Debt Recovery letter - help

kmullett1

I (foolishly?) ignored a Parking Charge Notice from Euro Car Parks for £70. With hindsight, I should have appealed as per Martin's advise. Not only was signage very poorly lit on a dark winter evening, the charge of £70 is disproportionate to the overstay of 20 minutes. Notwithstanding this, I have now received communication from a Debt Recovery agency demanding £130. I have received no notice or warning that the amount would increase.


What should I do?
(P.S. before anyone gets annoyed, I have read previous posts and threads but they all appear to be "old" advice (i.e. 2014))

Many thanks

pappa_golf

no , as posted on the other thread (you posted on) martins info from 2014 is garbage please read https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822 carefully ,

read about debt collectors , as well

Fruitcake

You shouldn't have ignored this, but at least you didn't use the awful "official" MSE template that tells you to give away the driver's details. Complaints have been made about this but continue to be ignored.

Please read the Sticky thread for NEWBIES. This explains why it is safe to ignore debt collectors. There is nothing stopping you from making a late appeal to the parking scammers using the template in the NEWBIES thread, although no doubt it will be rejected.

The NEWBIES thread is up to date.

Redx

the NEWBIES sticky thread is bang up to date and this is one topic in its own section in there , so not old at all and stuck to the top of this forum for people to find easily

she also wrote this thread you seemed to have missed too

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035663

in simple terms IGNORE drp, they are powerless and always have been