Parking Enforcement Notice - Paid

CKhalvashi

Coming from the one that offered the council £5 + what it would have cost them to park, I think you're completely stupid to have paid, and can't work out why you're proud of it!

CK

esmerobbo

The problem with your "honesty" is that you paid a PPC for something they did not even provide!

Stephen_Leak

The Co-op's website shows a Co-op Food store at New Quay Road, Endeavour Wharf, Whitby YO21 1DH. The Co-op do use PPCs, but not at every site. Can someone local check this site? If there is a PPC infestation, are the time limit and "parking charge" as quoted?

art_for_arts_sake

Although I doubt the veracity of the OP, I'm sure many of the supermarkets letting these leeches monitor their car parking would be delighted if there was no need for them. I've angrily thrust Parking Eye PCN letters into the hands of ALDI workers a couple of times for them to deal with but on the second occasion they pointed out there was a genuine problem with parking spaces being abused, and although I was a legitimate shopper other local concerns were actually telling people to park there. Until we see a bit more consideration and a bit less of a sense of self-entitlement these parking companies are always going to be around in one form or another. I don't think the introduction of town centre on-street parking charges by local councils have helped either. I now do one big shop every so often and cycle in for the rest of the time. Result? I no longer have to get angry at these "fines", and I'm probably fitter as a result.

ManxRed

God, I hope he doesn't get emailed by the relative of an African Diplomat who has died in a plane crash. He'll be broke before long. But proud of it though.

ripped_off_driver

You just know that nobby will be right at the top of a suckers list somewhere.

Stephen_Leak

ripped_off_driver wrote: »

You just know that nobby will be right at the top of a sucker's list somewhere.

The PPC's? I'm ashamed to say that there is a part of me that hopes that the PPC involved does pick up his payment, sit on it and come back for another £45.

AltheHibby

"Nobby" isn't that an English footballer who played in some minor game in 1966? Perhaps the OP knows.

bazster

afas, unfortunately the supermarkets have taken the lazy and (for them, at least in the short run) cheap way out. If they wanted to deal with the problem of unauthorised parking properly - without introducing PPC's and all their nauseating practices - they easily could.

My local Waitrose has a car park with an entrance barrier with a ticket machine, and clear signage (in Waitrose' own name, no PPC involved) stating that the car park is free to shoppers who spend a minimum £5 in Waitrose and get their ticket validated at the checkout, all others pay whatever-it-is. And there's an exit barrier where you have to either produce the validated ticket, or pay.

It works, and (because there is no rapacious PPC involved) if you forget to get your ticket validated they'll still let you off paying at the exit if you show them your Waitrose receipt.

But, of course, there is a cost to them for doing this. Clearly, though, they consider it's a cost worth paying for good customer relations and not having sleazebags dragging their name through the mud. If Waitrose can do it so can the others, but while they continue instead to choose the cheap-and-nasty solution they get no sympathy from me.

Stephen_Leak

AFAS raises a valid point.

We have to be very careful not to even be percieved to condone inconsiderate parking or not paying or overstaying in a pay car park.

I have every sympathy for a car park owner, who pays good money to provide parking for their customers, only to see it being used by others, But allowing a PPC to blackmail everyone, including your customers, isn't the answer.

Again, there is a department store near to me, that has the potential problem of being within walking distance of the city centre, with all the offices and shops. They also have a receipted ticket exit barrier system, which works. I cannot recall ever having had any difficulty finding a space.