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ManxRed

You shouldn't worry at all.

Private Parking Companies' business case revolves entirely around scaring people into paying up, they know they'd lose in court, and the resulting public awareness only serves to lower their revenues even further.

They stick to letters only.

There is a post somewhere where someone has FOId which companies took court action in 2011 and Parking Eye weren't even on the list. They don't do court. They'd lose, and they know it.

psyxologos

Thanks. That puts me a bit more at ease. If it was a genuine case and I indeed owe them anything I would pay. But having them send a letter asking for £100 for 30 minutes allegedly overstaying is ridiculous...

especially since I was covered already...

ManxRed

The legal upshot is that you owe the landowner (not Parking Eye) the actual financial losses incurred as a result of your parking, and that's it.

This is, 90% of the time, zero.

Occasionally it could amount to the cost of a P&D ticket, so a few quid tops.

SodG24

psyxologos wrote: »

Thanks. That puts me a bit more at ease. If it was a genuine case and I indeed owe them anything I would pay. But having them send a letter asking for £100 for 30 minutes allegedly overstaying is ridiculous...

especially since I was covered already...

Just to help calm you, I have an Aldi near me patrolled by Parking Eye. I've purposely broken their "rules" and then sent them cheeky emails :rotfl: ...... strangely I no longer hear from them

Coupon-mad

psyxologos wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. So, can someone explain to me what the difference is between pre-October and post-October? Is the only difference to do with the fact that they now do not need to know who the driver is in order to push on with their harassment of the registered keeper?

zippymk13 wrote: »

Hi, my wife has just received one of these letters today demanding £40 parking charge for overstaying her time by 35 minutes, it is a free carpark for 2 hours in a Booths supermarket, now I know that you could just ignore these letters before the new legistration, and reading the replies above it seems nothing has changed, so if I ignore them(parking eye) I will be ok will I?

This 'new law' guff has been covered endless times and I last posted this yesterday, and the day before...

It has been discussed to death TBH and you could have just searched the forum - but we always reply because it's important that people know that fake PCNs have not suddenly become magically enforceable!

So here's the same old summary again (sorry to the regulars) :





The registered keeper doesn't 'have to' do anything at all. These fake PCNs are as unenforceable as they ever were - it's just that these scam firms are now able to aim their threatogams at the registered keeper if they are not informed who the driver was.

Big deal...the keeper can still make paper aeroplanes out of them as we always did, just as shown by Tim Cary, the expert Solicitor in this Watchdog clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA


A SUMMARY:

As far as private parking ticket scams are concerned, for a vehicle where you or family are the registered keeper*:

Any fake PCN issued for an incident up until 30th Sept 2012 = IGNORE IT.

Any fake PCN issued for an incident from 1st October 2012 onwards:

- if you were parked in Scotland or NI = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a firm who are NOT members of the BPA AOS, or are one of five AOS members currently banned from getting data = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a non-banned by the DVLA!! AOS member in England/Wales, there are 2 choices:

a) IGNORE IT, as ever, playing snap with the threatograms that match our sticky thread 'PPC letter chains' (near the top of this parking forum),

or

b) Appeal it with help from here in how to word it, and insist on a referral to the POPLA appeals service if it's not cancelled. Costs the PPC £32 plus, costs you nothing, it's not binding on you but it is binding on the PPC. If you do not win your appeal then revert to ignore mode.

This option is for those who want to fight back, cost the PPC money and test the POPLA system whilst also getting their PPC's tactics scrutinised; start by reading threads about POPLA. Recent posters have had great success where their case is clearly a very unfair ticket (such as disabled overstay or slight overlap of a white line, etc.) by using email and wording it not as an appeal but a complaint, and copying in the retailer/landowner to that complaint.

Finally, if anyone gets any fake PCN anywhere in the UK in a retail, cinema, fast food or Supermarket car park then even if you choose to ignore the scammers then COMPLAIN IN WRITING to the CEO of the company on site if you were a customer. Do not appeal to them, complain about this protection racket against their paying ex-customers.

HTH





* it is different for hire/lease/company cars as you could find the fake PCN paid for you! Here is a thread about what to do (whether AOS scheme member or not, you need to appeal to hook the PPC in your direction).

psyxologos

Thanks for that. I think I will just ignore them. I have not got either the time or the will to toy with them. I just need to get on with my life without having them bullying me. Since the consensus is that their 'tickets' are unlikely to be enforceable I shall just let them send me letters until they realize I am not giving them a penny!

Coupon-mad

psyxologos wrote: »

Thanks for that. I think I will just ignore them. I have not got either the time or the will to toy with them. I just need to get on with my life without having them bullying me. Since the consensus is that their 'tickets' are unlikely to be enforceable I shall just let them send me letters until they realize I am not giving them a penny!

A good plan - tried and tested for many years. Done it myself and it's quite amusing to read the threats when you know it's all rubbish and you can predict each letter and match them against the pics in the PPC letter chains thread.

psyxologos

Coupon-mad wrote: »

A good plan - tried and tested for many years. Done it myself and it's quite amusing to read the threats when you know it's all rubbish and you can predict each letter and match them against the pics in the PPC letter chains thread.

I might just do that!

ManxRed

No stress required at all.

Legally, as in you have the full backing of the law, you owe them nothing whatsoever.

follower

Hi
Just received Parking Eye notice as registered keeper for £100 (£60 discount) for 38 minute overstay at shopping complex no charge, free car park which is signed for 3 hour max stay.
I intend to IGNORE. I understand that means enter into no communication. Is that correct and advisable?
Thanks