Thread: Desperate - Collect Services Bill for undelivered ticket

Hi All,

It's a desperate cry for help )

I have recently received a bill for £740 from Collect Services acting on behalf of Ealing Council. It was for the two tickets they sent to to my old address. When the tickets were issued, I have already moved to my new adress, but the car was still registered at my old address.

I have re-registered my car since then, but because the wheels were set in motion, the letters from the Council kept coming to my old address, and I didn't establish mail forwarding.

Ok, it was my fault. But to top it up, Ealing Council referred it to Collect Services in December 2007. They have tried to recover the money for half a year, and then discovered my new address. ALL THEIR VISITS WERE DATED AFTER THE CAR HAS BEEN RE-REGISTERED.

Ealing Council told me to file the SOTD, which I did and it was refused, I appealed at a hearing, and was told today by the judge that 'since it's your fault not to have established the mail forwarding, your appeal is rejected'.

I am happy to pay Ealing Council the money for these tickets, but is there a way to take the Collect Services charges away, given that all of them were issued after the car has been re-registered, and I was only notified about this case when these charges were already incurred AND I lost my N244 appeal.

Is there anything to be done against it or is it time to stop fighting now and wave my £740 good-bye? I don't think it's fair to penalise someone for dropping off passengers on zig-zags with such an extraordinary sum!!

Thanks,

fatcatsat

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