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  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    Yes, SAR UKPC and not DCBL.

    Get the information they hold on you and then come back here.

    You have received a debt crawler begging letter.  If you get a letter before claim giving you 30 days to respond come back here.



    UKPC are really desperate now
  • That’s great - thanks for confirming. I’ll take a look at all the helpful stuff on sorting the SAR for UKPC; and if I get anything more I’ll come back. Appreciate you taking the time.
  • KeithP
    KeithP Posts: 41,296 Forumite
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    edited 23 April 2021 at 3:46PM
    PCNNovice said:

    From reading material on here ... I can see the advice is to do a SAR - but I don’t definitively know where that should be directed as I’ve not had any correspondence at all previously on the Parking Charge. I’ve read the comments about DCBL picking up old tickets from UKPC so I think the advice is to direct a SAR to UKPC?

    I don't think it is a good idea to send a SAR to UKPC when you appear to have no reason to believe that UKPC are the parking company behind your specific issue.

    Look again at your letter from DCB Limited. Surely it tells you on whose behalf it is acting?
    Perhaps they use the word creditor to identify their client?


    Maybe you could/should do exactly what the fourth post of the NEWBIES thread tells you to do...

    Ignore Debt Collectors Letters.

  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,591 Forumite
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    I agree with Keith, rUKPC may well ask you for the reference number on the PCN 
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • Thanks for responding KeithP and D_P_Dance 

    Definitely no reference as to who DCBL are acting on behalf of. They are even so vague as to say “We will now recommend to our client the commencement of legal action against you...”.  There is a Parking Charge Reference quoted but that is it.

    I definitely wasn’t planning to engage DCBL - so I had taken on board an element of ignore Debt Collector Letters but it seemed from reading several posts the SAR advice did come into play. I do get where you’re coming from given I don’t know the parking company so I’ll take no action for now.

    Thanks.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,344 Forumite
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    I'm not sure I've seen a debt collector letter with no client named within it.  Strange old world is private parking!
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • FrankCannon
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    As you have a PCN reference and you know the VRM, how about going to the UKPC website and clicking the Pay Charge link to check that the PCN is from them ?
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    You did say in an earlier post .....

    "Received my first DCBL (Limited) last Friday from February 2020, client being UKPC. Ignoring it "
  • KeithP
    KeithP Posts: 41,296 Forumite
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    beamerguy said:
    You did say in an earlier post .....

    "Received my first DCBL (Limited) last Friday from February 2020, client being UKPC. Ignoring it "
    But it wasn't @PCNNovice that said that.  ;)
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    KeithP said:
    beamerguy said:
    You did say in an earlier post .....

    "Received my first DCBL (Limited) last Friday from February 2020, client being UKPC. Ignoring it "
    But that was the original poster - LekkerManLekker.

    This thread has been highjacked by @PCNNovice.
    Bur there is no hijacking on this thread as it is an open group thread

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