highview parking ltd fine!

gazcarter123

Can anyone help me...?

I have received a similar notice to all those unfortunates above, but now it quotes a new 'Protection of freedoms Act 2012' which came into affect on 1st October. I have looked at it on the direct.gov.uk website and it seems the law has changed so I should pay the fine now, contrary to the advice above. Anyone got any comments to help me decide to pay or not to pay!?!?!?

Thanks

trisontana

Nothing has changed. It's not a fine and you don't have to pay,

Coupon-mad

gazcarter123 wrote: »

Can anyone help me...?

I have received a similar notice to all those unfortunates above, but now it quotes a new 'Protection of freedoms Act 2012' which came into affect on 1st October. I have looked at it on the direct.gov.uk website and it seems the law has changed so I should pay the fine now, contrary to the advice above. Anyone got any comments to help me decide to pay or not to pay!?!?!?

Thanks

You only have to search the forum as this question is asked every other day on threads. Feels like Groundhog Day on here sometimes. Why look on the direct.gov website and not actually look on the current threads on this forum, it's been done to death. You've posted on an ancient thread from 2010!!!!!

But here you go, I copied and pasted yet another previous reply which I gave only recently to one of the dozens of people who can't search a forum:

Only the Council and Police (and some Train Operators) can issue a real parking penalty. This is a FAKE PCN.

Any fake PCN issued for an incident from 1st October 2012 onwards:

- if you were parked in Scotland or NI = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a firm who are NOT members of the BPA AOS = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from an AOS member (just Google search for the AOS members list) in England/Wales, there are 2 choices:

a) IGNORE IT, as ever, playing snap with the threatograms that match our sticky thread 'PPC letter chains' (5th from top of this parking forum),

or

b) Appeal it with help from here in how to word it, and insist on a referral to the POPLA appeals service if it's not cancelled. Costs the PPC £32 plus, costs you nothing, it's not binding on you but it is binding on the PPC. IF you do not win your appeal then revert to ignore mode. This option is for those who want to fight back, cost the PPC money and test the POPLA system whilst also getting their PPC's tactics scrutinised; if you are that sort of person then start by reading threads about POPLA.

If you would prefer a quiet life and would not be confident to write a couple of appeal letters - then I recommend you just go for option a) and ignore the whole scam completely. Just play 'snap' with each letter against the 5th from top thread 'PPC letter chains', that's what the preview pics are linked there for (look at the old letters pre-October as there are more of those and I suspect most PPCs won't change their letters much).

Most importantly never pay it. Despite what the debt collector letters say, there are no repercussions. There will be no Court, no CCJ, no bailiff, no-on can come knocking, there's no effect on credit rating. ZILCH because it's a scam like a phishing email trying to extort money using an impersonation of authority, passing off an invoice as a PCN.

Look at the preview letters on the PPC letter chains thread right now.

Finally, if anyone gets any fake PCN anywhere in the UK in a retail, cinema, fast food or Supermarket car park then COMPLAIN IN WRITING to the CEO of the company on site if you were a customer. Complain about this protection racket against their paying 'soon to be ex-customers'.

It's not hard to ignore. Even my 18 year old new-driver niece has ignored a few fake PCNs - six I think. I have only ignored two but would very happily laugh at more!


HTH, I really do want to help but get really bored with repeating all this when it's here in every other thread already.

magicllama

Hi guys,

I received a penalty charge notice from these scammers recently for (the obviously common) 2 short visits in a day collated into one overstay.

I wish I'd read this forum straight away, but sadly i emailed them back to explain their error. I'm now worried I've admitted to something I shouldn't have and compromised the 'just ignore it' stance.

Can anyone offer some advice please? Or should I continue to ignore?

Thank you

ManxRed

No, continue to ignore. Them knowing who the driver is is not that relevant these days. There are far stronger arguments that would sink any case they felt they might have.

Let us know what they come back with in response to your missing exit/entry. We see an awful lot of that on here, too many for me to believe its a genuine error.

pogofish

magicllama wrote: »

Hi guys,

I received a penalty charge notice from these scammers recently for (the obviously common) 2 short visits in a day collated into one overstay.

I wish I'd read this forum straight away, but sadly i emailed them back to explain their error. I'm now worried I've admitted to something I shouldn't have and compromised the 'just ignore it' stance.

Can anyone offer some advice please? Or should I continue to ignore?

Thank you

Absolutely, keep ignoring - Nothing significant has changed at all.

And how about taking the advice up-page and posting your own thread if you need to come back. This one is well past its date!

magicllama

Thanks for the quick reply ManxRed, I was worried I'd made a real rookie mistake with that email. I'll keep you updated.

Sadly it's too long ago for the work car park CCTV to have been kept haha.

I'll also be writing to Tescos and anyone else I think I can whinge at!

magicllama

pogofish wrote: »

And how about taking the advice up-page and posting your own thread if you need to come back. This one is well past its date!

Sorry pogo, I've got too used to using forums where they hate duplicate threads

magicllama

ManxRed wrote: »

Let us know what they come back with in response to your missing exit/entry. We see an awful lot of that on here, too many for me to believe its a genuine error.

Sorry for the late update, but after sending them an email informing them of their error I got a reply a few days later apologising for the error and stating that they withdrew their claim (or words to that effect). I've had no further contact.

ManxRed

Well blow me dahn wiv a fevvah!

Oh well, job done. Well done.