Parking Eye - Nasty tricks

Ruby_Gold_2

I am so glad I found this thread, got a PCN yesterday from Parking Eye :eek:and, yes, I was guilty of parking at Aldi, doing my shopping and then nipping over to the hospital for a quick visit to a relative. I had no idea there was a limit on parking time but it seems I went over by half an hour. Can I really just sit this out and not pay without any repercussions or bad credit rating?

trisontana

Ruby_Gold wrote: »

I am so glad I found this thread, got a PCN yesterday from Parking Eye :eek:and, yes, I was guilty of parking at Aldi, doing my shopping and then nipping over to the hospital for a quick visit to a relative. I had no idea there was a limit on parking time but it seems I went over by half an hour. Can I really just sit this out and not pay without any repercussions or bad credit rating?

This is an old thread, with old advice


NO REPLIES HERE PLEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!

Coupon-mad

This is an old thread, with old advice which no longer applies from 2013 onwards!!!!!


STOP READING NOW THIS IS A WASTE OF YOUR TIME, GO TO PAGE ONE OF THIS FORUM INSTEAD (ONE CLICK AWAY, AS EXPLAINED IN MY SIGNATURE BELOW).


YOU MUST APPEAL NOW IF IN ENGLAND/WALES!!!!!!

cruz99

Chop them up into toilet roll size pieces in case of emergencies when camping :money:

man_without_a_plan

Morning all,

After receiving my third PCN off Parking Eye, I am still waiting for anything else to happen. However, and this may just be coincidence but I don't know, I did receive a weird phone call which was from a BT SMS service and a robotic voice left me a message saying to contact First Credit (a debt collection company), followed by a refernece number.

I am unaware of having any debts, except for the PCN which I won't be paying. Has anyone else experienced this before as regards Parking Eye?

Sir_Roger_deLodger

man_without_a_plan wrote: »

Morning all,

After receiving my third PCN off Parking Eye, I am still waiting for anything else to happen. However, and this may just be coincidence but I don't know, I did receive a weird phone call which was from a BT SMS service and a robotic voice left me a message saying to contact First Credit (a debt collection company), followed by a refernece number.

I am unaware of having any debts, except for the PCN which I won't be paying. Has anyone else experienced this before as regards Parking Eye?

They have been using different DCA's/solicitors lately, so its probably them. Whatever you do, don't ring them back.

emerton_2

Hi there,Just wanted to add a thanks also to the great advice on here, was a really good find. I got a £90 fine, reduced to £60 if paid quickly for parking in a car park in Whalley that i've used without issue many times in the past. On this occasion we parked up i went with my £2 to the meter and it was a new one to enter your reg. Tried to enter but the display said "out of order" so i just left it, i've parked in other places previous where the machine has been out of order without issue and thought nothing of it.Then got an "invoice" on Wednesday stating we had entered said car park and left an hour later without paying. Wife had already appealed before I found this thread so can't do anything about that but the letter is addressed to her and she wasn't driving. She's still a bit panicky we'll get something down the line but i've told her to leave it alone and pass all letters to me. I can easily see why some would pay though as she was gutted when she got the letter and nearly in tears.Wouldn't even mind but i was perfectly happy to pay the £2 to park but wasn't able to, yet they try and charge me £90 instead?Thanks again anyway.

taffy056

Just ignore them, the invoice is not enforceable at all as they arejust a ppc

nbinblack

Junk mail number 1 for me today... £70 by 23 Mar, £40 if paid by 08 Mar.
I must live somewhere really cheap in comparison to others. But cheaper so cos I'm not paying it.

rabat

Surely if a company/store/institution engages Parking Eye then they must implicitly agree with the tactics and 'modus operandi' of Parking Eye. However , if you approach one of these companies with a legitimate parking grievance they say 'it's nothing to do with us, you should contact Parking Eye'. As many have already stated this would be a pointless exercise. Why do many, otherwise reputable, companies associate themselves with Parking Eye whose reputation (or lack of) is well known and well documented?
I refer specifically to the University of Lincoln who have recently used entrapment techniques (by the use of contradictory and ambiguous signage) to ensure their own staff members recently received parking notices, despite parking in good faith and displaying their parking permits as indicated by the signage.