Parking eye ticket wrong reg number

Lansalriai

I was wondering if anybody could help? I parked at morrisons car park two weeks ago and was driving my sis car. The car park has just installed new machines where you have to key in your number plate. I stupidly typed in my own reg plate instead of hers. I have since got a demand for payment from parking eye. I have a copy of the shop receipt and the parking ticket( with the wrong reg number) but can I appeal it? Feel so annoyed with myself after having actually paid it.

ppc_scambuster

Ignore any PPC tickets especially P.E`s jokes tickets thet are un enforcible and nothing more than begging letters, to reitereate the golden rules are :

1/ IGNORE,
2/ IGNORE SOME MORE,

if that fails

3/ GO BACK TO STEP 1

taffy056

Always use number 1 above they never do court, and legally they don't have a leg to stand on

Sir_Roger_deLodger

Lansalriai wrote: »

I was wondering if anybody could help? I parked at morrisons car park two weeks ago and was driving my sis car. The car park has just installed new machines where you have to key in your number plate. I stupidly typed in my own reg plate instead of hers. I have since got a demand for payment from parking eye. I have a copy of the shop receipt and the parking ticket( with the wrong reg number) but can I appeal it? Feel so annoyed with myself after having actually paid it.

Do not even think of "appealing". They will reject your appeal and pester you for more money.
Parking Eye are very easy to ignore, they give up after 3 or 4 letters.
It rhymes with jam and is operated by a bunch of people who rhyme with rooks, if you see what I mean.

muckybutt

You owe them nothing !, you paid for parking and you can prove that.

Ignore them and they'll go away eventually, parking eye have never done court, just threats.

bromsgrovebarry

Parking Eye are a total joke. A few silly threats and then disappear under their stone. As mentioned by other posters, ignore. Come back if the silly threats worry you.

esmerobbo

Save you time, "Your appeal has been unsuccessful"

Now you can get on with something more important like ignoring them.:)

usignuolo

In another case where a car owner took them to court, PE claimed that their signs at a car park entrance were legally enforceable as there was legal precedent that they constituted a contract with the motorist who accepted it by entering past the signs. They were supported in this position in court by the BPA as an approved BPA operator and member.

Both made statements in the press to this effect. Leaving aside this case, has this "defence" ever succeeded for any BPA firm? Only I assume the BPA must have received legal advice that this is the line to take?

Coupon-mad

The 'odd' extremely rare case has succeeded for a PPC and it has depended partly on having a daft judge and/or a stooge as a defendant, and also the signage has to be very clear, communicate a contract and be at the entrance to the car park as well as in a lot of conspicuous places around the parking area.

But still PPCs lose almost all cases when some silly firms chance their arms in Court - signs or no signs, a judge can still decide that the amount constitutes an illegal penalty (as in the Hetherington-Jakeman case). In a well-defended case the PPC will lose, and even in badly defended ones as long as the person turns up the odds are in their favour. There are not many judges so daft as to think that £100 claimed by a third party for a 10 minute overstay in a free car park they do not even own nor maintain can be anything but a penalty...

But it's important to make clear that MOST PPC never ever go near Court, it isn't on the agenda for Euro Car Parks, Britannia, Parking Eye and any firm which uses Roxburghe (see the PPC letters, what to expect' thread). All of those firms never ever involve a Court case as they know they would lose and it would cost them silly money to try.

esmerobbo

usignuolo wrote: »

In another case where a car owner took them to court, PE claimed that their signs at a car park entrance were legally enforceable as there was legal precedent that they constituted a contract with the motorist who accepted it by entering past the signs. They were supported in this position in court by the BPA as an approved BPA operator and member.

Both made statements in the press to this effect. Leaving aside this case, has this "defence" ever succeeded for any BPA firm? Only I assume the BPA must have received legal advice that this is the line to take?

Legal precedent cant be set at county court, a case can be referred to as reference but that's all. The cases normally quoted regrading the contract side of the issue, were defended solely on the defendant saying they did not see the signs.
Basically because that was their defence the only thing the PPC had to prove was the signs where there.

Any half decent defence would see off a PPC that's why virtually known go to court.

http://www.combinedparkingsolutions.com/downloads/debrunnertran.pdf

http://www.combinedparkingsolutions.com/downloads/btran.pdf

These cases were in the time of Perky law and they were posted by them, so you can assume anything in the transcript not preferential to them would have been edited.;)