The original letter will just be some template used on everyone else in the OP's situation, they wont take any notice of any letters sent to them unless they contain the payment details, that is all they are interested in. They'll take your letter, no matter how powerfully eloquent the wording of it is, and toss it in the bin next to all the others. All they want is for you fill in that little giro slip so they can close your file and continue harassing everyone else on their database. Everyone is guilty, this is their only source of income so it doesn't pay to be understanding in the slightest towards any excuse you want to make. Ignore everything that arrives on your doormat from them. It will take them a long while to give up, but how easy is it for them to print off a batch of these letters and mail them to you at monthly intervals. Even if 1 in 100 people payed the fine it would still be worth them doing it. Dont pay, dont panic.

Do you own a shredder? If so, the shreds make excellent bedding for small animals such as gerbils or hamsters. I prefer sending the letter back blank using their own freepost envelopes.

Seems like any simple minded moron can set up a debt collection agency, tell them if they want to discuss the matter further to come to your door. I dont think these people have ever seen the inside of a courtroom and have no knowledge of civil law what-so-ever so please dont worry about it and dont pay them a penny.

If they reject your appeal for whatever reason send all future letters back to them using their freepost envelopes. They'll get the point sooner or later and will either get fed-up, or make a county court claim aginst you, in which case you'll have the opportunity to see them humiliated in court when they try to justify their unlawful penalty charges.

Simply write back inviting them to begin court proceedings immediately without any further notice, tell them you are not prone to intimidation by post and any further correspondance will be filed under B for Bin.

I'm dealing with Excel at the moment, i'd compare them more to a toothless old mongrel than a 'goliath' figure. You can send them all the letters you like they will ignore them all, which is what I suggest you do when you pick their up off the doormat, throw it straight in the bin and forget about it. If they take you to court you'll be the first.

If they litter my car then I litter their carpark

Thats a bit harsh, i would have simply ignored you

I hope you employ a cleaner, i throw mine on the floor and forget about them as they amount to nothing, your job is pointless.

I got a ticket in Eurocar parks over a year ago, simply ignored anything they sent through the post, they get bored and give up sooner or later trust me. They simply cant take the risk of taking a motorist to court incase they lose, thus setting a precedent for furture cases.

I must say they're brave, it just needs the slightest whiff of any dodgy activity and paypal will shut down your account and hold your money for 6 months. There must be something in their user agreement that forbids using their service to collect wrongfully large sums of money from people. This parking company might find themselves on the other side of an appeal soon enough, and like the parking companies appeal process they are both judge and jury. Bankrupcy looms....

So no doubt another Perky will be along soon

They cant even spell properly, did these people actually turn up with any form of defence? I doubt it.

Tell them you think their parking charge is a rip-off and direct any further correspondance into your bin

Threatening to take someone to court is easy, just ignore their letters and any further 'final demands', 'final final demands'.....etc. If they want to go to court get the media involved as it will be a landmark case.

I believe Perky, he's taken people to court who've overstayed in his coffee shop carpark, and he's won, but i bet they never turned up to argue the case against them. If they'd visited this site first and got all the legal help, whoever they were could have defended and won and he wouldn't be so arrogant.

I'm willing to make a pretty safe bet that the amount of cases in which the defendant has actually turned up in court and lost against you is zero. Greedy people like you seem to think you are above the law. These so-called 'civil-contracts' where nothing is signed in writing are a load of rubbish and on the fringes of [problem]-artistry. In any case, how would you prove somebody actually read your sign before parking in your car park?

"I would say more like fairly intelligent [problem] artists." Where's the intelligence? ok the person who set up the first private car parking company maybe, but all these others are just copycats

they're such idiots, the bigger idiots are of course the people who pay their tickets. Free parking for all!

I got a ticket for parking in Comet for more than 2 hours, in fact i stayed there all day because i was too idle to walk too far to work and too tight to pay for a ticket in a proper 'pay and display' carpark. I'm not going to pay this ticket because my dad is the registered keeper of the vehicle so they have no right to demand any money from them at all because he was not the driver at the time the ticket was issued. If they check the CCTV they will see somebody other than my father, i.e me. When they chase him for the penalty money, i will send them a letter from him informing these rip-off merchants they are barking up the wrong'un if they think he's gonna fork out any wedge to pay these mongrels. Do you rekon they will back off? As i understand from reading previous posts he has no obligation to name the driver of the vehicle, even in court. Sorry for my rubbish grammer and punctuation, i'm a product of this countries poor education system. Considering my obvious attitude problem, am i likely to get off with not paying the ticket?