belle30 wrote: »
    I was issued with a £90 fine (£60) if I paid in 14 days. After looking at posts on here I ignored it. Was issued another letter and ignored that one also. I received a letter from debt recovery plus for £150. I am in Scotland and haven't kept my other letters (stupid I know). Tempted to pay up. Opinions please. I also spoke to my aunt who had one of these too. She ignored her's and eventually they left her alone.

    Anyone who pays a parking charge from a private firm, supports their business model and funds the next 'tickets' against the next victims. If no-one paid at all, this entire industry would never have morphed into the monsters they now are. Blame the daft UK public for having more money than sense, as well as the money-mad, apparently sociopathic fat cats who 'run' some of these despicable firms...

    Anyone who pays a debt collector - always for a sum over the PCN sum(!) has been mugged. What the heck, £150, don't!!

    Anyone who pays up when they are in Scotland or NI, would need their head examining surely. Search the forum for 'Scotland'.

    A registered keeper is NOT EVEN LEGALLY LIABLE, North of the border!

    Now please confirm, you will NOT be paying just because you have the usual silly letter chain arriving that us regulars have laughed at for a decade. You need no help at all to ignore this drivel, particularly when you are in Scotland.

    :)
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • Ralph-y
    Ralph-y Posts: 4,652 Forumite
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    If you have lots of £££ try a solicitor ..... but be warned that you have just had advice from one .... if not the most informed person in the advice on private parking ...... any where ........ :)

    Ralph:cool:
  • I confirm I will not.
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