ukpc

gordonjf_2

Hi all as this is my first post please forgive me if I am doing things wrong.
I parked my vehicle at Tesco, Yate, Bristol yesterday in a parking space between 2 pillers a ukpc warden slapped a ticket on "not parking correctly within the markings of the bay or space". My wife who is didabled has worked herself into a right tizz. Please could anybody advise I know new rules are now in place but where do i stand,I did take photos and have seen ukpc photos and all show me parked correct.
many thanks inadvance
Gordonjf

trisontana

The new laws don't change anything. This is an unenforceable invoice which you don't have to pay.

edward123

gordonjf wrote: »

Hi all as this is my first post please forgive me if I am doing things wrong.

You did right coming here for good advice.

I parked my vehicle at Tesco, Yate, Bristol yesterday in a parking space between 2 pillers a ukpc warden slapped a ticket on "not parking correctly within the markings of the bay or space". My wife who is didabled has worked herself into a right tizz. Please could anybody advise I know new rules are now in place but where do i stand,I did take photos and have seen ukpc photos and all show me parked correct.
many thanks inadvance
Gordonjf

Ignore fake ticket from UKPC and anything they might send you.

Re-visit your own thread, this one, in the future, to find all advice and encouragement you need if and when they 'threaten' you/try to frighten you.

Bottom line is DO NOT PAY UKPC ANYTHING

And.....spread the word about these private parking companies.

gordonjf_2

My wife is panacking over this she wants to use there appeal prcedure is there any good to this
G

[Deleted User]

No good in it at all.

There's no point in lodging an appeal, with the people demanding the money in the first place.

peter_the_piper

With the aPOPLA appeals service not knowing what is to be allowed in an appeal, its hardly worth bothering to go to them. The ppc will reject your appeal anyway so continuing to ignore seems to be the best advice at present.

edward123

gordonjf wrote: »

My wife is panacking over this she wants to use there appeal prcedure is there any good to this
G

The late Clive Dunn aka Corporal Jones of Dad's Army used to panic but quite un-necessarily so. Your wife should stop any panicking and relax in the knowledge that ignoring the fake ticket and all future correspondence(which are really threats to frighten because thats their way to scam people of their money)is the right option. there is no other lest you want to pay these people money they have no right to demand?

BASFORDLAD

Tell your wife to relax.

It's a scam.

Coupon-mad

gordonjf wrote: »

Hi all as this is my first post please forgive me if I am doing things wrong.
I parked my vehicle at Tesco, Yate, Bristol yesterday in a parking space between 2 pillers a ukpc warden slapped a ticket on "not parking correctly within the markings of the bay or space". My wife who is didabled has worked herself into a right tizz. Please could anybody advise I know new rules are now in place but where do i stand,I did take photos and have seen ukpc photos and all show me parked correct.
many thanks inadvance
Gordonjf

Want to do something proactive which might get the fake PCN cancelled? Email the CEO of Tesco and COMPLAIN. COMPLAIN. AND THEN COMPLAIN AGAIN.

Forget the Parking Company, you could appeal but it sounds like you'd worry again when they'd reject the appeal - and then you'd worry again when it come to POPLA's decision (which isn't even binding upon you). So in your shoes I wouldn't bother as it would get your wife's hopes up pointlessly.

COMPLAIN IN WRITING TO TESCO HEAD OFFICE.

YOU COULD ALSO PERSONALLY BOTH GO IN TO THE STORE WITH YOUR RECEIPT & THE FAKE PCN, AND SHOW THE STORE MANAGER THE HUMAN FACE AT THE RECEIVING END OF THIS SCAM. LET HIM SEE HOW UPSET YOUR POOR WIFE IS OVER THIS WHOLE SCAM TICKET.

DO NOT PAY IT. DO NOT FALL FOR THE SCAM WHEN YOU GET THE LETTERS (IF TESCO DO NOT CANCEL IT).

RENEGADE_2

I know Tesco in Yate, three floors of wasted space and a massive car park that is never full, their restaurant still doesn't serve before 8am!

I also know UKPC - major scammers, full of empty threats.

First of all, you have been given a fake invoice, NOT a genuine order to pay. Step one is DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Don't volunteer information that it is their job to uncover. Let them PAY the DVLA for keeper details and then let them start the chase from a point where they don't even know they have the correct person. After all, UKPC don't know that the sticker was on the car when the motorist returned.

Feel free to ignore the letters when they come. If you wish to communicate, it must not be an 'appeal' as you do not accede to the authority of a fake enforcer. You first realise that a landowner may only push for losses resulting from an action, that this is the limit within Contract Law which is the legislation here, and that predrafted signs do not in the eyes of the law form the basis of a "contract". For a contract to be valid, negotiation is required from all parties - nobody tacitly enters a "contract".

With that, a simple letter of denial will suffice - amount exceeds losses, bye-bye.

Expect rejection from UKPC, with it shall arrive a POPLA reference number.

Use the very same argument to POPLA, that will cost UKPC a mandatory £32 and the outcome is not relevant to you, a POPLA rejection is not seen by the courts as a judgement that must be adhered to. If the PPC is not happy with you, they will have to take the matter to court and THEN you'll see what a real judgement is, it won't go on their side when law is unequivocally on yours...

..which is why they will never try court. They know they'll lose.

IGNORE for now.

gordonjf_2

many thanks to coupon-mad I have approached the duty manager at Tesco yate showed him the photos of "the parking offence" and he agreed it was wrong but his hands are tied but will pass it further up the chain as they are tired of complaints from staff and customers.