parking ticket issued today

vax2002

Just to add, if it were me, I would make them fish the soggy ticket out of the trough of the Gents.

Stephen_Leak

superteach38 wrote: »

Thank you so much!

Apparently, their deliver wagons sometimes struggle to turn because people park there in the mornings so they "have had to start issuing fixed-penalty fines".

My 21 year old son and all his friends spend a FORTUNE in the pub so I think a family boycott could be in order!

I shall keep my nerve & ignore the slip.

Thanks again.

I do sympathise with car park owners. They do sometimes suffer abuse, and we don't condone this. But as a private individual, there's really nothing they can do. But bringing in a PPC protection racket isn't the answer, either.

My immediate thought is that they ought to use a couple of traffic cones to stop people parking where they shouldn't on delivery days.

If the pub says it isn't anything to do with them, then they shouldn't have any objection to you putting up a warning notice for the benefit of their patrons, should they?

Personally, I'd tell the landlord that you're going to boycott the place, until the PPC gives up. I wouldn't even ask for the ticket to be cancelled: It isn't worth the paper it's written on anyway.

Then, when the PPC has sent you all the evidence you need, you should also sue both the pub and their agent, the PPC, for harrassment. Then it will be definitely become something to do with them.

However, you would probably then have to find another watering hole. Tricky. :think:

The_Slithy_Tove

HO87 wrote: »

Most pub-based PPC operations are self-ticketing. You pay a fixed fee for a pack containing a number of signs (in the name of the PPC) and a pack of tickets and wallets. You issue the tickets yourself, put them in a wallet and attach it to the vehicle(s) in question, take a digital camera shot or two and send off the ticket counterfoil. The PPC then collect the charge and give you a cut.

The landlords would be better spending his money on some "No Parking" stickers with really aggressive adhesive, and stick them on the windscreens of offending vehicles. That way, he causes the offender some inconvenience in scraping off the sticker, but no permanent harm or cost. Will make the culrpit think twice about doing it again, but without completely p***ing them off (one hopes). Worked in my college car park at Uni many years ago.

ppc_guy

give_them_FA wrote: »

Don't forget the ticket isn't issued by the pub, but by a third party parasitic company which aims to put the proceeds in its own pocket. So I don't think the landlord will have too much trouble telling them to cancel it if he thinks he's going to lose custom on it. Do not accept any "nothing to do with me" excuses, though. The scammers are their agents and this makes the pub the controller of the situation!

From the inside again this could be mis-information... a lot of pubs are now going down the self issue route and this means the landlord will be less likely to get it cancelled as it may well have been him who stuck it on the car in the first place.

trisontana

ppc_guy wrote: »

From the inside again this could be mis-information... a lot of pubs are now going down the self issue route and this means the landlord will be less likely to get it cancelled as it may well have been him who stuck it on the car in the first place.

And got his £10 "finder's fee".

give_them_FA

ppc_guy wrote: »

From the inside again this could be mis-information... a lot of pubs are now going down the self issue route and this means the landlord will be less likely to get it cancelled as it may well have been him who stuck it on the car in the first place.

If this is the case- and it looks as if it is- then the person who issued the ticket probably may not have realised that the OP was actually a patron of the pub.

I still reckon a quiet word with the landlord is the way forward. He probably won't admit he put it there, but I would expect him to say "don't worry, superteach, I will sort it out, sorry about that" when he learns that the alternative is that he loses a customer (or several) but the ticket isn't going to get paid anyway. :rotfl:

Otherwise, Stephen Leak's plan is good, make some cash on it.

Stephen_Leak

give_them_FA wrote: »

Otherwise, Stephen Leak's plan is good, make some cash on it.

Again, I feel that the PPC's clients are going to be the softer target. If enough of the big ones terminate their contracts, it will have more effect on the PPCs, than we can ever hope to have directly.

The 7 Ps. Perfect Prior Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance.

Oh, and always have a Plan B.