it'd be harassment/menacing or some such otherwise

Our credit control team keeps asking me to sign off on using a debt collection agency for our old energy bills so I get to see all the presentations on how they approach these things and the draft threat letters.

All shockingly cynical and I won't have any part of it, but the takeaways were that:
(i) the DCAs are universally very antsy at the idea of not being allowed to sue anyone at all, because all the letters strongly infer that you're going to be sued and it'd be a false representation otherwise (obtaining money by deception? probably a criminal offence?); and
(ii) the moment anyone defended the claim it was going to come back to us to deal with/drop, as they had no interest in actually litigating a defended case. (Parking might be easier to litigate though than having a Lentil Weaver claim they'd never signed up / hadn't used anything / got the wrong meter reads etc)

Posted By: CWC on September 25th 2023 at 12:48:29

Message Thread

Parking Charge Notice for Coop (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 25, 12:11:27
- Tell them you were meeting someone to pick up a package (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Sep 25, 20:23:18
- Fuck em, ignore it and all the subsequent letters and visits from knobs in a hi vis (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 25, 18:24:12
- If you tell them that 'Betty' served you they will cancel it and give you a voucher (n/m) (General Chat) - MonkeyPuzzle, Sep 25, 15:18:59
- Have you taken it to Coop... if you present your receipt I'm pretty sure they will recind (General Chat) - Pixelman, Sep 25, 14:53:47
  - Its a well known dogging spot..... (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 15:26:12
    - 🚨🚨 arooga! arooga! 🚨🚨 (n/m) (General Chat) - Pathetic Smut Klaxon, Sep 25, 15:32:36
      - Yes we can't have Smutty jokes anymore... (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 20:48:59
- Did you try an alternative method. (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 14:36:49
- How did you spend 25 mins in Co-Op FFS? (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 25, 14:32:34
  - Probably sat in car for 10 minutes before facing going in (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 25, 15:34:26
  - 10 min shop and 15 min wank in the bogs...... (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 14:38:14
    - 🚨🚨 arooga! arooga! 🚨🚨 (n/m) (General Chat) - Pathetic Smut Klaxon, Sep 25, 15:33:38
  - It was a joint effort. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Sep 25, 14:33:27
- Just got one for my ex on the Dartford charge (General Chat) - norfolk terrier, Sep 25, 13:43:51
  - they will let you off the first one if it is the first one (if you call them) (n/m) (General Chat) - MonkeyPuzzle, Sep 25, 15:09:22
  - dvlc with proof of scrappage... car cloning is rife at the mo. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Sep 25, 14:55:35
  - Run away (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 25, 14:12:52
- I ignored one from Hartlands Heartsease roundabout (General Chat) - KevinBond, Sep 25, 13:33:26
  - Used to use them occassionally and the kebab shop... got ticket four years ago and never (General Chat) - Pixelman, Sep 25, 14:57:54
    - Hartlands now claim that they have binned off the Parking enforcers (General Chat) - Henclrikus, Sep 25, 18:27:00
    - Why are chip shops so obsessed with parking spaces? (General Chat) - KevinBond, Sep 25, 15:20:05
- I got one in a Sainsburys while using their Jet Wash... exceeded (General Chat) - Pixelman, Sep 25, 13:29:31
- You fought the law and the law won.... (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 13:18:09
  - Woop-woop, that's the sound of da police. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Sep 25, 13:25:21
    - fuck da police (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 25, 13:48:09
      - Straight Outta Colney..... (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Sep 25, 14:30:49
- I parked up in Attleborough’s Lidl in May, did a shop, rang a mate and then fell asleep in (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Sep 25, 12:34:14
  - £30? That’s a year’s shopping in Lidl! (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 25, 14:15:48
    - 😂 (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Sep 25, 14:44:15
  - Living the high life (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 25, 13:41:53
    - I enjoyed it (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Sep 25, 14:44:56
- Do these things get sold onto private debt collectors eventually? (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Sep 25, 12:29:51
  - I think it depends on if the parking is privately operated or operated by the council (General Chat) - BinBoy, Sep 25, 12:57:55
    - As someone else said below if it's council just pay immediately as it's usually cheaper (General Chat) - BinBoy, Sep 25, 13:01:44
  - In the change over of property I kept getting gas bills from a provider I wasn't with. (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Sep 25, 12:37:38
    - *looks for Lentil Weaver's account and drafts LBA* (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 25, 12:40:16
      - Let me know if you find a Mr Lentil Weaver (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Sep 25, 15:05:32
        
        GDPR - can neither confirm nor deny (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 25, 15:55:26
      - I just assumed it was energy the previous people hadn't paid. (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Sep 25, 12:43:16
- I've had a couple of these in the past, one from a pub (General Chat) - Azteca, Sep 25, 12:28:19
  - with the caveat that they have to take ~3-4% to court (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 25, 12:38:08
    - That's interesting, I never knew that about having to take some to court (General Chat) - Azteca, Sep 25, 12:40:15
      - it'd be harassment/menacing or some such otherwise (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 25, 12:48:29
  - hmmmm, not sure I'd hold my nerve but let's see (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 25, 12:35:42
    - They're very unlikely to take you to court for (General Chat) - Azteca, Sep 25, 12:38:45
- Rules is rules. You're banged to rights. (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Sep 25, 12:14:32
  - Unless you go rogue and live off grid. But then probably not many co-op's around. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Sep 25, 12:15:25

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