Lewis debt recovery chasing a parking 'fine' from university

[kroskros]

Good afternoon.

Received letter from Lewis Debt Recovery on Friday 26/10/2013 demanding 46.73 to be paid by 30/10/2013.

 

They give my University Reference number and then info that notice was issued on behalf of my University in Scotland.

 

As far as I remember this is a notice issued by University for using their parking for one hour

(similar to a parking fine) but this detail is not mentioned in the Lewis Debt Recovery Final Demand.

 

Please let me know how should I proceed with this Final Demand.

Should I pay this since it is originally from University?

 

Best regards,

Kros

[dx100uk]

hi and welcome

 

its not a parking fine

 

its a speculative invoice.

 

and as you are in Scotland where they are not allowed to issue 'speculative invoices' as such

 

you can totally disregard the powerless dca.

 

dx

[kroskros]

Thanks for your quick reply,

 

Should I ignore them now or should I ask them to confirm this is a parking notice and only then ignore?

 

I am sure this is for a parking notice but they didn't mention this.

 

thanks,

[dx100uk]

it will be

 

they soon willy wave if its not

 

its against rules & regs to just randomly send 'a' letter about 'a' debt

 

without giving the complete details.

 

dx

[ericsbrother]

contacting them at all will only encourage them to think you are going to be tricked into paying up so best ignore them. If your university wants to try it on then they will tell you so themselves but they dont have any grounds for demanding money either.

[esmerobbo]

Two points first I don't think I have ever heard of Lewis debt recovery chasing parking charges, (however they could do) and £46.73 seems an odd amount for a parking charge. Are you sure you don't owe the Uni anything else?

[Surfer01]

Did you give the university permission to pass your details onto third parties?

[Nev Met]

Did you give the university permission to pass your details onto third parties?

 

That's a good question and perhaps you might be as well to contact the DVLA to see whether or not there was a request for the registered keeper data relating to this alleged contravention (get all your ducks lined up first eh?)

[kroskros]

Hi,

I didn`t give any permission for anyone to pass my details to Lewis.

 

As suggested in this thread I didn’t want to encourage any conversation with them so I decided to ignore them.

 

They gave up till this point.

 

University made the point and I stopped parking there. Win-win situation.

 

Thanks and best regards,

[armadillo71]

Hi,

I didn`t give any permission for anyone to pass my details to Lewis.

 

As suggested in this thread I didn’t want to encourage any conversation with them so I decided to ignore them.

 

They gave up till this point.

 

University made the point and I stopped parking there. Win-win situation.

 

Thanks and best regards,

 

Thanks for updating...

 

Could you clarify what point the university made?

[kroskros]

Thanks for updating...

 

Could you clarify what point the university made?

 

Sorry for not being clear. It is just the general point they made, that students shouldn`t be parking at the university parking without valid permit.

 

If student will decide to leave car over there, it is nothing they can really do about this, however it is not nice to do so.

As long as everybody is trying to be a good person, everything is ok.