LPS Parking charge notice

Storminnorman01

in november 2011 I parked my car at the local pier and left the car for 5 min, when i returned there was a parking ticket on my car (£40). It was around 5pm on a sunday. i was not aware that you had to pay to park there on a sunday and the signs there stating that you had to display mon - sun were not light up at all. as it was 5pm it was very dark, and i have taken photographic evedence to show the lack of lighting and visability. i searched the internet for help and found the money saving expert article on private parking tickets. i followed the advice to ignore the ticket and have recently recieved a formal demand asking for £60 and to reply within 14 days or it will increase to £78 plus further administrative costs. i am worried that these costs will cary on increassing and i will end up having to pay alot more than if id payed the inital £40. please help

pogofish

Read the sticky and stop worrying - You will see all the free toilet paper you can expect from LPS there.

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

taffy056

Doesn't matter what they increase the invoice to, the advice is to ignore them and their powerless agents who will write to you next, they are issuing an invoice that can not be enforced, only a council or the police can issue a penalty , so these are neither so just ignore, do not appeal do not communicate with them.

Please read the sticky threads at the top of the forum to educate yourself on this scam that blight motorists in the UK.

notts_phil

Would you pay those pesky nigerians who tell you that you have won £1000000,but have to pay £30 to get it?

Kite2010

If you are silly enough to pay the original £40, they will come back asking for more citing late payment charges. Once the scammers have got a payer they will try and shake them to get some more money out of them.

The landowner has suffered a small loss, of 1/12 of whatever the (poorly displayed) hourly rate is. Which I can bet isn't £480 an hour, therefore the amount the PPC is asking is a contractual penalty in a contract you were meant to have entered into by not-seeing the unlit signs. If they do decide to do court they would be laughed out