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McDonalds Car Park

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  • Xaviera
    Xaviera Posts: 286 Forumite
    trisontana wrote: »
    It applies to all private car-parking companies unless in the unlikely event they are being employed by a council. And it's not a "fine". It's an invoice.

    I see, thankyou. ;)

    What if you don't pay the invoice lol
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    Xaviera wrote: »
    I see, thankyou. ;)

    What if you don't pay the invoice lol

    You will receive letters demanding payment, even ones pretending to be from solicitors. If they want their money they will have to sue you in the civil court and prove they have suffered a material loss. In this case it's a free car-park, so they have not suffered any loss.

    If you ignore all the letters they will eventually give up and go away because they would be laughed out of court.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,853 Forumite
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    Xaviera wrote: »
    Does this apply to Euro carparks too as I've been fined in Tesco before?!

    You have not been fined. As stated above, all they have done is give you an invoice.
  • Dublindel
    Dublindel Posts: 406 Forumite
    DVLA have a form V888/3 for companies to apply for details. Its for those who issue Parking Charge Notices. This sounds as though My details are being sold by the Government to Private companies who have no 'Reasonable Cause' to have them. Is this breaking the Data Protection Actby requesting and selling this info
  • Coblcris
    Coblcris Posts: 1,862 Forumite
    edited 3 August 2009 at 5:07PM
    original content deleted.

    form V888/3 is the correct form for Private Parking Companies. the forms were changed at the end of 2008.

    my apologies.
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    And if they don't do it themselves they have an agreement with another company who have an electronic connection to DVLA .
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Dublindel
    Dublindel Posts: 406 Forumite
    I will write to DVLA to query its legality and wether I can have my details blocked under the data protection act so private companies cannot gain access. doubts on my success
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