TPC Parking Notice Attached to Window

grandmastashi

Hi everyone, hope you're all well tonight.

I'm guessing the answer to my question will be 'ignore', but just to run my situation past you guys first for my own peace of mind.

I parked up at a local retail park this afternoon; they have TPS signs around but because of the recession the place is dead aside from two sheds, the rest are empty units. Anyway, the place is generally deserted on the far side aside from a few cars so as ever I parked up there this afternoon. I walked out of the retail park and came back around an hour later to find me, and about 10 other cars had had parking notices stuck to our windows. I opened it to see i'd been accused of leaving my car on the site and been viewed leaving by the attendant (who incidentally wrote my numberplate incorrectly); it stated I owed £50 for my heinous crime.

Fact is, even if you're planning to the visit the park's vast array of two shops, it's still safer to use the path on the outside to reach them so you don't have to walk through the car park dodging all the vehicles of people parking 'illegally'.

I'm guessing i'm ok to ignore it?

Thanks in advance.

trisontana

Yes, just ignore. Loss to landowner = zero.

give_them_FA

If the illiterate dork put the wrong number on you won't hear any more about it anyway.

But the demise of the shopping centre was probably contributed to by the car park cowboy driving away customers with their parasitic fines.

When will retailers EVER learn??

Anyway, treat it with the respect it deserves, = zero, ignore everything even if they do trace you.

grandmastashi

Thanks for the reassurance guys, determined they're not getting a penny out of me.

A couple of years ago I got a fine for from TPS for accidentally driving into a doctors surgery car park after thinking it was the entrance to a nearby retail park. It was a Sunday and the barrier was up so I just went straight in. I got out of my car for 30 seconds and didn't turn off the engine, then realised my mistake and drove off again.

A couple of weeks later I got the letter demanding money... shocked, I went back to the site to check the conditions against what the letter accused me of. After working through it line by line I worked out that in fact I hadn't broken them as they'd stupidly left the barrier up - rendering their who argument null. I wrote an appeal letter and got the standard reply, so I wrote back naively thinking that I hadn't got my message across, to which I got the same letter again.

I then did a bit of research and realised I'd been had, but because I was living with my parents at the time, with a sick mother, the threat of a baliff turning up was too much of a deterrent so I thought it was just easier to pay up.

Now older, wiser, they won't get anything.

trisontana

It wasn't a "fine" and bailiffs just don't "turn up".

Kite2010

Debt collectors are all full of wind, they are toothless dogs with no more power than you or I.