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Parkingeye bailiff letter
DIR By: tshaw7
Date: February 8, 2025, 7:39 am
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Advice on parking ticket given by parkingeye please!
Hi all wondering if you can help me, I received a fine from
parkingeye months ago, I appealed the fine and got rejected, I
then went to appeal further with a separate company (POPLA) and
again it got rejected. I contacted the private land owner
(Fitness first gym) and was told that they would help me out -
abit of context my parter was driving my car and had to pull off
the road to a safe place to deal with my son who was choking in
the back of the car, she was stopped for around 7 minutes and
then continued on her journey. Fitness first sided with me and
said they will cancel the fine, great! Didn’t hear anything for
weeks and then got another letter saying I now owe more than the
initial fine, contact fitness first again and said what’s going
on they said they sent an email to cancel the fine and to ignore
them so I did, this time I asked fitness first to send me the
email that they had wrote to them as evidence (so I have an
email from fitness first to parking eye telling them I should
not have been given a fine) great, didn’t hear from them for
about a month.
Just now I have received a bailiff letter saying I owe £170 and
they will be round for collection and my next chance to appeal
will be in court. Fuming. Where do I stand? I have an email here
dated 15/11/24 from fitness first to parkingeye quoting my reg
number, PCN number and reference and telling them I should not
have been given a fine, I told this to parkingeye and they said
‘nothing we can do it’s already gone too far’
Personally I think this is disgraceful they’ve had 3/4 emails
from the landowner telling them to cancel a fine but haven’t?
Don’t they work on behalf of the land owner?
Advice please
I’m from England, UK
#Post#: 57182--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parkingeye bailiff letter
DIR By: Dave65
Date: February 8, 2025, 8:10 am
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First to clarify it is not a fine, it is a invoice from a
private parking company.
Does it actually say they will be round to collect?
No body can come around to collect until this had been to court.
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Re: Parkingeye bailiff letter
DIR By: tshaw7
Date: February 8, 2025, 8:13 am
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Ahh sorry Dave yeah it’s just a threatening one
#Post#: 57199--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parkingeye bailiff letter
DIR By: b789
Date: February 8, 2025, 10:10 am
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It's not a "bailiff" letter. DCBL are just a powerless debt
collector who can be safely ignored. They are not a party to the
contract allegedly breached by the driver. Never, ever, ever
communicate with a useless debt collector. Use their letters as
kindling or to line the bottom of a litter tray.
Just because they put the word "bailiff" in their name, doesn't
make them "bailiffs". If I set up a company with the name "king"
in it... does that make me royalty? Obviously not. Stop
imagining that any one can simply send bailiffs round to knock
on your door. It simply cannot happen without a whole process of
litigation to go through first and even then, assuming you were
unsuccessful, there still would be zero chance of a bailiff
knocking on your door.
If ParkingEye are using DCBL to issue their threatening letters,
then you know that they don't think there is much chance that
they can recover the alleged debt. They will eventually send you
a Letter of Claim (LoC) through their bulk litigator of choice,
DCB Legal and eventually an N1SDT Claim Form from the CNBC. If
you follow the advice, you won't be paying a penny.
For now, please show us the email/letter that the gym sent to
ParkingEye requesting the cancellation of the PCN. When you
receive the LoC from DCB Legal (not DCBL), then show that and we
will advise on the next steps.
Here is a lesson on why bailiffs can't just come knocking on
your door:
--- Quote ---
> Why no bailiff can knock on your door
>
> 1. County Court Judgment (CCJ):
>
> [indent]• A bailiff (enforcement agent) can only get involved
after a creditor has obtained a CCJ against you in a county
court.
> • If the CCJ is under £600, the creditor cannot transfer it to
the High Court for enforcement by a High Court Enforcement
Officer (HCEO). Instead, enforcement would remain under the
county court's jurisdiction.[/indent]
>
> 2. Threshold for High Court Enforcement:
>
> [indent]• If a CCJ is over £600 (including fees and interest),
the creditor can transfer it to the High Court for enforcement
by an HCEO. This is a common method because HCEOs tend to be
more effective at recovering money.[/indent]
>
> 3. Cost-Benefit Analysis for Creditors:
>
> [indent]• For CCJs under £600, creditors may find it
uneconomical to pursue enforcement through county court
bailiffs, as they are generally slower and less effective than
HCEOs.
> • As a result, creditors may opt not to escalate enforcement
for small amounts.[/indent]
>
> 4. Private Parking Charges and Bailiffs:
>
> [indent]• In the context of private parking charges, no
bailiff action can occur unless the parking operator has gone to
court, won a case, obtained a CCJ, and you fail to pay the
judgment within the stipulated time (usually 30 days).[/indent]
>
> So, no bailiff will come to your door for a debt under £600
unless the creditor deems it worth pursuing through county court
enforcement. However, even if the debt is over £600, bailiff
involvement only happens after a CCJ is issued, and enforcement
is transferred to the High Court.
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Parkingeye bailiff letter
DIR By: tshaw7
Date: February 8, 2025, 10:32 am
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Hi thanks for the reply please see attached image of the email
from gym to parking eye
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