dcbl - Notice of debt recovery for a ticket I accept

Umkomaas

The advise I was looking for was whether I can pay the original fine, given that this is the first I've heard of it. I really have no interest in going to court. 

Why not simply contact the parking firm and/or their solicitors and make them a written 'Without Prejudice Save as to Cost' offer?  There's little other advice on a private parking forum where the merest thought of paying a private parking firm is anathema. 

D_P_Dance

Thi8s is a money saving forum, how does paying a scammer save anyone money.  You are not dealing with John Lewis here, according to one MP. some of these companies may even have links to organised crime

Coupon-mad

Of course there is no advice about paying or making an offer because an offer is not going to work, and only an idiot would pay.

mpit

Coupon-mad said:

Of course there is no advice about paying or making an offer because an offer is not going to work, and only an idiot would pay.

Comments like this really grind me. It's incredibly short-sighted to assume that someone that has different priorities to you is an idiot. 

I feel it would be idiotic to spend more time/money fighting something than you stand to gain. 

It's clear I've come to the wrong place to seek advice.

Coupon-mad

You stand to gain paying nothing, rather than £170, and there is no risk to your credit rating as long as you follow our advice and don't ignore a court claim or court directions/deadlines.

The £70 is made up - unrecoverable except if people fall for it and pay that sum.  In court even with the odd 1% who lose here, that would not be allowed.

Paying it is like paying a phishing emailer.

Snakes_Belly

You are asking for advice on a forum where the regular posters help motorists that are challenging spurious claims from these agressive PPC's. In the background many forum members are campaigning to curtail the activities of these money grabbing companies and the bottom feeders that cling to them.

Do you really think that it is right that someone should pay £170.00 for incorrectly inputing a car registration number in a terminal at a gym where they pay a regular subscription?  It is like giving in to a protection racket. Pay us or we can make your life difficult. No they can't. Only if you let them.

Try Plan A to get the gym to cancel your PCN. Threaten to cancel your subscription to the gym if they don't. 

KeithP

mpit said:

Coupon-mad said:

Of course there is no advice about paying or making an offer because an offer is not going to work, and only an idiot would pay.

I feel it would be idiotic to spend more time/money fighting something than you stand to gain. 

So if I were to send you an invoice for (say) £10 for some spurious reason, you would be more likely to pay it than dispute it because to dispute it would surely cost you more than £10?

fisherjim

Look, you are dealing with a firm that has joined a club of other like minded greedy firms that hit on an easy way to make money and lots of it.

Their scam relies on people making mistakes, or missing signage and some even falsify evidence to trap victims. They do this at no cost to the duped site owner so the more mistakes made the more they make there is no parking management.

Their complicit debt collectors also do their worst on a no win no fee contract and most have just upped their fee by £10 just because they can.

At this stage you are in the debt collectors clutches and the total charge stated is what they want, you are not dealing with reasonable people they are nasty money grabbers.

If you want to pay it and support their onslaught on the old disabled and poor as well just pay up and let the regulars get on with doing something useful.

But at the end of the day you (who has no problem with spare cash apparently) did ask for help and you got what you asked for, in fact the only people that can actually answer you question to  your satisfaction is the PPC now!

If you think straight talkers on here aren't being nice to you the people you will be paying are like gangsters in comparison good luck.

D_P_Dance

I feel it would be idiotic to spend more time/money fighting something than you stand to gain. 

An MP last year stated in the HoC that it is likely that some of these companies have links with organised crime.  so paying them could be funding modern slavery and people smuggling 

Fruitcake

mpit said:

Coupon-mad said:

Of course there is no advice about paying or making an offer because an offer is not going to work, and only an idiot would pay.

Comments like this really grind me. It's incredibly short-sighted to assume that someone that has different priorities to you is an idiot. 

I feel it would be idiotic to spend more time/money fighting something than you stand to gain. 

It's clear I've come to the wrong place to seek advice.

You have come to a money saving site where a handful of volunteers give up their time for free to help others. If you want to pay a bunch of unregulated scammers that our MPs across all parties and all four nations have called, rogues, bloodsuckers, and scammers, then you are most definitely in the wrong place.
Paying scammers is completely against the ethos of this forum and this money saving website, but if you are intent on funding a scam that will enable more people to be scammed then nobody here can stop you.