Smart Parking ticket from TCP

Coupon-mad

Annholls wrote: »

Hi all, I received a ticket in Glasgow from this mob of cowboys for parking in a disabled bay. I was borrowing my mothers car as I live in London. I was taking my 93 yr old disabled grandmother out,& put the badge up. When returning I got a ticket for the badge expiring 3 weeks previous of which as it wasn't my car I wasn't aware of. My gran I now know has a valid disabled badge but is with a government body to prove her identity & we are waiting for it to be returned. I would just ignore this but my mothers going mad and she will be the one to get the threats so I have appealed to them explaining the circumstances in the hope they will send any correspondence to my home and not my mothers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Your mother would be even more mad if she knew that she'd encourged you to pay a scam, surely.

An expired badge does not mean anything on private land - it's none of their business in fact, because the Blue Badge scheme doesn't apply there. The Equality Act 2010 does - and your gran's disability didn't suddenly disappear whilst that Badge was out of date did it?! Under the Act she was still lawfully entitled to use that disabled bay in a private car park (would be different on street). In a private car park the bay is there as an adjustment to meet her needs and it's not dependent upon whether she has a Badge or not, despite what the misleading PPC signs probably say.

It's good that you appealed so that the letters will come to you now, and you can safely ignore the whole con and teach your mother about this scam.

Jeangoo

Hi, can you give me some advice, as I parked last weekend in Asda car park to get some medication for flu. As I'd been off work I'd not realised until I got there that I didnt have any change and so went into Asda to get some for the meter. Being in a sickly frame of mind, I hadnt thought to remove some of the rubbish on my dashboard which unfortunately included an old parking ticket. The parking attendant however had obviously spotted the ticket but not noticed that the ticket was in fact a month out of date, and therefore only added that the contravention 'was out of time' on the parking ticket issued.
The tiny slip of paper in a very flimsy plastic parking ticket envelope states that I need to pay £70 or £40 if paid within 14 days to Smart Parking Ltd. I did try to log in to their site to pay this, but it came up with an error when I entered their ticket information and it suggested that I call their offices Mon-Fri. However, I thought I would look on the internet to see if there were any issues with this company and came up with this thread. I would really be grateful if you could give me your thoughts on this issue and if in fact they are legitimate in their actions or if in fact I could incur futher penalties by not paying them.

pogofish

Stop worrying, read the thread and IGNORE!

You can also check the letter chain thread to see the sort of rubbish the scammers are going to send you.

Stroma

And if you want further advice please start a new thread below, instead of hijacking this one - many thanks

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

AltheHibby

Esmerobbo. No. I think G24 are a fine and upstanding organisation.

I also think that the SNP are the way forward for Scotland, rap music is marvellous and Chris Huhne is innocent!

Coupon-mad

Jeangoo wrote: »

Hi, can you give me some advice, as I parked last weekend in Asda car park to get some medication for flu. As I'd been off work I'd not realised until I got there that I didnt have any change and so went into Asda to get some for the meter. Being in a sickly frame of mind, I hadnt thought to remove some of the rubbish on my dashboard which unfortunately included an old parking ticket. The parking attendant however had obviously spotted the ticket but not noticed that the ticket was in fact a month out of date, and therefore only added that the contravention 'was out of time' on the parking ticket issued.
The tiny slip of paper in a very flimsy plastic parking ticket envelope states that I need to pay £70 or £40 if paid within 14 days to Smart Parking Ltd.

I did try to log in to their site to pay this, but it came up with an error when I entered their ticket information and it suggested that I call their offices Mon-Fri. However, I thought I would look on the internet to see if there were any issues with this company and came up with this thread.

I would really be grateful if you could give me your thoughts on this issue and if in fact they are legitimate in their actions or if in fact I could incur futher penalties by not paying them.

You did what?! You tried to pay a scammer?!

Only a Council, Transport for London or the Police (or rarely, a Train Operator with a station car park) can issue a real parking ticket, come on, you even said yourself it's a rubbishy looking bit of paper!

There's a whole forum here to help you, not just a thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

Don't bother with 'Park Right' but read any other threads on that first page alone (all updated today and all with the same advice given about fake PCNs).

Wise up, please, and play snap with the letters they will get a debt collector to send. Please read the threads to understand the scam and look here to see previews of the threatograms you will get (if you are the registered keeper):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2329119

and here's a few threads about them:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4422129

including a poster happy to get one of their fake PCNs to have a laugh at them (also known as Town & City Parking):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4360565

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4371123


Happy reading - you will soon realise why we are astonished you wanted to pay this lot! Do you send money to phishing emailers as well?!

:eek:

Kite2010

At most the landowner, which could be Asda or a 3rd party owner could sue for you is the displayed pay & display amount.

Assuming that there isn't a system in place where if you spend greater than a set amount you get your parking refunded, in which case having probably spent over the required amount they would have lost nothing as they would have given you the money back.

TCP/Smart Parking/whatever they call themselves this week probably won't have the powers to chase landowner losses and won't take anybody to court in a car-park owned by a large client as if they lose big-style it will drag the supermarket into the media.

Coupon-mad

Kite2010 wrote: »

At most the landowner, which could be Asda or a 3rd party owner could sue for you is the displayed pay & display amount.

...and they will never ever do so, of course, in case the latest poster panics.

atilla

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Wise up, please, and play snap with the letters they will get a debt collector to send. Please read the threads to understand the scam and look here to see previews of the threatograms you will get (if you are the registered keeper):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2329119

and here's a few threads about them:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4422129

including a poster happy to get one of their fake PCNs to have a laugh at them (also known as Town & City Parking):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4360565

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4371123


Happy reading - you will soon realise why we are astonished you wanted to pay this lot! Do you send money to phishing emailers as well?!

:eek:

Yep, trying my best to collect these tickets. As mentioned in another thread though. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get a 'ticket'. I can accept the muppets from Perth may have my number on an ANPR ignore list now but even their on site knuckle draggers seem reluctant to ticket me.
Parking Eye, Excel, Highfield etc, same again.

Something is afoot and i'd put money on the BPA organising it. Afterall, they've had some explaining to do to the relevant authorities regarding legals recently.

I'd say they are all just targetting the 'soft touches' but backing off at the first sign of resistance.

So, don't pay, won't pay is the way to deal with these scumbags.

Jeangoo

Thank you for your comments, should I write to them and appeal against their notice?