broke down in asda

smegelina

We have been sent a letter from town and city parking for parking in asda for longer than the allowed 2 hrs. The letter states we need to pay £40 within 14 days.

The reason we were in asda for longer than 2 hrs is the car broke down. The picture on their letter showing our car exiting shows it on a TOW TRUCK.
Should we appeal? we notified asda security too as they had to stop traffic when the tow truck towed us out.

Coupon-mad

Should you appeal?

Nope.

Should you pay?

Nope.

Is it just a scam?

Yep.

Third thread from the top, click on 'PPC letter chains'.

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.

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. You will also see other Asda threads and info about a new appeals procedure called POPLA which you can use if you want to fight back and cost the scammers £32 plus. You will also see that if you are up for it, we are encouraging people to use this process with our help, then just ignore the outcome if not in your favour (no risk or cost to you, no Court, nothing, just a postal process to expose the scam and cost the PPC money every time).

In your case, the picture of your car exiting on a tow truck just shows this for the scam it always is and I would LOVE you to show POPLA independent appeals service this! We want the shenanigans of PPCs to be put under scrutiny and your case is a classic one.

If you'd rather just play snap with the letters that is OK as well.

Barneysmom

If you're into recycling you could use this as wrapping paper for a present, saves 50p, very mse.

I'm trying to invent new uses for these pointless and invalid letters.

taffy056

So they have your vehicle on the back of a tow truck, and the car park I presume is free to park in, this will never go to court ever, you can't help you broke down so any judge would immediately throw this out before even going into a small claim. Not that it will go there.

Perhaps going back to asda with a copy of your threatogram with the picture showing your vehicle on the back of a tow truck would help you get some personal satisfaction for this completely ridiculous situation, or maybe a complaint to asda head office with your letter as an attachment ?

ManxRed

If this isn't worth a letter to the CEO of ASDA, I don't know what is. Don't forget to tell him you won't be shopping there ever again.

One day, he might start to take some notice of the way TCP treat his customers.

Valli

In these circumstances I would complain to Asda.

Send a letter with a copy of the photograph and tell them you have no intention of paying and that they might like to consider whether the agencies they are paying reflect well or badly on Asda.

trisontana

It just shows that the idiots that work at TCP's head office are just programmed to send out these stupid letters without actually sitting down and thinking about individual situations such as this one.

POPPYOSCAR

When I first read the title of the tread I thought perhaps you were having some sort of mid life crisis!!


I agree with others and would be complaining directly to Asda HO saying it has put you off from shopping there.

[Deleted User]

Don't forget that the computer sends the letter, the admin staff just press a button to print the q of letters.

They have probably not even seen the images, yes they are supposed to check, but I know for a fact that many do not.

bazster

Good grief. Make sure Andy Clarke (Asda CEO) gets a complaint about this, including the picture of the car on a truck. If that doesn't make the arrogant w****r take notice then nothing will.

P.S. love your nickname!

atilla

bazster wrote: »

Good grief. Make sure Andy Clarke (Asda CEO) gets a complaint about this, including the picture of the car on a truck. If that doesn't make the arrogant w****r take notice then nothing will.

P.S. love your nickname!

Arrogant?

You had a run in with him?

From my experience that's a bit of a harsh call.