| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking ticket outside Ealing Broadway - Advice needed | |
| Posted by: | Chris Bennett | |
| Date/Time: | 30/12/13 16:49:00 |
| It’s now been over a year since I received a parking violation notice from Park Direct which I chose to ignore, largely due to advice from this forum. I thought, therefore, for the benefit of others in the future I’d update. Having originally written to Park Direct pleading my case in vain, the last rejection letter I received from them was dated 22/02/13 demanding a £100 fine by 22/03/13 or my case would be handed to debt collection agencies. Ignoring this I have indeed subsequently received letters from two outfits, initially Debt Recovery Plus on 12/06/13, with follow up letter dated 27/06, and more recently from Zenith Collections on 14/11/13, with follow up on 25/11. Debt Recovery had raised the fine to £149, stating in their 27/06 letter that if I didn’t pay by 11/07 the case would be passed to the “creditor’s solicitor to commence court proceedings”. The letters from Zenith also claimed £149 but generously gave an option to pay a “reduced settlement” of £80, this with a fourteen day cut-off. Their follow up letter of 25/11 also offered the reduced rate if paid within seven days, otherwise “this matter will be passed to our legal dept with the recommendation that legal proceedings are commenced to recover this amount” (the full £149). It then outlined the likely additional expenses incurred should legal proceedings occur. Obviously I’ve continued to ignore this and will update the forum should anything worthwhile materialize. Nowadays every time we walk past Ealing Broadway we look out for the girl with her mobile phone and there’s nearly always a Park Direct car there, sometimes two. Clearly a very lucrative happy hunting ground for them and I suspect the girl who snaps people is probably on a commission arrangement. |