A "friend" received a letter today from the ridiculously posh named Charles Howard associates giving my "friend" 72 hours notice of a home visit !! To "collect the cash owed and to assess the situation prior to court action. Charles Howard is a wholly owned subsidiary of CCS collect, the debt collectors. My friend spoke to his sister who is a solicitor and aparently this is constituted as a threat. My friend is thinking about bringing in the law as this is harassment. My friend is looking for advice as to what to do if smeone actually turns up.

I received a letter today from ccscollect telling me their client Excel have instructed them to collect £125 or they "May authorise them to prepare documents for the issue of county court proceedings against you" any advice as to what I should do now? The letter was issued on the day of my last post, they must read this forum !!!

Since the last snotty letter, threatening me on the 09th of October, I've not heard a thing. So that's over three months since any contact with Excel, lets hope they've given up.

Hi, I've had two snotty letters now, in bright red, bold writing, threatening to take me to court if I don't pay. I have made no contact whatsoever with them, no phone calls, letters etc, should I just leave it like that? My wife is panicking and wants to pay, but its a matter of principle to me. Should I continue to ignore them and make no contact? Bailiffs won't come into it unless the court has found against me, is this correct?

Unbelievably I received a letter asking me to pay £100!!! it says "NOTICE TO OWNER OF INTENT TO ISSUE COURT PROCEEDINGS" LIABILITY FOR THE PARKING CHARGE NOTICE (PCN) LIES WITH YOU THE OWNER/KEEPER/DRIVER/HIRER. Scary stuff eh? I apparently have 7 days to pay. What should I do next? Any advice accepted !!!!

Still haven't heard a thing and it been neary 10 weeks, maybe they'll leave me alone?

Hi again I received the ticket on the 09th March and haven't heard from them yet, should I just keep waiting without calling or writing? I'm inclined to just ignore everything they send. Is that a bad idea? Thanks.

Thanks for the advice. So I should just sit on the ticket until they send me a scary letter? Deal. Once I have the letter, I'll be back for more advice. Thanks concerned citizens of Britain.

It's my first post so I apologise if its in the wrong place. I received a Parking Charge Notice from Excel parking Services Ltd on Sunday 09/03/08, it was because I'd not put a ticket on my car, there is a sign up saying ************* customers park free and loads of Excel signs which I really didn't notice. After shopping, I went up to the car park and a guy from Excel was there, taking pictures of my car and writing out a ticket, I asked him why as I was a ********** customer, but he said you have to buy a ticket and get the money back off *********. I then offered to go buy a ticket and he said once he had started writing the ticket, he wasn't allowed to stop, he also said if i drove off before he put the ticket on my windscreen the fine would go up to £100!!! So I waited, he put on the ticket, took some pictures of the ticket and off I went. Now I'm really vexed as I was only there for 11 minutes in total and I'm sure he could have shown a little common sense. Do these guys work on commision? Should I pay this fee? Your help and advice would be greatly appreciated.