Parking Eye Letter

Ln42

Hi,

I have been reading through the threads related to this, but becoming a little confused...

Just under 2 weeks ago, we went for dinner in a local pub - we asked the bar staff if we needed to register the car details for using the car park, which is shared with another business. We were told not to worry. Not having eaten there before, I assumed this to be correct. The following week, we ate there again, and this time they did take my registration number.

This week I received a letter in the post from Parking Eye, with a parking charge and photos of the car being driven. However, I did use the pub and have bank statements / receipts to prove this. Is it worth trying to 'appeal' or just to ignore the charges? Should I contact the pub directly?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

AlexisV

Ignore Parking Eye, but contact the pub with your evidence and tell them you'll never return.

give_them_FA

Appealing will be a complete waste of your time and effort. Parking Eye are not interested in the facts, only in the money they would like you to give them. So I can tell you now what the result will be- "The charge was correct, now pay it".

Fortunately, as Alexis says, you can simply ignore them, it is a total fake, and completely unenforceable; so all you will get is a few asinine letters after which they will give up.

I would return to the pub, show them the letters, and tell them that the car park cowboy they have chosen to employ has cost them a customer.

If a few people did that then the parasite would be booted off. Unfortunately most people just vote with their feet, so the poor businesses do not realise why they are losing trade.

pogofish

Yup - Ignore and do not contact them under any circumstances.

Als check the letter chain sticky so you know what to expect next and count down to the end of the scam. Parking Eye do not do court.

You should also give the pub a rocket for letting these predators operate on their territory and make it very clear why you won't be back.

Stephen_Leak

pogofish wrote: »

<snip> Parking Eye do not do court. <snip>

Actually, they do.

Parking Eye vs. Smith, Manchester, 2011, 1XJ81016. The judge ruled that the PPC’s demands were unreasonable, were therefore an unlawful contractual penalty and found in favour of the driver. However, as they were unpaid, she awarded the PPC the parking charges of £15.00, not the £260.00 penalty. She also awarded costs of just £95.00, not their claimed £4,457.20. [STRIKE]IIRC, costs are awarded from public funds. [/STRIKE]

However, they don't appear to be in a hurry to repeat the experience.

bondy_lad

parking spy are a joke, so are their fake fines,,i.e. parking charge notice=fake/con/not legal,,,you have this,, a legit one is called a PENALTY charge notice,,you dont have this and parking spy/lie/pie,,have zero powers to issue,,give that pub a real rocket.dont worry about future threat o grams, treat them as loo paper, and when you have finished doing what you usually do with loo paper , simply,,PRESS FLUSH and forget about it.jobs a good un innit.

give_them_FA

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

Actually, they do.

Parking Eye vs. Smith, Manchester, 2011, 1XJ81016. The judge ruled that the PPC’s demands were unreasonable, were therefore an unlawful contractual penalty and found in favour of the driver. However, as they were unpaid, she awarded the PPC the parking charges of £15.00, not the £260.00 penalty. She also awarded costs of just £95.00, not their claimed £4,457.20. IIRC, costs are awarded from public funds.

However, they don't appear to be in a hurry to repeat the experience.

Costs are not awarded from public funds in civil cases, Stephen. Parking Eye would have had to have paid their own, and the £95 paid by Smith could have been avoided had he tendered the £15 he admitted owing before they took him to court.

However, P.E. did get their fingers very badly burned and won't try that again. Shame another parking company didn't learn from that fiasco. Well, shame for them, rejoicing for everyone else....

Ln42

Thanks to you all for your replies clarifying the situtaion.down the letters. Yesterday the other half went back to the pub and found himself in a queue of people all brandishing their letters - looks like a certain employee has been telling people not to bother registering their cars, and so a lot of customers have ended up with parking 'charges' letters...

give_them_FA

the news we would like to hear is that the pub has decided it cannot afford the luxury of a car park parasite. The licenced trade was doing badly enough without having people driving customers away.

malkyh

To be fair to the pub, as the car park is shared it may not have been them that employed these parasites.

Although presumably they must have been consulted by the joint carpark owner.

Ln42

Hi all,

I just thought that I'd update you - in this case Parking Eye cancelled the 'Charge' after we emailed them copies of the relevant receipts / bank statements - I'm not sure if this will always work, but I suspect it may have something to do the fact that a number of people were 'charged' that day due to the misinformation given by the resturant staff member....