Like many others I have received a Parking Charge Notice(from Parking Eye) and consider the amount to be unfair - £60 if I pay now, or £90 if I don't pay by 2nd July 2012. As the registered keeper of the vehicle which was parked at a motorway service station my name and address was traced via the DVLA when the cameras photgraphed the car entering and leaving the car park. I used this car park on occasion in the past as a convenient meeting point to share travel costs to a further destination and had absolutely no idea that things had changed. Had the signage been noticed and read the £8 parking fee for parking longer than the free 2 hours allowed would have been happily paid. Having read many threads on here and other forums, watched the youtube Watchdog clips etc, i had come to the conclusion that I would grit my teeth and ignore the PCN and the expected deluge of threatening letters etc that would ensue. However, I then got the following advice from a friend: It wasn't Parking Eye but it was another such company and I knew that I had broken their posted rules for the car park I had used; I ignored the ticket which was stuck to my car but when the letters were followed by the County Court summons, I paid up to avoid having a CCJ issued against me Whatever the rights and wrongs of the way that private parking companies operate, I can tell you that if it goes to court and you ignore it: their fees get added to your debt and a CCJ will make it difficult for you to get credit. I'm working on three County Court cases against non-paying customers right now: one summons issued yesterday and two CCJ's issued after the defendants ignored their respective summonses last month. If the latter two haven't paid by the end of next week, I will be asking the court to appoint a bailiff to seize goods to the value of my claim. If you intend to dispute the penalty charge you should make contact with them (registered letters etc.) and demand the cancellation of the ticket using what you've learnt online. But if you do nothing and it goes through due process in the courts, you'll have no defence and no choice if a CCJ gets issued. We encounter these parking tickets with our fleet drivers from time to time and the proof of driver is often solved by photographic evidence provided by the parking company (look out for cameras on the entrance to motorway service areas). With the company as the registered keeper of the vehicles, we always settle promptly to avoid wasting time and money unless we have a stout defence; but parking fines are the driver's responsibility so we take it out of their wages! Now I am at a loss as to what to do for the best. Having been made redundant recently I can ill afford the extortionate amount, but the above advice has realy scared me-can anyone comment on the above please?