Parking Eye - Aldi

steve1500

My wife gives them to me, although they are addressed to her as the registered keeper of the car. Teach her to do the school run in my car lol

Get a few letters threatening you with court action, balliffs, don't really read them that much as I just throw them in the bin and a few pinned up by my desk at work as souveniers.

Don't contact them

bromsgrovebarry

I got a begging letter from Parking Eye after parking in an Aldi car park and despite goading them, they never took me to court. Parking Eye never take anyone to court as they know they would lose.

Coupon-mad

zo1234 wrote: »

hi i have just received a fine from aldi for parking excess of 15 min than 1.5 hrs allowance stated. its from parking eye. can u tell me what happened when you ignored them ?
thanx

Nothing happens, you need to read up on this to see it's just a scam. You have NOT received a fine!

Google 'private parking scam' and look for forum posts on here, pepipoo.com, consumer action group, all of which will tell you that such private parking tickets are unenforceable trash.

Watchdog have covered this con twice this year, and their legal bod helpfully confirmed just what we tell everyone to do with fake parking tickets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

:T:rotfl:

The registered keeper will receive a few debt collector letters telling you to pay, but so what once you know they are just bog roll! Do not panic, do not believe the lies on the letters about Court/CCJs/dire consequences!

They cannot just 'apply for' a CCJ, that's not how things work at all.

See examples here of what sort of letters to ignore and be prepared for. Don't bother to actually read their threats when you get the matching threats, instead look at them now so you are ready to laugh when you get the whole predictable set. Parking Eye's letter-chain is shown there in all its 'scary' glory:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=2214803

To be proactive, if the scam letters get tiresome you may like to also report the company and their debt collectors for harassment:

http://www.nationaldebtline.co.uk/en...=03_harassment

But don't forget this is NOT a debt, NOT a fine, just a mickey mouse ticket.

Nothing happens, your credit record is NOT affected, so don't fall for this con.

Be angry about their illegal scary letters, tell your friends never to pay a private parking ticket, even if they have broken the car park's spurious 'rules'.

But don't pay it! Spread the word. This ticket is a scam and the letters must be ignored.

yeasty1

I received one of these so called parking fines in august 2010 from the coop in dawlish,devon. They do look very official, but most certainly they are not!!! I did not pay, instead i researched this problem on this and many other sites that all said the same......IGNORE IT. I followed this advice, and promptly received 2 other increasingly threatening letters. I continued to IGNORE as advised. 2months later i have heard nothing else off them.
Follow the advice:- IGNORE all letters, do not reply in any way shape or form and they will go away.
To take you to court (which they wont do) parking eye have to prove who was driving the car at the time of the alledged offence,it does not matter who the registered keeper is as this is irrelevent in cival law. It is not up to you to contact them to prove you were not driving and you do not have to say who was driving as it is not under criminal law.:cool:

susieQ_2

I have today(6th Jan) received one of these Parking Eye charge notices for £60, which increases to £120!! if not paid before 13th Jan. This would not give sufficient time to appeal prior to paying and it specifies that once you have paid you 'have accepted the breach of terms and conditions for parking in the named car park'. It also states that they charge an extra £2.50 for paying by card and that if you overpay they will not refund the excess!! What a bunch of crooks..............
My only worry is that if I do not pay I will never be able to park in the same car park again for fear of being clamped. Has anyone continued to use their car parks even after refusing to pay a charge?

esmerobbo

susieQ wrote: »

I have today(6th Jan) received one of these Parking Eye charge notices for £60, which increases to £120!! if not paid before 13th Jan. This would not give sufficient time to appeal prior to paying and it specifies that once you have paid you 'have accepted the breach of terms and conditions for parking in the named car park'. It also states that they charge an extra £2.50 for paying by card and that if you overpay they will not refund the excess!! What a bunch of crooks..............
My only worry is that if I do not pay I will never be able to park in the same car park again for fear of being clamped. Has anyone continued to use their car parks even after refusing to pay a charge?

Ignore it totally don't pay, don't appeal, and although they state on their signs they will clamp it is illegal to do so.

bromsgrovebarry

Instead of using a council car park, I use the Aldi one after I was 'fined' by Parking Eye because of a mess up by their stupid cameras. I ignored the silly begging letters and now 'fine' Parking Eye what I would have paid to use the council cark park. Just ignore, Parking Eye are pathetic.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

susieQ wrote: »

My only worry is that if I do not pay I will never be able to park in the same car park again for fear of being clamped. Has anyone continued to use their car parks even after refusing to pay a charge?

Yes, I use a Parking Eye car park regularly. I "overstay", and park a millimetre or two over the lines just to annoy them. The invoices appear to be drying up lately though, perhaps they don't love me any more!
As Barry says, Parking Eye are pathetic.

sarahg1969

Sir_Roger_deLodger wrote: »

Yes, I use a Parking Eye car park regularly. I "overstay", and park a millimetre or two over the lines just to annoy them. The invoices appear to be drying up lately though, perhaps they don't love me any more!
As Barry says, Parking Eye are pathetic.

And I've been known to drive in and out of a PE car park in the morning, and again at night, without actually parking there. However, I've only managed to accumulate three invoice from them thus far.

Coupon-mad

susieQ wrote: »

I have today(6th Jan) received one of these Parking Eye charge notices for £60, which increases to £120!! if not paid before 13th Jan. This would not give sufficient time to appeal prior to paying and it specifies that once you have paid you 'have accepted the breach of terms and conditions for parking in the named car park'. It also states that they charge an extra £2.50 for paying by card and that if you overpay they will not refund the excess!! What a bunch of crooks..............
My only worry is that if I do not pay I will never be able to park in the same car park again for fear of being clamped.

Private company = ignore. Don't appeal (as if!). Stop taking this seriously, it's like a phishing email!

Parking Eye = ignore even more.

Parking Eye's debt collectors = ignore them too, with bells on!

Parking Eye do not and cannot clamp any vehicle, nor do they EVER take people to Court, nor do they stop you entering a car park they operate. They're not that clever, they just take pics of all cars and send out bogus PCNs when they think they can, followed by debt collector threats. They will repeat the same pattern again and again and again if you bait them like we do!

Click on the link in my signature below, settle down and read the two sticky threads near the top by Crabman 'Please read before posting' and 'PPC letters, what to expect'. See the exact debt collector letters in all their glory and watch the Watchdog legal expert's advice about what you can do with a fake PCN with a pretty pic of a car on it (just like yours). Then do the same with your bogus PCN and then with all the (fully-expected) debt collector threatograms.

Then read some more threads on the link, you will see how common this is. Nothing happens, no Court, no CCJ, no bailiff, no clamper, no effect on your credit rating. THERE IS NO FINE.

susieQ wrote: »

Has anyone continued to use their car parks even after refusing to pay a charge?

Oh yes, almost every day, overstaying deliberately (5 hours shopping in town instead of the 2 hr maximum the scammers reckon is the 'limit').

Park there again. Collect more fake PCNs and cost them some more money.