Parking Eye - Nasty tricks

mrputney08

maturestudent76 wrote: »

Just recieved a parking charge letter from parking eye ...I know i paid but no longer have the ticket. The letter has a photo of my car entering and leaving. I know i bought a ticket as the couple in front had problems getting the machine to accept their pound coin which i changed for them..I then bought my ticket.
Feeling a little nervous about leaving it and not paying but why should i pay again..
What does everyone else think.....needing support!

Parking Eye are UNINTERESTED in who has or hasn't paid for a ticket, they just want YOUR MONEY!

You are a law abiding citizen, THEY ARE RELYING ON YOUR HONESTY FOR THEIR SCAM TO WORK. You DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT pay them.

IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE!! Best policy.

Kite2010

You paid for your ticket, hence the landowner has suffered zero loss. The landowner is the only person whom can sue for damages under trespass, and owing to the damages being zero, it would be fruitless to try and sue. Ignore the PPC, but do send a lovely letter to the management of the shops on that area saying that thanks to harassment from Parking Eye, you shall no longer be spending your money there, instead at *name local rival*.

mum2oneplustwins

Thank goodness I looked at Google and found this thread. I received a 'Parking Charge Notice' from Parking Eye today for a visit to a local retail park, Riverside Retail Park on 27.8.11, and was worried sick as I had apparently arrived at 12.13pm and departed at 14.57. What made me laugh was that I visited a few shops in that retail park, including McDonald's, and can prove this by my bank statement hopefully, as I didn't keep all the receipts. I'd gone in with my elderly mother and three kids, one of whom has ASD and one who has Asperger's (so not the easiest school uniform shopping trip!) and to end up with this very official looking notice (it has a checked border very similar to what you would imagine an official police letter might look like).

Looking at quite a few of the posts and the advice given, I will now ignore this 'notice' and see what happens. If I pay by 15.9.11, then I have to pay £50, but if I go over this, then I have to pay £80 plus an admin fee of £30 which comes to £110. B******s. How can this practice be allowed by our councils/Government? :mad:

mum2oneplustwins

Thank goodness I looked at Google and found this thread. I received a 'Parking Charge Notice' from Parking Eye today for a visit to a local retail park, Riverside Retail Park, Chelmsford, on 27.8.11, and was worried sick as I had apparently arrived at 12.13pm and departed at 14.57. What made me laugh was that I visited a few shops in that retail park, including McDonald's, and can prove this by my bank statement hopefully, as I didn't keep all the receipts. I'd gone in with my elderly mother and three kids, one of whom has ASD and one who has Asperger's (so not the easiest school uniform shopping trip!) and to end up with this very official looking notice (it has a checked border very similar to what you would imagine an official police letter might look like).

Looking at quite a few of the posts and the advice given, I will now ignore this 'notice' and see what happens. If I pay by 15.9.11, then I have to pay £50, but if I go over this, then I have to pay £80 plus an admin fee of £30 which comes to £110. B******s. How can this practice be allowed by our councils/Government? :mad:

I really should write a stinging letter to the retail park shops I suppose, as they obviously don't want people spending too long in their shops...

Coupon-mad

The advice in England/Wales has changed - DO NOT IGNORE!!!!


So stop reading this ancient thread and get reading the sticky threads on page one from this year instead!!

claire86_2

I've been reading these forums for years but never actually posted, then came across this and thought I'd ask my question.

I had a letter from ParkingEye last month charging me £50 for overstaying my welcome in a retail park car park by a whopping 23 minutes. Shame on me. Being the worrying, law-abiding citizen that I am, I wrote them a letter pleading with them to take our circumstances into account (I have a disabled 3 year old and his blue badge was on display) and of course they replied with their little photographs of my car as their evidence of my "clear contravention". I had a few days left before the "reduced amount" would expire, so I panicked and sent them a cheque. About an hour after I posted said cheque, I went into Mothercare to pick up the photographs we'd bought at the time of my horrific parking crime and mentioned how disappointed I was that I'd received a charge for parking in their car park even though I was spending a fortune in their store, the manager told me I shouldn't have sent the cheque, I should cancel it and he'd sort it out since I was their customer for the entire time I'd spent in the car park. I cancelled the cheque later that day (cost me £10 to do so) and that was that. I had a letter about a week or so later to say the charge was cancelled and that there was "no amount due on this account". Nice to know, thank you Mr Mothercare Manager. Then a little later I received a cheque from them! Refund for the £50 (that I never actually paid since I stopped the cheque) and I didn't know what to do with it. I left it sitting for a couple of weeks, expecting them to realise that my cheque would be unpaid and to ask for their cheque back. Instead, a few days ago, I received a Final Notice from them! My charge had not been paid after 2 letters and therefore I now "owe" them £80, rising to £110 if not paid within this week! This is around 2 weeks after the "there is no charge on this account" letter and the subsequent refund cheque. I ranted and raved into Mothercare with it where they told me to ignore it. I was so annoyed by the whole affair by this point that I decided just to cash their cheque, since they clearly suck at checking records. Just wondering what I should expect to happen now? Should I have not cashed the cheque? I am considering it to be compensation for the £10 it cost me to stop the original cheque, plus interest added on for the inconvenience and unnecessary stress!

Coupon-mad

The advice in England/Wales has changed - DO NOT IGNORE!!!!


So stop reading this ancient thread and get reading the sticky threads on page one from this year instead!!

esmerobbo

Mothercare have probably told Parking Spy to cancel the invoice, but they are so inept they didn't. Or did but never cleared it from their letter chain producer.

Just ignore all future letters from Parking spy if they send any. You cant be reasonable with these idiots as they are thick!!

The £50 cheque is your tenner back and the rest for your inconvenience!;)

claire86_2

Thank you! I will sleep soundly tonight knowing that I did no wrong, and am £40 better off for my troubles :beer:

*edited to add - if they realise I have cashed their cheque even though I never paid them in the first place, can they legally demand it back??

Coupon-mad

The advice in England/Wales has changed - DO NOT IGNORE!!!!


So stop reading this ancient thread and get reading the sticky threads on page one from this year instead!!