ASDA parking fines

The_Slithy_Tove

MaidenEngland wrote: »

Any advice please as I am worrying myself sick that the baliffs will turn up on my doorstep if I ignore.
Thank you

Post number 186 of this thread. Was there not anything in the previous 185 (I assume you have read the thread you are attaching your post to) that told you this will not happen, and you can safely ignore the ticket?

robredz

MaidenEngland wrote: »

Hi all
New here. I recieved a parking ticket from T&C due to my blue badge being out of date. (I have recently had more surgery and missed the renewal) I had not realised. My partner was driving my car as I cannot till January. I have read other threads telling people to ignore these 'invoices'
I'm natually a stressed person and this has made me feel ill and I feel it is not helping my recovery. I have been told that if I renew my pass and send them a picture of the new in date one the ticket will be ignored.
Any advice please as I am worrying myself sick that the baliffs will turn up on my doorstep if I ignore.
Thank you

As they know you are disabled, they are as already stated guilty of Direct Discrimination contrary to the Equalities Act 2010, if they persist in their nonsense, ignore them imho

atilla

robredz wrote: »

As they know you are disabled, they are as already stated guilty of Direct Discrimination contrary to the Equalities Act 2010, if they persist in their nonsense, ignore them imho

Or, better still, turn the tables and chase them for recompense and damage their credibility (what little they have).

TenaciousRose

Hi Everyone, thanks for the great advice.

My question is this - does it make any difference if the driver of the car can be proved? We overstayed in an Asda car park and have now received a PCN from TCP.

This was a hire car with one named driver. However TCP have said that DVLA have confirmed that we are the registered keeper of this vehicle. This simply isn't true as it's a hire car which we used for a week.

Coupon-mad

You've been very lucky!

Many Hire companies would have just paid this fake PCN but I suspect they have passed your details on to the PPC which is GREAT and exactly the right thing for the Hire co to do! TCP would have written to them first but it's brilliant that the whole scam is now in your hands to safely ignore first hand.

Now you can just ignore it or appeal it like anyone would with their own car. So much better than wondering if the Hire co are going to panic about the letters; you will get thise letters instead.

Not sure why on earth you have been in touch with TCP though,the easiest thing to do is to just ignore it. Makes no difference if they 'know' who was driving/hiring the car as it's not a real parking ticket. It's all a junk mail scam only and you would have been on a very sticky wicket if the threatograms were sent over the coming months to the Hire co.

Assuming this was in England/Wales (option b not being applicable in Scotland) you either:

a) Ignore for the easy life and tick off the junk mail (see 5th from top thread).

OR

b) Appeal and then appeal to POPLA (see second from top thread, this costs the scammers money!) and then if 'unsuccessful' then, ho hum who cares, revert to a).


HTH

Sirdan

TenaciousRose wrote: »

Hi Everyone, thanks for the great advice.

My question is this - does it make any difference if the driver of the car can be proved? We overstayed in an Asda car park and have now received a PCN from TCP.

This was a hire car with one named driver. However TCP have said that DVLA have confirmed that we are the registered keeper of this vehicle. This simply isn't true as it's a hire car which we used for a week.

Note of caution if (as seems to be the case) the hire company have given your details as the driver to TCP ,check that the hire company have not fleeced you for an outrageous "admin charge" by deducting on the card you used to pay for the hire
.
Most hire firms do seem to try this but often it is not in the Terms and Conditions of the hire .

Rudey_Rude

Hi, am I glad that I decided to look this up. This afternoon I went to Asda run up to Christmas they were obviously busy. All spaces were taken and my worse luck I park next to a car that was parked at an angle taking some of my space i was going into, I had to park going over the other line as well. Do my shopping spend over £100 come back to my car firmly attached to my drivers side window a dodgy ticket. :mad: I could barely peel it off!! Town & City Parking PCN.. The other car had gone I ask the trolley attendant who issues these tickets and if they had CCTV. He said only coming in and out but no cameras in the car park pointed me to a gent with his dodgy yellow and grey jacket. I decided to approach customer service first and �� WOW he'd taken a photo of my car over the line (and I noted the other car had gone, space was clear). They could only intervene with blue badge cases and I should write and explain to them. All worried and flustered I go over to him and explain why I was parked that way. Apparently a customer had said something and thinking I was a boy racer slapped a ticket. I am a considerate driver law abiding and they want me to pay £70.00 or £40 if paid within 14 days. Heartless sods few days before Christmas I spent sooo much and Asda doesn't want to know!! I said to the chap why could you not call my reg over the tannoy call me over and I would have told you and parked it properly as the other car had gone.
He did looked shamed and I got the blah blah "I hate my job sometimes I see you're not like that having spoken to you I do feel for you but because of bribes they can't cancel tickets. I said well I'm not paying it, it is wrong how hastily I was 'fined'. Oh well I don't know.. if you're saying you're not going to pay it then write a letter explain why, how much you spend in Asda over the year they may waive it. Downer on my mood come home preparing to write this letter sleeves rolled :eek: now I will TRUST all you good folk and not even bother wasting my time writing anything. I shall wait for their dreaded threatening court letters. Thanks for all your advise guys .
But I will tell you 3 years ago in a retail park I got hit with a £70 ticket, they hounded me sent a letters would not have any of it. Scared me with horrid bailiffs letter saying they would put it up to £150. My mum found a letter and gave me soooo much EARACHE and didn't want bailiffs coming to the house. So I gave in and sent a cheque with the envelope defaced CON ARTIST BEWARE SCAM ARTIST. The Cheque was of course cashed. I shall IGNORE the TCP one then. Fingers crossed :A

atilla

No need to worry. Nothing will come of it other than a pointless paer trail.
However,
Nothing wrong with demanding to see the Manager - next time you're in - then ripping him a new a***hole about your treatment when spending so much money, and that you did this despite the inconsiderate parking of others.
If he fobs you off, we have a far better contact to follow up with then. And, i just happen to know parking was on this weeks agenda.

tempus31

Hi all
last October my girlfriend went shopping and bought a ticket for parking in Asda - because of the queues she was late getting back to the car and found a £40 ticket on it. We've ignored all the letters so far (4 in total) and today my girlfriend panicked when the letter stated that they were going to recommend to the landowner that they take her to county court...
so she has rung them up against my wishes and agreed to pay the £120 charge on her next pay day.
Is it too late to stick two fingers up to them as no money has actually exchanged hands yet.?

my blood is boiling that she was sucked in by the heavy worded letter.

to add to this, they included this web link (i've spaced the http out as it wont let me post the direct link)

h t tps:// www. gov. uk/government/publications/guidance-on-section-56-and-schedule-4-of-the-protection-of-freedoms-act-2012-recovery-of-unpaid-parking-charges


thanks

Damien

Coupon-mad

''so she has rung them up against my wishes and agreed to pay the £120 charge on her next pay day.''

Nonononononono! For goodness sake!

It is NOT too late, you simply DO NOT pay them. This is only a debt collector and you haven't signed anything, no credit agreement.

She panicked about this well-known computerised standard letter?!

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=78495

Just look at all the 'same old, same old' thread links I found in about 2 minutes, all about the same stupid toothless letter chain, which I posted there as SchoolRunMum in post #3.

To phone them up is bad enough but agreeing to pay them is like agreeing to send money by Western Union to a Nigerian email scammer - what a close escape!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease show your girlfriend and all you need to do is see out the letter chain now, despite her phone call. Thank goodness she didn't actually pay them like some complete numpty (which I am sure she is not)! The 'Reduced Payment Offer' missive is next (LOL!!!) and look out too, for letters from 'Zenith' which are still from DRP when they get desperate and try different letter headings to scare the unwary into thinking they have passed it further up the line. They haven't. They won't.