Parking Eye - Nasty tricks

taffy056

rabat wrote: »

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.

Because the only way PPCs and clampers make money is from legitimate users of car parks, the ones who abuse car parks on a regular basis know that they can get away with things, the law abiding joe will stump up the money, then discover websites like this and know they have been had, really these companies would not exist if it wasn't for the law abiding joe, they use the british traits against us!

Letsputitright

Letsputitright wrote: »

For anyone this may help. Visited B & Q at Sutton in Ashfield last week and then received parking ticket from Parking Eye. I'd stayed some forty minutes over the 2 hours. I had spent the whole of this time shopping in B & Q and still had the receipt from my purchases. Even before taking it from envelope thought it was from the police - because of the black and white chevron edging. Anyway, read all your views and decided I was not going to pay - though I'm no spring chicken so it did give me a sleepless night!! In order to gather "evidence" I returned to B & Q to check out all the parking notice boards that I must have missed on my first visit. There was no notice on entry to the site, nor throughout my journey to a parking space. From my car to the entry to the store, again no notices. On the entry to the store - no notices!!
As I understand it, this is not in keeping with the code of practice they should be adhering to.
I returned to the car park and, lo and behold, if you look for them there are notices dotted about - but 12 foot up poles so that the wording at the end of the notice was impossible to read. If I can't read all the small print, how can I be in a position to enter into any contract with them? It could have been telling me I had to dye my hair blue before I could park!!!!
Armed with a copy of the parking ticket and a copy of my receipt from shopping in the store I went in to see the manager. I was really ready for a good showdown and made my feelings perfectly clear. Guess what? He was the most pleasant and polite fella I have dealt with in some time and immediately agreed to make sure that the parking ticket was taken from the system!!
I am still annoyed that this could have happened and haven't finished yet. But for now it is quite an anti climax that I won't get my day in court.
My advice? Don't make any contact with Private Eye, collect all the evidence you can and if it is anything like my experience I can't see that they have a leg to stand on if they should take you to court. Good luck!!

Just to update: Did get another ticket from Parking Eye !! So wrote to manager of B & Q. Outcome - parking ticket finally revoked, and a £20 voucher as some recompense!! Not all B & Q's fault - sure they are as sick of it as us. Whilst they needed some protection from people parking all day to visit and go to work in nearby hospital and to shop in Mansfield, it is the land owners (not B & Q) who hire Parking Eye.

Coupon-mad

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esmerobbo

I have seen a contract for a PPC to operate in a retail carpark, which they pay the landlord £250 a month. Now if it was about car park management the landlord would pay the PPC to "manage" yet the PPC pay the landlord. So its not about management its about revenue earning! The retailers get the flak, the landlord gets their £250 a month, and the drivers get ripped off!

rabat

University of Lincoln recently removed its contradictory signage, probably to give credence to Parking Eye's extortions, but guess what? New signs have appeared categorically stating that parking is permitted by staff at weekends with a permit. Did they inform anyone? -NO, have they instructed Parking Eye to rescind any demands for extortions incurred by staff ?-NO! Spineless or what?
Ignore strategy continues, would love to go to court on this, I need a laugh.

Ruby_Gold_2

How long do the second and third letters take to arrive and has anyone else received phone calls from the debt collectors?

Oopsadaisy

Ruby_Gold wrote: »

How long do the second and third letters take to arrive and has anyone else received phone calls from the debt collectors?

Doesn't matter....just ignore...nothing has changed...details are unimportant, just ignore.

Coupon-mad

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Pinkprincess292

Hi

I received my very first parking fine through on the 25th Feb for £70 for over staying in Aldi's car park by half an hour. I am frantically saving for my wedding and happened to be wedding dress shopping on that day in a town thatI very rarely go to and such had no idea you couldn't park there. I have followed your advice of ignoring the letter and obviously expected follow on letters. One arrived today with photos of my car entering and leaving the car park, is this a normal tactic? It is making me very nervous because the last thing I need is to end up in court. Am I panicking for no reason? Your help is much appreciated

Cheers

trisontana

Pinkprincess292 wrote: »

Hi

I received my very first parking fine through on the 25th Feb for £70 for over staying in Aldi's car park by half an hour. I am frantically saving for my wedding and happened to be wedding dress shopping on that day in a town thatI very rarely go to and such had no idea you couldn't park there. I have followed your advice of ignoring the letter and obviously expected follow on letters. One arrived today with photos of my car entering and leaving the car park, is this a normal tactic? It is making me very nervous because the last thing I need is to end up in court. Am I panicking for no reason? Your help is much appreciated

Cheers

Two points. One, it's not a fine, it's an invoice. Secondly all that the photos show is a car. From those pictures they have no way of identifying the driver. Without that information (if you don't contact them) then they can't proceed any further. If you want to write to somebody then send off a strongly worded letter to Aldi complaining about the bully-boy tactics of the parking company.