Forgot to buy ticket...

r1chd

Hi folks,

I found this forum after googling my problem.

I parked at a local car park this morning (Asda in Worcester) and stupidly forgot to buy a ticket. £1 would have covered me for 3 hours, I was back within about 1 hour, to find a PCN from Town and City Parking.

I admit I was wrong, and would like to pay the £1, but object to the £60 charge requested as it is out of all proportion. Should I...

a) Send a cheque for £1 in full and final settlement,
b) Ignore the notice completely, not enter into any correspondence (following the advice from other posts), and just put an extra quid into the machine next time I park there?

Any advice gratefully accepted!

Many thanks,

Rich

ManxRed

1) is morally correct and would completely cover you.
2) is OK, and would probably still work fine. Forget the extra quid though. No one's ever going to be able to account for that, except your own conscience. You are dealing with people who have no conscience so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

give_them_FA

You could do either of the a. or b.; paying the chancers £60 is definitely NOT on the agenda, and you will be pleased to hear that TCP will NEVER take you to court so ignoring is completely effective.

Did you shop in Asda? My local one refunds your parking if you spend £5 in the store, so it could be you never owed them anything anyway.

Half_way

The correct answer is A

r1chd

I didn't shop in Asda, it's in the city centre so handy for parking generally. They do refund your pound if you do though. Ironically I parked there because it's cheap!

Many thanks for the advice, I will get writing a letter now. Should I leave my name/address off it, or isn't that important?

give_them_FA

The only problem you will face is that they are too greedy to take only what you actually owe them so will probably still send you the letters with or without your name. If you send them a cheque it will have your name on it anyway? But you will have salved your conscience and can just ignore anything they send after that.

david39

Don't communicate with the scammers in any way. You have no need to.

If your conscience needs salving, go into Asda and buy a fiver's worth of goods next time you're in town.

AlexisV

I'd send a cheque.

They've never done court, but then again Parking Eye never have and then they tried one out of the blue last year (even though they lost and haven't tried again since).