ParkingEye booted out

paddler123

I was very pleased to see that our local doctors surgery has got rid of ParkingEye! PE have been present for about a year, and were brought in to combat people parking in the surgery carpark who then went shopping in town.

The surgery had stern warnings posted up everywhere, telling people they must key their car reg number into the device on the front desk or else face a "fine". This made the surgery a pretty unwelcome-looking place, so I'm ever so pleased PE have now been removed, aside from the usual nonsense about duping the public into paying unenforceable speculative invoices of course!

I'm of course not happy that they engaged PE in the first place, but hopefully they've got the message now. I asked the surgery what had become of PE, and the answer was that there had been lots of complaints. Mine had been one of them, although I'd not got a ticket from PE. Indeed, on the couple of occasions I'd visited the surgery while PE were in use, I deliberately didn't key in my car reg as I wanted to see what would happen.

As it happened, I never got a ticket from PE, so PE's plate-recognition technology is probably not top-notch. I have a company car and had checked with our fleet manager to find out what the policy is if they get a ticket from PE for me.

Happily, they said that they would not pay the ticket on my behalf and would simply send it on to me to do with what I liked, and, even better, they include a page of information with such tickets explaining that they're unenforceable speculative invoices. What a well-informed fleet manager we have!

Anyway, back to the surgery. The lady on surgery reception was a bit non-plussed when I appeared to be happy that PE had gone. She didn't know that the tickets were unenforceable, and, to be honest, seemed a bit unsettled by that. I guess she's not one for questioning "authority"!

So... it just goes to show. It's worth complaining about these wretched parking enforcement companies.

taffy056

Well what a good news story, getting parking eye and others removed from car parks is my mission on here, followed by liquidation that fleet manager sounds awfully like mine, perhaps we work for the same company lol

fivetide

Just as an aside, I hope you have a genuine reason for parking in the doctor's car park and are not one of the people they were trying to get rid of!

I'm sure you do, you just haven't mentioned it in your post and I can't remember the last time I had to go to the docs.

paddler123

Fivetide, good question but don't worry, I was there for genuine reasons. It's the surgery I'm registered with and the visits were legit, hence my comment about not keying in my car reg into the device sitting on the front desk.

fivetide

paddler123 wrote: »

Fivetide, good question but don't worry, I was there for genuine reasons. It's the surgery I'm registered with and the visits were legit, hence my comment about not keying in my car reg into the device sitting on the front desk.

Grand. Perhaps a barrier would do it then. something where you need to put a code in to get out, something you can only get from reception? Clearly an issue for them if they felt they needed to resort to Parking Eye (don't worry I'm not a fan) so it seems an alternative should be found. Either that or Parking Eye being in for a bit has actually worked and will have put off the selfish! :rotfl:

Buzby

So, is the CP filling up with shoppers who have no business to be there? I ask only as there had to be a need to get them in in the first place, so if they've done nothing since, the situation may well return. Would you not feel that some element of control to the parking (irrespective of the sanction) was necessary?

Coupon-mad

Buzby wrote: »

So, is the CP filling up with shoppers who have no business to be there? I ask only as there had to be a need to get them in in the first place, so if they've done nothing since, the situation may well return.

That's a huge assumption!

In fact, from reading threads on here for many years, I know that there is normally no problem at all to solve, none whatsoever.

We either see:

a) Management of new stores or blocks of flats taking these scumbags on because it's a condition of the Council planning consent that they 'have restrictions' in the car park, or

b) More commonly, existing car parks where they have been approached by the PPC 'we can solve your parking problems and patrol your disabled bays for free, mate' (rather like a protection racket but sold by smarmy suited gits who make it seem like it's a good idea and get them signed up to contracts, letting the PPC loose there for years).

Buzby wrote: »

Would you not feel that some element of control to the parking (irrespective of the sanction) was necessary?

NOPE. I don't even know the car park. BUT NOPE, nothing that a gate can't solve, or a few polite & friendly notices.