excel pcn parking ticket £100 !!

summerxxxx

hi guys
i would like some advice about a parking ticket i got yesterday
in our leisure park there is various resturants and cinemas ect.. and you are allowed to park only in the blue bays free for 4 hours only if you do not leave the leisure park, well i parked up and went to my local cinema which is in the leisure park anyway when i came back there was a ticket on my screen saying i had apparently left the leisure park, so i found the attendant and asked him why did i get a ticket, he said because i crossed over out of the leisure park and that way i was parked in a blue bay without permission
i said that was impossible i stayed in the leisure park thats not fair i didnt leave at all
all he said was that he saw me leave the leisure park
so i decided to come and ask you guys as ive been told that they cant enforce it
i am apparently to pay £100 in 14 days or if i pay in 7 days i can pay £60
yeah right, where do they think people get that kind of money from
i havnt slept properly at all and im stressed about this stupid ticket
please guys any advice
marie

NeverAgain_2

The accepted wisdom is these tickets cannot be enforced and can safely be ignored.

You will see similar stories in other threads on this forum.

I have had two of this type of ticket and have successfully ignored both.

You will get letters designed to frighten and intimidate you, which is not very pleasant.

Just be prepared for that, and on no account reply to any letters from the company or debt collectors.

marleyboy

Ignore it completely and stick this in your window next time you go there............

Sirdan

£100 on the word of someone who probably gets performance pay based on the number of tickets issued ???..beyond a joke..you should be able to take the attendant to court for his baseless allegations causing you undue stress and harassment and the company also .

Absolutely disgusting ...you should def ignore them or if you want to stick it to them write to your local MP and your local paper ..it's a great story after all ..

summerxxxx

Sirdan wrote: »

£100 on the word of someone who probably gets performance pay based on the number of tickets issued ???..beyond a joke..you should be able to take the attendant to court for his baseless allegations causing you undue stress and harassment and the company also .

Absolutely disgusting ...you should def ignore them or if you want to stick it to them write to your local MP and your local paper ..it's a great story after all ..

i know i was quite shocked
thanks for the reassurance x:)

Sirdan

http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/judge_says_excel_parking_fines_illegal_1_701811

esmerobbo

I would do as advised and ignore the invoice, shows their ethics when they lie to your face! Do not have any communication with the PPC but write a strongly worded letter of complaint to the cinema. Do not identify your car or the date, inform them that due to their PPC's action, in future you will go to the next cinema along!

I think this has got to be the way to go, put pressure on the retailers, so in turn they put pressure on the landlords to rid themselves of the PPC's

Sirdan

esmerobbo wrote: »

I would do as advised and ignore the invoice, shows their ethics when they lie to your face! Do not have any communication with the PPC but write a strongly worded letter of complaint to the cinema. Do not identify your car or the date, inform them that due to their PPC's action, in future you will go to the next cinema along!

I think this has got to be the way to go, put pressure on the retailers, so in turn they put pressure on the landlords to rid themselves of the PPC's

I'm still struggling to work out how the landowner or his pet PPC can allege any real losses or damages for one individual parking and "leaving the retail park". (Not saying you did just being theoretical).

The landowner makes no money from the car park it is free.
The landowner makes his money as the landlord of the retailers who pay him "rent" to lease the units they use for their business.
I'm certain that if you park and leave the site not one retailer will know and if if they do know they will still be paying the rent , so where exactly is the landowners loss ?
Sure the retailers lose out but who can say you were going to spend at least £100 in the first place ?
Demands for £100 for a loss of £0 ..if that isn't attempted fraud and/or extortion I don't know what is !!!

trisontana

That also applies to a supermarket car-park. If a potential shopper is turned away because all the spaces are full, how can the landowner prove what that shopper might have spent? It could be 40p for a chocolate bar, or £400 for a case of champagne. Such imponderables would not stand up in court.

NeverAgain_2

...I'm still struggling to work out how the landowner or his pet PPC can allege any real losses or damages...

There aren't any losses, which is one of the many reasons these demands do not stand up to scrutiny.

The demand for money is, in effect, a fine or penalty, it's a punishment.

No private company has the power to punish a citizen, only the courts and some statutory bodies can do that.

dave105

Have received the usual letters, and ignored them all - have now received a phone call from a debt collection agency called Roxburghe. Anyone else had experience of this ?