Ive just recieved a parking fine help please???

beyond_skint

HI
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place I couldn't find a place to put it.

I went to the range last week and spent quite a bit of money there as I needed lots of nic nakky bits. Anyway Ive just had a fine in the post from parking eye to say I was only allowed 2 hours there but had spent 2 hours and 17 minutes. Now I've heard something about they cant do this to people, is there anything I can do? This is terrible I spent the time in the shop and spent a lot.

Please could someone help me

simco999

Hi - if it is an official council or police ticket you must pay it.

If it was on private land like a shopping centre/retail park you do not need to pay it. Do not respond to their letters.

They give up eventually. There's plenty of info on here - try search.

or check out the automated links above your post!!

beyond_skint

Thank you Theres a bpa sign on it saying its part of an association for british parking but its not a council one. I wouldnt mind but its away from anywhere you wouldnt park there and go off. Also the store is huge surely theres lots who spend at least 2 hours in there. Im bamboozled why they would have it there in the first place

lawabidingcitizen1

beyond_skint wrote: »

HI
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place I couldn't find a place to put it.

I went to the range last week and spent quite a bit of money there as I needed lots of nic nakky bits. Anyway Ive just had a fine in the post from parking eye to say I was only allowed 2 hours there but had spent 2 hours and 17 minutes. Now I've heard something about they cant do this to people, is there anything I can do? This is terrible I spent the time in the shop and spent a lot.

Please could someone help me

Be careful about following advice given on this site. Private parking companies do take people to court and they do win cases. If you are ordered to pay costs on top of the fine, it could run into the thousands.

McKneff

lawabidingcitizen1 wrote: »

Be careful about following advice given on this site. Private parking companies do take people to court and they do win cases. If you are ordered to pay costs on top of the fine, it could run into the thousands.

This is absolute total rubbish. Please ignore it totally.
LAC - Please just go away and do some research

I think they must work for a pp company.:D

OP, please also ignore every peice of mail they send you, dont contact them.

What they have sent you is an unenForceable invoice. In any event, If it ever happened, they could only take whoever the driver was, you are under no obligation to tell them who the driver was, they have wasted their money getting your name and address from DVLC.
Just stand your ground and come back on here for any reassurance, the demands will eventually dry up.

McKneff

OP, have a read of this:-

Cut and pasted from another thread.
PRIVATE PARKING TICKETS - DON'T PAY!
IT IS NOT A FINE! YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING ILLEGAL!

This is an information page for the thousands of people who receive "tickets" from private companies in the UK ever day at supermarkets, retail parks, and in any other privately-owned carpark.

We are NOT encouraging anybody to openly flout parking restrictions on private land, or to refuse to pay reasonable charges for parking. Landowners have a right to make reasonable charges for the use of their land.

For advice specific to your case, you should visit the forums at http://forums.pepipoo.com or http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...affic-offences.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...play.php?f=163

1. What you should know about these companies

It is important to remember that private parking companies (or PPCs as they are often called) have NO OFFICIAL POWERS - that's right, none at all! They give out their "tickets" on the basis that you have seen the signs in their car park and that you have therefore agreed to a contract obliging you to pay a certain sum of money.


2. What happens to people who don't pay?

In 99.9% of cases, absolutely NOTHING! The company pays the DVLA £2.50 to get your address, and then sends lots of threatening letters. In the main, these letters can be safely IGNORED. The only way the company can actually force you to pay is by taking you to the small claims court, which costs them even more money. And they are by no means guaranteed to win! And they practically never do.

The two main reasons for this (among others) are the following:

- Only the person DRIVING the car could ever have agreed to any such parking contract. The company can only get the Registered Keeper's address from the DVLA: you don't have to tell them who was driving.

-Many of these charges are so extortionately high that they constitute a penalty, which is unenforceable in a consumer contract.

lawabidingcitizen1

And yet, many have in fact been enforced in a court of law.

McKneff

lawabidingcitizen1 wrote: »

And yet, many have in fact been enforced in a court of law.

Do you have a link, fact, figures to back that up.

lawabidingcitizen1

McKneff wrote: »

Do you have a link, fact, figures to back that up.

As a deleriously dedicated mse devotee with over 22,000 posts, no doubt you could furnish us with that information.

McKneff

I dont need to...........

You need to, if you want to stand by your statements.

VoucherMan

You may want to watch the video as well