Please help with your advice on the parking ticket at the airport

andrewlya

Hi, please can you help with advice? I've made a complaint to a private parking company that want to charge me £100 stating final notice when I'd not received any prior notifications about it, I've only one day to settle it or else...if it is not a penalty but a charge notice, is this enforceable can they take.me to court over this? Thanks for your help and my complaint to them is below,thanks so much:

Hi, I am writing to make a complaint about the letter I've received from Vehicle Control Services about the charge notice I've received today on the 4th of July 2023, this letter is dated 22 of June 2023 but I've only received it today.

 It states that this is the Final Reminder, HOWEVER this is the 1st time I've heard of this charge notice. 

Why have I not received any letters advising me of this charge before so that I could have had a chance of settling it sooner and at a discounted charge? It appears that you have waited for this long so that I don't get the chance to pay the lower charge and now you are putting me under unfair pressure to pay the fine by the 6th of July, so I've only one day to settle the fine by paying a huge fine of £100. This is really unfair, I've not seen any photos of my breach, I have not received any letters regarding this charge prior to this. 

I'm really not happy about this that I'm being unfairly forced to pay such a high fee without any prior notice and offer of any discounts. I want this matter to be investigated and I am planning to take this matter to solicitors.

What you are doing to me is forcing me to pay £100 within such a short period of time doesn't seem to be sound, proper and maybe illegal. I will need to seek a legal advice on this unless this is invesited and resolved, Mr xx

KeithP

Not a very useful thread title, is it?
But I see six of your other thread titles are equally unhelpful.
A bit like a headline on the front page of a newspaper saying ' here is the news'.

andrewlya

KeithP said:

Not a very useful thread title, is it?
But I see six of your other thread titles are equally unhelpful.
A bit like a headline on the front page of a newspaper saying ' here is the news'.

Help with the advice would be appreciated 

Mouse007

andrewlya said:

I want this matter to be investigated and I am planning to take this matter to solicitors.

I have bad news for you, it won't be investigated and a solicitor will be both a waste of time and money.

I have good news for you, you are in the right place to get this sorted when the County Court Claim follows.

In the meantime, read the Newbies thread and absorb yourself in a few posts.

You will soon see this is normal behaviour of scam Private Parking Companies.

andrewlya

Mouse007 said:

andrewlya said:

I want this matter to be investigated and I am planning to take this matter to solicitors.

I have bad news for you, it won't be investigated and a solicitor will be both a waste of time and money.

I have good news for you, you are in the right place to get this sorted when the County Court Claim follows.

In the meantime, read the Newbies thread and absorb yourself in a few posts.

You will soon see this is normal behaviour of scam Private Parking Companies.

Thank you, can you please elaborate on this, why is this good news for me:" I have good news for you, you are in the right place to get this sorted when the County Court Claim follows."

Coupon-mad

"I've only one day to settle it or else..."

No you haven't!  Ignore their alarmist deadlines!  Slow down and read the forum.

It's not a fine.

Stop taking VCS seriously.

Of course a PPC can file a court claim; have you missed that the entire forum is full of court claim threads? Read some!  Take your time. No-one pays.

We win! No risk, no CCJ, no huge costs.

What was the situation? Car park? Airport roadway? Where? What happened?

Mouse007

Because this robo claim conveyor belt you are on goes - PCN, letter, letter, letter (ad nausium), final warning, Letter before Claim (getting serious now), County Court Claim (SIT UP, THIS IS SERIOUS, DO NOT IGNORE).

Option 1 - do nothing CCJ follows

Option 2 - panic, disengage brain, do somthing stupid, CCJ follows

Option 3 - follow corporal Jone's advice, follow the advice on here and win.

To achieve outcome 3 you need to educate yourself. Read the Newbies Thread, you need to know what's coming.

At the moment you're on the railway tracks, with your back to the train, complaining.

Turn around.

andrewlya

Coupon-mad said:

"I've only one day to settle it or else..."

No you haven't!  Ignore their alarmist deadlines!  Slow down and read the forum.

It's not a fine.

Stop taking VCS seriously.

Of course a PPC can file a court claim; have you missed that the entire forum is full of court claim threads? Read some!  Take your time. No-one pays.

We win! No risk, no CCJ, no huge costs.

What was the situation? Car park? Airport roadway? Where? What happened?

Thanks for encouraging me, it was at Liverpool airport I literarily just picked someone up, and stopped for 5 seconds if that. What really seems unfair is that I had had no prior warning or letters from them, usualy they would send a letter advising to pay within 14 days at a discounted charge but I have had nothing at all until this letter has come today saying the "final notice" from Vehicle Control Services LTD- this is Liverpool airport so I thought it is quite likely they will take me to court but then again, they had never given me a chance to settle it sooner for a less fee, very odd. If they reject my above appeal, do I wait to be summoned to court and try to win my case there?

andrewlya

To appeal you have to do it on http://www.myparkingcharge.co.uk/ but the web site is down and doesn't open and on the final letter it states I have passed their appeal period even though I had not received any of their prior warning or letters? All seems too strange, but it was Liverpool airport so I think it must be legit?? 

Coupon-mad

No there is no 'summons', this isn't an offence!

Why not just spend a week reading other VCS Airport threads?  Any Airport.  All the same. Your case is no different.

Mouse007

Don't worry about that, we've all been there - I won in Court for my Son January this year, third time beating these scammers.

You won't find better advice elsewhere, and certainly not from a clueless solicitor.