Don't pay PPCs! Facebook campaign

DontPayThePPCs

Hello All

I have been an avid reader of both this and the Pepipoo and Consumer Action Group forums for a while now, and a recipient of a few PPC invoices myself (unpaid of course!).

Thought you might be interested in a Facebook page I set up providing information about PPC tickets.

These forums are a godsend to people who might otherwise cave in to the threats of these companies, but the people who find the correct information Re: PPCs seem sadly to still be in a minority.

If it worked for Rage Against The Machine, I don't see why it shouldn't work for this!

Please search for "You don't have to pay private parking tickets" on Facebook.

I'd also welcome any suggestions to improve the wording.

Cheers!

DontPayThePPCs

This has never been a question of debating the rights and wrongs of parking where you are not allowed to.

The issue has always been that private companies are capitalising to fill their own pockets.

If I wrongly take up a disabled space, I have deprived someone with a genuine disability of a place to put their car. It is right that I should be reminded of the errors of my ways, and indeed should apologise to those I have inconvenienced.

But why should I send a cheque to a private company miles away? What loss have they suffered? It is utterly illogical.

DontPayThePPCs

Unfortunately many landowners simply are not yet aware of the worthless nature of PPC tickets, and indeed the underhanded tactics employed by some companies. (How about PCN-UK and their imaginary "warrant" as an example?!?!). Until things like this become common knowledge, people will not be even willing to look for other solutions, and people will continue to pay large sums of money when they have no legal obligation to part with a penny.

peter_the_piper

I wonder, given how honest the ppc's are, how many invoices they actually get paid for and how many they tell the customer.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

BargainGalore wrote: »

Again if you own a private space in a block of flats and some one uses your space what should you do if you cant fit bollards/gates etc?

If you OWN the space you can fit a bollard, because its your property.

The blue badge scheme does not apply to private car parks. If someone who is not disabled parks in a disabled bay at a supermarket I don't see why some low life parasitic scum PPC should profit from it. If supermarkets feel strongly about this they should lobby the Government to extend the blue badge scheme to private car parks and let councils enforce them.

ben501

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biscuitdunker

BargainGalore wrote: »

Again if you own a private space in a block of flats and some one uses your space what should you do if you cant fit bollards/gates etc?

Ask the people who manage your parking space why you can't fit a bollard or gates on your own property? Get a new management company?

sarahg1969

BargainGalore wrote: »

I know it doesn't apply, doesn't make it right though does it? When lazy people who park in area reserved for those less fortunate

But you have no idea whether or not the people who have used the spaces are disabled. Maybe the people using the spaces have not displayed their badges, or maybe they are disabled but don't have a blue badge. Do you suggest that the supermarkets should discriminate against disabled people who don't have blue badges?

biscuitdunker

BargainGalore wrote: »

I know it doesn't apply, doesn't make it right though does it? When lazy people who park in area reserved for those less fortunate

How do unenforceable invoices which are often issued to the most vulnerable members of our society, scaring them beyond their wits with threats of "debts" and "bailiffs" which don't exist, going to help? Does that make it right?

Sir_Roger_deLodger

BargainGalore wrote: »

I know it doesn't apply, doesn't make it right though does it? When lazy people who park in area reserved for those less fortunate

Doesn't make it right that some PPC pond dweller should use it to make himself rich either. As I said, lobby your MP for a change in the law so disabled spaces can be enforced through the proper channels with a proper appeal/adjudication procedure. You won't get that from a PPC.

biscuitdunker

BargainGalore wrote: »

It isnt 100% you can get a person trying to use a disabled badge which they are not entitled too. If you are disabled and dont have a blue badge then you are not entitled to use it in council land or in destinated areas but you can in private car parks although morally not as you haven't got a blue badge

There are so many things wrong with that statement. If someone is disabled, why are they morally not entitled to park in a designated disabled space?