I called PCM after receiving debt collectors letter in panic. Have I messed up?

Private management companies are rogue. Best suggestion pay it and take counter action against them to retrieve. otherwise the fees will continue to go up until it goes to court.

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Private management companies are rogue. Best suggestion pay it and take counter action against them to retrieve. otherwise the fees will continue to go up until it goes to court.

Maybe you should do some research on this forum before making stupid ill informed comments like this!


OP no one on here is going to advise paying a scammer, let alone a third party debt collector muppet that has added on their own scam charge.


For goodness sake stop phoning the muppets debt collectors can't do anything, and 60 seconds, really!


If this is a station car park it is probably under railway bye-laws and the scammers at PCM can't take you to court anyway.

In a panic on receiving the debt collector letter

There is no need to panic, this is not a fine but an invoice from a notorious scammer for an alleged breach of an alleged contract.

If this is railway land it will be covered by bye-laws and there is virtually nothing that PCM can do about it as long as they do not know the identity of the friver.

The train company itself would have to prosecute you in a Magistrates Court, but dropping off passengers at a station is not a criminal offence. The whole things dies a death after six months any so play letter ping pong with the scammers and complain to your MP.

It is the will of Parliament that these scammers be put out of business.

Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.




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