Private Parking Tickets discussion

Kite2010

LOL at some of those comments.

trisontana

Kite2010 wrote: »

LOL at some of those comments.

It does show how many people can't tell the difference between "proper" parking penalties and the fake ones from PPCs. This lack of knowledge is what the PPCs trade on, and why they can fool people into paying up.

Kite2010

"It clearly says 3 hours parking, why are people so selfish in taking time in purchasing high value goods".
"If he can afford to spend £1000s in the shops, he can afford to pay the fine"
"Is he holding the fines over his watch as his watch is rubbish?"

Worst are those retail parks which "invoice" you for returning within a certain amount of time.

esmerobbo

Kite2010 wrote: »

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Worst are those retail parks which "invoice" you for returning within a certain amount of time.

I insisted the manager of our local B&Q signed my receipt when I took a faulty door bell back. He asked why, I explained I was not allowed to return to their car park within two hours.
He must have been making his breakfast as I am sure I heard him mention "Cuckin" as he walked back up stairs!:p

lucylucky

wiganer78 wrote: »

:money:i got a parking fine on a retail park £80.didnt dispaly badges,but on the bak of the van it says disabled vehicle(he must of seen us get out as we were only in 5 or so minutes).u can see plain and cleer its a disabled vehicle there is a big gap in the passenger side.i was the driver and the owner was with me.i use it to drive my employer about.do i pay?

Just to be perfectly clear you did not get any sort of fine at all.

Ignore

HA8HA8HA8

Just received one of these. I park in a private car park every day and pay £4 for 10 hours. A girl at work got a parking ticket for parking in one of the bays. There was a sign on the wall saying that particular bay was reserved for cinema staff.

I noticed last week the sign had been taken down, and I used the spot today as I did yesterday.

Returned to my vehicle to find a Parking Charge Notice affixed to the windscreen. I pulled the vehicle forwards and looked behind on the wall. The sign was back!! I'm convinced they put a new one up today.

Anyway, from what I've read on here I should just ignore them. I'm worried they might come and maliciously damage my vehicle if I don't pay up, or even tow it away.

Coupon-mad

I wouldn't waste time worrying.

I take great pleasure in parking again to the car park where my car got a fake PCN 2 years ago. Lots of people on here have collected LOTS of repeat bogus PCNs at the same site every time - and all the company ever do is issue their standard threatogram letters in duplicate. Easy to ignore.

They cannot legally clamp or tow it away without clamping/towing warning signs. And even with signs up about clamping they cannot clamp/tow legally for the reason of 'unpaid invoice'. And most PPCs are not clampers, don't have the right SIA licence, don't have clamps & tow trucks, etc.

No-one here can promise they won't damage your vehicle - but it's highly unlikely for a pathetic parking invoice, and wouldn't there be CCTV at that site?

The way I see it, most PPCs just employ goons in car parks to issue tickets for any old reason - and those goons are never going to know if the same car is there that had a fake ticket on it which remains unpaid. If they did know, how on earth would they know which driver got the fake PCN and which driver they now have on site?

There's nothing they can legally do, the fake PCN is only an alleged breach of contract against one person and they don;t even know who that person is!

I hope the girl at work didn't pay? Did she believe it was a fine? It's not, of course. If she paid up she has been had, please show her the info here so she never falls for it again

The whole parking industry is based around a practice akin to a protection racket IMHO. See my signature for what Martin Lewis said in the National Press about PPCs and click on the whole board view to see the stickies which include a Watchdog clip and pictures of the letters these companies send.

HA8HA8HA8

yeah, she paid up straight away and emailed everyone in the office abot that space. I'd never noticed the sign until then, but I certainly noticed it'd gone last week and that's why I'd been using the space again, as have others.

Coupon-mad

HA8HA8HA8 wrote: »

yeah, she paid up straight away and emailed everyone in the office abot that space. I'd never noticed the sign until then, but I certainly noticed it'd gone last week and that's why I'd been using the space again, as have others.

So she fell for a generic scam, paid a fake PCN without even Googling the company involved - and then emailed the office to make sure everyone else thought it was a real fine as well? :rotfl:

I think I would email the whole office this thread and also the link to the whole forum board:

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

They all need to learn what this is all about in that car park - and it is NOT about real fines! IGNORE!

Kite2010

I bet that, that PPC has the sign in which they can put willy-nilly in that car-park, take a picture of the vehicle in the "reserved for cinema staff" space and then invoice the registered keeper before removing the sign the next day and placing it on another random spot of their choosing.