I have only skim-read this thread so apologies if this has already been suggested but as you stated you paid via credit card, contact your credit card provider and request a chargeback. Give a brief description of the events that occured (but do not mention the previous tickets) and state that you were essentially forced to pay under duress to be allowed to leave the car park. It was only a few days ago so they may still be able to reverse the charge. I would contact them ASAP though. Also I would contact the police again, or visit your local station and make an official complaint. The fact that you were forcibly blocked in a car park and made to pay for two previous "debts" to be allowed to leave is NOT a civil matter, regardless of what they may think. If you don't get anywhere then ask to speak to a senior officer.

You haven't committed any crime. Ergo you haven't actually been convicted of anything. Just ignore anything they send. Excel are the biggest bunch of jokers going.

It sounds as if you're fully aware of the scheme that they run, but you're worried that your other half will waver under the pressure and pay up. Probably the easiest thing to do is use the template letter from the stickies at the top of this forum, asking them to direct all future correspondence to yourself as you are acting on her behalf in the matter. From that point onwards, I would simply ignore everything else they send, or send the standard template letters, although there's a chance that they could continue to harrass your other wife if they think you aren't going to pay up.

Nope, they won't do jack all.

I'd love to see them try and file a county court claim in Scotland. It'd be interesting to see how far they get.

Katherine: The advice remains 100% of the same. Ignore the first set of letters they send. Then ignore the second set, then the third, and so on..

They can quote principles and precedents all they like. None of it matters a jot in cases like this. The fact is that the contract, such as it is, is between the parking company and the driver. RK is not responsible. Anything from Michael Sobell at Graham White Solicitors is sent from the same people. File under S for Shred.

One of my favourite tactics of dealing with PPC and DCA telephone calls is to say "Can you hold please?", then place the phone next to the TV or radio and leave it there until they hang up. I absolutely love wasting their time and money.

The typical PPC process goes on over a few months, but it varies between companies. Realistically you can expect two or three letters from the parking company, then a couple from a debt recovery outfit then usually one or two from a "solicitor". After that the letters will cease. If you go onto MoneySavingExpert, find the parking forum and have a look at the thread called "what to expect", you'll see copies of the letters that other people have scanned in. To a person who's never encountered this [edit] before, it can be quite intimidating, especially with some of the threatening language and terminology they use but you have to remember that the whole point is to scare people into paying up. The amount of money being demanded will keep going up as the letters continue but again, don't let it faze you, this is all another part of the [[problem]]. The letters on MSE have been received by hundreds of people, who have succesfully ignored them with no repercussions at all. They absolutely, 100% will NOT take you to court, no matter how much they may threaten it. The fact is that they know they would lose in court so it's not worth their while to try. If they rocked up to a county courthouse and said "this person parked in our free car park for 10 minutes longer than they should have, we want £250 from them", the judge would take one look, laugh out loud and send them packing.

Take that cheque and shred it. Do not pay them a penny. If you do you will have fallen for their little [edit]. They will send you a chain of letters with increasingly more red ink but they're all absolutely meaningless. They can take as many photos of your car as they like but it's a waste of their time as it does not identify whoever the driver was. Just let them send their silly letters, carefully file them in the bin. Any questions, just ask.

Usual PPC bullcrap. These letters will have come from the exact same office as Roxburgh. Nobody called Michael Sobell works there, it's just a made up name they put on their printed letters. If they call you again, just say "I'll put you on hold", place the phone next to the TV or radio and leave it there until they hang up.

Just ignore it. They can't clamp or tow your car.Airports are getting notorious for parking charges now. Cardiff Airport now charge you £2 just to stop for 30 seconds in front of the departures terminal and drop someone off. Bunch of moneygrabbing b******s.

I'd be very careful about advising people of this. It is generally true but like clamping firms, parking companies have a habit of ignoring court orders and CCJs. The best course of action is generally not to pay a penny in the first place.

Morality aside, I usually park in the P&C spaces. It's fairly obvious that the spaces in most supermarket car parks are too small. They make them as small as they can get away with so that they can fit more spaces into the car park. More spaces = more customers = more £££'s. I don't drive a massively oversized car (just a sensible 3dr hatchback), but some people who choose to drive massive 4x4 urban tanks seem to have trouble fitting them in, and I'm fed up of coming back to my car and finding someone has allowed their child to hurl the door open and put a massive dent in my rear quarter panel. It's happened several times over the last few years and I'm sick of it. The store won't do jack-all to compensate me for it so the parent and child spaces will do nicely, thanks. If the store don't like it, they can ruddy well sod off. If they want to keep my business it's in their interests to allow me to keep my car safe.

Utter cobblers from them as usual. Unless it's stamped with the official Northampton County Court stamp, and has a case number on it (always ring Northampton CC first to check it's genuine), then you can safely continue to ignore. It's just a scare tactic. Filing a county court claim can be done online and takes about 5 minutes. If they were going to sue you, they would have done it long ago. Ignore!!!

The county court form will not turn up. Some PPCs have been known to send out fake forms to scare people but there haven't been any documented instances of this happening for quite a while. You can quite safely continue to ignore these jokers and laugh at how much paper and stamps they are wasting. Given the tone of their letters, you may well be nearly at the end of the "chain". Just hang in there and don't be tempted to send them anything.

Daniel-san..PPCs generally don't do court. The ones that do take the occasional punt tend to be unsuccessful. Why bother to pay up via cheque then try and claim a refund? I think you'd have more chance of getting crap out of a rocking horse than getting any money back off them. Keep your chequebook closed.You are quite right about the keeper not being liable, but the general consensus with PPCs is simply to ignore everything they send, that way they will never be able to identify the driver.

Be aware that the DVR unit may be exempt from Argos's 30 day returns policy, as some items are. It should state on your receipt if it is or not.

This. Contact your bank / card provider sharpish and request a chargeback. If they query it just say you believe it was an unlawful parking charge which was paid under duress. Don't bother to mention anything about the second ticket. Do it ASAP because the longer you leave it, the less chance you'll have of getting your money back. You may not be able to get it back now, but it's worth the cost of a phonecall.

It could simply be someone trying it on. They may fancy a holiday or a new flat-screen TV and will put in a whiplash claim for a few thousand pounds. I had a similar thing about 6 years ago, someone claiming I hit them at a set of lights and drove off. Police arrived at my house a few hours later and formally cautioned me that I could be summonsed. They checked my car which of course didn't have a mark on it, which they made a note of. Court summons came but despite having an "independent" witness, the other party withdrew their complaint. Did the officer who came to your house inspect your car? Why on earth would you plead guilty? If you had hit them, you would know about it. There's no damage to your vehicle, and the paint layer on most modern cars is so thin that even so much as a passing glance will leave an obvious sign. This other person's daughter could not be considered a credible witness as she would in all probability say whatever he told her to. If you didn't hit them, plead not guilty. As said above, check your insurance policy to see if you have legal cover. They should assist you with things like this, although I had a nightmare with Churchill insurance at the time this happened to me, as I was not claiming anything, just trying to clear my name. They may turn around and say it would cost less to pay out the claim to the other party than to fight the claim in court.

Ignore. They can't hand out county court judgements.It's all a bluff.

Ignore them. The usual utter rubbish. They make it sound as if they can hand out CCJs. Wrong!Only a judge can hand out a CCJ, and this whole matter would have to go to county court first. Unless you receive stamped court papers, continue to do nothing.

It might be worth contacting the police on the basis that you feel that your car was unlawfully removed by a private entity for an alleged debt that is nothing to do with you.Keep all receipts for any expenses that you incur in additional travel costs (taxi fares etc), you may need to file a civil claim against the company later if they don't reimburse you.

Just a word of caution, you may want to reupload the last image as the vehicle registration number is still showing in the POC. Don't worry about this too much. They can only claim against the driver, plus they will need to provide proof of how your actions have cost them £78. As said, Alexis should be able to sort you out with a suitable response. Do absolutely nothing until you have spoken to him, although you may need to file an acknowledgement of service to give yourself a bit of extra time.

I was always under the impression that you had no automatic right of appeal in a small claims case, unless the judge had made some kind of critical error in the proceedings. They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.