should i pay this

padraigpost

I have just received a private parking ticket for parking on a retail park with a time limit of 2 hours,on arrival i walked from the park to my dentists to collect a small plate i had made (approx 200 yards and back) on returning i found i had been ticketed less than 5 minutes after i parked the car, I than did my shopping at pets at home on the retail park and returned home, all of this took less than 1 hour. The ticket stated the reason for the ticket was that i had parked and left the park, to be fair on reading the conditions on the sign it did say not to leave the park but i did do my shopping on the park and have the receipts, this seems a very unfair condition to put on parking, any advice welcome.

AlexisV

Simply ignore them. Expect 3 or 4 threatening letters, but don't contact them and they will give up. It's a scam.

Coupon-mad

Obviously just ignore it. Only ever take seriously a ticket from the Police, TFL or Council.

Look at the forum board this thread sits on just by clicking on the end part of the > link that precedes the thread name, shown in blue at the top of the page. In this case, above the thread title, top of this page, it shows:

Home > Forums > Home & Play > Motoring, Public Transpost & Cycling > Parking Tickets, Fines & Parking > ('name of your thread').

Hence you just click on 'Parking Tickets, Fines & Parking' in the blue chain>link above to view current threads on the board you are on.

You will see a top thread with PPC letters, showing you what to expect and ignore (in pictures). And you will see a sticky thread called 'welcome, please read before posting' which has a must-see Watchdog youtube clip.

Plus you will see all the current threads from today and yesterday, we get 20 or 30 new queries here every day. Have a look and see how many times we tell peeps to ignore any fake PCN from any private company.

Get familiar with the scam and get ready for a game of PPC snap with the debt collector letters!