Being chased by ZZPS, GCTT and now QDR, Help!

missmoneyparker

Hi everyone,

I have read through the newbie section and have read through multiple threads on the site but have not found an example like mine...or one that has an ending! 

Long story kind of short, September 22 I got a parking charge in a carpark in Edgware, London. I believed the charge to be an extortionate amount for a minor infringement and due to it not being a council run carpark I decided to ignore it. I have ignored a parking charge from a service station before and it wasn't followed up. 

UKPC at the beginning of October 22 sent me a letter stating that the charge was now £100. They then sent a final reminder at the beginning of November 22.

Then mid November 22 I got the first letter from ZZPS for a debt collection of £170. ZZPS sent a second letter late November 22 giving a final warning.

Then mid December 22 GCTT sent me a 'warning before case is transferred to solicitors' GCTT then followed up late December 22 with a 'notice of transfer to solicitors'

Now mid January 23 I have received a letter from QDR Solicitors giving me a further 14 days to pay £170 or they will be instructed to issue County Court Proceedings! 

What are your opinions on this? I really didn't think they would follow up with so many letters. I have of course ignored all letters and made no communication with any of these 'companies' 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you 

KeithP

Hello and welcome.

Those letters from November onwards are all harmless debt collectors letters.

The fourth post of the NEWBIES thread explains in detail exactly how to deal with debt collectors letters, but to summarise that post - ignore them.

But do not ignore a Letter of Claim or anything from the County Court Business Centre. Post again on this thread if/when you receive that. The second post of that same NEWBIES thread will guide you on those.

Umkomaas

A 14-day 'pay up or else' is just a debt collection letter (see NEWBIES FAQ Announcement, fourth post, for how to deal with that - ignore it!). 

That's not to say that you won't receive a formal Letter Of Claim sometime after the 14-day deadline; that will be headed Letter Of Claim (or similar) and will give you 30 days in which to respond. Come back on this thread if you do receive such, for further advice. 

Coupon-mad

Ignore of course.  Come back if you get a LBC.

patient_dream

Dear oh dear, you are being attacked by the dregs of the industry

ZZPS invented the great OSNER scam adding fake amounts. Just a BPA money scammer ?
GCTT is part of ZZPS and just an expansion of the OSNER scam

QDR .... an offshoot of the disgraced Wright Hassall solicitors who should know better than to threaten court action in 14 days ....... QDR by law must follow the Pre Action Protocol called PAP whereby they must give you 30 days to respond.

What you have from QDR is a pointless debt collector letter but they have added the great OSNER scam (£70) and the courts do not like fakers and money scammers

The great OSNER scam is approved by the unfit for purpose BPA and what can we say about UKPC ???  THEY USE AND ABUSE the likes of ZZPS and QDR as freebie fools to collect money for their rubbish claims

How do we know that UKPC are rubbish claims, one legal they use, DCBL, must think so because they discontinue UKPC claims most of the time

As said above, these are the dregs of the industry and if QDR behave in a proper legal manner, you might get a real LETTER BEFORE CLAIM giving you 30 days.

If it's from QDR, we can have fun and this forum will show you how.

missmoneyparker

Thank you so much for all your replies. I will update if/when I receive further letters. 

I was expecting them to increase the amount further from £170 but it's stayed the same since the first ZZPS letter! 

Coupon-mad

They can't increase it but the £70 is false anyway.

patient_dream

They have no grounds to uncrease the scam amount If QDR were stupid enough the take UKPC junk to court, they would claim £35 to file the claim and £50 solicitors costs which is capped. When you win those costs vanish and you can claim your costs IE: COSTA-A-LOT for QDR and UKPC It's up to QDR to prove if they are fools or not

missmoneyparker

It has been over a year now since the 'Date of Contravention' and all has been quiet since the last letter that I received just over two months ago....now I have received a 'Notice of Debt Recovery' from dcbl chasing £170. They're basically giving me 14 days to pay, if no payment is made they will recommend to their client the commencement of legal action against me.

However in the letter it mentions twice that 'This case is not subject to High court or bailiff action'

What are your opinions on this? Thanks 

Grizebeck

Ignore as per newbies

B789

missmoneyparker said:

It has been over a year now since the 'Date of Contravention' and all has been quiet since the last letter that I received just over two months ago....now I have received a 'Notice of Debt Recovery' from dcbl chasing £170. They're basically giving me 14 days to pay, if no payment is made they will recommend to their client the commencement of legal action against me.

However in the letter it mentions twice that 'This case is not subject to High court or bailiff action'

What are your opinions on this? Thanks 

You stated in your original post that:

missmoneyparker said:

I have read through the newbie section and have read through multiple threads on the site...

You should perhaps go back to the Newbies/FAQ thread and re-read it again and refresh your memory about what happens when. What you can safely ignore and how to identify such ignorable communication.

You should already know about ignoring all the debt collector letters as they are only useful for lining the bottom of a birdcage. You have been told that the next correspondence you need to take notice of is a Letter of Claim. You can identify a Letter of Claim (or Letter Before Claim) by reading this document and noting which bits of Section 3 are in any letter you now receive in relation to your PCN:

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/pdf/protocols/debt-pap.pdf

If it is not as required as per Section 3 in the above document, it isn't an LoC.