Tesco's Parking Charge Notice

gordonjf_2

Hi I parked in my local Tesco got a ticket,sent a letter to c.e.o. tesco regional manager M.P. and the shopping centre manager letting him know who i have contacted, the invoice was cancalled the next day. just follow the good advice here.

Coupon-mad

matthewoutram wrote: »

Hello Guys Dad - I've been having a read but some of the threads are old now and someone told me the law changed on 1st October!

Matt.

Yes but...this 'new law' guff has been covered endless times and I last posted this yesterday!

In just 2 months we've been constantly asked every day about the new law (Protection of Freedoms Act if you want to search for other threads). It has been discussed to death TBH and you could have just searched the forum more specifically - 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 yet again (apologies for boring 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.




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- 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).

nickcc

Overstayed at my local Tesco the other day, can't wait for the invoice which will end up in the bin again. These bloodsucking scum bags must be ignored and its certainly not worth worrying about.

matthewoutram

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hoohoo

What is meant by "playing snap with the threatograms" - do you recommend I reply to each letter (sample of 1 in link), or do you mean something else?

You look at the letter in your hands, match it to the identical letter on your computer screen from the letter chain thread, and shout "Snap!"

:-)

Then you ignore it.

matthewoutram

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prosnap

I do envy you.

I have been parking just over the lines every week at my local Tesco deliberately.

More than a year later .... Nothing! :mad:

prowla

If my Tesco's ever ticket me, I'll shop at Sainsbury's for a couple of months and send them copies of the receipts.

(That said, I couldn't see me spending more than the specified limit in the shop anyway.)

devonlad

I got one of tps invoices on the go at the moment. Have appealed but since appealing i havent heard anything from them?

neilmcl

matthewoutram wrote: »

Great advice, thanks so far!

"The vehicle was parked on yellow lines or hatched area".

This is true - it was parked in a hatch and coned off area.

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with all the other posters regarding these PPC scammers, particularly the ones patrolling our supermarket car parks, you're still a bit of an idiot for parking where you did.