parking ticket from excel parking services limited

trisontana

You could do that, but unfortunately some parking companies demand some sort of payment for more photographs.

HO87

Complain to the DVLA, the ICO and to the BPA. None will want to do too much about it but Excel's systems appear to have failed and might suggest that someone is playing fast and loose with the electronic link [to the DVLA database].

Oopsadaisy

Why bother???? Just get on with your life.

HO87

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Why bother???? Just get on with your life.

Oh yeah - :p:p

4justice

Thanks for the info on Excel. Our story is, went to Crossley Retail Park in Kidderminster. Got back to car, ticket for being over time limit. The retail park has a two hour limit (small print on high up signs), we found ticket on car, had been spotted as parked 13:25, ticket issued 15:35. Charge was £70 for overstay of 10 minutes (Reduced to £40 if padi in seven days). Now I am not unsympathetic if the retail park owners want to stop commuters or all day workers using retail park spaces for free all day, but this was a BANK HOLIDAY Monday, we were using the shops. We went in the new megastore Pets At Home, bought some stuff, then in the Range (a massive store), and bought more stuff; we got back to car and found a car parking ticket. I susppect Excel had deliberately targeted shoppers today (wet bank holiday) knowing that many of them would be on the retail park for more than two hours. Ironically if we had not seen the parking ticket whilst dropping stuff back at the car we'd have been spending money at other stores on the retail park. As it is they have lost more than £40 worth of spending. I now know why the nearby Merry Hill Centre has such queues at holidays, they don't penalise people for spending too much time in stores. I In tend writing to the retailers pointing out that they are losing money whilst Excel are penslising people for using their shops. My mom was in a real panic about this ticket, thanks for advising that they are "dodgy". I note that whilst the car park is Crossley Retail Park, the tickets are Excel with Crossley hand written in. I also not that Excel does not say on its tickets it is a member of the BPA, nor is there are VAT or company reg number. Very dodgy. I now know that these tickets are not legit but a scam to try and scare people. I wonder how many other people were caught out this bank holiday?

HO87

4justice wrote: »

Thanks for the info on Excel.

Spread the news. Let all of your friends know about this.

Be careful where you park at Merryhell. There be dragons. This time in the form of UKPC - another private parking company.

SWAN

Good Day, I parked in a supermarket/retail car park in Cambridge in April. I left the car park - there was NO ticket on my car. I have been to Australia for 5 weeks I arrived back today and found 3 letters from a company called Parking Eye the first letter wanted £50 - the second letter wanted £80 - the 3 rd letter and FINAL DEMAND wanted £110. They are threanting to send baliffs to my home. I can prove I have been out of the country. What should I do? Are Parking Eye legal - are they working for the police. It is very frightening to have legal action and demands for this amount of money. Can anyone please give me advice. Thanks

Coupon-mad

SWAN wrote: »

Good Day, I parked in a supermarket/retail car park in Cambridge in April. I left the car park - there was NO ticket on my car. I have been to Australia for 5 weeks I arrived back today and found 3 letters from a company called Parking Eye the first letter wanted £50 - the second letter wanted £80 - the 3 rd letter and FINAL DEMAND wanted £110. They are threanting to send baliffs to my home. I can prove I have been out of the country. What should I do? Are Parking Eye legal - are they working for the police. It is very frightening to have legal action and demands for this amount of money. Can anyone please give me advice. Thanks

Parking Eye are not 'illegal' (sadly) but no they don't work for the Police!

They work for themselves, it's a money-making scam and this Country turns a blind eye to this scandal at the moment.

You need to read the stickies 'PPC letters, what to expect' and 'welcome, please read before posting' (watch the Watchdog video link!), both near the top:

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

Then read some other threads like yours, this is one threads of thousands, see that link and you will notice the front page is today's posts alone about this scam. You will also notice plenty of cases where people are ignoring Parking Eye threatograms.

Relax, do not reply, do not give them info. These tickets are unenforceable. By the way, read that letter again, they are not 'threatening to send bailiffs to your home' they are threatening debt collectors which are just pen pushers and their desperate letter-chains are shown in the top thread on the link.

There will be no Court, no CCJ, no bailiff, nothing.

Just more letters (occasionally they get a phone number and try that but if they do there's also info in the top thread on how to have fun if a debt collector phones up). Nowt to worry about at all, ignoring a PPC is like deleting a phishing email, that's all. Like many others on here I have ignored a private parking ticket and seen out the scary letter-chain, honestly it's all hot air.

MichaelCR

kelly_2009 wrote: »

Hi
Today I received a parking ticket off a company called excel parking services limited.
I was parked in a retail park in Stockport Manchester for approx 20minutes whilst i ran into a shop. It was the first time I had been to the retail park and I did not relaise that there was a pay and display system in place in the car park. There were No sign to tell you this when you drove into the car park and no visable signs around the area I was parked in. I only relaised it was a pay and display car park when I came out of the shop and seen the ticket on my car .I looked around to see where the signs and machines where to tell you this, and there was only 2 small signs high up and a post telling you and one machine that was on the otherside of the car park . The writing on the signs was that small that you could only read it if you where stood underneath it.
The penalty charge that they have applied is £60 if you pay before 14 days then £100 if you don't.
I know that I am in fault for parking there without a ticket but I thought that they had to clearly sign the car park telling you that it is a pay and display.
Any adivse or information welcome please
Many Thanks

Don't pay.

Its mearly an invoice.

Nice of them to send you some toilet paper ehhh.

HO87

SWAN wrote: »

Good Day, I parked in a supermarket/retail car park in Cambridge in April. I left the car park - there was NO ticket on my car. I have been to Australia for 5 weeks I arrived back today and found 3 letters from a company called Parking Eye the first letter wanted £50 - the second letter wanted £80 - the 3 rd letter and FINAL DEMAND wanted £110. They are threanting to send baliffs to my home. I can prove I have been out of the country. What should I do? Are Parking Eye legal - are they working for the police. It is very frightening to have legal action and demands for this amount of money. Can anyone please give me advice. Thanks

ParkingEye are a private company that despite its claims to contrary cannot fine you. You do not have a parking ticket, what you have is a speculative invoice that they are dressing up to be something it isn't and threatening you into thinking you are in trouble. You aren't.

ParkingEye do not do court but they'd sure as hell like you to believe they do. If they did they would have to convince a judge that the varying amounts they are trying to get you to part with are a genuine pre-estimate of the losses they incurred for the supposed infraction you were responsible for in Cambridge. If the parking there was free and you overstayed, for example, then their losses are nil, nadda, zilch.

Do not allow yourself to be drawn in any further. You owe them nothing. However - now comes the slightly harder bit - experience clearly demonstrates that you should not respond to them in any way. No phone calls, no letters nothing. Just file the letters away so you can look at them in a few years and have a laugh. You should expect a few more letters and if you look at the "stickies" at the head of the forum you will be able to look at the letterchain for PE and their debt collector lackies.

Now sit down and have a cold beer!