[Closed] Parking charge notice that no-one will be paying.

Assuming it’s a [b]Parking[/b] Charge Notice rather than an actual PCN then you can just ignore it, no need to bother getting it cancelled. Best case scenario (if you’ve got the time!) is they take you to court, the judge makes them pay all costs & you laugh at them lots.

I suspect they will chase you anyway. It is pretty much an automated process at this point. Don’t be surprised if you’ve lost the right to appeal as your outside some timeframe the company have set.

Remember you have to prove absolutely nothing to them.

you’ve done your bit by alerting them to their error.

ignore everything else apart from court papers

Ignoring it is generally a bad idea (though it varies depending on the issuing company as to exactly how bad).

"You've got the reg number wrong" seems a valid defence to me.

Don’t be surprised if you’ve lost the right to appeal as your outside some timeframe the company have set.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4816822

“You’ve got the reg number wrong” seems a valid defence to me.

You'd imagine so, & just for clarification....

The offending vehicle..

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Our vehicle...

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Ignoring them is rubbish advice. Emailing saying that’s not my car is fine though.

but seeing as we’ve never been to Grimsby in our lives

That seems a better defence than saying they got the reg number wrong.  Who on earth would ever want to go to Grimsby? 😉

Our vehicle…

I thought everyone had to stay in the car when on a safari?

Who on earth would ever want to go to Grimsby?

My very 1st thoughts Glenn!

Loving the tank commander pose.

Who on earth would ever want to go to Grimsby

They probably went there to jump in the Humber. They've bought a Nissan Juke so have obviously already given up on life!

Wish I'd had my cap on, mightv'e looked like Rommell.

Except in an Xtrail.

Ignoring is usually bad advice.

In this instance once you have made the PPC aware that they have misread the reg number that is the end of your obligation.

contacting them usually marks you as a “target” someone who will engage and could be intimidated into paying regardless of whether you were there or not.

you have to bear in mind the basic premise that PPC’s work on. It’s basically scare tactics.

What OP needs to think about is if the PPC continue to harrase him after telling them they are mistaken he has a solid claim  for data misuse under the DPA

there may be a claim against both the DVLA  and the PPC for misuse of data. It could be worth hundreds.

Feel free to check out case law.

If the OP wants to be super reasonable, reply once with the full appeal then just reply with “ refer to previous correspondence”

if that goes to court you should be able to claim costs, and harassment.

there was a case against British Gas that set the president for costs for harassment.

hopefuly they’ll check the pics and realise the mistake.

I should think Donald will have lots to pay off.

I'd edit that pic of your car reg. All sorts of shysters out there who will happily put it on a similar vehicle.

Worth checking with DVLA that you aren't registered with them as the keeper of the other car.  It seems they sent the parking company your details.

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I’d edit that pic of your car reg. All sorts of shysters out there who will happily put it on a similar vehicle.

I've never really understood the paranoia over this. If anybody wants a reg plate to put on a similar vehicle all they have to do is wander around a car park - trawling internet forums in the hope of finding one seems like far more trouble.

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Worth checking with DVLA that you aren’t registered with them as the keeper of the other car.  It seems they sent the parking company your details.

From what he says, the DVLA sent his details having been (incorrectly) supplied with his reg number. I'm guessing that right there is part of the issue which MartynS refers to - there are quite strict rules on the use of the DVLA service and asking for details of a car which you have no dealings with would appear to be breaking the T&Cs.

I’ve never really understood the paranoia over this. If anybody wants a reg plate to put on a similar vehicle all they have to do is wander around a car park – trawling internet forums in the hope of finding one seems like far more trouble.

I was just thinking the very same thing!

If anybody wants a reg plate to put on a similar vehicle all they have to do is wander around a car park

Or just make one up.  ZX64 CPC.  There you go, prospective criminals, you can have that for free.  I can supply more at £500+VAT for a dozen.

One advantage of trawling a car park / back street of course is that you can take a screwdriver and not need plates creating.

It may have been DVLA sending the wrong details, not the parking company.

that is the end of your obligation.

Is there any legal obligation, whatsoever, in this case? Someone sends you a bill in error, for services someone else has "agreed" to pay for… what is your obligation?

Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. No email address, no telephone number, just an address to send the fine in a certain number of days.. They were part of some larger group and I managed to find out the telephone number of their head office. Spoke to a person there who could not find a number for the company even though she confirmed it was one of their companies. She said she would get back to me with some information. To my surprise she did and told me she had sorted it out. I had a letter confirming this with an apology. I sent them a bill via email for the cost of telephone calls and and my time giving them seven days to make payment. Received nothing!

Is this not just the standard fine issued (erroneously - Obvs) to all owners of Nissan Jukes? It's a **** tax!

I reckon that what happened was... the person who stuck the ticket on the car had sausage fingers & put an H at the end instead of a G. Owner/driver of the Juke came back, looked at the ticket & says, 'Ha!, not me' & binned the ticket. As someone else said, It's probably all been automated by now & no-one's checked the photo's against the reg no on the ticket.

I HAVE done the appeal form & pointed this out.

I should think Donald will have lots to pay off.

Boring

I sent them a bill via email for the cost of telephone calls and and my time giving them seven days to make payment. Received nothing!

But did you send repeated threatening letters? Pass it on to a debt collection agency who give up and pass it back to you? Then threaten them with court? And then if still no response, go quiet for a couple of years then try again?

If not, then you don't deserve the money for giving up too easily.