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Car clamped in my own parking space
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Lol :rotfl: idiot.Creditcruncher wrote: »Show your permit next time
I just hope you live somewhere where you have an allocated parking space that you pay for, go on holiday for a week or two and while you're away a permit drops on your doormat, then 3 days later a clamp is placed on your car and you're charged £120 release fee for each day till you come back from holiday. All while the car park is gated anyway so people who should not be parked there cannot get in anyway.
If you can't see the injustice here something is seriously wrong with you.0 -
But you also have to ask if the residents, who's car park is gated, have been suffering from unauthorised parking and if they were actually asked by the management company whether they wanted clampers to be employed or not. I suspect that they weren't asked, and the management company did it unilaterally.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0
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Could've been worse.....In the 80's, a Officer type parked his new motorbike outside Air Traffic on a RAF station I was serving at in Germany,without a vehicle pass.
After repeated attempts to find out who the owner was & contact him, we blew the bike up & he returned as we were packing up.
Needless to say,his insurers did'nt pay out....0 -
Creditcruncher wrote: »Granted, but the residents would probably vote unanimously for no clamping company.
Then after a few years of 2 and 3 car households abandoning their cars in other residents spaces they would wake up and smell the coffee and demand something was done.;)
But at least they had a choice without it being foisted on them without a say in the matter. The chances of anyone who can afford a property with gated carpark abandoning a car is very slim, much less than the chance of the Management making money from the clampers.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
My husband was gonna drive me to work this morning just to find that our car was clamped in our private parking space. This parking space was bought with our flat.
Creditcruncher... I think you are totally missing the point here!
In my view the management co' have totally overstepped the line by trying to dictate how the OP uses her own property. The idea that some jumped up pratt decides, without consultation, that you must have a permit to park your car on your property is laughable.
Even worse, to enforce this nonsense the clampers have to trespass onto her land!
You couldn't make it up & the fact that anyone can even begin to think it's ok just leaves me speechless.... almost
I can't see anything other than an easy win for the OP when this gets to court.Always try to be at least half the person your dog thinks you are!0 -
Unless the clampers operate a system which has a record of all permitted cars, friends, relatives, visitors etc, then it can only be a moneymaking scheme if it still clamps residents etc.(no money in it otherwise) I'm sure that the op would have no problem with clampers who use such a system as the residents would be safe from this sort of penalty and only targeted unapproved cars.
Ooop's sorry, there can't be any unapproved ones as its gated so that only leaves back handers.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
Creditcruncher wrote: »On the contrary it is you that is totally missing the point. The clamping company obviously have permission to work there or they would not be doing it. They just couldn't go and clamp vehicles on private land without the landowners say so.
So who owns the land? In the OP's case I would argue she owns all rights of use.Creditcruncher wrote: »They must also have visible signs stating the parking restrictions and all penalties.
Penalties for parking on your own property?? Get real!Creditcruncher wrote: »If they are acting on behalf of the management company who own the complex then the company will no doubt have issued them with a swipe card to get in.:)
So?
Just seen your edit....Creditcruncher wrote: »If it goes to court and the management or clamping company can prove there was no permit shown then there will be no case to answer to and the OP could find his/herself landed with a bill for costs of the other side.
The clamping company will have taken photographs of the car with no permit shown and their signs in the background most likely.:)
You really think so? I fear you are talking out of your rear end but lets wait until the court decides, if it gets that far! I can see the OP being refunded before it reaches court!Always try to be at least half the person your dog thinks you are!0 -
Anyone got a clamp, a sign, some bluetac and a camera? We'll find this Creditcruncher's carCreditcruncher wrote: »The clamping company will have taken photographs of the car with no permit shown and their signs in the background most likely.:)
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As this was a new scheme, any fair and reasonable company would have gone round in the first few days of the operation and put a note on the car saying that if it is found again without a permit it will be clamped. But no the clamping company went in straight away, clamped the cars and then demanded the extortionate amount to have it removed. That tells you what sort thugs they are.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0
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Troll!Creditcruncher wrote: »The letter told them to show their permits by the 15th so they were given a few days grace.
Where is the issue?
To answer the question, people could be on holiday and have left their car. People could have been ill (as the OP was at the time). Does the fact that many other people were also clamped not suggest the clamping was done in such a manner as to catch the average person out?!
Anyway OP is hopefully going to take them to court for their money back and court costs and will win.
No more feeding of the troll from me :A0
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