Anybody ever had any experience with parking eye before?
My girlfriend got a car radio fitted at Halfords, who told her that she had to leave the keys with them for a few hours because there was a wait, and then time for service.
She then unknowingly got a ticket frmo parking eye.
Halfords have since informed me that they are meant to have phoned to say which registrations aren't to be issued a ticket if they've had work done.
My girlfriend, being away at university since then has not opened her mail, only the other week to find that they've escalated it to court and issued a CCJ against her name, all in the time she's not actually had chance to open the letters which she never should have had in the first place.
Parking eye acknowledge she shouldn't have been given one, but won't drop the clam bcause they're saying she should have sorted it sooner despite the fact she's been at uni, and didn't open mail bcause she never breaks the laws, and didn't expect she'd need to as Halfords should have sorted it.
So they shouldn't have given her one in the first place, and know that, yet are still pursuing it. You can get it thrown out in frnot of a judge but that costs £155 to set it aside.
Is there more a scumbag way of doing business? Anybody had experience with them before?
>>3328 So she has among those papers a letter from the court in Northampton telling her this? Not just a claim form but a "Form of judgment or order" saying this?
At this rate she should consider herself lucky she only had a parking ticket. Had she been caught speeding they'd have had a warrant out for her arrest. In either case, she's supposed to notify DVLA of a change of address.
If it is in fact a CCJ then if she wants it off her record it'll have to be paid within 30 days, otherwise it stays on record even if it's satisfied, but if she does that there will be no prospect of appeal or getting the money back. If you did fight it, I happen to know that you could probably have the solicitor's fee ruled out, as Parking Eye employ someone to file the claims rather than paying a solicitor to do it. I forget whether you get the set aside application fee back in the event of a successful application or defence.
If she hasn't already, she needs to get some help. Pepipoo would be a decent place to start.
Why? She hasn't changed address. She lives at home and at university in the term time. It's not unrealistic to expcr her to leave her permanent address that isn't term time as her DVLA registered address? I appreciate what you're saying, but she got a car radio fitted and Halfords failed to sort it.
How is this her fault in anyway?
It is a CCJ. I'll help her appeal to get it removed, even if satisfied because it is unjust.
It suggests on the court information that set aside fee is payable no matter what from the looks of things.
>>3330 >She hasn't changed address.
The law regards your address as being a place where documents may be served upon you. If you move during term time but want to keep your old address, you need to make sure your mail follows you. (Except for insurance, obviously. If you're living away from home in term time but don't tell your insurer both addresses, you might not actually be insured.) It was Halfords fault that she got the ticket, but her own fault that it went to a CCJ, as had she used the correct address or got someone to pass her mail on she could have sorted it out before court. Whichever way you spin it, the reality is that because she didn't open her mail she has a CCJ, so that's the position she needs to start from now. She needs to be aware that it may be an uphill battle and that certain things will count against her. For instance, she can't claim that she didn't receive anything, as you've admitted that she did but merely choose to open it all later. If she can get to actually contesting the original claim, she could use the fact that they've admitted that she shouldn't have got the ticket to argue that they claimed in bad faith. But she needs to get to that point first, and she needs to understand that the first hurdle is of her own making.
>>3331 Thanks for the advice. Not trying to absolve her to angel status, but it does seem ridiculous parking eye would knowingly try to ruin somebody's credit rating and therefore life for the sake of a claim that they themselves acknowledge shouldn't have been issued in the first place.
I don't understand how the law allows for people to be dealt that hand without anything else, but thanks anyway.
I'm pissed off, but I guess it's time to start chasing.
Let them take her to court explain how the case is being made in error, explain that you have attempted to inform them of this. The judge will agree and give them a bollocking for wasting everyone's time.
