WARNING Avoid Changegate Car Park, Haworth. Notorious for Clamping

lil_elvis2000 wrote: »

I went with my family and had a lovely day out, ruined by the crazy man which own this car park. I got a ticket from somebody who was leaving and for that I had to pay £75 cash. The owner - a Mr. Farnell - appears to be a demented and frumpy old man, who believe that we comitted "fraud" and "deception". I paid my money but know that I will not get it back. The owner is unprofessional and spends all day checking the vehicles - every 10 minutes as I can tell. People I spoke to in the area wish he was gone. Frankly this car park needs to be shut down.

We need to get word out about this car park..perhaps put up signs in the area warning or directing people. As well as on as many websites/twitter as possible so this shows up on Google.

The best way to close him down is to take away the custom.

Surely if one is guilty of fraud Mr Farnell should be reporting him or her to the proper authorities - i.e. the police - not privately profiting out of it!

Complain to Trading Standards, some do take this sort of behaviour seriously and some are useless. Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Portsmouth TS have all sent rogue clampers to jail in recent months. It can be done and you never know till you try - maybe they are already being investigated. Chances are TS will be useless but I'd still contact Consumer Direct if it were me (the first stage of getting put through to a local TS office).

As soon as I read the old posts on this thread it was clear that the 'kind person' with the spare ticket could easily be a plant by the landowner. And you've confirmed it.

You could also complain to your MP, the press, the OfT and the Police to see if you get any joy with the scammers being investigated. You can't complain about the scam of private clamping too much and you can never report them too much either - go for it!

As far as getting your money back is concerned, this can be done by taking the landowner and clampers to Small Claims. You should win but may have to go back to take pictures of the signs and a pic of that woman and/or that BMW if they 'happen' to be there again (but watch out you are not seen or clamped again!).

If you want to take action to get your money back then post for advice on pepipoo.com here:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

HTH

interstellaflyer wrote: »

Another reason to avoid accepting tickets with time left on them is that in many car parks now you are required to put your car registation number into the machine before it will issue a ticket, your registration shows on the ticket, beware.

Yes, I agree in principle, if it was in a Council Car park (I don't ever park where there are clamping signs as I simply don't trust the knuckle-dragging scammers and deplore any retailer stupid enough to think clamping is a good thing).

But at least if I was in a private car park where no clamping signs exist then the worst I would get would be yet another love letter (fake PCN) from a private parking company. LOL at them and the fact I would cost them money and would never pay their spurious Parking Charge Notice!

Branwell1817 wrote: »

I got clamped here yesterday as I sat in my car taking a phone call just prior to buying a ticket. I came out of a love for the work of the Brontës but will now never come back. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is the story of a bitter and resentful man frustrated by his position in society. Through spiteful and punctilious application of English law, he becomes wealthy but destroys himself and those around him. Only in his final moments, on the threshold of death, does he come to realise to what extent he has alienated his community and his own family and that he has for many years been simply a hollow husk of a man, devoid of soul.

Are you asking for help getting the clamp fee back or just a rant about the clamper?:D

lucylucky wrote: »

I think they may just have been posting a much shortened version of the book for those too busy to read the whole thing;)

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