parking eye fine

contender

i had a parking ticket from parking eye for parking in fistral beach car park cornwall it was 02 feb the car park was empty & as it was out of season i did not think we had to pay but then i recievd a parking ticket for £100 down to £60 if paid within 28 day's on the parking fine was a picture of me entering & leaving the car park should i pay this fine

pogofish

No, you should not - Just ignore PE forthwith. Its not a fine and they have no case to pursue against you.

tospig

There is a case for using punctuation though.

Coupon-mad

contender wrote: »

i had a parking ticket from parking eye for parking in fistral beach car park cornwall it was 02 feb the car park was empty & as it was out of season i did not think we had to pay but then i recievd a parking ticket for £100 down to £60 if paid within 28 day's on the parking fine was a picture of me entering & leaving the car park.

should i pay this fine

This is NOT a fine!!!!!! You only think it is because it impersonates a parking ticket!

Like all the other posters on this board, you have a fake PCN, a misleading invoice.

The whole scam of fake PCNs relies firstly on people's ignorance of the fact that a random private company can't fine anyone, and secondly on their natural fear of parking tickets and the escalating costs/bailiff scenario. So PPCs copy the look of a real parking ticket and - hey presto! - the cash rolls in from victims who know no better.

This is not a penalty at all. It's rubbish, there are no bailiffs letters, just debt collector standard template threatograms (all hot air, we can tell you this for certain).

Tick off the threatening letters as you get them, here.

Watchdog clip with expert Solicitor's opinion here.

Barrister's opinion on a legal Q&A website here.

Recent Auto Express article here.

The letters are actually quite funny when they arrive at the address of someone who knows it's all hogwash and not a real parking ticket at all.

My 18 year old niece has EIGHT fake PCNs so far - almost all from Parking Eye! - and laughs & texts me every time she gets one. She is just a new driver, a teenager, and she knows this is all a con like a series of phishing emails.

I would happily collect more fake PCNs than the 2 that I already have for Supermarket overstays (more than an hour overstays, both times when shopping at busy times). Plus I have a nice collection of amusing/alarmist debt collector letters which I carry in my handbag to show friends & colleagues if the subject crops up! :rotfl: