How to Deal with an Unfair Parking Ticket?

MarbleCases

I have now received a letter from QDR Solicitors, saying they have been instructed by ZZPS to recover the "debt" and that they require me to make the full payment of £170 within 14 days. What are my options now?

KeithP

MarbleCases said:

I have now received a letter from QDR Solicitors, saying they have been instructed by ZZPS to recover the "debt" and that they require me to make the full payment of £170 within 14 days. What are my options now?

Please read again the first reply you received on this thread and then tell us which bit of it needs further explanation.

MarbleCases

Does the fact that I am now receiving letters from solicitors, rather than ZZPS, mean I should do anything differently or should I just continue to ignore them?

KeithP

ZZPS cannot instruct anyone. They cannot claim to be owed any money by anyone.

MarbleCases

Should I write an email to the solicitors who have sent me a letter though? What would be the risks associated with doing that?

Coupon-mad

It's just ZZPS using QDR notepaper.

Fruitcake

MarbleCases said:

Should I write an email to the solicitors who have sent me a letter though? What would be the risks associated with doing that?

QDR state in their correspondence to you that they have been instructed by ZZPS.
ZZPS are powerless debt collectors who can do nothing more than send you poor quality bog-paper. If ZZPS are powerless, then anyone acting for them only have the power to send you even poorer quality bog-paper than ZZPS.
I am told though that this correspondence, once shredded, makes adequate hamster bedding. Do you perchance have a hamster in your household? If so, I suggest you ask then to co-respond with QDR and their lords and masters, ZZPS, and ask them to send you more free bedding material.

Alternatively, if you have a multi-fuel stove, I can state categorically from personal experience that letters from powerless debt collectors and their agents of negative power make reasonable quality fire-lighters when made into paper twists. If you have such a combustor, and you receive enough co-respondence from ZZPS and QDR, it might be worth investing in a paper briquette maker to utilise the free fuel being sent to you. Don't forget to include the envelopes in your mash when you make them.

MarbleCases

I have now received a further letter from QDR Solicitors, asking me to contact them within 14 days to discuss "repayment". They say that failure to do so may result in them recommending to the Car Park Operator that the matter be enforced through criminal court proceedings and that, if so, I would have to appear before the Magistrates Court. Is this just a meaningless threat or does it change the situation? 

Coupon-mad

MarbleCases said:

I have now received a further letter from QDR Solicitors, asking me to contact them within 14 days to discuss "repayment". They say that failure to do so may result in them recommending to the Car Park Operator that the matter be enforced through criminal court proceedings and that, if so, I would have to appear before the Magistrates Court. Is this just a meaningless threat or does it change the situation? 

Nice threat.

Show us that letter please.

And the PCN or Penalty Notice from SABA.

Do QDR give you 30 days to reply?  I'm asking because you are best delaying your response until the last day. As the 'Penalty Notice' was issued for a parking contravention in October, it will 'time out' in April.

nopcns

Has the OP actually read the Newbies/FAQ thread?