Recieved a letter £70 for parking at aldi

Stroma

Sorry but you sound like a marketing person for parking eye. I don't really believe that instantly the problem was solved as soon as cameras were put up. I realise you are a long standing MSE'er but I'm really sceptical of this

peter_the_piper

All I can say is Congratulations BB, it would seem that PE are actually managing your problem. This only rarely happens. A supermarket is a different problem in that they are encouraging non staff to come on site and do nothing to manage the parking only the time on site.

Coupon-mad

bb999 wrote: »

Definitely not, Coupon-mad. Ours is a factory car park, and we had a massive problem with cars parking without authority - to the extent that staff and visitors struggled to park.
Patking Eye came in, and the problem is now virtually non existent. On the occasions where a ticket is issued by mistake (usually because a member of staff has forgotten to log a visitors reg. No.) cancellation is quick and easy.

If that's the case Parking Eye are making no money there so there's nothing in it for them any more (except the money paid by those victims who pay up and never mention it to the factory as they are intimidated). They won't want to renew a contract where they make no profit out of victims. That's how the parasites work, not by providing any service but by making money off the back of real businesses who only ever needed a keypad and a gate at the entrance, or maybe a few hinged parking posts costing under £50.

Letting a PPC on site is like getting aggressive bouncers to man an open door, when all that was needed as a remedy at such premises was a door with a key.

bb999

Stroma wrote: »

Sorry but you sound like a marketing person for parking eye. I don't really believe that instantly the problem was solved as soon as cameras were put up. I realise you are a long standing MSE'er but I'm really sceptical of this

Yes, I am a long standing mse'er and have nothing to do with parking eye other than they manage the car park where I work.

I never said the problem was instantly solved as soon as cameras were put in - perhaps you just imagined that bit.

My original post on this thread was simply to point out that Aldi do know how many tickets are issued, and can cancel them if they so wish. The fact that it seems they do not want to would suggest either arrogance on their part, or (and this can't be right can it:D) people are using their car park rather than paying to park elsewhere.
If genuine customers are being harrased then they have my utmost sympathy, but for every genuine customer there will more than likely be one chancer.

Before we had cameras installed, it really did used to amaze me the audacity of people who used to just dump their car in our car park & disappear for the day. No matter how often we put notes on their windscreens asking them not to, they still came back. When parking eye came along, gradually over a period of about 6 weeks, the problem went away.

Coupon -mad: Parking Eye issue about 10 -15 invoices per week at our site (approx 300 parking spaces) and we cancel probably 25 to 30% of these, usually before they are actually sent out.

Coupon-mad

And so PE are making no money. They won't stay and you will still have to install a gate in the end.

Guys_Dad

bb999 Some PPC contracts have a clause that the landowner can instruct the PPC to cancel tickets, but the landowner is then liable to pay the PPC a sum of money to compensate them for loss of income.

bb999

Coupon-mad wrote: »

And so PE are making no money. They won't stay and you will still have to install a gate in the end.

I would be surprised if this happens - they have already spent their money installing the cameras, signs, etc so have no real ongoing costs. Long term they may not be getting rich on this, but it is all profit.

I know p.e. have got a really bad reputation & many people hate them, but they have provided a service to us, and I guess to Aldi & others who really wouldn't use them if they didn't. Surely these companies have lawyers who check over the contracts before signing them to make sure there are no surprises.

Please don't think that I am some advocate of crooked companies ripping people off, because that is the complete opposite of me - I am simply pointing out that from a car park owner's point of view these companies do have some merit, like it or not.

peter_the_piper

I would say that I tend to agree with CM. Your case and a supermarket are 2 entirely different things. The made some money from you to start with and the revenue stream has pretty well dried up. They may well bail out and write off the installation loss. With a supermarket they want as many people as possible to enter the site and contravene some rule or other, knowing there will always be more cannon fodder coming along. When they do bail, consider something like http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=85277&pid=894236&st=45&#entry894236 posts 45/49

Coupon-mad

Surely these companies have lawyers who check over the contracts before signing them to make sure there are no surprises.

All these large companies were surprised by Parking Eye:

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/parkingeye-enforcing-maximum-value.html

and you would have thought all of them would have checked what they were letting themselves in for. Somerfield particularly regretted it.