UKPC parking invoice - tesco Faraday retail park,Coatbank Street, Coatbridge. ML5 3SQ scotland

[crem]

What do I do now?

 

Nothing

 

Can I simply just not pay?

 

Yes

 

Will they take me to court?

 

No

 

[greenthum]

Hi all,

 

I think Im on my 4th letter? I received a letter from Graham White solicitors, from a Micheal Sobell.

 

It goes on to say I havent paid a parking fine after being written to from UKPC and Roxburge. It says this is the letter before legal proceedings are issued in the county court.

 

The costs have now rissen as follows:

 

Claim issue fee: £30.00

Solicitors cost for issuing fee: £50.00

Judgement costs: £25.00

Warrent issue fee: £35.00

Solicitors cost for issuing warrent: £2.25

 

Total: £142.25

 

Then I am threatend with baliffs at the end.

 

So now I would just like some reassurence to carry this on, well I'll have to ignore now the cost is rising lol

 

Am I near the end?

 

P.s I have ignored and filed every letter I have received. I have made no attempts to contact them by letter or phone.

 

I have received the same letter 2 days ago, it says i have 7 days to respond. well lets see what they do after 7 days. i too have not responded to any of these stupid letters.

[cardboardman]

First of all, I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who's posted information on this site. My 'offence' with UKPC happened at Merry Hill on 29th November last year and, after it had happened, I was pretty cross about it and took loads of photos with my phone ready to lodge my appeal as to why I shouldn't pay. Then I found this forum and realised that I shouldn't contact them, I've now had 6 letters from them, the last being a notice of visit (sorry, I must type these things correctly - a NOTICE OF VISIT) letter from Rossendales on 24th Feb but nothing since - all I can assume is that they're having trouble finding my house. Perhaps it's finally come to an end - and I didn't even get a Graham White letter...

 

Anyway, the reason why I'm posting, apart from to say thank you to everyone for their stories, is to make a comment about anyone posting a message saying 'we must stop this', 'isn't this illegal' or 'how dare the DVLA give out my details'. I don't want companies like UKPC to stop operating in this manner. If they are stopped by law, all they'll do is resort to clamping or some other nasty way of getting your money off you.

 

OK, I was very frustrated when I saw the ticket on my car but I'm not going to blindly send someone a cheque for £35, £70, £115 or any such amount without a damn good reason. When I got home I Googled 'UKPC' and this forum was 1st on the list (it's slipped down to 2nd now - UKPC's web site has overtaken them all), followed by Money Saving Expert and Pepipoo - and they all said the same thing; ignore it. How much hassle was that? Very little. And after a bit of further reading when each of my letters arrived, I knew other had people had gone through what was happening to me and was confident that I could ignore them and it looks like I've come out the other end now. Again, very little hassle for me.

 

If people are stupid enough to just send a cheque off to these [problematic] without investigating it then it's their money they're losing. While it's still profitable for UKPC to operate in this way, I say let them do it. Like everyone else reading this forum, we've got the brains to investigate this and realise that we can just ignore it. It's a lot more difficult to ignore when there's a wheel clamp on your car and a hell of a lot more difficult to come out the other end of things without having to pay a penny.

Edited April 22, 2009 by cardboardman

[raydetinu]

A good pair of bolt croppers will sort that one out as well!!!!

[buzby]

I don't think it's a case of 'people being stupid' - they're more likely easily intimidated, and dislike being confrontational. This is to their detriment, and perhaps the much-maligned 'ostrich' approach (putting your head in the sand) is the CORRECT approach for these communications!

[Oddballs]

Cardman

If the last letter you had was a Notice of Visit from Rossendales you've got at least another couple of letters to come. I had mine mid January and since then have had two letters from Credit Security Limited.

The first one DEMANDED IMMDIATE payment followed two weeks later by "legal documents are being prepared"

[letshelp]

Cardboardman,

 

The correct attitude for dealing with these [problematic], well done.

regards

[DDWales]

Cardman

If the last letter you had was a Notice of Visit from Rossendales you've got at least another couple of letters to come. I had mine mid January and since then have had two letters from Credit Security Limited.

The first one DEMANDED IMMDIATE payment followed two weeks later by "legal documents are being prepared"

 

Very true. After the 'legal documents are being prepared' letter then theres the 'final, final, final' letter which gives you the chance to settle at a lesser sum before action! Thats the 'were getting desperate now and really want your money' letter!!! They usually disappear then

[boomer0804]

Hi there, I have been following the advice given on the forum after having the same issues with UKPC as the rest on here.

I have now received a letter from Credit security Limited for a demand of £125.The day after i received the letter i got a phone call from a debt collection agency who would not disclose there name. I managed to get the phone number and called it back but surprise surprise the office was shut. Ant advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance:)

[lamma]

ignore them. if they call just say 'hold on please' and leave them hanging.

[buzby]

Just before you hang up - press the recall [R] button on your phone. This effectively places the call on hold at the exhange, and sounds much more efficient that just hanging up by slamming the handset down!

[DDWales]

Just before you hang up - press the recall [R] button on your phone. This effectively places the call on hold at the exhange, and sounds much more efficient that just hanging up by slamming the handset down!

 

:)

[Hull_lad]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to the forum and found you on google, i thought i'd put a post on here rather than starting a new thread. I've been reading this thread for about an hour now.

 

Basically my story is that i parked in a local tesco's car park, and had to park with my car over the white lines as the car next to me was too close. When i returned i had a notification on my window saying i will receive a charge letter through the post.

Having read a lot of pages of this thread i really only have one thing to ask. . . .

 

Should i follow the advise early on in the thread and correspond with UKPC and the resulting debt collection companies as outlined in the templates on here, or should i just completely ignore all letters sent to me as some people have adivsed?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, i'm pretty nervous but i'm determined not to let them rob me of my money.

 

Thanks!

[lamma]

read back on this thread for a while.

 

you'll soon get the drift.

 

Its a mail [problem]. Ignore UKPC.

[cabriochris]

Hi mate,

 

I had the same thing apart from i purposely parked on the white hatchings in sainsbusys cause it was raining and couldnt be bothered to find a space lol.

 

Basically just follow the advise on here with the standard letter templates about what to say when you dispute the ticket. In this case i wrote one letter and never heard anything back, in other cases I had to write a few times but if you read the advise they are p*ss easy to get out off once you know how.

 

(Oh and by the way when i say I, i mean someone else who was driving my car at the time who i lent the car to on that day)

 

 

 

Hey everyone,

I'm new to the forum and found you on google, i thought i'd put a post on here rather than starting a new thread. I've been reading this thread for about an hour now.

 

Basically my story is that i parked in a local tesco's car park, and had to park with my car over the white lines as the car next to me was too close. When i returned i had a notification on my window saying i will receive a charge letter through the post.

Having read a lot of pages of this thread i really only have one thing to ask. . . .

 

Should i follow the advise early on in the thread and correspond with UKPC and the resulting debt collection companies as outlined in the templates on here, or should i just completely ignore all letters sent to me as some people have adivsed?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, i'm pretty nervous but i'm determined not to let them rob me of my money.

 

Thanks!

[Hull_lad]

Hey guys thanks for the really speedy replies!

 

So basically i should just ignore every letter they send to me no matter how threatening it is and not bother corresponding with them at all?

[cabriochris]

Personally i would reply using the standard replys that are detailed in this threat and other replies. At least then if they threaten to take you to court you have clearly tried to sort out the matter.

 

If i had more time i would point you to the right place for the standard letters but its just a case of reading this post from the start. Thats what i did, may take you an hour but will save you £80 or whatever the fine is.

 

 

Hey guys thanks for the really speedy replies!

 

So basically i should just ignore every letter they send to me no matter how threatening it is and not bother corresponding with them at all?

[lamma]

It is NOT a 'fine'.

 

many ignore PPCs. times are getting tougher for them and they play their hooked fish harder now. I would say don't bite at all.

[muddywheeler]

Hi to a fellow Hull Lad, thanks for e-mail, as suggested by the others just ignore all, you can of course reply to thier mail but as in my case they take not the slightest bit of notice of what you have said, I would even think if you had died on the spot they would still slap a ticket on you. Re mine I recived all the usual threats of the sky will fall in on you etc, the letters have now stopped, because they have no redress to get monies off anyone, stick it out and have a good laugh :grin: at the wording in thier letters. all the best don't use TESCO's anymore and power to the people.

[crem]

The most successful course of action now seems to be to completely ignore the PPC. They don't take a blind bit of notice of anything you write to them and by writing you are only confirming they have found a point of contact and are getting to you.

[Mr_Eee]

It seems UKPC/Rossendales are getting more desperate these days.

My Mrs got a phone call from Rossendales the other day, a few weeks after a 'notice of visit'. Not unusual you may think, but as I posted previously, we aren't in the phone book or on any database like 192.com due to carefully ticked privacy boxes etc. So I suspect this means they must have phoned BT or similar and PAID for the number (we aren't ex-directory).

Luckily she has experience of awkward buggers on phones.

They asked her to confirm who she was as they wanted proof she was who they wanted to speak to, she said 'I don't know who you are either! Take me to court'. She then left them on hold for 5 minutes listening to Radio1:p

[lamma]

I like the cut of your Mrs' jib !

 

 

A lot of PPCs seem to get getting desperate - hope it wasn't anything we said :)

[letshelp]

Power to Mrs Eee:)

[Billybong007]

Hi guys,

 

This is a great forum. My partner has been issues with an Enforcement Notice from UKPC through the post (there was no ticket left on the vehicle)

 

The vehicle in question was parked outside Aldi Hatfield.

 

I have a few questions I hope someone can answer:

 

1) Can a private company like UKPC access DVLA Records and issue penalty notices through the post without fixing the notice to the vehicle?

 

2) As my partner was not the driver of the vehicle, but is the Registered Keeper, could ignoring/contesting this fine appear negative on her personal credit report?

 

3) The alleged offence shows a photograph of the rear of the car - not evidence of what that the contavention was (the contravention is listed as "Unauthorised Parking; Other Contravention"). Also, there is no date/time stamp on the photograph, but there is a time mentions on the Charge Certificate.

 

I hate companies who do this, its complete scare mungering. As the vehicle was cleaned later that day and the ticket dumped, when we received the Penalty Notice from UKPC, we have not evidence that we legally parked; but we do have evidence that we were in Aldi where we spent £110 !!

 

Its things like this that would drive me away from going there again, and the companies that do suffer are people like Aldi.

 

Billybong

[lamma]

1) DVLA makes millions every year selling Registered Keeper details

2) Correct - just ignore UKPC

3) photograph is meaningless rubbish.

 

 

If they have sent a 'Charge Certficate' they are probably mimicking real council paperwork. That would be in violation of the 2008 Consumer Regulations and possible the Fraud Act 2006. report them to Trading Standards.

 

Ignore the PPC.