Another Parking Eye Fine!

kierend63

Well the letter is from parking eye and not the council. You have got me thinking now wheather i could punch the reg in or not, im 99.9% sure i was not able to.

AlexisV

Sod them. You paid, end of. It's not up to you to state your case.

If you bought some cornflakes from Tesco and then got a letter saying some unspecified person who was driving your car hadn't paid and that they wanted £60 you'd tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.

kierend63

AlexisV wrote: »

Sod them. You paid, end of. It's not up to you to state your case.

If you bought some cornflakes from Tesco and then got a letter saying some unspecified person who was driving your car hadn't paid and that they wanted £60 you'd tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.

Thats my point,at the end of the day i paid from my ticket to be able to park for the time given, its not like i tried to avoid paying!

Kite2010

You paid for your P&D ticket therefore the landowner suffered no loss. Ignore Parking Eye and the letters of varing sums of contractual penalties you will receive)

dan_lake

Hi,

Firstly apologies for jumping on your bandwagon like this but I too have had a ParkingEye fine posted through my door and my situation is exactly the same.

I parked on a Retail park car park in Walsall, West Mids on Bank holiday Sunday and purchased a ticket for 2 hours (£1.80). The ParkingEye 'fine' states that I was there a total of 1 hour 16 mins and I was allowed 0 Hours 0 Mins (which I can only presume means they're accusing me of not purchasing a ticket).

The difference in my case is that I can't find said ticket for the life of me (after rooting through my car and bins). I realise that I shouldn't necessarily need to prove my innocence to them as there should be a record of my purchase on their system but there is a nagging doubt at the bottom of my stomach that if I ignore the ticket and they decide to follow up with court action, I do not have physical proof of my ticket (other than the fact I can describe exactly where I parked, what time I purchased the ticket, which machine I used and what I was wearing (for CCTV proof)).

What is my legal standing on this if I should ever need it. I do not intend paying these clowns purely down to the fact I know i'm innocent.

Many thanks
Dan

spikyone

Dan, don't worry. You're more likely to win the lottery than get taken to court. Read some of the sticky threads, and just ignore anything except sealed court papers (which, of course, you will almost certainly never be sent).

Even if they did take it to court, they would find a way to shoot themselves in the foot - they cannot fine you, only claim for the losses they suffered (£1.80). And since they say on their invoice that you had permission to park for 0hrs 0mins it seems they've started early with the foot-shooting.

In short - don't pay them, don't contact them in any way, and just watch for some begging letters identical to those in the stickies to drop onto your doormat. They'll soon give up.

Inflatable_Armadillo

kierend63 wrote: »

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I assume it is the Hounds Hill Shopping Centre Car Park looking at Google maps?

I expect they are on kick-back from Parking Eye, so the centre management company probably don't care about the fact you DID pay for a ticket either. If they were bothered about preventing people from parking without paying, they would put a ticket barrier system or police the car themselves, like most reputable shopping centres... but they are complicit with Parking Eye so don't even entertain speaking to them either.

I suspect, if you did, they would simply sight the 'contract' conditions upon which you purchased a ticket and that it must be clearly displayed and clearly you didn't do that... otherwise we would not have sent you a ticket!!! Yeh, right!

I am, like others though, interested in how they have supposedly done this if it is a P&D car park, without placing a notice on the car and then following it up with the usual threatening letters?

Is this them stooping below pond-life level?

As others have said ignore and keep the ticket in a safe place, just in case.

Inflatable_Armadillo

dan_lake wrote: »

Hi,

Firstly apologies for jumping on your bandwagon like this but I too have had a ParkingEye fine posted through my door and my situation is exactly the same.

I parked on a Retail park car park in Walsall, West Mids on Bank holiday Sunday and purchased a ticket for 2 hours (£1.80). The ParkingEye 'fine' states that I was there a total of 1 hour 16 mins and I was allowed 0 Hours 0 Mins (which I can only presume means they're accusing me of not purchasing a ticket).

The difference in my case is that I can't find said ticket for the life of me (after rooting through my car and bins). I realise that I shouldn't necessarily need to prove my innocence to them as there should be a record of my purchase on their system but there is a nagging doubt at the bottom of my stomach that if I ignore the ticket and they decide to follow up with court action, I do not have physical proof of my ticket (other than the fact I can describe exactly where I parked, what time I purchased the ticket, which machine I used and what I was wearing (for CCTV proof)).

What is my legal standing on this if I should ever need it. I do not intend paying these clowns purely down to the fact I know i'm innocent.

Many thanks
Dan

Again, did you have to enter your registration in the P&D machine?

Also, the Parking Eye invoice, don't call it a 'fine'... because that is incorrect!

Oopsadaisy

If you're worried...pay up.

You don't have to, but if you're frightened by bits of paper then maybe paying is safer.

Coupon-mad

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

If you're worried...pay up.

You don't have to, but if you're frightened by bits of paper then maybe paying is safer.

I know you qualify it by saying you don't have to, but I would never type that sentence in bold because people may believe it. Lots of people worry about this scam but I would never ever tell them to pay the scammers.