Car clamped!! without solid valid grounds

Rams007

Morning all
this is my first post on this forum, I always lurk as a guest (usually on the freebies, no spend required board!!)

I need some advice and support from my fellow motorists

Yesterday, my better half got her car clamped in a retail car park

She works for one of the shops in the retail park and has been doing so for six solid years

she was given a staff parking permit back in 2009 and since then has parked in the designated staff area

This was Until yesterday, when PCM clampers had a field day clamping the majority of staff cars

The reason the clamper gave was that the badges details were not visible. The badge number, which is registered to her was clearly visible however the name of the retail park was not visible as the text had faded away

this was after an hour of parking the car as the car park gates open at 1000 and she was clamped around 1100 even though shoppers are allowed to park for three hours

She had no choice but to pay a whopping fee of £130 to release her fee (she had to pay cash as its £5 extra to pay by debit card!)

i have of course appealed and referred this post in the letter as i believe we have a solid grounds of appeal and also PCM are clearly making money on innocent people

I hope people can give me some direction as to what to write in the letter, it has been drafted but she is looking to send it tommorow before she goes away on a holiday (i dont mind posting the letter on here if its ok with the admins, i will obviously hide any personal info!)

thanks guys :money:

spike7451

Welcome to the forums, copy/paste your post over on the Pepipoo forums (link below)

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60

malkyh

I'd pop over to the pepipoo forums for good advice on what to do next.

Half_way

Who hired the clampers ?

taffy056

The only way to get your money back is to sue the clampers and the agents or retailers responsible for hiring them, appeals will be ignored as will ccjs if you sue just the clampers

vax2002

The Line of attack here is to contact the management company whom own the retail park and demand a meeting with them.
You would have been well within your legal rights to cut the clamp off the vehicle.
Suing Clampers is a waste of time, she needs to send a copy of the invoice to the owners of the retail park and make it very clear she will be suing them for return of her money as joint defendants to the clamping scam.
The landowners are responsible for the actions of its agents.

The "appeal" will be turned down so it is better to act now.
The extra charge would have been money well spent as a credit card company can charge back clampers and grab the money back.
On her receipt should be a SIA number.
Contact the SIA as many used are fraudulent and dont refer to the person clamping, ask the SIA to investigate if the person who clamped was the badge holder, many are not.
Complain to the SIA about the actions of its badge holder.
In the meantime serve a notice before action letter to the owners of the retail park stating that the clamp was applied despite all hoops been jumped and that the cars clamped were staff cars, demand they return the money or within 14 days a county court claim will be instigated against the property owners and the clamper jointly.
Send the letter today by recorded delivery, dont wait on the appeal, there is no appeal.
The landowners will then take the action of these crooks seriously.
Recent case law also places in doubt the right of "agents" to seek losses on land they dont own.

But the emphasis is to go straight for the company that own the land first, clampers will have numerous CCJ's, they dont care, the management land owners will need a clean credit history so the threat of a ccj is quite serious and could cost them a lot of money in lost credit.

ManxRed

How did you pay?

Who hired them?

Can you scan and post up the receipt?

Wywth

Rams007 wrote: »

Morning all
this is my first post on this forum, I always lurk as a guest (usually on the freebies, no spend required board!!)

I need some advice and support from my fellow motorists

Yesterday, my better half got her car clamped in a retail car park

She works for one of the shops in the retail park and has been doing so for six solid years

she was given a staff parking permit back in 2009 and since then has parked in the designated staff area

This was Until yesterday, when PCM clampers had a field day clamping the majority of staff cars

The reason the clamper gave was that the badges details were not visible. The badge number, which is registered to her was clearly visible however the name of the retail park was not visible as the text had faded away

this was after an hour of parking the car as the car park gates open at 1000 and she was clamped around 1100 even though shoppers are allowed to park for three hours

She had no choice but to pay a whopping fee of £130 to release her fee (she had to pay cash as its £5 extra to pay by debit card!)

i have of course appealed and referred this post in the letter as i believe we have a solid grounds of appeal and also PCM are clearly making money on innocent people

I hope people can give me some direction as to what to write in the letter, it has been drafted but she is looking to send it tommorow before she goes away on a holiday (i dont mind posting the letter on here if its ok with the admins, i will obviously hide any personal info!)

thanks guys :money:

Post your details on the pepipoo site.
They'll tell you if and how best to get all your money back

Don't let the clampers get away with this :mad:

give_them_FA

The clampers are the agents of the company which owns/manages the car park. This company has every right to tell its agents that the vehicles in question were wrongly clamped and that all moneys should be returned.

If the management company doesn't do that, or the clampers refuse to refund the money despite the instruction of its principal, then you sue the management company in small claims. Simple.

Why oh WHY are these crooks still being permitted to operate?

Government hang your heads in shame!

muckybutt

that is a prime example of clampers grabbing money before they get outlawed later in the year, its also a classic example of getting the darn thing cut off as it was illegally applied.

fil_cad

Its time for more angle grinder men to appear on the scene and come to the rescue