Private Parking Tickets discussion

legit-remit

thanks coupon-mad, and you are right thats exactly how i missed the sticky
I am actually looking forward to the letters coming now....BRING IT ON!!!!

Oopsadaisy

legit-remit wrote: »

Right, thanks for the information folks. think my last 2 question before i ignore, ignore, ignore is....if i recognise a debt envelope before opening it, should i return to sender? or open and keep for my wall of fame?
and as i am ex-directory, if they do obtain my home number, have they done that illegally?

Keep it.

I/you/we don't know. Just because someone has your number doesn't mean they have obtained it illegally. It's a kind of a circular question/answer.....if they have obtained it illegally then it was done illegally, if they obtained it legally then it was done legally.

Oopsadaisy

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Hope you weren't reading the 'ParkRight' sticky, legit-remit (it's not relevant). And I totally understand how newbies miss sticky threads. Whereas people used to using forums come here each day and read the board by clicking on the whole board view like this with stickies clearly at the top...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

...newbies often come to the forum having read Martin's article on parking tickets or having Googled about PPC tickets. In other words, having followed a link and just found one thread, not the whole board. So many people never see the sticky threads until they are pointed out.

The sticky in question that oopsadaisy meant:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1363571

The other sticky showing pictures of the scammers' letter-chains (threatograms):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2214803

Excellent points wrt newbies.

Crabman, would there be any point in changing the title of your sticky to something like.....IMPORTANT: DEFINITIVE ADVICE> THIS STICKY CONTAINS ALL THE INFO YOU NEED. READ THIS FIRST THEN POST IF NEEDED.????

IMO we've really got to get MSE M's sticky removed as it is a bit 'grey' and tends just to further confuse people....come on board guide, grow some cojones and get that confusing sticky removed/altered.
Even if the first post on it said "This is not the generally agreed opinion of most posters on this thread, but we have to do it as we need to be seen as a sensible and responsible business who don't encourage public forment'...lol.

Philip_s_2

Coupon-Mad
Thanks - I really enjoyed the watchdog video of the lawyer making a paper aeroplane out of their letters - the firelghter idea sounds even better - I will bear that in mind.

It got me thinking - I have re-read the small print on the back of the original ticket (a very professional piece of work - it fooled me!), They refer to the 'Administration of Justice Act 1970'. I looked up that piece of legislation, and it appears to just consolidate various other Acts, no specific provisions set out, so you can't tell whether it applies to the circumsyances or not - clever, eh!

Coupon-mad

Philip_s wrote: »

Coupon-Mad
Thanks - I really enjoyed the watchdog video of the lawyer making a paper aeroplane out of their letters - the firelghter idea sounds even better - I will bear that in mind.

It got me thinking - I have re-read the small print on the back of the original ticket (a very professional piece of work - it fooled me!), They refer to the 'Administration of Justice Act 1970'. I looked up that piece of legislation, and it appears to just consolidate various other Acts, no specific provisions set out, so you can't tell whether it applies to the circumstances or not - clever, eh!

Yep, in fact that Administration of Justice Act includes wording that they themselves breach!

They misrepresent the true legal position, purporting to have an authority they do not (i.e. blatantly copying a real Council PCN and then threatening to be able to just 'apply for a CCJ' without the small matter of actually winning in the Small Claims track first!).

Glad you clearly get it now. Just don't wobble when those firelighters arrive!

Netts1972

Hey,

Please help. I was issued a parking ticket in the The Peel centre car park in Stockport by Excel Parking Ltd. I am from London and was visting my god children and decided to pop into Toys R us for some presents. Unfortunalty i did not realise i needed a parking ticket and missed the signs. I was in the store for 30 mins and was hit with a £100 parking ticket. It would have cost me 50 pence for a ticket if i wasnt so stupid. I think this fine is unjust as the punishment does not fit the crime. I have no intetion of paying the fine but wondered if anyone here has been in a similar situation with Excel. I welcome any advice.

Thanks

trisontana

Netts1972 wrote: »

Hey,

Please help. I was issued a parking ticket in the The Peel centre car park in Stockport by Excel Parking Ltd. I am from London and was visting my god children and decided to pop into Toys R us for some presents. Unfortunalty i did not realise i needed a parking ticket and missed the signs. I was in the store for 30 mins and was hit with a £100 parking ticket. It would have cost me 50 pence for a ticket if i wasnt so stupid. I think this fine is unjust as the punishment does not fit the crime. I have no intetion of paying the fine but wondered if anyone here has been in a similar situation with Excel. I welcome any advice.

Thanks

Your case is no different to the many others featured on here. Just ignore and please read the other postings on here that deal with private parking tickets. And, finally, this is not s "fine", it's a speculative invoice.

peterbaker

Here's a question with the boot on the other foot ...

I live on a fairly ordinary estate close in towards central London. We don't want to start walling and gating ourselves in.

We have persistent problems with commuters and fleet owners - usually out of town construction contractors who may have a few weeks work in town but don't want the cost of driving all their vans up to London each day so they converge on our car parks morning and evening and leave the majority of the fleet overnight.

What can we do to discourage rogue parking?

I am no different to the majority on this thread on the subject of outrageous clamping and charging, but what options are open to reasonable people to stop blatant "squatting" by rogue parkers?

trisontana

peterbaker wrote: »

Here's a question with the boot on the other foot ...

I live on a fairly ordinary estate close in towards central London. We don't want to start walling and gating ourselves in.

We have persistent problems with commuters and fleet owners - usually out of town construction contractors who may have a few weeks work in town but don't want the cost of driving all their vans up to London each day so they converge on our car parks morning and evening and leave the majority of the fleet overnight.

What can we do to discourage rogue parking?

I am no different to the majority on this thread on the subject of outrageous clamping and charging, but what options are open to reasonable people to stop blatant "squatting" by rogue parkers?

Do what we are doing in our street, apply to the council for a resident's parking zone.

AlexisV

If it's free public highway, you have no more rights over it than anyone else paying road tax just because you are a resident.