Aylesbury parking tickets

nitpicker99

UKPC say on their website that:
"Each month 10-20 people receive CCJs from the civil courts after trying to avoid paying one of our parking charges. Here are a few recent examples:" (the examples are all more than 2 years old)

FOI requests have shown that claim to be false.

The BPA say that it is not a breach of their COP to effectively lie on the website.

Trading Standards say that because UKPC don't provide goods or services (to the consumer) it's not a matter for them.

Any suggestions on any other agency who might be interested in this?

Coupon-mad

Office of Fair Trading?

hazela2

So I have now had two letters, the last being a final reminder. I am still ignoring and will wait to see what happens......

The_Slithy_Tove

nitpicker99 wrote: »

Trading Standards say that because UKPC don't provide goods or services (to the consumer) it's not a matter for them.

If the consumer (driver) is not purchasing a service (parking on white lines/in a disabled space/etc and in particular parking in a P&D car park), then what on earth are the so-called contracts backed up by invoices from UKPC all about?

fisherjim

hazela2 wrote: »

So I have now had two letters, the last being a final reminder. I am still ignoring and will wait to see what happens......

If like me with these scammers you will get another five, including threats from their two tame idiotic debt recovery companies!

C_Gord

Hi everyone,

I recently got issued with a parking charge here too after not getting a free 'ticket' and shopping for 15 mins.

Unfortunately, before I came on here and read about what crooks these guys actually are, I appealed against the decision online.

Needless to say my appeal was rejected, and I'm told I now have 35 days to pay £15, or it goes up to £90.

I assume though it doesn't matter that I've appealed, I should now just ignore any further communications?

pogofish

Yup - All your contacting them means is that they will assume you take them seriously, so they may try to scam you for a bit longer than if you ignored from the outset.

Coupon-mad

C_Gord wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I recently got issued with a parking charge here too after not getting a free 'ticket' and shopping for 15 mins.

Unfortunately, before I came on here and read about what crooks these guys actually are, I appealed against the decision online.

Needless to say my appeal was rejected, and I'm told I now have 35 days to pay £15, or it goes up to £90.

I assume though it doesn't matter that I've appealed, I should now just ignore any further communications?

Ignore if in Scotland. But use the POPLA code they must have given you, to appeal properly if this was in England/Wales.

Read any other thread to find out about POPLA as it's discussed to death every day. Then start your own thread please with your draft POPLA appeal wording (do not just repeat the same appeal as before). You need to read other threads about POPLA - or Google 'POPLA appeal' and read results on any good forum, like here or pepipoo. There's lots of info to tell you what to use in your POPLA appeal, I can't type it out every time...

IMHO it is utterly pointless to appeal to a PPC then not bother to appeal to POPLA.

C_Gord

Coupon-mad wrote: »

IMHO it is utterly pointless to appeal to a PPC then not bother to appeal to POPLA.

Thanks for the advice.

I have done a bit of reading and there does seem to be some mixed results. Looks like a lot of cases have been lost because the operator failed to provide information on time.

I will draft a response and put it on a new thread as suggested. Thanks again.

Shadow_master

I also got scammed by these crooks and in the same place and I had spent over £300 quid at the retailer on the park.

Some brilliant advice from here, otherwise would have ended up paying these scammers and many quids lighter in the pocket and also the next day I took all the products back and told them why I was bringing them back. They tried to deny that it wasnt anything to do with them.

I think the more people do this then more chance that these retail parks will actually change their habits and policies.

So far I have had 5 letters and all ignored and am expecting a few more!!!!