Excel parking 'fine'????

[nix290]

Hi guys, I found your site after goggling 'Excel parking fine' as I had a ticket placed onto my wifes car today for being about 10 minutes over the alotted 2 hours free parking offence code 80)

 

I've read loads of your advice about ignoring it, but a lot of the advice is from a couple of years ago and I wanted to get things straight as the law stands now.

 

Long story short, I was slightly late back and got a PCN to pay £40 within 7 days or face increased costs/court action. I could do without the hassle to be honest and would pay the £40 for a quuiet life, but after seeing this website don't really feel like coughing up to a bunch of [problematic].

 

The ticket says they have photo evidence of the car and have put the tax disc number and expiry date onto the PCN. We've just bought the car and it isn't even registered to my wife yet, however I was driving and my wife can prove she was at work, nowhere near the car. i understand she will recieve the 'summons' or whatever, but can deny all knowledge of the ticket or who was driving.

 

Is this still the route to take or have they closed the loopholes?

 

thanks for any advice in advance.....Nick

[RichardW]

Excel?

 

Ignore any communications with them, as they will try all sorts of tatics that borders on harrasment.

 

I think they have given up on me by now (12 months later). No court action, no baliffs, no CCJ's dispite the all the comedy threat letters. If they could take me to court, you would think they would have done it long before now.

 

Under contract law they have to proove....

 

1. who the driver was. You are not obliged to tell them anything.

2. there was a contract in the first place, that was broken.

3. what their losses were as a result of the breach... so 10min of parking is about 20p, not £40.

 

All they they have done is paid £2.50 to the DVLA, and have written to the registered keeper.

 

 

You will only get a CCJ if they take you to court, you loose and and refuse to pay up. They will not take you to court, as they have no evidence.

 

There is no appeals process, dispite what it says.

 

Ignore every threat they send you. It's costing them money each time to send you a threat. I reckon they must have spent about £200 on me alone when you take into account staffing costs etc.

 

If you search for my thread on here you can see what will happen (or not happen) in the next 12 months.

Edited February 18, 2010 by RichardW

[lamma]

loopholes ? law not loopholes. Ignore Excel. there is no summons. you need to read up a bit on this [problem] I think.

[68904]

What you have got is a wrapper from a Mars Bar, as thats the power that so called parking ticket has.

Shortly to be folowed by a series of begging letters that threaten to blow your house down, send in the troops and other such nonscencical threats, all of which are a figment of the writers imagination.

Just ignore and get on with your life.

[nix290]

thanks guys.....i just wanted a bit of reassurance really.

 

These things are quite intimidating, but I suppose that is the aim!!

 

I've found quite a bit of info now on various sites all saying to ignore.....

 

 

My wife and I now have to steel ourselves for the deluge 'summons' and threats from debt collectors.....great

 

I take it this will in no way affect my credit rating even if it is in the hands of debt collection agencies?

 

ETA: I also live on a military base within 'the wire' so I doubt a debt collector can take my sofa

[DBC]

thanks guys.....i just wanted a bit of reassurance really.

 

These things are quite intimidating, but I suppose that is the aim!!

 

I've found quite a bit of info now on various sites all saying to ignore.....

 

 

My wife and I now have to steel ourselves for the deluge 'summons' and threats from debt collectors.....great

 

I take it this will in no way affect my credit rating even if it is in the hands of debt collection agencies?

 

ETA: I also live on a military base within 'the wire' so I doubt a debt collector can take my sofa

 

Please do not confuse debt collectors with bailiffs. Debt collectors are just private citizens with no more power than you or I. They cannot enter your property, they cannot seize goods and they cannot blacken your credit record.

 

Bailiffs only come on the scene if the case goes to court (very unlikely) you lose the case (very, very unlikely) and you refuse to pay whatever the judge orders you to pay.

[nix290]

thanks again, I'm a bit new to all this as I am normally a law abiding citizen who doesn't overstay in car parks by a few minutes!!!

 

it's quite scarey how close i was to 'just paying it' before i had 'feeling' and googled it....I'm glad I did as it is obviously not legitimate.

 

I wonder how many people just pay up without questioning if they have they right to do this?

 

It is obviously a lucrative business.

 

The ticket looks very convincing if you were a bit naive, as I obviously am!!

Edited February 18, 2010 by nix290

[dpick]

 

The ticket looks very convincing if you were a bit naive, as I obviously am!!

 

NO this should be "as I obviously was."

 

I am sure that you are not naive about this [problem] now, just follow the above advise ignore, ignore and ignore.

 

dpick

[lamma]

and tell your colleagues, friends and relatives all about it

[nix290]

thanks...I'll keep you posted with progress reports....

 

I'm quite angry about this now and how they extort money out of people by preying on their wish to avoid hassle.

 

Plus I'll be telling everyone I know about where I was parked, what happens and this dodgy company.

[Al27]

My wife and I now have to steel ourselves for the deluge 'summons' and threats from debt collectors....great

 

You've obviously not moved house for a while! When I moved in here I had to wade through the debt collection letters when I came in from work. It's not hard putting a bunch of letters in the bin!

 

I'm quite angry about this now and how they extort money out of people by preying on their wish to avoid hassle.

 

Plus I'll be telling everyone I know about where I was parked, what happens and this dodgy company.

 

Good man. This is a massive [problem] that really took off when the DVLA started selling anybody's address to anybody willing to stump up £2.50.

[nix290]

You've obviously not moved house for a while! When I moved in here I had to wade through the debt collection letters when I came in from work. It's not hard putting a bunch of letters in the bin!

 

 

 

Good man. This is a massive [problem] that really took off when the DVLA started selling anybody's address to anybody willing to stump up £2.50.

 

Coincidentally we are due to move house in September/October!!

 

So I guess we just have to sit it out until then!!

 

As we have only just bought the car and it's not registered to us yet, would it be worthwhile "forgetting" to post the reg doc off just yet in a bid to spoil their attempts a little?

[kiptower]

jusy ignore them, get your car reg'ed as you should

 

and forget about them

[nix290]

just a quick update....not heard anything yet! I'm guessing that Excel tried to get our details from DVLA and as the car was newly bought and unregistered it showed up as 'no owner' or they sent their demand to the previous owner??? Will they bother investing more money in trying to get my details again or will they give it up as a lost cause??? Either way I'm moving house soon, so they won't be able to follow me without going to DVLA once again.....no sleep lost over this one!