Private Parking ticket is all wrong

flower_girlie

I have just got a private parking ticket with a time and day when I was actually at the place mentioned, but didn't realise it was not a loading bay for the next door business. The "ticket" sent has my registration but a picture of a completely different vehicle, clearly showing a different vehicle reg no. Should I ignore the ticket as it is not my vehicle in the picture? If I appeal it can they then produce a picture of my vehicle or should I wait until the last minute when they may have deleted all other pictures which might show my vehicle?
I tend to think that their incompetence is my good luck but don't know how to handle this.

Stroma

Which parking company ? And is it in England or Wales ? Not that you should pay it no matter what part of the UK , its just you have options now

flower_girlie

Its in London and its ParkDirect - I do know its not the same as a council ticket. I was tempted to just ignore but I am worried I have to "follow the proper procedures" then appeal to the ombudsperson about how incompetent these b*s are

Stroma

Hmmm is it these ?
http://www.parkritenortheast.com/

michaelwdownie

I like that Chrome gives me a malware warning by following that link lol

flower_girlie

No just got scared by the malware warning myself - its not them its Parkdirectuk

Stroma

They don't appear to be on the bpa aos list, which means you shouldn't contact them at all as they can't get your RK details from the dvla

If its these http://www.parkdirectuk.com/ they are lying and not on the aos as far as I can see http://www.britishparking.co.uk/AOS-Members

peter_the_piper

Sorry to disagree but they do seem to be on the list. As they have already contacted the OP then an appeal is in order as they have not proved the op was there as the pic is of another car. Keep all mail safe.

Stroma

Well I've looked on the aos and can't see them, take a look. Oops take that back just found them

Kite2010

Just shows the worthlessness of the "pictures" they take.

Would be laughed out of court if they were foolish enough to take you there

Coupon-mad

flower_girlie wrote: »

I have just got a private parking ticket with a time and day when I was actually at the place mentioned, but didn't realise it was not a loading bay for the next door business. The "ticket" sent has my registration but a picture of a completely different vehicle, clearly showing a different vehicle reg no. Should I ignore the ticket as it is not my vehicle in the picture? If I appeal it can they then produce a picture of my vehicle or should I wait until the last minute when they may have deleted all other pictures which might show my vehicle?
I tend to think that their incompetence is my good luck but don't know how to handle this.

Don't know how to handle this? But every thread on here is about this situation with fake PCNs. As long as this was in England/Wales the advice is clear, look at any other threads and you'll see it repeated:

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

Don't point out their error, don't mention what happened that day, don't mention who was driving - just do a 'legal challenge' response as mentioned on other threads which give a link to a template on the Parking Cowboys website. When you've read some advice on other threads and looked at the links given every single day on here you will be able to draft your own version (never copy a template exactly). You need to spend some time reading up on this scam and what to do.

I am not linking anything here except the forum itself as it's clear to me you do need to simply read some other threads and take in the general advice here - not just get a random template linked yet.