Parking fine - No Machines

cookie001

Hi,

I was parked in a Lidil’s car park on Sunday as I was eating at a restaurant in town. In this town there is no parking charge anywhere on a Sunday. It’s free.

On the Lidil’s site during the week and Saturday’s there is usually a ‘man in a box’ who takes money and issue’s tickets to park on the ground (not sure about Sunday's).

There are no parking ticket machines anywhere on this ground and there was no ‘man in the box’ to take any money. The only notices in the car park are on the box as you go in that state ‘customer’s parking only’, but the rest of the writing is very small and you would not take your time to read it!! Anyhow the shop was closed and the car park was open.

As it is usually free parking everywhere in the town on a Sunday, no ‘man in the box’ and no ticket machines I thought I was safe. Oh no…I came back to a ticket on my car that look’s very official.

From what I am reading on here, I should not pay and should not respond to their letters? How would they get my address etc anyway? Surely the DVLA can not provide such information under data protection?

I believe if they did take me to court I would have a good case, however I do not want to risk not replying and then going to court and ending up with a huge bill to pay?? Help? What should I do??

Nikki :eek:

steve1500

DVLA do provide it and they have a very dubious way of getting round DPA. If I could be bothered I would get the Information Commissioner to carry out an Assessmennt on them. But that would involve time, anyway its the wife that gets the invoices, which I throw in the bin

Sir_Roger_deLodger

cookie001 wrote: »

From what I am reading on here, I should not pay and should not respond to their letters? How would they get my address etc anyway? Surely the DVLA can not provide such information under data protection?

I believe if they did take me to court I would have a good case, however I do not want to risk not replying and then going to court and ending up with a huge bill to pay?? Help? What should I do??

Nikki :eek:

Do not pay, do not contact them. You will not be going to court.
The DVLA will provide your personal information to anyone with £2.50 to spend. They make millions from it.
Which bunch of scammers is it?

McKneff

Dont makey any effort to do anything.

It is an unenforceable invoice, not a fine, ignore it and just file it beind the clock.

Ignore everything they send to you.

paddedjohn

The sign only says customer parking only, .....tell them you are a customer but only on tuesdays. AND BIN THE TICKET

d123

I wouldn't tell them anything, I wouldn't ever enter into any communication with them as it just encourages the thieves.

Kite2010

I would send a lovely made-up cheque to them, writing accounts receivables on the envelope, but accidentally forgetting to put a stamp on the envelope

esmerobbo

Although contacting them and saying get stuffed sounds good, and maybe sending a joke cheque may make you feel better the best option is to totally ignore.

Its an invoice it is not a ticket it has a number. Whatever you send is not read if its an appeal a desk monkey presses a button and you get a letter saying appeal unsuccessful! if its a cheque in the envelope it is cashed and your number is cancelled. Any other contact the desk monkey hits another key saying we have a live one. You will get a differing amount of letters threatening all and everything. Just keep on ignoring and they will eventually crawl back under their stone.

cookie001

Hi all thanks for your replies.

So even if they send me a letter i should not reply with the reasons as to why i am not paying the fine!? I actually really want to let rip at them, it states on the "parking charge notice" that i did not have a valid ticket displayed, how could i if there were no machines or person to get one from!!! Grrr. They are SO cheeky!!

The company is called LDK Security Group LTD, which don't appear to have been mentioned on this site before.

I'll wait and see what comes through the post!! :mad:

peter_the_piper

The more you talk to them the more they think that you will pay eventually and so will persist. The shortest route is to never contact them. They don't then know if the mail got there and who got it.

d123

cookie001 wrote: »

Hi all thanks for your replies.

So even if they send me a letter i should not reply with the reasons as to why i am not paying the fine!?

PLEASE just remember one thing this is not a fine, it is an unsolicited invoice asking you to pay for an alleged loss the parking company have made.

It has no legal basis as a fine, and it is actually a criminal offence for them to try and pretend it is.

Don't be fooled by the works of fiction that the PPC will post to you in an effort to fool you into paying this non-existent loss.