Parking Eye Ticket Appeal

LP1976

HI

I received a parking charge notice from parking eye after parking in a car park for 20 minutes too long.
As i have receipts from all the shops on that retail park that are time stamped so it shows i was genuinly shopping there i appealed against the charge.
I am waiting to hear from them but after looking on here i am now worried i should have ignored the original notice and just waited for the letters to arrive.
Have i made things worse by appealing and do i now need to pay this?
Please help as i'm a little worried i may have mad this harder than it needs to be!

Stephen_Leak

No. Don't worry.

If you’ve written and told them who the driver was, it just means that they can now harass the driver instead of harassing the registered keeper.

Continue to ignore everything you get from the PPC and then their debt collector and solicitor aliases. Eventually, they will run out of empty threats and stop throwing good money after bad.

ManxRed

You haven't made things worse really. All that might happen is that you get a few extra letters than you would have had you ignored them, as they might perceive that you are taking this too seriously.

You only owe them 20 mins of parking charges. I am guessing the car park was free, yes? You can do the maths.

Oh, alright then, 20 mins x £0.00 = zilch.

That's what you legally owe the landowner.

Ignore them from now on. You're perfectly OK.

bondy_lad

nout to worry about as parking spy/eye issue FAKE unenforceable pretend tickets/invoices, safe to ignore and all the loo paper from various others(all part of the scam) as only a PENALTY charge notice is genuine and you dont have one, jobs a god un eh.

taffy056

It will never go to court as there is no loss, keep your receipts and letters you get then go back to the shops involved and complain. Tell them you are being harassed and you hold them jointly liable for the actions of their agent parking eye. You could sue them for a tidy sum if you have the mind to.

By the way your appeal is refused I can tell you straight off.

gwindra

What about if it was a pay and display, you paid for 3 hours and you exceeded by 33 minutes (with a genuine reason!)? Can they go after you or should I still ignore?!

ManxRed

You'd technically owe the landowner 33 mins worth (or whatever the minimum period is) of parking charges. But NOT £60 or whatever they usually try and come after you for.

gwindra

So should I send 33 minutes worth of payment, or ignore? Letter was sent to owner of car, who wasn't the driver that day... so complicated, appreciate advice!

Coupon-mad

gwindra wrote: »

So should I send 33 minutes worth of payment, or ignore? Letter was sent to owner of car, who wasn't the driver that day... so complicated, appreciate advice!

If the reason for taking longer was because there was a disabled (any chronic life-affecting condition, no Blue Badge needed) or elderly passenger then you are legally allowed the adjustment of extra time. The Equality Act covers reasonable adjustments for disabled people (and also covers ageism unless you are in NI).

Personally I would not respond at all.

Technically you owe the 33 mins worth of parking time if there was no disabled or elderly passenger but it's pointless contacting the PPC so don't.

If you really want to, then I would send CASH (pound coin maybe) to the Store Manager explaining the overstay and offering the extra, saying that if they don't want to accept it themselves can they please put it in the charity box? Don't mention the fake PCN at all!!!

Get a free certificate of posting from the Post Office or deliver the letter in an envelope by hand, marked 'strictly personal, to be opened by addressee only', ask for the Store Manager's name at the CS desk and write it on the envelope too and ask the CS desk person to sign a note you have previously written out as a dated receipt for the letter. Keep that and keep a copy of the letter as well, in a drawer for years...

The point being that you will have physically made an offer for the parking and even if they accept it and put it in the charity box then you have had your offer accepted. Can't see any store returning a pound coin to you.

But as I say, I support the IGNORE option as things stand.