Letter from DCBL

Clare1990

Received a 2nd letter from dcbl (my name is spelt incorrect also) for an outstanding balance of £160 for a parking fine from private company.. Probably goin on 2 years now. I know you can ignore letters but do they actually enforce it and can they with spelling my name wrong?

KeithP

Clare1990 wrote: »

Received a 2nd letter from dcbl (my name is spelt incorrect also) for an outstanding balance of £160 for a parking fine from private company.. Probably goin on 2 years now. I know you can ignore letters but do they actually enforce it and can they with spelling my name wrong?

Debt collectors can enforce nothing.

Read post #4 of the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread for further detail.

Is your name spelled correctly on your vehicle's V5c document?

Coupon-mad

DCBL are not acting as bailiffs, if the letter is just a debt demand (no court case?).

The_Deep

Have you been to court and lost? If not this is a letter from a debt collector about an unpaid invoice which you dispute, for an alleged breach of contract which you deny, it is certainly NOT a fine.

The only way that the PPC/scammer can get a penny out of would be to take you to court and win.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.
for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the House of Commons recently

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41 recently.

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.