Tesco Truro planning to "fine " car park users

pogofish

chazsucks wrote: »

Ok, well I got a parking ticket from morrisons for going over their time limit so whether it's a 'scam' or not I still class that as paying money to them...

No you didn't - You just got scammed!

trisontana

prosnap wrote: »

Morrisons do not issue parking tickets!

Morrisons are unlikey to receive a single penny of any money you handed over

Technically nobody should make any money from this. The charges demanded should only reflect the actual loss suffered by the landowner and should be cost neutral . This doesn't prevent such outfits as TESCO saying that any "profits" made by parking charge notices will go to charity.

fisherjim

So let me get this straight, I go into Tesco's in Truro, I spend five minutes looking for a parking space, eight minutes searching for my favourite Tesco Finest Horseburgers, which are out of stock due to a run on them, and three minutes leaving the car park.
I couldn't make my purchase, and didn't need anything else, but a few weeks later get a parking charge for not buying anything to a predetermined value!
That seems like a penalty charge for not spending money with Tesco's to me?

Stroma

Do they have signs saying that spending money is mandatory ? I never pay for such parking as I don't pay to park to shop in stores unless its run by a council. There is no loss to the retailer, I very often don't carry cash with me and these schemes don't work in most places.

trisontana

Parking Eye are trying to pull the same stunt. When people have complained about receiving a ticket, PE have come back with "prove you have spent at least £30 in the shop and we will let you off", and have even been asking to look at bank statements for proof. Nowhere in PE's T&Cs is there a mention of this mythical £30 spend. They just seem to be making the rules up as they go along.

nigelbb

Providing free parking to the citizens of Truro should be part of the price that Tesco pay for doing business & forcing all the independent greengrocers, butchers etc in the town centre out of business.

Stroma

And if they ever took somebody to court with that , they will probably need a toothbrush, there is no way a judge will allow them such things, if its not on the sign its not a condition of parking no matter what they say. As for asking for bank statements, who the hell do these scummy little scammers think they are ?

Parking eye lurker, are you happy to be working for such low life scammers ? Are you happy that your employers are such scum bags ? I suggest you try this website to find new employers who are ethical.

https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/JobSearch/Browse.aspx

nigelbb

It's very likely that the £30 spend is a secret clause in the contract with the retail store that PE are so keen not to produce for POPLA. It's not PE out of the goodness of their heart allowing appeals in these circumstances it's the retailer specifying that they don't want genuine customers victimised.

They don't put this secret clause on the parking signs because it still gives them plenty of opportunity to rake in the money with their fake parking charges with all those people who pay up without complaint. What the retailer never sees is all those people who don't bother to complain & pay up but refuse to ever shop there again.

Half_way

nigelbb wrote: »

Providing free parking to the citizens of Truro should be part of the price that Tesco pay for doing business & forcing all the independent greengrocers, butchers etc in the town centre out of business.

Taking a look thruogh the various entries n the Valuations office website, soem buisnesses in some areas have had their rates reduced slightly ( and i meanaslightly) as a result of a superstore opening nearby.

Kite2010

One of the Tesco in this area wanted to bring in a PPC to "manage" the car-park as they felt people were mis-using their car-park to park and use the other local shops [the fact that they built over the previous car-park must has passed them by]

Sadly for them, the landowner [MOD] got involved and put a stop to it, unless they fancied having their lease for the land cancelled. Probably wouldn't have worked as they built over the previous car-park when building the store and there is no-other car-parks nearby for the local businesses.

As for the invoices, the second one PPC shows up the breakdown of the "liquidated & estimated losses" [from sign in car-park next to Fareham railway station] which are not a work of fiction, I will sit up and listen. For a free-car park, the landowner losses are limited to zero.