Parking Eye PCN - Does ignoring work?

qwoplop

Hi,

I have been blessed with a PCN (Parking Charge Notice) from Parking Eye, the same one as hundreds of others I have found on here, CAG, MSE.

The way I see it;

1) I pay
2) I ignore
3) I offer what I feel is a reasonable sum...


The offence: 13 minutes over the paid period.

The one thing I dont understand and I have not yet read; the proof they send is my car entering and leaving the car park. Does the parking time not start from when my money enters the machine and prints my ticket stating that I have one hour?

To me, 13 minutes is a reasonable sum of time to enter a car park, find a space, walk to the machine, and at the end, go from the space to the exit.

One thing I really want to know is;

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Has anyone ignored and got away with it? I read loads of people saying it, but not many saying its actually worked...

Thanks for any help/advice/etc.

If I go for point 3), what should I state in a letter saying I am happy to pay for the extra hour and the DVLA and Admin/Postage Fee?

Thanks again.

pogofish

qwoplop wrote: »

the same one as hundreds of others I have found on here, CAG, MSE.

So, having seen the many, many answers largely giving the same advice, why the suffering f*ck are you taking these jokers seriously and considering any option other than IGNORE?

And what sort of "proof" is this - Nothing I've ever seen from PE is any kind of acceptable evidence of anything!

And no, I've not heard anything from them in the two years since they sent the last bit of laughable toilet paper!

Coupon-mad

Do not ignore a private parking ticket - from 2013 onwards things changed in England/Wales.

If yours is Parking Eye then they are suing people and so are some other PPCs.

You must appeal and with current forum advice, you will win at popla - we win 100% of appeals in 2014.

Please click to page one of the forum, get off this old thread. See my signature below for where to click to read current advice. Please read the NEWBIES thread at the top of this very forum.

Did I say STOP reading this ancient thread, NOW??!!




Do not ignore a private parking ticket - from 2013 onwards things changed in England/Wales. If yours is Parking Eye then they are suing people and so are some other PPCs.

You must appeal and with current forum advice, you will win at popla - we win 100% of appeals in 2014.

Please click to page one of the forum, get off this old thread. See my signature below for where to click to read current advice. Please read the NEWBIES thread at the top of this very forum.

Did I say STOP reading this ancient thread, NOW??!!

Stephen_Leak

Whether you now owe the charge for the additional hour is a moot legal point, By demanding substantially more, which is a legally unenforcable "penalty", it could be argued that they have waived their right to the lawful but paltry sum.

However, a few cases have made it all the way to court, and of these the PPCs usually lose. OK, there have been a few which the PPC won, but only because the driver didn't turn up or actively shot himself in the foot. We suspect that one of the latter may have been a "put up job". Anyway, I digress. Even when the driver wins, some judges still like to award the PPC the charge, almost as an insult.

If a case does get to court, then is the right time to offer the charge in "full and final settlement". If they don't cash the cheque and still take you to court, that should show the judge that they aren't interested in it.

But don't offer a penny more. If, God forbid, you were ever mugged, would you give them a bit extra to cover the cost of their knife?

give_them_FA

Just simply ignore them as stated above. You yourself have probably hit the nail on the head in picking up that their "evidence" is a fraud. In fact anything Parking Eye issue will be garbage.

You don't owe them anything and they will not do anything about it, except write a few asinine letters. I can confirm that I have dumped off over 80 of these FAKE SCAM tickets over the last few years, mainly by ignoring.

It is a fact, unfortunately, that too few people actually come back on and say "yes I ignored them and they DID go away"... but plenty have, and the fact we never hear from people again I think proves that "all's well that ends well"!

So- look and see from the sticky at the top of the forum what you can expect to receive and see how boringly predictable they are as you get the same letters.

Equally predictably, after you have received the last letter in the pre-set chain, they WILL go away.

And just to add to Stephen's post above, not much possibility of Parking Eye doing court after their last case ended in total disaster for them, but if you totally blank them and they don't know who was driving the car, court isn't even an option. And, before you ask: No, you don't have to tell them who was driving regardless of what drivel they throw at you.

ric3vic

I ignored them. Nothing happened except a few silly letters. I grant that the letters are superficially scary, but they are effectively meaningless.

AltheHibby

Mrs theHibby has successfully ignored 2 of these scam letters from a free (and empty) car park.

Also, a local church to me meets in a hotel where these muppets "control" the parking. Despite being regular users and keeping to the rules, they have had quite a few. I believe the hotel is fed up having to cancel them. None of them have paid.

give_them_FA

Why doesn't the hotel just get rid of them? They probably wheedled their own way in, in the first place. Don't these people go around looking for car parks they can infest, rather than being approached by businesses who have identified a car parking problem and then go looking for a solution?

AltheHibby

The hotel used to have barriers, which were fine and usually worked well. The problem was that they kept jamming and I suspect that's how parking lie got in.

I have mentioned to the staff about the law and they agree that it is a right royal pain in the Perky dealing with it, but they have no power to change it.

give_them_FA

Yes, barriers will solve all parking problems. That is why PPCs don't like them.

bondy_lad

you are taking this far to seriously, you have not been fined ,merely given a fake ticket by parking spy,, so fake em,,full stop or you can IGNORE , like most sensible people do, nothing can/will happen to you as a result of a SCAM .relax.keep your money.