Concerned about Parking Invoice

Sketty24

Thank you for the detailed help.

It does seem odd how they can claim for losses for a free car park.

Do the circumstances of the parking have any affect? For example, I did not park in a bay, I parked at the side of the road. Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

Sirdan

Sketty24 wrote: »

Thank you for the detailed help.

It does seem odd how they can claim for losses for a free car park.

Do the circumstances of the parking have any affect? For example, I did not park in a bay, I parked at the side of the road. Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

NO..now forget about it and ignore them !

The_Slithy_Tove

Sketty24 wrote: »

Do the circumstances of the parking have any affect? For example, I did not park in a bay, I parked at the side of the road. Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

You're overanalysing this. Forget the minutiae of how/where you parked. Their ticket has no merit. It is bogus. It is not enforceable. Just forget it.

SodG24

Sketty24 wrote: »

Thank you for the detailed help.

It does seem odd how they can claim for losses for a free car park.

Do the circumstances of the parking have any affect? For example, I did not park in a bay, I parked at the side of the road. Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

No affect at all - you could have parked upside down in a Chieftain tank with a bevvy of naked Premiership footballs players dancing round it and it would be equally unenforceable.

Now forget about them and ignore them.

pogofish

Sketty24 wrote: »

Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

What case?

You are making the biggest and most common mistake that is made here - namely taking these scammers seriously!

ManxRed

If the way you parked caused the landowner financial loss, then yes, it makes a difference. If it caused them no additional loss at all, then no, it makes no difference.

27col

Sketty24 wrote: »

Thank you for the detailed help.

It does seem odd how they can claim for losses for a free car park.

Do the circumstances of the parking have any affect? For example, I did not park in a bay, I parked at the side of the road. Does this make my case any less steady than one who simply overstayed a time limit?

They did not claim for losses. What they did was to give you a spurious invoice based on a supposed contract, in the hope that you would mistake it for something that had the force of law behind it. Unfortunately, quite a percentage of people who receive these spurious bits of paper do seem to think that they should pay them.
A friend of mine recently paid up, in spite of me forewarning her about the scam.When I asked her why, she said "well, it all looked so official".

cgk1

pogofish wrote: »

Where the VCS rep was advised to pack their toothbrush if they ever came before that court again!

The bit where you can tell it is all going pear-shaped is where they are outlining their "losses" and the Judge says "What's that got to do with this Gentleman's parking?"

And then it all goes downhill from there... :rotfl: