QDR Solicitors Letters

carolinebapganza

Hi all. I'm really sorry and I promise I have read the newbies thread but I cannot see which, if any, of the information applies to me (I can see the appealing to Indigo section and then the Letter before Court but I don't have one of those).

Basically, I have had a parking ticket from Indigo for parking at a train station (lack of ticket). This was followed by a letter from the Indigo PCN Admin Centre and then a letter from ZZPS. Finally, I have now received a letter from QDR solicitors saying:

"We have been instructed by ZZPS Limited, who are acting on behalf of Indigo Park Solutions UK Limited in connection with the recovery of the above debt.....blah blah.... require full payment to be made within 14 days.

Failure to make payment in full or contact us to discuss repayment of this debt may result in us recommending to the Car Park Operator that the matter be enforced through criminal court proceedings. Such proceedings would require your attendance before the Magistrates Court. ETC ETC"

The PCN was dated 19/01/18 and the debt requested now is £182.

Obviously I am stupid for not responding to Indigo or ZZPS but my question is, is it too late now to write to ZZPS with the standard template letter or is there a standard letter I should write to QDR? I don't know whether to ignore QDR and direct any communication to ZZPS or not.

Apologies, I know you get very frustrated with all of the questions but I genuinely couldn't find an answer to this on the newbies post.

Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

carolinebapganza

As a side note, I did follow the advice of posts on here and sent a letter for the above PCN to ZZPS but they have clearly ignored that and ploughed straight on to QDR Solicitors

Quentin

Read up on railway bylaws.

Lots regards this in the Newbies FAQ and other threads.

Also see #4 in the FAQ regarding ignoring debt collectors

fisherjim

They can recommend to the car park operator all they like, but only the TOC can take a bye law case to court, in the unlikely event that happened neither QDR (who are acting as debt collectors) ZZPS or Indigo would get anything. So they aren't being straight are they?

This needs to string out for six months and you can forget it

Coupon-mad

sent a letter for the above PCN to ZZPS but they have clearly ignored that and ploughed straight on to QDR Solicitors

Same thing, all from ZZPS, just debt collector letters.

I have had a parking ticket from Indigo for parking at a train station (lack of ticket).

Obviously I am stupid for not responding to Indigo or ZZPS

No you are not, why not simply search the forum for Indigo railway POPLA and you will see there is no appeal process for those ones. You missed nothing, and ignoring this lot IS an option.

No-one pays them. Read some Indigo railway threads, that's what 'search this forum' is for.

beamerguy

All has been said above.

Whilst a magistrates court tends to deal more
with criminals than a county court, for QDR giving
you the impression you could be a criminal is disgusting
and shows how low they have stooped over a parking
ticket.

QDR are a quirky offshoot of Wright Hassall Solicitors
who themselves got a very bad reputation for their
involvement in the great parking scam

More fool them for still dabbling in the black arts

ZZPS = FOOLISH AND POWERLESS LOAD OF RUBBISH
and you certainly don't want to be speaking to timewasters

stephensm

I`ve received a letter from QDR asking for payment for petrol at a filling station which I have never visited.
QDR say it is my car which was driven away without paying.
My car was in my drive all day on the day in question and I and my husband who live alone were at home - it was in the middle of lock-down.
 I do not want to pay the £33 demanded.
What do I do?

Umkomaas

What do I do?

This is a private parking forum, we wouldn't deal with alleged non-payment for petrol. Try posting a new thread (not jumping on another poster's thread) in the main 'Motoring' forum. Click on the 'Go to Category' box, top r/h of this page to navigate there. 

D_P_Dance

If you think that QDR have acted improperly, report them to the SRA

https://www.sra.org.uk/

Nine times out of ten these tickets are scams, so consider complaining to your MP., it can cause the scammer extra costs, and in some cases, cancellation. 

Parliament is well aware of the MO of these private parking companies, many of whom are former clampers, and on 15th March 2019 a Bill was enacted to curb the excesses of these shysters. Codes of Practice are being drawn up, an independent appeals service will be set up later this year,

Just as the clampers were finally closed down, so hopefully will many of these companies, persistent offenders denied access to the DVLA database and unable to operate.

Hopefully life will become impossible for the worst of these scammers, but until this is done you should still complain to your MP, citing the new legislation.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/8/contents/of these Private Parking Companies.

Coupon-mad

stephensm said:

I`ve received a letter from QDR asking for payment for petrol at a filling station which I have never visited.
QDR say it is my car which was driven away without paying.
My car was in my drive all day on the day in question and I and my husband who live alone were at home - it was in the middle of lock-down.
 I do not want to pay the £33 demanded.
What do I do?

Obviously if this is not your car you complain to the DVLA for giving out your data for another car...and point out the differences betwen the two cars once you get some photos of it from QDR.

Look at window stickers and things that are different about that vehicle and tell the DVLA that it is not your vehcile and to retract the data and put this right.