Thoughts on parking eye

hammer68

Good evening everyone, my wife is getting a bit tetchy after reading a story on another forum about one lad actually being taken to court and being asked to pay rougly £4000 or there abouts (costs, solicitor fees, unpaid tickets etc) by parking eye. even though he only had to pay about £105 in all and parking eye went the loser on £4000 she is now asking me just to pay the charge as she thinks i will be the one in a million who will be taken to court and lose and end up owing thousands. even though i have told her that ukpc who my dealing is with cannot provide any shred of evidence relating to my charge (apart from a pic on a letter showing my car in a parking space with a ticket on the screen:rotfl:) she is getting really cold feet. please can any one else reassure her

thanks all

Trebor16

Yes, carry on ignoring them. Their claim was deemed as a penalty by the judge in the county court and the only reason Smithy had to pay costs was because then judge ruled he had made no effort to pay the legitimate pay and display charges, which is why he had to pay £95 of costs. It is believed this is a flawed judgemnent because Parking Eye never made any attempt to claim their actual losses but went straight in with thier usual penalty charge bollox.

Parking Eye will be licking their wounds as they still have Pannones bill to settle which is more than £4k. I suspect they may be reconsidering their approach after that mauling.

esmerobbo

As far as I am aware UKPC have never done court.

Except when they were in the dock!

Coupon-mad

hammer68 wrote: »

Good evening everyone, my wife is getting a bit tetchy after reading a story on another forum about one lad actually being taken to court and being asked to pay rougly £4000 or there abouts (costs, solicitor fees, unpaid tickets etc) by parking eye. even though he only had to pay about £105 in all and parking eye went the loser on £4000 she is now asking me just to pay the charge as she thinks i will be the one in a million who will be taken to court and lose and end up owing thousands. even though i have told her that ukpc who my dealing is with cannot provide any shred of evidence relating to my charge (apart from a pic on a letter showing my car in a parking space with a ticket on the screen:rotfl:) she is getting really cold feet. please can any one else reassure her

thanks all

Show her the Watchdog video. It's on 'welcome, please read before posting'.

Tell her that anyone who pays is a mug (sorry but it's true) and worse, anyone who pays is perpetutating the scam against the next victim.

And show her this case which demonstrates the other side of the coin - with a victim whose fake PCN was paid by the lease company, suing Parking Eye and winning the money back because the signage was pants and therefore there was no contract:

(Tasneem &) Riyaz Patel - v - Parking Eye

And show your wife this linked case where UKPC were taken to Court by Trading Standards only a couple of months ago. Sadly Trading Standards seem to have made errors with the Prosecution and the company were 'only' found guilty on one count, but guilty nonetheless. This is UKPC, the scam firm she wants to pay money to (and who have never taken anyone to Court themselves!):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=63597&mode=linearplus

And ask her if she can kindly send me £100 as well, 'cos if she doesn't I 'may' take her/you to Court myself for reading this answer and entering into my 'copyright Coupon-mad' contract.

ohhappydays

Do not reply and just file them in the correct place...the bin

funkycoldribena

hammer68 wrote: »

Good evening everyone, my wife is getting a bit tetchy after reading a story on another forum about one lad actually being taken to court and being asked to pay rougly £4000 or there abouts (costs, solicitor fees, unpaid tickets etc) by parking eye. even though he only had to pay about £105 in all and parking eye went the loser on £4000 she is now asking me just to pay the charge as she thinks i will be the one in a million who will be taken to court and lose and end up owing thousands. even though i have told her that ukpc who my dealing is with cannot provide any shred of evidence relating to my charge (apart from a pic on a letter showing my car in a parking space with a ticket on the screen:rotfl:) she is getting really cold feet. please can any one else reassure her

thanks all

Im charging you and the wife £100 for posting on here.....will she pay it?
Ive got just as much right to ask for it....

fil_cad

And please will she send me £125 as i could do with the extra cash for christmas just like alll the ppc who are well scamming innocent moterists this christmas and all year round (-'

hillcats

It is a mail scam - ignore them.

Oopsadaisy

hammer68 wrote: »

. please can any one else reassure her

Send her round my place, I'll 'reassure' her.