Motorway Service Stations and parking charges

trisontana

I have just put "Independent Enforcement Agency" into Google and there appears to be no such animal.

maryotuam

For £50 I would expect a nice hotel room. Great news that you don't have to pay!

peter_the_piper

Its just another lowlife giving themselves a grandiose title to prop up their faltering self esteem. The sort of person thet other boys used to point at and laugh at in the showers.

peter_the_piper

deleted changed mind.

movingforward2010

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The "Independent Enforcement Agency" means the company responsible for parking enforcement at a given location.

oh i see, so its not actually regulated and the company can charge what it likes?
i might put some T's and C's in my sig so when you reply to one of my posted 'quoted' you have to pay £5

Coblcris

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The price of a pint of beer is unenforceable, but would you refuse to pay when the landlord had poured it?

Utterly irrelevant. In commerce when you place or give an order you are liable for a bill.

This also has consequences in a court room but this is not the place for that discussion.

trisontana

Yes FlyingCabbage seems utterly confused about private parking. On another thread he tried to say that a £60 "penalty" is not a penalty at all but just the ordinary charge for parking in a private car-park. He can't seem to distinguish between a fee you pay to park, and any penalty that is demanded if you breach the "rules"

To quote:-

The rules clearly displayed in the car park.

At a village fete, you wouldn't agree to have 3 goes at hoopla for a pound and then refuse to pay - it's just not the decent thing to do.

The same goes for parking on private land. If it says that it costs £60 to park here without a permit, then you don't refuse to pay afterwards.

James_N

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The "Independent Enforcement Agency" means the company responsible for parking enforcement at a given location.

I thought it meant a bunch of semi-literate cowboys who thought they were above the law and could do as they pleased, and their "mates" who'd be round to "enforce" things.

So glad you enlightened me.

James_N

Coblcris wrote: »

Utterly irrelevant. In commerce when you place or give an order you are liable for a bill.

This also has consequences in a court room but this is not the place for that discussion.

Coblcris is right, of course, but in buying a pint (or anything) you have offer and aceptance - in effect a contract. It includes the bill, but also supply and use of a service or product on MUTUALLY agreed terms between people able to make a contract. This is why minors cannot have contracts enforced against them (so retailers won't make credit agreement contracts with a minor) and you cannot make a contract with an absent person, or a person who does not know a contract has taken place, or cannot be reasonably taken to agree to the terms. For the last - read an owner of a car who is not the driver, or a driver who fails to see or understand signage.

All this comes before whether a contact is FAIR or not ... that's another story.