dcbc Debt Collectors chasing Parking Fine

keithtoon

Update:: Brother paid the £170. So this post is now history.
Thank you for the help but my brother buckled to the threatening letters he received

Le_Kirk

Groan!                        

B789

Fools and their money! So your brother is as much a part of the scam as he has just funded them and is now marked as a "mug" and will be targetted again as such.

1505grandad

To be fair there are an awful lot of them making this a very profitable scam for the unregulated industry:-

https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/private-parking-on-course-to-be-billion-pound-industry

"Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said:

“If only the rest of the economy was booming like the private parking sector, perhaps we’d all be feeling more prosperous.

“Private parking looks set to be a billion pound-a-year business, if it isn’t already, with demands for up to £100 a time being sent out to drivers at the rate of more than one every three seconds."

Coupon-mad

keithtoon said:

Update:: Brother paid the £170. So this post is now history.
Thank you for the help but my brother buckled to the threatening letters he received

That's awful news.

He'd have paid nothing at all if he'd just defended a claim because they always discontinue.

Will you both at least come back in August and tell the Government what you think about the extortion and the added fake £70 'fee'?

You'll have seen me post about the Public Consultation opening in a month or so.  Be part of it with us.

Umkomaas

keithtoon said:

Update:: Brother paid the £170. So this post is now history.
Thank you for the help but my brother buckled to the threatening letters he received

🤦‍♂️

He missed the opportunity for a guaranteed inclusion in the following thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6377263/dcb-legal-record-of-private-parking-court-claim-discontinuations/p1

fisherjim

Good grief, the debt collectors couldn't do diddly squat, he gave them £70 to help buy another Range Rover for the boss!

The parking company are running a money making scam why would they phone the pub and cancel their scam invoice, which the pub could just cancel at any time.

Expensive lesson learned we hope!!

Le_Kirk

Of course he won't be visiting that pub again, except once, on foot, to tell them he won't be spending any more money in there as he is saving up to pay his last bar tab of £170.00!

keithtoon

Hi all,
My youngest has been given a parking fine via UKPC he has lost his appeal and now he will appeal via POPLA 
 but he has been threatened with a increased fine.My son is trying to deal with it himself but the increase in the fine is making feel he should just pay up. I told him to wait till I find out more about this *increase* as I feel its wrong!!!! 

Coupon-mad

No, it's perfectly normal that if you appeal there is no discount.  Happens with Council PCNs too. This isn't an 'increase' and he wouldn't be paying anyway even if he loses!

No idea why he isn't just ignoring UKPC.  POPLA isn't what I'd do.