Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

Umkomaas

peter_the_piper wrote: »

What I'm not sure about is in a case like this, would the PE charge be legally looked at as an Ooop's or illegal charge.

Interesting question.

I'd like to see what Aldi's response is first. It's either a 'Yes, we will refund any such cases', or 'No, we won't'. I don't think they should be given any room to wriggle on this one. They are the principal and should be the first in line to shoulder responsibility.

One might, for a nano-second, feel that PE have not been given the full planning permission picture and have gone ahead with 'normal' Aldi signage, and opened their tills.

Depending on the Aldi response, it should be either contact the store direct and await your cheque in the post, or serve small claims court papers on both Aldi and PE as first and second defendants.

But, I suspect that this is just a tiny tip of a very large iceberg which could develop into a situation not dissimilar to the PPI mis-selling fiasco, with some hefty bills finding their way to one or both outfits here.

nigelbb

In the case of a retail store or retail park and an offer of free parking I don't believe that there is ever a contract for parking. With the offer of free parking the occupier of the land is giving permission for the motorist to park in order to lure them in as a customer just as they give the shopper on foot permission to enter their store or use the toilets. There is no contract to pee. The occupier can put conditions on that licence e.g. define a maximum stay but if the motorist breaches that licence then they become a trespasser. Then it is open to the occupier to seek damages. There cannot be a parking charge of £x as liquidated damages are only agreed between the parties of a contract & in the case of trespass there is no contract.

Half_way

Another day another victim

Truly appalled! My Dad was holidaying in North Wales and shopped in your Bangor store, he has returned from his trip to a letter from your parking company saying he has to pay £70 as he didn't put his registration number in a machine. He didn't see any signs about this, and there was nothing in store, and no reminder from staff at checkout. There were however lots of signs stating he was parking in 'Aldi Car Park' which is very misleading if this is not true.

I shop every week in your Huddersfield stores, and have been raving to my friends how they should shop with you. Now this has happened I will hesitate to recommend you as I would hate for other people to go through this.

I have told him to NOT pay this unjust 'fine' and contact your customer services, in the meantime I hope that lots of people see this post and think twice about visiting your stores.

and what did the Aldi facebook team say?

Aldi UK Hi Jane, thanks for getting in touch. Can you please email our Customer Services Team on customer.service@aldi.co.uk. They can look into this for you. Thanks, Aldi UK Facebook Team

Standard copy and paste response for any complaint, from mouldy fruit, manky meat, miserable staff, and whatever shenanigans parking eye are up to.

Umkomaas

Coffee spluttering time

Thought of the day: If half the customers shopping in Aldi think they're actually in Lidl, the other half are in a Lidl store asking for Aldi's three-bird roast...

:rotfl:

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

The three bird roast idea makes me want to throw up!

trisontana

We now have two of Aldi's groupies spouting nonsense and defending Aldi to the hilt regarding Parking Eye. According to them it's all "boring", and the matter of those people conned into paying up at Dunstable is not worth worrying about.

ledsons_teeth

Being a long time lurker and huge fan of this site as well as Pepipoo, you've made me stick my head above the parapet to point out that Gina Preeky is an anagram of Parking Eye. Maybe someone with one or several Facebook accounts would like to highlight this.

Stroma

Pmsl never noticed that before, thanks for that, wonder why Sarah Smith did that ?

ledsons_teeth

Strange how Sarah Smith disappeared about the same time as Preeky appeared. Did seem a fairly unusual name and a stupid thing to do as it wiil just add to the fire as soon as it was discovered.

ledsons_teeth

Hats off to Phil Hilsden. It's on the Aldi page now.