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BBC1 Rip Off Britain programme and NCP

morrisoscar
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edited 26 September 2012 at 10:27AM in Parking tickets, fines & parking
Caught some of BBC1 Rip Off Britain this morning and in an article regarding NCP a parking charge notice was being referred to as a fine and parking ticket.:doh: :mad:
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  • peter_the_piper
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    No matter how much we try the general public will always know them as "fines" and "penalties", the ppc's know this and play on it to get their ill gotten gains. All we can do is to try to educate them.
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  • morrisoscar
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    peter_the_piper wrote: »
    No matter how much we try the general public will always know them as "fines" and "penalties", the ppc's know this and play on it to get their ill gotten gains. All we can do is to try to educate them.


    A view reinforced by a BBC programme the point of which is telling people how not to get conned.:rotfl:
  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    morrisoscar wrote: »
    A view reinforced by a BBC programme the point of which is telling people how not to get conned.:rotfl:

    Watchdog does the same. I've complained to the BBC and ITV Wales several times about it. They still continue with their sloppy journalism.
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  • Mindless_Clone
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    That's joiurnalism at it's best. The words "fine" and "penalty" are more sensationalist that "speculative invoice". :p
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  • roddydogs
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    As are the words "Traffic Warden" when referring to council parking attendants.
  • trisontana
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    On a previous edition of the programme in a feature not relating to parking tickets, the presenter could't make her mind up about whether she was talking about debt collectors or bailliffs. She kept interchaning the phrases
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • note_2
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    i saw on one of these programs a while back that their advice was to pay the ticket as soon as possible to stop the charges escalating, then to try and reclaim the money back after.

    in the telegraph i read the motoring section on a saturday and 'honest john' advises you pay the PPC £10 in full and final settlement.

    there are so many lies and !!!! advice out there that this site is a godsend.
  • Coupon-mad
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    morrisoscar wrote: »
    Caught some of BBC1 Rip Off Britain this morning and in an article regarding NCP a parking charge notice was being referred to as a fine and parking ticket.:doh: :mad:




    That is a shockingly dreadful programme with presenters past their prime and not up to speed with anything to do with rip-offs (all very well-known very well-off ladies, being spoon-fed information on an autocue. Information which they don't ever seem to understand).

    Glad I missed it TBH...had the misfortune to see some of Monday's programme and it was truly dire with no conclusions or follow ups to actually right any wrongs.
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  • loadbang
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    Coupon-mad wrote: »
    That is a shockingly dreadful programme with presenters past their prime and not up to speed with anything to do with rip-offs (all very well-known very well-off ladies, being spoon-fed information on an autocue. Information which they don't ever seem to understand).
    It's ok, the researchers on this show are unpaid interns and half the staff are paid below NMW.

    What I am shocked about is how this programme gets through BBC's quality control. I have worked on TV programmes and any legal information has to be passed by their legal department and also by a solicitor. BBC go crazy and rejects a programme if we have one blank frame or sound level hits 6.5 for third of a second, but the content of the programme is plain wrong it passes muster.
  • taffy056
    taffy056 Posts: 4,895 Forumite
    The same for X-ray when they covered excel in ebbw vale, they kept on referring it to fines and penalties . I just don't understand how the same station then produces watchdog and its completely different. It seems that the right arm don't know what the left arm is doing. Kind of like the Abu Hamza thing with the queen
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