Invalid private ticket?

therivierakid

This is clutching at straws slightly but here goes...

My wife parked in a pretty empty car park last night which I believe belongs to an office block. She said there were just a few other cars there when she got there (this was about 8:30 at night). We returned to the car around 11ish to find a ticket from LPS on the screen. There was an LPS sign in the car park which my wife had obviously missed. I looked at all the details on the ticket and they were all correct EXCEPT one! The colour of my wife's car - the ticket said Silver but my wife's car is green. Does anyone think we can avoid paying because of this?

Tenuous I know, but worth a shot if it'll save us £40.

Browntoa

its a private parking ticket so invalid anyway

halibut2209

Read other threads, check the stickies.

Just ignore all the crap they will send you

Sirdan

therivierakid wrote: »

This is clutching at straws slightly but here goes...

My wife parked in a pretty empty car park last night which I believe belongs to an office block. She said there were just a few other cars there when she got there (this was about 8:30 at night). We returned to the car around 11ish to find a ticket from LPS on the screen. There was an LPS sign in the car park which my wife had obviously missed. I looked at all the details on the ticket and they were all correct EXCEPT one! The colour of my wife's car - the ticket said Silver but my wife's car is green. Does anyone think we can avoid paying because of this?

Tenuous I know, but worth a shot if it'll save us £40.

As has been said this is not a REAL parking ticket from an authority , it is a mickey mouse one from a Private Company which has no legal right to impose such a penalty on you.
IGNORE IT ..but be prepared to receive all sorts of threatening deceitful intimidating letters from the Parking Company, their Debt Collector (who also has no special powers) and maybe a Solicitor (who will do nothing despite what their letter says).

As a point of interest only had it been a statutory ticket from a council or the Police ,wrong car colour alone is not enough for a sucessful appeal.

Inflatable_Armadillo

therivierakid wrote: »

Tenuous I know, but worth a shot if it'll save us £40.

You don't anyone anything, so you don't have to part with any money.

As advised, just ignore them and they will go away after you have got to the end of the letter and phone call chain.

Kite2010

Lets think what the landowners damages are for parking in a car-park which belongs to an office-block at night.

The damages are nothing, the most the landowner can sue you for is nothing. Ignore the PPC

vax2002

With respect to the colour issue see second statement.
General advice applicable to your case.


You have not been given a parking ticket or a fine:
From a legal prospective what you have been given is an "invitation to pay a private invoice".
You are legally within your rights to reject the invitation and keep your money:
What will happen is they will buy your private data from DVLA and send a series of menacing letters threatening to take you to court and then more letters from fake debt collectors and fake solicitors again all threatening to take you to court.
They will not take you to court as legally they have no power to fine you or charge you a penalty.
In short it is a scam of impersonation of officialdom and empty threats.
HOW TO DEAL:
IGNORE everything, ignore all letters, ignore all fake solicitors letters and ignore all fake debt collectors.
They will get fed up and move on to another victim.
IGNORE Means exactly that IGNORE, you do not appeal, there is no appeal it is part of the scam, you do not bite back, do not write or do anything to correspond and they will go away, if they call your telephone, do not confirm any information place the handset down and leave it of the hook for ten minutes .
BE WARNED evidence on these and other forums clearly describes how people who do pay these hoping they go away receive further demands for more money, often several hundreds of pounds.



Just to add, these parking scams rely on giving you something to pull at, they know some people just can not resist trying to be proved right and if you step back calm down you will see that what you are actually standing in is a very cleverly thought out trap designed to get you to take the obvious bait on the floor, they have had thousands of attempts and perfecting the trap and perfecting the bait, so you think you have spotted a flaw, a loop hole, something wrong in the sign, car details or colour wrong ? In fact what you have seen is what they have left out for you to see and by the time you realise you have been hooked you are well in to a dialogue with them.
Knowing that they have a live fish on the hook is 99% of the scam, but if you ignore them they dont know who you are from adam yes they have the keepers details but the driver is responsible and you do not have to correspond and give them any information, for all they know fred blogs details supplied by DVLA could be the local crown court Judge, senior police officer or local bone crunching no neck thug waiting to dish out some instant justice.
If you pull them up over signs, you are admitting reading them and making contract !
So stop zoom out and have a look at what this line you have found to pull is connected to.... A very large hook that will end up in your backside if you pull on it.
Hope This helps mark

Coupon-mad

therivierakid wrote: »

This is clutching at straws slightly but here goes...

My wife parked in a pretty empty car park last night which I believe belongs to an office block. She said there were just a few other cars there when she got there (this was about 8:30 at night). We returned to the car around 11ish to find a ticket from LPS on the screen. There was an LPS sign in the car park which my wife had obviously missed. I looked at all the details on the ticket and they were all correct EXCEPT one! The colour of my wife's car - the ticket said Silver but my wife's car is green. Does anyone think we can avoid paying because of this?

Tenuous I know, but worth a shot if it'll save us £40.

You didn't get a parking ticket. It is not a fine. It's a scam.

Read the stickies, watch the Watchdog clip, check out the rubbish scamogram threats they will send in the post. And ignore all the letters when they arrive.