Assistance with Appeal against Alliance Parking PCN

Coupon-mad

ImNoExpert said:

Just a heads up to those with NTK's, you'll likely get letters from a company called "Debt Recovery Plus" at some point, but please don't allow this to scare you, as it's just another standard tactic parking companies use.

The letter will likely have a tick list on the back which is aimed to intimidate you, as well as saying "we will recommend our client takes court action" but as has been mentioned above, additional charges that this letter includes can be legitimately argued against in court as an unenforceable extra.

One of the benefits of the ParkingEye / Barry Beavis case was to actually highlight that the initial charge (as shown on the signage) was enough to cover everything the parking company is claiming, such as admin and collection costs, which in that case was £85 I think? So in this case, Alliance Parking's initial charge of £100 is about as high as it can go, and the £160 is an amount you can challenge.

Don't reply to any letter from Debt Recovery Plus, but do keep it for future reference.

For what it's worth, I had an NTK from this company (A S Parking) over five years ago, and to date, it went as far as the Debt Recovery Plus letter, then nothing since. I don't believe this company has the gumption to take their tickets to court - their method of replies lacks any real professionalism - but do keep an eye on all letters you receive, and never EVER ignore an actual claim from the County Court business centre.

@ImNoExpert, on a thread a while back you'd downloaded and kept DRPlus' brochure at the time:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/76342049#Comment_76342049

The link no longer works.  Have you still got a copy somewhere please?

ImNoExpert

@Coupon-mad yes, I have uploaded the copy to
http://peskyparkingcharges.co.uk/media/other/67375/drp-brochure.pdf

I think page 4 is where they talk about the no fee service, and page five is where a quote about the service appears from the owner of A S Parking / Alliance Parking, so he couldn't ever say he was unaware DRP never charged his company a fee.