Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

4consumerrights

I think RB has problem solved for now!

GermanKeeper

Welsh_Exile wrote: »

GK - as a matter of interest, how do Aldi manage their car parks in Germany?

I think most car parks of Aldi in Germany are spacious enough, so that they do not need a proper car park management. The Aldi stores usually do not lie in the center of the towns, so that people, who are not genuine customers, usually can park their car on the road nearbye. Sometimes you can drive through an Aldi car park to the car park of some other store/retailer and nobody cares if you go from the Aldi car park to the other shop or vice versa or if you do not move your car away immediately, if the shop is closed. So usually most of the cars parked in an Aldi car park are cars of genuine customers.

But I think the store manager will make further action if there is a serious misuse of an Aldi car park. So you should not try to park your campervan for a longer period on an Aldi car park. Usually there is one sign at the entrace of a car park that parking is only allowed during shopping.

One should know that towing is allowed in Germany (as part of the law of trespass), but usually a store manager will do so only if there is an evident misuse of the car park.

In Germany it would be quite unusual to manage a car park using contract law, unless you use barriers at the entrance and at the exit and let the customers pay for parking (e.g. multi-story car parks in the centers of the towns/cities).

By section 309 of the German civil code
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb.html#p0948
especially Nr. 4, 5a, 5b and 6
a business model like that of PE could not work.

Stroma

The only reason these companies exist here is that a public body (dvla) sells data to a private company to enrich themselves. If this didn't exist then the whole business goes out of the window, the dvla created this situation, these scamming cowboys exploited it to their own end.

Welsh_Exile

GermanKeeper wrote: »

I think most car parks of Aldi in Germany are spacious enough, so that they do not need a proper car park management. The Aldi stores usually do not lie in the center of the towns, so that people, who are not genuine customers, usually can park their car on the road nearbye. Sometimes you can drive through an Aldi car park to the car park of some other store/retailer and nobody cares if you go from the Aldi car park to the other shop or vice versa or if you do not move your car away immediately, if the shop is closed. So usually most of the cars parked in an Aldi car park are cars of genuine customers.

But I think the store manager will make further action if there is a serious misuse of an Aldi car park. So you should not try to park your campervan for a longer period on an Aldi car park. Usually there is one sign at the entrace of a car park that parking is only allowed during shopping.

One should know that towing is allowed in Germany (as part of the law of trespass), but usually a store manager will do so only if there is an evident misuse of the car park.

In Germany it would be quite unusual to manage a car park using contract law, unless you use barriers at the entrance and at the exit and let the customers pay for parking (e.g. multi-story car parks in the centers of the towns/cities).

By section 309 of the German civil code
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb.html#p0948
especially Nr. 4, 5a, 5b and 6
a business model like that of PE could not work.

Thanks for the reply - it seems Aldi Germany handle things much better than their UK division.

Coupon-mad

Bumpity bump!

GermanKeeper

Stroma wrote: »

The only reason these companies exist here is that a public body (dvla) sells data to a private company to enrich themselves. If this didn't exist then the whole business goes out of the window, the dvla created this situation, these scamming cowboys exploited it to their own end.

No I do not think that this is the reason these companies still exists in the UK. To have an online access to DVLA makes the life a little bit easier for them, but also in Germany they can (and do!) get the data of a registered keeper from the corresponding body, the KBA in Flensburg. They just have to write a fax a standard letter and have to pay a fee about 4 €.

I think, one reason is, that these POPLA decisions about GPEOL do not come to public attention. They still remain something like a secret key.

surfboy1

found this thread on page 3!

peter_the_piper

surfboy1 wrote: »

found this thread on page 3!

What is it? I know what is normally on page 3 but doubt this is it.

peter_the_piper

They say to people that their CS service will help and guid through the appeals process. Question been asked "how many of their custumers they have actually helped getting off." Don't expect to get a reply though.

Umkomaas

Their FB page won't load at the moment. Are they busy removing ParkingEye threads?