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  • keithtoon
    keithtoon Posts: 199 Forumite
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    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 :(
  • 1505grandad
    1505grandad Posts: 3,812 Forumite
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    To be fair there are an awful lot of them making this a very profitable scam for the unregulated 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
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    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.
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  • Umkomaas
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    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
    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.

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  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
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    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!!
  • keithtoon
    keithtoon Posts: 199 Forumite
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    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
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,476 Forumite
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    edited 3 February 2024 at 2:20PM
    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.
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