Asda parking ticket....help thanks

Saint_Chris

Her hubby or yours? Either way, I make no apology for saying quite
truthfully, that's a stupid answer from somemone so completely uninformed
about this scam that they should not be giving such rubbish advice without
checking anything about this con. Does he also fall for phishing email scams?
'Broke the law' indeed!!!! What law would that be then, the one Smart Parking
(Australian firm who are just in it for the money) made up?!

I find that very harsh...............we all have to learn somewhere.
And we are all not experts in the law................

Until we are informed.......we don't learn, my son in law did not give out rubbish advice, he just wanted to pay for their mistake, which i admire him for, if only more people were like that in the world. ............................so to mock them is like i said harsh.

Now dont' go shouting scam scam scam.............i know that you know that and some others know it.................but yesterday they didn't. And i guess lots of others don't i wonder how many other stupid people, pay up.

and like i said we all have to learn.

I actually admire my kids, as they was brought up decent, and when they got this ticket, the 1st thing they thought was to do , what they thought, the right thing and pay. And i know that they would not mock or laugh at someone for doing what they thought was right.

As it is now after reading this thread this morning they won't be
paying.

Stroma

That's the problem, most people are upstanding and wouldn't do anything knowingly against authority, it's all very British and its being used by parking companies to get money off people.

A lot of British people would fall for an impersonation of authority scam , and would just cough up without finding out about the companies involved, they would also click on links in emails blindly going to attack websites, or have the same passwords or pin numbers for everything.

I'm not being harsh here, but ask your kids not to be so upstanding British, and question things before just paying money to basically Nigerian scammers.

Guys_Dad

Saint_Chris wrote: »

I find that very harsh...............we all have to learn somewhere.
And we are all not experts in the law.....

It may have been blunt but the simple message that giving advice when uninformed about the subject matter isn't sensible. The fact that they are now deciding to ignore the ticket shows that son in law should check things out before advising.

They ought to be grateful to you for coming on here for them.

People should not be so gullible and that was the frustration that was in the post you objected to.

Saint_Chris

who did my son in law advise.............?

Guys_Dad

Saint_Chris wrote: »

who did my son in law advise.............?

One upset wife, maybe??

"Thank you for those replies, spoke to daughter and read them out to her, hubby says they should just pay up, as she did wrong, she knew she needed a ticket and broke the law.

so daughter is now upset at home, as i told her about this site and not to pay.
"

The point is that if she had followed his advice, they would have paid up and lost that money.

So, was his advice to pay up (a) good advice or (b) bad advice?
If it was good advice, pay up.
If it was bad advice, was it deliberately bad advice or uninformed?

Suggest it was the latter.

It then follows that, if uninformed, find out first, just as you have done. But even after you had found out, he still advised her to pay up (your words)

But for every "you", there are hundreds of uninformed who meekly pay up and I can see the frustration of the regulars on here who tirelessly save lots of people money, and, after all their efforts are passed on - in this case to your son in law by you - he still thinks he knows better.

No wonder frustration sets in.

BASFORDLAD

I think you should get your son in law to read through these forum's, then if he has an. Questions he can post up so in future Can give good advice , not merely the advice of someone who is law abiding

Roxydee17

Same has just happened to me this morning at ASDA, completely forgot to buy a ticket, spent over £50 went back to car to find a smart parking fine, went straight back in to asda to customer services - with receipt, the woman told me it had nothing to do with them and that 'the council' owns it. However after reading this thread I am not paying it!

Stroma

It's highly unlikely the council owns it, if they did they'd be the ones issuing tickets. What it sounds like to me is that asda are fobbing you off and are repeating something some at their head office say. I would complain to the head office nonetheless and don't take the nonsense of we don't own it seriously, demand that they cancel it as the parking company are their agents.

Roxydee17

Same has just happened to me this morning at ASDA, completely forgot to buy a ticket, spent over £50 went back to car to find a smart parking fine, went straight back in to asda to customer services - with receipt, the woman told me it had nothing to do with them and that 'the council' owns it. However after reading this thread I am not paying it!

Stroma

^^^ we have entered the twilight zone