Partner got a ticket at the retail park usual thing pay quick and only pay half the cost I told her to ignore it.then the usual letters with threats and demands with the cost going up each time. Ignored all of them, then heard nothing, so thought that was the end of it.she has now received letters from a collection agency threatening to arrest her wages.the question is can they do this ? Anyone been in this position before and what happened.
Not without a county court judgement i’d imagine they couldn’t
They can’t do anything, the only thing they can do is take you to court and get the court to make you pay. Doesn’t usually happen though as it’s not cost effective. Just keep ignoring the letters. They will try all the scare tactics they can.
DO NOT RESPOND…
TOTALLY IGNORE…
THE END.
type in pepipoo,and have a good look on there.loads of information on private parking tickets…
Happend to me at a service area ( Pease Pottage ) and was told via http://www.pepipoo.com/ website just to ignore it , they said that because the said parking lot was not owned by the said parking inforcement company , no loss of earnings could be justified and no court action would ever come about because they know they would lose .
After a few nastly looking letters each one worst than the one before , with the dreeded red highlighted paper I may add , they just stopped sending them
How-ever, Be Carefull if visiting Droitwich
As the Local Authority OWN & OPERATE the Supermarket Car Parks !
de Jon …
Should just pay it and maybe buy a ticket for 60p next time.
Was the parking company NPC or the supermarket itself?
Might also be worth getting advice from CAB rather then a truck forum, no offence.
Also two subject’s on this lol
Defaulting a private parking ticket is the same as defaulting any other kind of unsecured implied “debt”.
If you don’t admit owing the money, then there is nothing they can do outside of a court to make you pay.
The court, being reasonable people, will actually demand proof from the plaintiff that you owe the money, which of course is not usually forthcoming, thus they’ll never bother taking it to court in the first place, because it’s just too damned hard to get someone to pay a disputed amount of money over anything at all.
I was once taken to court over a credit card debt, and the moment I showed I’d already made payments exceeding the debt, the case was thrown out.
My payments of course did not include rolled up interest and charges - which was what the plaintiff was chasing me for. The court has no interest in enforcing anything beyond the original capital borrowed, which I’d already paid. The case cost the plaintiff £880 in fees to attempt to get me to pay, and it was only over the amount of £248… Doh! The court doesn’t award costs to the plaintiff in the event of “spiteful recovery” - ie the costs are higher than the sum involved, AND the defendant is likely to have difficulty paying (which just about applies to ANY debtor!)
Debt collectors in the south appear to be gradually disappearing, including some huge ones in reading and high wycombe areas… Good riddance!
I have not heard of a case of spiteful recovery including bankruptcy or home possession at all in this area. I hear rumours that such things still happen up north, but that needs to be clarified by those of you living in those parts…
The best defence is to ignore all correspondance entirely. Phone calls to you constitute harrassment, and third-party debt collectors have “bought” a debt worth nothing, because you don’t owe the money. You can turn them away at the door, no court will award them a court-appointed bailiff no matter what scare stories they tell you on the doorstep. Any attempt by a private debt collector to enter your premises would constitute “breaking and entering”, for which you can call the police out.
Stand by your guns, and be rewarded. 
The law changed slightly on these last year, Were as you used to be able to ignore them/use as toilet paper, technically the parking companies can take you to court now BUT they wont get anywere near what they try to charge on these “invites to pay” as legally all they are entitled to is there loss of earnings from the space you used Ie if it cost £2 an hour to park thats what they are entitled to in court (non of the £85 rubbish!!)
Having a bit of a laugh with similar at the moment. My girlfriend got a ‘ticket’ through the door from Vehicle Parking Control for her car stopping and picking us up at Liverpool airport (her dad was driving it). She is panic sticken but I’ve told her that’s how they get people to pay. So I pointed out a web search on them for the same thing which someone had posted a thread on. It said you will get the first letter wanting £60, then 14 days later a second one saying £120, then a debt collectors letter saying they want £140 and threatening solicitors, then a week later the solicitors letter…everything happened in exact same way as this guy had posted. Digging for dirt i found out (through several other people) that the solicitors wasn’t actually a bonifide solicitor and it was basically the same company as the supposed debt collector and the supposed parking company. It’s all a completely disgusting scam that frightens people. The only time you need pay a parking fine is if it is POLICE or COUNCIL issued.
DO NOT PANIC over anything they send you and DO NOT PAY THEM ANYTHING
Can I just add that if you respond to them in any way then you are only highlighting the fact that you have their original letter and making yourself stand out, don’t do anything.
They don’t even know who was driving my girlfriends car and sent their ‘invoice’ to the owner. Imagine that in a court of law !
Could you let me have your address so I can send you an invoice for £60 please. If you don’t pay me it within 7 days then the amount will double…
You wouldn’t pay me it really would you ! It’s no different me sending you an invoice to any of these shytster companies.
The threat attempts to take advantage of most people’s ignorance of the law.
How much does it cost to park in a free car park?
How enforceable is the fine for parking in a customer car park, and then not buying something from the shop?
What makes them think you owe them any money?
Why do they think it’s criminal damage when I bolt-cutted their immobilization device off?
Ignore all correspondance, let them pay to take you to court, and then watch their faces as they attempt to explain those answers to everyone present, including you. It’s worth attending, just to see that. 
Kerbdog:
Having a bit of a laugh with similar at the moment. My girlfriend got a ‘ticket’ through the door from Vehicle Parking Control for her car stopping and picking us up at Liverpool airport (her dad was driving it). She is panic sticken but I’ve told her that’s how they get people to pay. So I pointed out a web search on them for the same thing which someone had posted a thread on. It said you will get the first letter wanting £60, then 14 days later a second one saying £120, then a debt collectors letter saying they want £140 and threatening solicitors, then a week later the solicitors letter…everything happened in exact same way as this guy had posted. Digging for dirt i found out (through several other people) that the solicitors wasn’t actually a bonifide solicitor and it was basically the same company as the supposed debt collector and the supposed parking company. It’s all a completely disgusting scam that frightens people. The only time you need pay a parking fine is if it is POLICE or COUNCIL issued.DO NOT PANIC over anything they send you and DO NOT PAY THEM ANYTHING
my wife got a ticket like your girlfriend did just for stopping for two seconds to read a map. You can clearly see in the picture that her brake lights were on but the ticket was issued by the council.
How do they get your details anyway?
mickyblue:
my wife got a ticket like your girlfriend did just for stopping for two seconds to read a map. You can clearly see in the picture that her brake lights were on but the ticket was issued by the council.How do they get your details anyway?
Now the council is a slightly different one though as they can legally issue fines which are enforceable in court, It just the parasitic “parking charge notice” ones that would struggle in court
Be aware that SOME supermarket car parks are council owned.
I fell foul of this in Cockermouth a couple of years ago.
How do they get your details?
They pay DVLA a fee to tell them all your personal data.
SO there’s grounds for approaching DVLA under the data protection act as well, since making money by selling on your personal data for insidious reasons to a third party is about as illegal is it all gets. 
DVLA in this country operates like an extension of HMRC, but wth the difference the money only flows one way…
WHen they screw up, you don’t get anything back off them by way of compensation, eg. the digicard epidemic a few months back… 
Got a brand shiny new card with about 6 weeks left on it, at which point I had to cough up for a new one as if they’d done nothing amiss with the first one.
A friend got clamped by one these cowboy outfits.
Stood looking at his car wondering what to do next when the bloke parked alongside him turns up.
Sez “I’ll fix that for you” and gets a petrol driven angle grinder out of his boot…