Surely these are just debt collecters? ie less power than my cat? But if acting as baliffs, that's illegal?

Don't let him in. If it's a baliff all he's interested in is bumping up his fees. I Repeat, DON'T LET HIM IN- At this point we don't know what the "fine" is for but personally I still maintain that you are in a vulnereable situation with 2 young children and everybody should back off to give you a chance to sort it out.

I hope this can be sorted out quickly by people who have more knowledge than me but point no. 1. if anybody goes near your kids toys they are in serious trouble. point no.2 you are classed as vulnerable so the "man" should back off quick style. point no. 3 you can't get blood out of a stone. And from a personal viewpoint, don't talk to Marstons, if this is council tax deal direct with the council.

here's another one. what would you answer? "who the f*ck are you?" "go forth and don't multiply" (the call I got was from the Leeds losers chasing a phone contract from 2004) there is a prize for the best answer

Oh dear, looks serious, until you realise that Lowells and Red are the same company. next is Hamptons?

@foxyred, that's what they want. don't let the bast*rds grind you down If they offer 70% tell them 10%. If they change dca's deny any knowledge of the debt unless they notify you of the change in writing.

35 views, I'm listening to the Pogues, " The band Played Waltzing Matilda " look it up. A damn sight more important than dca's "one legged rabbit "

Oh, I remember Meritforce. I wonder if they remember me? Don't care, I won.

Came across this while browsing the forum, wish there was an easy way to stop the leaflet pushers. But in legal terms a dca has as much right as... "my cat", " the milkman", "a tramp", "A zombie, decomposing in front of your door " made the last one up but what rights do you think that dca's have? "collect your doorstep"..... that's a good one, I've searched google (other search engines are available ) can't find a doorstep collecters group...

Did the letter say "we know where you live " ? ooh. I'm frightened..

1. ignore Past due Credit. 2. deal only with BG. So your landlord has took your money out of the meter and then told BG that you owe the money? how? You don't have a contract with BG so they are wasting their time. any paperwork they may come up with can't possibly have your signiature on it so tell them to ( in the words of better posters than me ) foxtrot oscar. dca's are numpties, they have no legal powers , no legal rights, they have less powers than my cat. ( and he has more power than anybody over me). Please don't talk on the phone. "everything in writing" and as long as you didn't fiddle the meter you don't owe anything. also have a look on this forum about past due credit

If they are calling on your mobile, block the number. each time they use a different number, block that one. Keep a record of every call, report them to your dmc. and as citizenB asked, to paraphrase, who are these numpties?

Could you 2 get a room? This is from Sillygirl ages ago and I think the best advice

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Is that the current exchange rate? 1 doorstep = £900?

Emailed both. as far as I know the only person in trouble from this is our transport manager for giving the wrong info. Still wondering if any summons is out of time though. ( not my problem of course, I wasn't speeding )

Just a thought, where my ex father in law lives they have permit controlled parking. spaces reserved for residents and other spaces for visitors who have to display a visitors permit. This used to be a nightmare when all the family got together, asking the neighbors to borrow their permits. (This was council land even if they used a private company to run it. daft setup, 1 permit per flat + 1 visitor permit. grandma & grandad with 7 children and 15 grandchildren. If we all turned up at once it would have cost a fortune in "parking charges")

Don't want to go anywhere near the moral issues here but isn't it the rule that your vehicles tyres have to be touching the restricted area? so the "overhang" doesn't count?

@Drivingamber2k, the advice is IGNORE. It's not a fine, you haven't been to court. It's a "speculative invoice". what do you mean by a permit zone, is this local authority regulated? [As far as debt collectors are concerned, I wouldn't deal with them until hell freezes over. (unless they burn well to keep me warm)]

dx100uk, don't remove posts. make this a sticky. some of the legalise may of come from here, http://www.nationwideparkingenforcement.co.uk/law.html but I'm sure every private parking enforcement company has this stuff somewhere on their website. say something enough times and people will believe it, that's why sites like CAG are needed to show people the truth.

Got any success stories? 'tinterweb is full of tales about your company. It's not a ticket, it's a speculative invoice. As far as I know the only way UK Parking Control could take a case to court would be with a civil action for damages where they would have to prove some kind of loss from somebody parking their vehicle. (couple of quid for lost parking pay and display?)

A co-worker has been caught by a "safety camera". I only know this because a letter from the court has been sent to my address. (The letter has his name but my address, and birth date. I opened the letter to find out where it was from as there was no return address.) We both drive company vehicles so it would appear that our firm has managed to mix his name and vehicle reg. with my address and birth date. (that has got to be the hard way of doing things) From the paperwork it seems that the offence was committed in June 2011 but as the court had the wrong address my workmate never got any notifications and this week is the first I've had any letters so my question is, As this happened over 6 months ago is the summons out of time and unenforceable? (Ignoring the failure of my company to give the correct driver details which I understand is subject to a maximum £1000 fine)

can I have your bosses name and address?

I'm new around here but in the last 20 years or so I've had a lot of dealings with [problems],dca's ,banks etc. so here's my story. A few years ago I had one of these "please can we have some money" notices on a supermarket car park. I filed it in the usual place. As I was in a company vehicle the begging letters went to the company I worked for. My firm had a policy at the time that if you could give a reasonable excuse for why you were parked where you were they would pay the fine. My excuse was that this wasn't a parking fine it was a parking charge and as such just ignore. It took me about 2 months to get it into the heads of my firm that this was not a fine it was what I now know is called a "speculative invoice" . It had reached a point where they were going to take the "fine" and extra charges from my wages. Big mistake if they had. I think that these car park companies behave the same way the dca's do, sending out numerous letters that look official and give the impression that the situation is getting more and more serious using different letterheads to imply the case is progressing towards court/bailiffs/etc. Rule No.1 Don't pay it just because they ask you to. (If I wrote you a letter saying you owe me £xxxxxx would you pay me? if the answer to this question is yes, please can I have your name and address)