Parking eye ticket

[Frenchie724]

I have also received one of these and I have to pay the £40 by today as they sent it to an old address which is odd as dvla have my new address, so they have access to old data.

 

Should I pay or bin???

[MARTIN3030]

Please start your own thread.

[MARTIN3030]

Moved here.

[sailor sam]

Bin it if its a private parking charge notice. And bin all the subsiquent letters which will also go to your old address.

[Bazooka Boo]

Unless it is a council issued or a police issued parking ticket, then you can very very safely ignore it, you will have committed NO offence.

[dpick]

Hi I got one of parking eye's famous tickets you can expect from 4 to 6 letters each one getting more threatening(take that as desperate). they will change the letter head to DCA then solicitor. Just next desk along. Then peace and quiet.

 

dpick

[ManxRed]

I wouldn't advise binning any documents you receive that relate to an alleged debt, even if you know the likleihood of them following up on it is next to zero. By all means file in a drawer and forget, but its inadvisable to bin them.

[sailor sam]

I wouldn't advise binning any documents you receive that relate to an alleged debt, even if you know the likleihood of them following up on it is next to zero. By all means file in a drawer and forget, but its inadvisable to bin them.

 

What debt? At the end of the day its a penalty. Penalty issued by a private concern = zero debt as it cannot be legally recovered. It carries about as much weight as the site team sending you a demand for £50 for breaking forum rules (not saying that you have btw). What would you do with that?

[ManxRed]

What debt? At the end of the day its a penalty. Penalty issued by a private concern = zero debt as it cannot be legally recovered. It carries about as much weight as the site team sending you a demand for £50 for breaking forum rules (not saying that you have btw). What would you do with that?

 

It IS an alleged civil debt. One party claims another party owes them money. The debt remains alleged until such time as it is put in front of a judge and they decide. The fact that the claimant's case is rubbish is irrelevant. Chucking away any documentation that MIGHT (albeit extrmely slim) result in a court claim is stupid. Feel free to ignore my advice. Its only advice.

[ManxRed]

Read what I said again [EDIT]. Any paperwork that alludes to potential legal action should not be thrown away but put away somewhere. Regardless of the odds of being taken to court, which in this case are 0.0000000001% because the claimant has suffered no damages whatsoever. That doesn't stop some [EDIT] (parking companies) taking the odd futile punt in court now and again though, so the paperwork should be kept for that albeit extremely unlikely event. The OP has done NOTHING WRONG. I'm just advocating common sense in the face of potential provocation from PPC[EDIT]

Edited January 20, 2012 by seanamarts
taken out personal insults

[Bazooka Boo]

Yes by all means retain the computer generated threats, but SS makes a valid point, why clutter up your draws with irrelevant nonsense? We all know that PPC tickets and threats are toilet paper, and yes it may be beneficial to keep or bin them, but SS is only advising, I assume?, as to what he would do or has done in the past.

Granted I keep ALL of the letters TVL or any trin pot DCA sends me, simply so I can ridicule them on the phone, but not everyone is as confident, I think what SS is trying to get across is the actual trivial nature of these pathetic letters, therefore there is no need to keep them and refer back to them as bugger all ever happens.

[ManxRed]

Yes by all means retain the computer generated threats, but SS makes a valid point, why clutter up your draws with irrelevant nonsense? We all know that PPC tickets and threats are toilet paper, and yes it may be beneficial to keep or bin them, but SS is only advising, I assume?, as to what he would do or has done in the past.

Granted I keep ALL of the letters TVL or any trin pot DCA sends me, simply so I can ridicule them on the phone, but not everyone is as confident, I think what SS is trying to get across is the actual trivial nature of these pathetic letters, therefore there is no need to keep them and refer back to them as bugger all ever happens.

 

Extremely naive advice, but its only that - advice. I'm not aware of anyone in our legal team that would ever throw away any bit of paperwork that even hints at potential legal action, regardless that the odds of actual follow up are very very low. Still, its only advice.