Debt Recovery Plus letter

roxanne_rogers

My husband has received a fine for £170 for a ticket that we never received. He swears he was not in the car park longer than 3hrs as his meeting across the road was only 1hr.

What do we do? I have not called them. 

I just need a step by step guide really please.

Grizebeck

there is already a step by step guide in the newbies
oh and he hasn't received any fine

patient_dream

You can read all about the DRP MONEY SCAMMERS in the Newbies thread

Ignore these fools, they are powerless and full of rubbish

It's not a fine, you don't owe £170.   Who is the PPC

B789

Is the address on the car's V5C Logbook up to date? Could that be why you didn't hear about this until the debt collector did a 28p credit reference check? If it is not up to date, you could face a real "fine" of up to £1,000.

Coupon-mad

roxanne_rogers said:

My husband has received a fine for £170 for a ticket that we never received. He swears he was not in the car park longer than 3hrs as his meeting across the road was only 1hr.

What do we do? I have not called them. 

I just need a step by step guide really please.

But there's nothing to be done. This stage is already fully covered in the NEWBIES thread fourth post.

roxanne_rogers

Thank you, I cant find the newbies thread @Coupon-mad

We moved the last couple of weeks V5 address change in progress. Date on letter is April so we would have received the original fine if sent. @b789

Assuming PPC means where, it was a Morrisons car park. @patient_dream

thank you all

Coupon-mad

But my signature tells everyone where to click.

PPC means Private Parking Company.

Umkomaas

If this is a Morrisons only site (as opposed to them being in a multi-outlet retail park), they are the best supermarket for cancelling Euro Car Parks (their universal car park operator) tickets. See the manager, take receipts (or bank/cc statement showing transaction) also previous receipts (showing regular patronage), and your M's 'More' card. Yet to see any such request for cancellation refused. 

Alternatively, Morrisons have a dedicated online form for requesting PCN cancellations:

https://www.morrisons.com/help/form/contact-us/car-park/car-parking-charges/i-have-a-car-parking-charge

fisherjim

Follow the newbies thread and advice from regulars on here, you are now dealing with two greedy private firms whose only interest is making money.

Please stop thinking of this charge as a "fine" it isn't it's a speculative invoice, and it has reached debt collectors that have added on another £70 which you can safely ignore they can't do diddly squat.

DO not phone a PPC (Private Parking Company) or a debt collector their stupid call handlers persuaders are there only to extract money from you not help you!

In no correspondence mention the fact that anyone "had a meeting across the road" if this car park belongs to Morrisons they won't help if you weren't a customer and the PPC will gleefully claim the driver also left site.

You need to get wise read up about the scammers tactics and beat them, a Morrisons cancellation is the best bet. One other thought also, if you claim the stay was only 1hour, and they are claiming in excess of 3hours was this a double dip, in other words did the vehicle enter twice in the same day?