Does anybody deliberately not pay for parking?

anewman

king100 wrote: »

An ASDA that I frequent request that you pay £1 and get a ticket, you will get a refund after you have shopped.

I know an Asda that does the same and I feel like the only one who buys a ticket, but you get the money back from your shop so it's not like you lose out. You don't have to queue at CS though, you just hand them a ticket at the till and it gets taken off your shop.

danny3_2

Never paid never will,they want my trade then they provide the car park,you wouldnt give the landlord a £1 to use the toilet would you.

taffy056

danny3 wrote: »

Never paid never will,they want my trade then they provide the car park,you wouldnt give the landlord a £1 to use the toilet would you.

I can understand that at supermarkets etc, but I go to places like the gower that have small parking places that charge a little to park, if you use the same attitude at those kind of places these car parks will disappear completely, and that will be detrimental in my opinion, these parking places are there to make money for the landholder , and to encourage people to an area, I do think that people who own this kind of land are entitled to make a profit out of it.

But I will not do is pay the scammers, they will never get a penny of my money!

Spartacus_Mills

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Given that a fair number of carparks are privately owned/run (not sure of the exact terminology) and the general consensus appears to be to completely ignore any invoices ("fines") issued when you forget to pay or overstay .....

Does anybody here park in these carparks and deliberately choose not to pay for parking (feeling safe in the knowledge that they won't be taken to court)??

Just curious!!!

Or is it an offence to actually intend not to pay? In which case I don't expect any honest answers to the above question!

If I park in a private car park which is a paid carpark I always pay. Just because I am against scam invoices from PPC's does not mean I condone abusing landowners land. I believe that if the car park owner asks for payment it is reasonable to pay and if you do not like it to go elsewhere.

Pimpslider

anewman wrote: »

I know an Asda that does the same and I feel like the only one who buys a ticket, but you get the money back from your shop so it's not like you lose out. You don't have to queue at CS though, you just hand them a ticket at the till and it gets taken off your shop.

I think it takes the pi$$ to have to pay to park in Asda (or any supermarket) car parks. I try not to use cash so when I get to the carpark I only have my card.

We have an Asda away from the town which, as said before, you pay for a ticket but get your money back when you buy something. Then there is a Tesco bang in the middle of the town but they don't charge anything to park there. Go figure! With the amount of money these chains make it should be free parking, simple as!

I feel that if you got a ticket (erm...invoice, spare toilet paper, etc.) for parking in a supermarket carpark without paying, as long as you have a receipt for buying something at said time then there can't be any loss to the company. That's my opinion anyway.

mikey72

AlexisV wrote: »

I don't pay when I use Morrisons. You get a refund if you buy from the store, but I shop there a lot and often use the car park for other reasons like going to the bank or getting a sandwich.

So I just don't bother with any of it.

Their sign is full of threatening and unenforceable crap about penalties anyway.

This is Euro Car Parks by the way and we know how easy they are to ignore.

Never had a ticket though, even though I've goaded the silly yellow jacket woman with a sign on the dash saying "Place unenforceable invoice here"

mikey72 wrote: »

I always pay.
I suppose there must be some that don't though.
Personally, I'd target the repeat offenders, after two or three weeks of tickets if I was issueing them I'd buy a cheap clamp and just clamp the car.
No ticket or release fee, and then deny all knowledge of it, and just leave the clamp on until they managed to get it off themselves.

You'd be the one then. Be worth £25 for the job satisfaction.