APCOA at Train Station - 4 Tickets?

tkitmike

Hi Everyone,

I recently parked in a train station car park operated by APCOA, paid for one day, but due to work stayed 5 in total.

Came home today and found 4 Civil Notices from APCOA stuck to my windscreen.

Should I ignore them?

Are they allowed to fine you 4 times?

Your help is very much appreciated!

adouglasmhor

IGNORE
THEN READ THIS THREAD
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2214803
Then really ignore some more.

Coupon-mad

As adouglasmhor said, just ignore this scam.


1. Read the sticky thread, 'PPC letters & threats' as linked already.



2. Check out which standard letter templates will come next.



3. Watch the Watchdog clip on the same sticky thread.



4. Ignore the scammers and tell your friends/family about this con.

give_them_FA

.. and just keep on ignoring till they go away, no matter what BS they throw at you.

And when they've gone (maybe 6 sheets of toilet paper later) come back here and confirm so other victims will be reassured our advice works!

HO87

This is as good an illustration of mimicking authority as you could wish. If APCOA were (ever) to institute proceedings they could only ever allege a single breach of contract and their seeking to apply four "administrative charges" for the single breach could only ever be interpreted as a contractual penalty.

What a shower.

That being said I assume that there is no mention whatsoever on your tickets of Railway Byelaw 14?

Kite2010

Where it could be argued the landowner has lost the income for 4 days worth of parking, so say if parking was £4, they would have lost £16. So they can sue you for £16 plus reasonable costs (say £10) and might win (no penalty here), but the PPC won't sue you for 4 days worth of parking, they will try and claim 4 penalty charges so the chances of them doing court is as much as a pig has of flying past my window at 14:14 tomorrow.

give_them_FA

And let's make it clear that they can only sue the car driver, not the owner/keeper. So if you never reply to anything they send you, they will have no way of knowing who was driving as the keeper has NO obligation to tell them anyway. Hence they will never go to court because the first thing they would have to prove is that the person they'd taken to court was driving- and there's no way they can do that if you ignore them throughout.