Parking Ticket UKPC

saz_d

Please help! I have read through the unfair parking fine report and im just so confused!

I left my car in a carpark where you leave your car for 2 hours with a free pay and display ticket. I took a risk when picking up a pizza for 5 minuites and didn't get my free ticket. I couldn't have been more than 10 minuites and it was also in the evening and there were plently of spaces, I returned to my car with a parking fine

Now I know this is my own fault for being lazy but as it's a private car park do I still have to pay? They want me to pay £90 or £50 if it's in the first 14 days and I'm not sure if I would have a leg to stand on if they took me to court for ignoring the fine like the article says too. They also have photo's of my car now on there website

Any advice even if it's to pay up please let me know.

Thanks

S:(

Kite2010

Congrats on getting your first parking invoice, which the best advise is to ignore completely, it's a free car-park so the damages to the landowner are zero.

And also ignore the retailers if the car-park belongs to them.

trisontana

And it's not a FINE, it's an invoice.

Coupon-mad

Even if you had parked across two bays sideways and stayed there a week we would tell you to ignore any private parking 'ticket' whatever the circumstances. Not that we encourage bad parking of course but the whole PPC industry - without exception - is based around misleading and deceiving people into thinking they have a fine. YOU DO NOT HAVE A FINE!

Watchdog have covered this scam several times:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=3164256

Nothing else happens, you are perfectly safe to ignore this and the letters are all shown in the top thread by Crabman (PPC letters/threats). You can get a preview of what will arrive next and just play PPC snap with each letter.

It's nothing to worry about at all.

saz_d

Thank you for re-assuring me, it was my own stupid fault but I'm really pleased you all replyed so quick with the same answers

Coupon-mad

No worries, just be ready to play snap with each letter from a debt collector:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2214803

I have ignored a fake PCN myself, 3 years ago. Ignoring the letters is easy once you've seen the Watchdog solicitor and his paper aeroplane, and when you know exactly what scam letter to expect next!

saz_d

Thanks Coupon-mad, I feel alot better now I have watched the you-tube videos! I am also going back to the carpark tomorrow to have a look and take a photo of the sign.

Just one last question, on the back it reads "this charge has been lawfully issued and collection process will be followed in accordance with the administration of Justice Ac 1970."

Should I be worried about that bit?

Coupon-mad

Course not, it's just rubbish 'legalese' mentioned already by loads of posters before you. People have been ignoring this letter template for years! Do you worry about phishing emails this much as well, when they 'look like they come from a Bank or eBay' just as this fake PCN and letters 'look a bit like they are official(ish) letters about a 'parking ticket'?

Here's just one thread by somone who got that standard computerised letter over a year ago (and no, nothing untoward will have happened...):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2852100

Honestly, ignore them and just play snap with each letter that matches the letter-chain pics in Crabman's thread at the top of the forum 'PPC letters/threats'.

esmerobbo

saz_d wrote: »

Just one last question, on the back it reads "this charge has been lawfully issued and collection process will be followed in accordance with the administration of Justice Ac 1970."

Should I be worried about that bit?

It may well be lawfully issued, however you have the lawful right to ignore it!;)

saz_d

esmerobbo wrote: »

It may well be lawfully issued, however you have the lawful right to ignore it!;)

haha I like your way of thinking!

saz_d

Just if anybody reads this thread again, I still have not paid this fine and it is now November! I did write to them as I got scared demanding what they would spend the money on (little silly I no!) and they said stationary and heating. Then my sister told me to man up and not pay it.

I haven't heard from them since April, their signs have changed to bigger ones saying "you will be find if you do not get a ticket"