Not going too well for Parking Eye is it?

funkycoldribena

Ninkumpoop wrote: »

Please can some of you legal experts help me. Went out tonight after work and drank far too many jagerbombs and was sick in the taxi home. Apparently there was a sign up saying there was a sign up saying that if you were sick there was a £50 charge. The taxi driver keeps threatening me and i'm refusing to pay. Can anyone help me get out of this, i'm not sure whether this is a fine or an invoice. Please.

Ok,I'll bite....

Its an invoice.I very much doubt that any taxi driver would then send you threatening letters upping the invoice amount each time and most taxi drivers would probably write it off as part of the job.Morally I would pay it (or part of),depending on what sort of amount of mess we are talking about because the taxi driver might lose his next fare because of it.

However if the taxi driver was adamant that he should be recompensed and you wouldnt pay, then he would be entitled to claim at SCC for actual losses eg;valeting,next fare loss (if provable).

Now explain to me as obviously you are part of the PPC industry,what your losses are?

esmerobbo

Ninkumpoop wrote: »

Please can some of you legal experts help me. Went out tonight after work and drank far too many jagerbombs and was sick in the taxi home. Apparently there was a sign up saying there was a sign up saying that if you were sick there was a £50 charge. The taxi driver keeps threatening me and i'm refusing to pay. Can anyone help me get out of this, i'm not sure whether this is a fine or an invoice. Please.

Nothing like a parking charge. The driver would have to stop working and go and clean their taxi. The £50 is an estimation of their loss! However if you refused to pay, and they took you to court, the taxi driver would have to prove that £50 is what they lost or cost them to put the situation you caused back to how it was!

When a PPC charges you £60 for being 10 mins over your time, in a free car park, how do they prove that loss!

bromsgrovebarry

Well our pet troll has shot himself in the foot. However he provided a good example to demonstrate the difference between actual loss and trumped up Mickey Mouse 'fines'.

bromsgrovebarry

A new ParkingEye PR disaster.
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9234597.Parking_fines__200_complaints_over_Weymouth_car_park_operators/

A little frightening is the bit about getting advice from CAB.

Kite2010

Poor Parking Spy, their system once more is an epic fail.

esmerobbo

Well as trisontana pointed out a week or so ago, poor old parking eyes cameras are timed to the Rugby atomic clock, which is at least four years slow!!

robredz

esmerobbo wrote: »

Well as trisontana pointed out a week or so ago, poor old parking eyes cameras are timed to the Rugby atomic clock, which is at least four years slow!!

Apparently it always wrong in Aberystwyth also, so wrong that Trading Standards are interested. Shame Conwy CC isn't as concerned with Mostyn Estate's new best buddy pal at the Champneys and Parc Llandudno, as there is a Facebook page up after several people have had invoices for the aggregate timings scam where there are multiple visits counted as one continuous stay. We all know what happened to Observices with that one...

FatAndy

More here about Llandudno Parking Eye - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3360572

The owners of Mostyn Champneys are nothing more than guilty of an outrageous scam. The car park there is enormous, probably twice the size it needs to be, so there's never been a problem with parking there. I've been going there for maybe two decades and never once, not one single occasion, have I not been able to find a space there. Even on the busiest days in the run up to Christmas you'll find a space without too much difficulty. In the past they've hosted the town's Christmas Fayre there which involved roping off a large part of the car park (at the busiest time of year) and setting up marquees and stalls, and yet there was still no problem finding a space there. However the manager of the retail park had this to say:

"Colin Gilligan, Centre Manager of Mostyn Champneys Retail Park, explains the background behind the new scheme: “Although we have recognised for some time that we are probably the most attractive parking location in the town – conveniently located and entirely free – we have also become aware of the growing number of non-shoppers who leave their vehicles for long periods, and at busy times deprive our genuine shoppers of a legitimate parking space."

Sorry Mr Gilligan but I'm sure you won't be able to find one case when a genuine shopper was deprived of a parking space, ever! Why can't you just be honest and admit that this is nothing more than an attempt to increase your revenues by conning people who are visiting the park to put money into the tills of your tenants.


The second retail park, Parc Llandudno, that have just allowed Parking Eye to rip off their customers, is slightly different in that it has a much smaller car park which does get busy so you can understand there's a need to have some sort of control there, but that shouldn't involve bringing in cowboys to rip people off. This will of course work in the long run as more and more customers start to boycott the place but that's not the best way of going about things.

There is one potentially interesting point re Parc Llandudno. The site was originally an Asda store and when planning permission was granted for that store in the 1970's one of the conditions was that it should provide free parking. The Asda store has been demolished and new shops built on the site but I'm sure there are already people investigating whether or not the free parking condition still applies. It would be such a shame if Parc Llandudno/Parking Eye were found to be in breach of a planning condition and had to refund all the people they've scammed so far.

robredz

FatAndy wrote: »

More here about Llandudno Parking Eye - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3360572


There is one potentially interesting point re Parc Llandudno. The site was originally an Asda store and when planning permission was granted for that store in the 1970's one of the conditions was that it should provide free parking. The Asda store has been demolished and new shops built on the site but I'm sure there are already people investigating whether or not the free parking condition still applies. It would be such a shame if Parc Llandudno/Parking Eye were found to be in breach of a planning condition and had to refund all the people they've scammed so far.

The Managing Agents are Savills, so they would be the target, in litigation, as Parking Eye wouldn't refund, along with the landowner, who is NOT Conwy CC but Mostyn Estates

alastairc

You can check out the financials - companycheck.co.uk/company/05134454

(i am not allowed links as a newbie)

And all the directors home addresses are there....if you wanted to write them a letter.

If you put up a list of these operators I'll find out all the links..

AlastairC