Bought a £10 ticket for 12 hours, still slapped £100 charge by One Parking Solutions at Llangrannog

cryingoutloud

Hi,
Today I received a so called "Notice of Debt Recovery" in the post upping the ante by saying the charge of £170 was unpaid. There isn't even a breakdown in it stating the so called PCN of £100 plus the additional charge of £70 that these "recovery" cowboys have added. Please see below and suggest what I should do now?
My Popla appeal had failed a few months back and my local MP's appeals to their good sense have also failed to persuade OPS to cancel this charge. I am happy to await my day in court, but should I be worried about these letters?
@ParkingMad you had suggested that OPS were breaking FCA rules and potentially GDPR rules by passing my details to DCBL? Could I push back by raising a Subject Access Request to OPS or is there another more effective procedure with the FCA itself?

Coupon-mad

That's not upping the ante. It's just a debt crawler letter to ignore.

Umkomaas

Come back if you receive anything from DCB Legal (not the debt collecting arm - DCB Limited) which will need to be dealt with. 

patient_dream

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE .. IGNORE THE POWERLESS DRP ?

They are just money scammers adding on fake amounts.  Just let the fools waste their time

cryingoutloud

Another letter still from DCB Ltd... seems they are going through the motions before DCB Legal get involved? Should I care to respond to this? What happens if DCB Legal's letter before claim arrives while I am on long leave and can't respond to them within the said time frame?

Coupon-mad

What happens if DCB Legal's letter before claim arrives while I am on long leave and can't respond to them within the said time frame?

You'd hopefully have thought of that and made arrangements now, to get someone in the household to open your letters in your absence if abroad.  Or get your mail forwarded for a few months to a relative's address for them to open all your mail and email it to you. 

Royal Mail do a redirection service for a fee.  Well worth it if you are close to a scam PPC court claim ( an LBC is not a claim so not a disaster to miss, but best responded to, nonetheless).

Re that letter, consider copying and adapting this reply, changing 'CIS' to 'DCB Ltd' and the salutation to 'Collections Team':
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79013418#Comment_79013418

cryingoutloud

Coupon-mad said:

What happens if DCB Legal's letter before claim arrives while I am on long leave and can't respond to them within the said time frame?

You'd hopefully have thought of that and made arrangements now, to get someone in the household to open your letters in your absence if abroad.  Or get your mail forwarded for a few months to a relative's address for them to open all your mail and email it to you. 

Royal Mail do a redirection service for a fee.  Well worth it if you are close to a scam PPC court claim ( an LBC is not a claim so not a disaster to miss, but best responded to, nonetheless).

Re that letter, consider copying and adapting this reply, changing 'CIS' to 'DCB Ltd' and the salutation to 'Collections Team':
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79013418#Comment_79013418

Thanks. I was wondering if courts allow extra time to respond if I can prove I was away for an extended period (like 2-3 weeks)? How am I to know someone will send me a court claim each time I go on holiday?

What are the next steps that OPS/DCB Legal might do and which stage is mandatory to respond to? Is it just the court claim from DCB Legal?

Coupon-mad

LBC is not court stage, so no court would be involved if a tedious template LBC arrives.  Respond to it.  The reasons for doing so, and what to say at LBC stage, are in the NEWBIES thread, along with all the steps for claim stage, too.

cryingoutloud

DCB Legal sent me the letter of claim last week. I have until the 25th to pay or reply by going to dcblegal / response. What specific links could you please point me to defend this. I have been trawling through newbies and various links including https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6108153/suggested-template-defence-to-adapt-for-all-parking-charge-cases-where-they-add-false-admin-costs/p1 and the newbies faq second post. Could you please advise, what should I do first in relation to the letter of claim? Should I go to the response link and post a response and/or raise an SAR to OPS?

KeithP

Please read again @Coupon-mad's post immediately before your latest post on this thread.

It explains exactly what you need to do now that you have received a Letter of Claim.