morrisons car park fine?

Driver8

lauram25 wrote: »

Just a quick thought, how did the company get hold of the exact time I entered and left the car park? I take it they have cameras recording the info etc?

I just assumed that morrisons employed a company to keep check on the people that went over the 2 hour limit.

I'm so glad I googled this before I went ahead and paid it, you have all been so helpful, thank you

Bombard Morrison's asking why they use the scammer's. I bet they never had a problem with parking before they used them.

People in general park their car in a supermarket car park quite well whilst they go shopping. They, the private parking companies, now want to use the parking time of two or so hour's to "fine" you, to scam you into paying money.

In a big car park with a lot of retailer's it can take well over two hour's, especially if you stop off for something to eat.

This as got to stop. I will continue ticketing cars every where i park each and every day. How do those scum bags go to sleep at night? knowing they are going to work the next day to literally extort money from people, they make me sick.

trisontana

Driver8 wrote: »

In a big car park with a lot of retailer's it can take well over two hour's, especially if you stop off for something to eat.

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This might actually happen in the newly refurbished and enlarged Sainbury's in Lincoln. When you enter the cafeteria you are confronted by the notice. "we now cook meals on demand, so you might have to wait up to 30 minutes for your order to arrive" On Saturday morning they were taking 40 minutes just to produce a bacon sandwich!. So bang goes a large chunk of your parking time.

esmerobbo

lauram25 wrote: »

I just assumed that morrisons employed a company to keep check on the people that went over the 2 hour limit

Morrisons and other companies don't employ these companies, they offer them their services saying they will alleviate car parking problems, they give them a percentage of any charges they make. Which most give to charity. Not because they want too but I think the PA people realised the system would cause resentment, so if they were seen not to be profiting it made it OK.
They use two systems to check the time but its usually a camera watching you in and out on a timed system. Or occasionally they have an attendant.

Regardless of who runs the system and how its done your best option is to ignore it. If you feel compelled next time you use that Morrisons put a note in the suggestion box or tell the customer service person if it happens again you are going to Asda.

We are beginning to see these companies being removed from these sites. As they must be causing more harm then the car park abuses ever did.

taffy056

The PPC do more to ruin the reputation of retailers than anything regarding parking, the motorist who is not in the know regarding the scam, would think the shop is trying to rip them off, and they are trying to screw you for money, despite maybe spending £100s in the shop, so it might as well be Tesco PPC putting an invoice there especially when they say all profits go to charity!

An example how low life scum they are, Excel ticketed a lady for going over the time local to me, the reason why she went over is that she was preventing someone killing herself, and by the way saved this troubled person's life!

She appealed the ticket with a copy of the police comendation and explaining the circumstances, they turned down the appeal because it wasn't a good enough reason, the local rag got involved and asked them to comment, they immediately waived the invoice.

Complete scum, and complete scammers blighting shopping centres countrywide

https://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/fined-saving-life/article-2949737-detail/article.html

lauram25

thanks for all replies, my friend who was parked next to me also got a parking ticket for £70 reduced to £40 if paid by 12th december.

it just disgusts me that yes i did go over the limit by an hour, but i do spend in there every single week, on this occasion yes i did park and go for lunch elsewhere but i did also do my shopping in there.

i feel that the charge is too excessive anyway, if they had a pay per use meter id of happily of paid for the time i was in there, but they dont and by the time i realised i had gone over the 2 hrs, i was already in morrisons after lunch doing my shopping so wasnt going to abandon it to rush back to the car.

my friend also received one a while ago and paid it, but i have since sent her links to this thread and told her to ignore it, shes worried about it affecting her credit rating or them taking her to court or sending the fine to a debt company etc, i have reassured her that it seems the case that no they wont do this, they will try their luck for a few letters and then give up.

Coupon-mad

It doesn't just 'seem the case' that a PPC won't go to Court, it is the case with practically every PPC. The way the scam works is to send the series of scary letters pictured in the link already given, then if you just ignore everything they give up - that's it, scam over.

It doesn't matter if they have pics of the car. There were pictures of a car on the MET parking bogus PCN that Watchdog used as an example of how to make paper aeroplanes (see previous link to the forum board, the Watchdog link is on a thread near the top).

It doesn't matter if you overstayed, parked across a white line, camped out in a parent & child bay - whatever the spurious reason for the bogus ticket it doesn't make it law! My car was parked in a 2 hour restricted car park for 5 hours and got a fake ticket 2 years ago.

Ignoring the letters was all I had to do, it is easy. DO NOT PAY.

And...stop thinking about it like it's something important, it isn't!

If you'd received some phishing emails asking for your Bank details and you'd deleted them, would it play on your mind that you hadn't replied?! Thus is the same sort of scam - just because PPCs copy real PCNs and use debt collectors (note, NOT bailiffs) to issue threats doesn't make their extortion attempt any different..

robredz

As per Coupon_mad, ignore ignore, there is no provable consequential loss in a free car park, so nothing to ground a county court claim, this is an invoice, and is not enforceable by magistrates.