Just to reinforce the messages on here and add to people's confidence: Last year on 6/12/11 I received a 'parking charge notice' from Vehicle Control Services for parking at Valley Centertainment in Sheffield. Despite having a receipt that proved I had been a customer of Centertainment, they claimed I had been seen leaving the site. I'd never come across any of this kind of thing before and felt very upset at receiving the notice and having my appeal effectively ignored. My first mistake was in starting any kind of correspondence with them before checking out a forum like this! But after my first email to them attempting to show that I had done nothing wrong I completely ignored them. To cut a long story short I received the ever escalating threatening letters and demands for increasingly ridiculous sums and handing over to their 'solicitor' prior to taking to court (rejection of appeal letter 13/12/11, Notice of intent to issue court proceedings 4/1/12, Final demand prior to court action 27/1/12, Debt collector 28/3/12, solicitor outlining costs associated with claim and impact on our credit rating 10/4/12, Solicitor final warning before applying to court etc with lots of legal jargonese 23/4/12). Then....absolutely nothing. So, when on Christmas Eve I received a letter from Highview Parking with photographs claiming I had stayed too long at a carpark in Leeds (on 18/11/12 - over a month before!) and claiming £95 I just laughed at it! Particularly as we still happened to have the parking ticket, with our registration number, which proved we had paid for a full 24 hours. What a [problem]. Needless to say, I'm not going to even bother to reply to say we've got the ticket. I prefer they incur the cost of sending all those silly letters. But this time I also wanted to let everyone else know that NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU, they are just preying on good people who are being made to feel they are doing something terribly wrong when it's all a lie. They make their money because most people - particularly vulnerable people, just pay up because of the scary 'official' looking nature of the threatening letters. This latest one has me really cross - I have clear evidence (and so must they) that I did nothing wrong, but how many people (other then sad old me) keep their parking tickets for 6 weeks? I have no problem with parking companies making legitimate money, but this kind of stuff is nasty predatory behaviour.