wrongly given private parking ticket by MET parking services

bromsgrovebarry

Do not be scared to get a Mickey Mouse 'fine'. Once you have joined the Ignore a PPC Scammer Club, the next level of membership is collecting a full set from all scammers involved and playing snap with the threatmail letters in the stickies. One poster on here boasted a collection of 51 'fines'.

istvan_2

hi, been reading up on met parking services. i went to mcdonalds twice in one day and a couple of weeks later they sent me a fine and said i had parked in there for 478 minutes lol!!!! i wrote to them to appeal and they said they didnt believe me and i had to pay the fine, i have now lost the form and after reading everyone elses stories i dont think im even going to pay it! dont mcdonalds know about met parking services and how they treat there customers!?!

dataprotector

go one better, make an official request to Mcdonalds under the data protection act 1998 for all images they hold of you on CCTV that date, inform them you will make yourself available to assist in identifying yourself on cctv, that way you can check it yourself, but better still..... It will cost McD's Hundreds, if not thousands to have all images of other persons blurred out from the footage....the cost to you.... a maximum of £10, the must respond within 40 days of receiving payment. It will cause them an absolute nightmare, so much so they will probably contact the company to have your ticket wiped to avoid paying all that money/hassle...... fo one better and do the same to the Parking company, its your legal right!!!! if they fail to respond report them to the Information Commisioners office, i did this on Monday to a supermarket after getting my notice on Saturday... on Tuesday morning the notice was cancelled my the supermarket as they own the land! I removed my request for CCTV footage

HO87

dataprotector wrote: »

go one better, make an official request to Mcdonalds under the data protection act 1998 for all images they hold of you on CCTV that date, inform them you will make yourself available to assist in identifying yourself on cctv, that way you can check it yourself, but better still..... It will cost McD's Hundreds, if not thousands to have all images of other persons blurred out from the footage....the cost to you.... a maximum of £10, the must respond within 40 days of receiving payment. It will cause them an absolute nightmare, so much so they will probably contact the company to have your ticket wiped to avoid paying all that money/hassle...... fo one better and do the same to the Parking company, its your legal right!!!! if they fail to respond report them to the Information Commisioners office, i did this on Monday to a supermarket after getting my notice on Saturday... on Tuesday morning the notice was cancelled my the supermarket as they own the land! I removed my request for CCTV footage

Appreciate your eagerness dataprotector but let's keep this in proportion. Firstly, the CCTV footage is likely to be MET's not McDonalds.

Secondly, if you make a formal s.7 application to MET, besides charging you £10 for the privilege, they will ask you to supply details of dates and times that you came to site; to describe yourself and provide the details of the vehicle you were driving in order to help them identify relevant footage. Allowing you to view the raw footage (if there is any) may represent a breach of the Act.

Thirdly, the VNPR CCTV system that MET and others use is built to be searched and to find sightings of a single vehicle on multiple dates and times is a piece of cake. It would take a couple of seconds at most. Oh, and there is no footage as such simply captured stills.

Lastly, there is no necessity to blur out/pixelate the images of third parties - if there are any - provided the footage (in this case probably just stills) does not represent an unwarranted intrusion or might cause harm or distress. Driving in and out of a fast food restaurant is hardly an unwarranted intrusion.

Like the idea but let's keep our feet firmly on the deck here.

April5138

Thanks for these useful posts guys, so I'm thinking I will just carry on ignoring them from now on then - or would it be of any use to write once more saying they will have to take me to court because I will not be paying their their invoice and I have several witnesses who will swear an oath that they met with me during that day with my car (not in McDs car park)? Could this perhapes stop them sending the threat letters?

April5138

istvan wrote: »

hi, been reading up on met parking services. i went to mcdonalds twice in one day and a couple of weeks later they sent me a fine and said i had parked in there for 478 minutes lol!!!! i wrote to them to appeal and they said they didnt believe me and i had to pay the fine, i have now lost the form and after reading everyone elses stories i dont think im even going to pay it! dont mcdonalds know about met parking services and how they treat there customers!?!

I know I can not believe McDs are just letting this happen, I can't believe this is legal!! how can they be invloved with these cowboys!!

April5138

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

Yes.

If you feel it worth it, it would be useful to have a word with the manager of said McD's, and pointing out to him how the parking company they emply is harrassing their customers and putting them off from going there, as they are clearly misusing the system, and have no interest whatsoever in enforcing reasonable parking measures. Tell him he has lost a customer, and don't take any b******t from him about how it's nothing to do with him.

I just spoke with the manager, she said she would have the ticket cancelled, took my reg. She said they are rubbish and I shouldn't worry and if I do get further correspondence from them I should just ignore it!!! Well we will see what happens.

AlexisV

She's sounds too bright to be working in fast food!

bondy_lad

April5138 wrote: »

I just spoke with the manager, she said she would have the ticket cancelled, took my reg. She said they are rubbish and I shouldn't worry and if I do get further correspondence from them I should just ignore it!!! Well we will see what happens.

you never did recieve a TICKET,,merely an unenforceable invoice,,or in other words,,,nothing.

dataprotector

HO87, i disagree, the carpark cctv will be owned by McD's, the company merely operate the parking arrangements. You could easily cause the business a problem by requesting this, such as the problem you have been caused by there car park management company, make the request and they will have the ticket removed. As for being able to see footage of other individuals going about there business, such as who they were meeting in McDonalds etc, yes they would have to have it pixilated! By offering to assist in identifying yourself, i mean such as providing details of what you bought, what you were wearing etc. Why would seeing the raw footage be a breach of DPA but giving you an unedited version of the footage not be?? MAke the request and watch your PCN disappear. Lastly these companies are doing decent people a bad turn, so get them back by making a request for the info, not only the easily searchable databases(i know very well how these systems work) but for info such as there contact with the Dvla re you car and any other correspondance, it causes them a problem and will cost them more than the ten pounds it will cost you, also, are they likely to reply??? if they dont and you report them they could lose their data protection registration, resulting in them not being able to obtain any future dvla data (this is a requesrement by dvla)... replies on a postage stamp please!