Parking Charge Notice - Parking eye

Yep very convenient that first in last out, it's to much of a coincidence for it to be a mishap. So the advice is to ignore them if you are the registered keeper, they don't do court and it will not go there. You have an opportunity to use the so called independent appeals popla, but it takes effort and time, if those are in short supply just ignore them.

This question about the 'new law' has been asked dozens of times already and we are only at the end of October...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4208919

Why not click one click back to the current forum, and read the stickies? See my signature for where to click in the blue link, top of page.

Fifth thread down tells all, including - if you look at the OLD letter chains link as well as the new one - showing you preview pics of the letters that will be sent to the registered keeper. Also on the old link on that 5th thread (to an MSE thread with photos of letters) is a Watchdog clip which is still very relevant, the only difference being that now the registered keeper can also join in ignoring the fake PCN, it's not just fun reserved for the driver!

You can ignore it or if you were in England/Wales you can appeal then appeal again to POPLA...then ignore it again if POPLA don't cancel the ticket as it's not binding on you. That's basically it, ignore it now or ignore it later after costing the PPC money to fund the POPLA stage.

And there are endless threads already about this new Act and the POPLA appeals service. Of course you don't have to pay it, these fake PCNs have not suddenly become enforceable fines just because PE have included an extra piece of paper or paragraph banging on about the new Act.

Do some reading of the threads on the forum and your question is answered several times over. By the way, the situation you describe is a common scam and twice last week I made a deliberate attempt to get a Parking Eye ticket locally by returning twice outside of the one and a half hour limit but within the arbitrary 'no return' time. Not sure if it's worked yet but I will keep trying, honestly it's nowt but a con and I want one of those so I can show it to POPLA!

harpster wrote: »

i have just had a charge notice come in too, using the same scam..
as i went to aldi and farmfoods "Newtown shopping centre" in the morning then took the kids to the cinema at star city in brum then went back to pick up some lunch from greggs after the film. They reckon i stopped there for over 3 hours!!!!, interestingly they have for some reason not picked up when i left in the morning or when i arrived back in the afternoon.

Can i not demand they provide video footage of the time period.

You should only bother to appeal and demand such info if the incident was in England/Wales in October. Newtown = Birmingham? If so then see the advice above and eventually aim to see the appeals process through to exposing this scam to POPLA, the new appeals service. The more scam fake PCNs they see the better IMHO and this is a classic con.

harpster wrote: »

I feel inclined to write to the land landlords "Marriotts" and to the two supermarkets.

Yep, yep, yep. The more complaints the merrier.

Easiest way to do it is to do an email appeal but instead of calling it that, just head it up instead as: 'complaint about ANPR scam by parking agents in xxxx car park' and copy in the PPC, the Supermarket Head Offices and Marriots management. Get email addies for all of them by searching or phoning them and just send off your appeal more as a complaint to all, not like an appeal at all. Much easier for you - but make sure neither the subject line nor the email itself talks about any 'appeal', word it as a complaint to all recipients with the name of the car park so they all know what it's about.

The PPC absolutely HATE you complaining and involving the hands that feed...:)

Then if the PPC does reject the 'appeal' (that's what they will call it) you can then move on to appealing to POPLA as well to expose the con further, and again copy in the other parties - why not? Let them see what the agent is making you go through when you were just a genuine paying customer (ex-customer?).

No we don't use templates. Forget any old ones shown on the website (Martin's articles about appealing parking tickets are 3 or 4 years old and on the forum we have never suggested using any template). Also yours is a simple complaint really, just point out the facts and insist that it's cancelled and say you have copied in the retailer and landlord as this is all too common a scam and you want them to know what their parking agents are up to. Don't say please or thankyou, just straight to the point.