Private Parking Tickets discussion

Coupon-mad

Surfer26 wrote: »

Great, thanks for all the advice everyone, it has put my mind at rest.

I was driving your car that day using my insurance to drive other cars, had you forgotten?!

Hadeon

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I was driving your car that day using my insurance to drive other cars, had you forgotten?!

Sorry C-M, you're mistaken, I'm Spartacus.;)

jimmyb983

Hi All,

My car was issued a ticket last night for being parked in a disabled parking space, although there were signs warning of a ticket the driver did not see these.
The ticket was issued by Vehicle Management Direct (vehiclemanagementdirect.co.uk). Am I right in assuming this is a private parking ticket?
The ticket is for £100 reduced to £70 if paid within 7 days, increasing by £20 each week if unpaid.
Can I refuse to pay this despite the clear warnings?

esmerobbo

Ignore it its a private company. Although if your not disabled you should not park in a disabled bay! The bays themselves have no relevance in a private car park other then as a courtesy to disabled drivers or passengers. These companies make their own rules up. Love the bit about it going up £20 each week.
On their website it says they are signed up to the DVLA code of conduct yet they are not members of the BPA?

Ignore them.;)

jimmyb983

Thanks, although my only concern is the charge increasing significantly by ignoring it.
After reading the articles on this site I do believe I should not pay it as I was not the driver.
"If you weren’t driving, you’re not liable and you’ve no need to tell who was"
I just want to be certain first.

AlexisV

The charge is spurious. If I send you an invoice for £100 and then up it to £200 the week after, what right have I to the extra?

It's just a con to encourage you to pay up asap. The original charge is zero, so they can times zero by a million times if they want.

Just ignore.

Coupon-mad

jimmyb983 wrote: »

Thanks, although my only concern is the charge increasing significantly by ignoring it.
After reading the articles on this site I do believe I should not pay it as I was not the driver.
"If you weren’t driving, you’re not liable and you’ve no need to tell who was"
I just want to be certain first.

Jimmyb, you are surely not saying that if you'd been driving you'd have paid this fake ticket?:rotfl:

If so then you have spent too long reading Martin's (old) article and focussing on the 'driver' issue and not enough time reading the current forum threads. The forum threads clearly inform you that PPC tickets are ALWAYS a scam and must be ignored whatever the circumstances and whoever was driving.

Unless issued on behalf of a Council, these tickets are trash (Vehicle Management Direct do not act for Councils, never heard of them, they must be a new scammer on the block!). Even if you break their made up rules, park in a parent & child bay, overstay by half an hour or any other 'heinous crime' that these scumbags like to use as an excuse to put the frighteners on. Never mind who was driving!

Look, bottom line is, think of it as like a phishing email. If an email scammer said 'send me £100 now or the demand will be £200 next week' you'd laugh like a drain at the extortion attempt and delete the email. Now consider if the PPC scam differs from this scenario? Read the current page of threads:

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

Watch the linked Watchdog youtube video, check out the pictures of threatogram letters (all on the first few threads). You'll soon see this for what is really is - and it's NOT a fine!

Please do post back here when you can post 'I do believe I should not pay it because it's a scam'.

anewman

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Please do post back here when you can post 'I do believe I should not pay it because it's a scam'.

And don't forget to vote on the poll (see sig).

jimmyb983

Thanks all. I've read the threads on here and on Pepipoo and I will definitely NOT be entertaining these people.
Although I will keep the letters I receive to post back on here.

(I'll add my vote too!)

Cheers

nellzbob

Please help i have got a parking ticket from parkingeye.I did stay longer than the permited 1 and a half hours however it was an aldi carpark and i had been shopping in aldi so i appealed sending them my receipt etc.I now have to give them £70 as the reduced parking charge of £40 has expired the ticket was issued in Edinburgh. I am looking for advice, reading this thread it seems i should ignore it however is it the same law in scotland? I have tried to contact them but all i get is automatic responses and no way to talk to some one. What should i do next?