Horizon parking ticket advice

Ihatehorizon

 Hi, I was looking for some advice about a parking ticket from ‘horizon parking’. Compete utter scum bags firstly. I picked a friend up from a premier inn and was about 30 minutes entering the car park to leaving the car park. A week later I received a fine through the post because I didn’t pay parking, they have cameras which detected me being in there. Being a private company and looking online I chose to ignore it. They’ve not sent debt collectors chasing me to pay the fine. Being a private parking company I was under the impression that they weren’t allowed to follow up, or have no authority to enforce their ‘fine’? Does anyone have advice?

oldernonethewiser

It isn't a fine and the info you require is on the Newbies thread.

Where did you find outdated advice online to ignore it?

Gr1pr

Ignore the debt collectors letters 

They detected the vehicle, not you

Of course a private parking company can try to get a PCN invoice paid, if necessary by suing you in court 

Ignoring a private PCN from a private parking company has not been advised for 12 years 

Read post 4 in the newbies sticky thread in announcements 

Coupon-mad

Please read NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST. No link needed. See below.

Ihatehorizon

Hi,

sorry for the new threat - yes I have looked at post 4. 

I’ve looked at post 4 and followed the steps however the response I got back from horizon parking just said the letter from post 4 was irrelevant and it’s been sent to debt recovery plus. 

Debt recovery plus have sent their final letter before ‘the possible court proceedings’. 

I’m just reluctant to pay the fee. It would be an easier pill to swallow if I’d stayed over night at the hotel or actively chose to ignore knowing that I needed a ticket, but I was just collecting my friend the night after a wedding and was in the car park for 32 minutes to be exact. 

Does anyone have any other advice?

cheers

KeithP

You say "yes I have looked at post 4".
I assume you mean you have read the fourth post of the NEWBIES thread.
That post explains exactly how to deal with debt collectors letters, but to summarise it - ignore debt collectors letters. They are harmless.

Apart from that, why have you started a second thread about this Horizon parking incident?
Please keep all discussion about one parking incident to a single thread - it helps maintain continuity.

Le_Kirk

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6565549/horizon-parking-ticket-advice#latest
You should stick to the thread you started about this issue.

Ihatehorizon

KeithP said:

You say "yes I have looked at post 4".
I assume you mean you have read the fourth post of the NEWBIES thread.
That post explains exactly how to deal with debt collectors letters, but to summarise it - ignore debt collectors letters. They are harmless.

Apart from that, why have you started a second thread about this Horizon parking incident?
Please keep all discussion about one parking incident to a single thread - it helps maintain continuity.

yes I meant I’ve read through the fourth post on the newbies thread. 

Thank you! So the threats of court summons are empty?

Im new to this, I don’t really understand what I’m doing, I didn’t think it would be that much of an issue so I’m sorry. 

Thanks

Ihatehorizon

Gr1pr said:

Ignore the debt collectors letters 

They detected the vehicle, not you

Of course a private parking company can try to get a PCN invoice paid, if necessary by suing you in court 

Ignoring a private PCN from a private parking company has not been advised for 12 years 

Read post 4 in the newbies sticky thread in announcements 

I emailed both horizon as well as debt recovery plus the prewritten email from the newbies thread and got a response saying that email doesn’t do anything for me basically and to pay. They’ve not sent their final warning before court summons, do I still ignore the debt collectors letters?

cheers

Gr1pr

There definitely will NOT be a summons, not in these cases 

There is never any reason to deal with the powerless debt collectors, none at all, so ignore the debt collectors letters 

Gr1pr

There are no threats of a court summons, never happens to anyone in private parking company cases, Never gonna happen 

Threats of a private parking company suing you using the Civil justice system are real