Help and Guidance needed please

Schazz

Hello, while parking in Aylesbury yesterday I received a parking charge for not displaying my 'ticket'. In this AEJ run car park , parking is free for the 1st 2 hours but you still have to get a ticket from the machine. I did and displayed the ticket on the drivers side of the dashboard. (it's one of those lightweight ones with no sticky bits). Unfortunately, either when getting my mother/kids out of the car or when putting some interim shopping in the boot, the ticket must have blown to the floor. I didn't notice this until after I had gone through putting the kids back in the car opening the boot and getting into the car and seeing the parking nnotice so I do't know when it fell, just that it did.

So, I did get the ticket to cover the free parking period(I am looking at it right now), I did display it but obviously circumstances were such that it didn't stay on the dashboard. I have evidence that I wasn't in the car park an hour before (supermarket till receipt). So, do I ignore but keep the paperwork safe for future reference or do I challenge (I do feel that the tickets they use must catch many people out in this way - I cant be the first). I'm finding this all very stressful - another thing to deal with when I don't feel I did anything wrong.:(

trisontana

It's not clear from your post whether this is a council or private car-park. Before we know that we cannot give an answer.

Tobster86

If it's a council car park, appeal on the grounds of the ticket coming off the windscreen, presenting it to them as evidence. If rejected, go through every appeals process available. Make it more costly for them to pursue the ticket that it's value.

If it's a privately run car park, ignore them completely. DO NOT APPEAL. Appealing may legally be seen as an admission of debt to them, of which you currently deny.
Still retain the ticket as evidence in the event of the 0.000000001% chance they pursue the matter legally.

demented_weasel

Looks like a private firm:

http://www.aejmanagement.com/car-park.html

But at least they are a member of the BPA's approved Operator Scheme. So that's nice.

Still ignore - would be good if the OP could scan any begging letters they send.

trisontana

It looks as though AEJ are basically an office cleaning company that does bit of car-park "management" on the side. But they are a BPA AOS member. So it looks likely that this is a private parking ticket.

They don't seem to have any history on the various parking forums.

Tigerbush

Ignore and ignore some more. Kevin Jarvis is Managing Director of AEJ Management, another one for the Hall of Shame. 'As a member of the BPA’s Approved Operator s (sic) Scheme, AEJ can offer enforcement through the issuing of Standard Charge Notices for vehicles abusing the car park’s terms & conditions. This is particularly effective when ensuring only legitimate use of disabled bays is being adhered to.' I don't think so.

Coupon-mad

We have so much info on here on this forum to help newbies understand that this is a SCAM and to be ready to ignore the 'scary letters'.

See my signature if you aren't used to forums - just one click from here & you see all current threads here, most of which are about the 'fake PCN' scam'.

Second from the top, click on 'PPC letters & threats'.

1. Watch the Watchdog clip on there, and then

2. scroll down to the pics of your fave PPC's threatograms, then

3. Play a nice game of snap with each matching templated threatogram, then

4. If you like legal stuff and want to understand why PPCs are very unlikely to win any small claim now (UKPC have never done Court anyway except when they were taken there by Trading Standards!) read the links on this CAG thread.

No private parking company (PPC) can actually issue a real fine or penalty on private land, retail car parks etc. Nor can they affect your credit rating nor send a bailiff round without the small matter of winning a Small Claim in Court first! And that won't happen.

The most that will happen is more junk mail letters that you can ignore, over the coming months (the fake piece of paper impersonating a parking ticket was the first link in the chain of this con). The registered keeper gets the letters, so if that's not you then educate them about this well-known scam and show them the links & info we are giving you here.

Please read the current forum and also show your family and friends so they also learn about this scam. Spread the word like we do! Just to be clear, we are NOT saying not to pay a fair Pay and Display fee nor do we ever condone selfish parking (in your case I know neither apply anyway). We ARE saying that if ever you get a fake PCN just laugh at it!