I got a letter from Debt Recovery Plus last month, saying I had an unpaid parking charge from May 2014. I don't remember receiving any parking charge last year, this letter was the first I'd heard about it. The letter was titled 'Notice of intended court action - unpaid parking charge £140.00'. I looked up advice on another site and was overwhelmed by all the conflicting advice over what to do, but gathered that by not receiving the original parking charge notice I'd missed any chance of appealing and that it was best to go to the company that owns the car park. It was the St Peter's Wharf Retail Park in Maidstone, shared by several companies. Obviously I don't have the receipts from that far back but I would have shopped in Asda as I always do when we go. If I did stay over the time it would have only been by a few minutes. My youngest was potty training at the time and everything took longer than it should have. The car park is often difficult to enter/leave and to find a space, there's every chance I spent 15 or 20 minutes trying to get in/out of the car park and find space to park. I wrote to the Asda, explaining that I had received a notice out of nowhere threatening me with court action and asking for £140 (plus £75 charges if it goes to court) , when I would have spent money in the shop and only overstayed for a maximum of 5 or 10 minutes. I said that there would have been no loss to them as I was a paying customer, that I couldn't afford the ticket or to risk another ticket by shopping there again and to please contact Parking Eye to get the ticket quashed. I got an email back (which I only just saw when I searched my emails) saying that there was nothing they could do about it. To be honest I pretty much forgot about it in between, hoping that it was dealt with by the letter to Asda, as we've had some other things going on that took priority. Yesterday I got another letter from DRP titled 'Reduced payment offer of £112.00 to avoid potential court proceedings'. It says my case has been 'referred to the creditor with the recommendation that they appoint their solicitor to commence court proceedings' against me. My family has been going through a difficult time that's caused us a crazy amount of stress and we're just coming through it, this is the last thing I need. I've even been tempted to borrow the money to pay it off just to get it off my mind but when I know from forums like this that it can be challenged it seems just such a waste of money that we can't afford. What do I need to do to fight it? Should I contact Parking Eye to make a late appeal or wait for them to send court papers?