Parking Eye

DanTheMan69

Really glad I googled "Parking eye scam" because I wouldn't have found all this infromation and I think we would be feeling a bit stupid! I received a letter from them on Monday. We went to Blackpool last 11 January 2014 and parked at church street/Caunce street. I bought a ticket for 9 hours and will finish at 6:30 in the evening we leave the Parking area an hour earlier. Then 20 January 2014 they sent a letter of Parking Charge Notice. They got a picture of my car in and out of the parking but they never showed a picture of my car parked with a pay and display sticker, which should always be the case. They randomly sending you this letter of parking charge to get some more money. First reaction is to pay the £60 over the £100! Reading your posts got me thinking and you are all so right. They frighten us and we pay. We pay, they keep going. So they are not getting a penny from us. Shall let you know what (if anything) happens next! Thanks again, you saved us a small fortune. We need to keep an eye on this Parking Eye scam. Somebody should stop them from doing this.

Crabman

Hi Dan, welcome to MSE :hello:

I've split your post into a new thread so all replies can be kept in one place.

Redx

DanTheMan69 wrote: »

Really glad I googled "Parking eye scam" because I wouldn't have found all this infromation and I think we would be feeling a bit stupid! I received a letter from them on Monday. We went to Blackpool last 11 January 2014 and parked at church street/Caunce street. I bought a ticket for 9 hours and will finish at 6:30 in the evening we leave the Parking area an hour earlier. Then 20 January 2014 they sent a letter of Parking Charge Notice. They got a picture of my car in and out of the parking but they never showed a picture of my car parked with a pay and display sticker, which should always be the case. They randomly sending you this letter of parking charge to get some more money. First reaction is to pay the £60 over the £100! Reading your posts got me thinking and you are all so right. They frighten us and we pay. We pay, they keep going. So they are not getting a penny from us. Shall let you know what (if anything) happens next! Thanks again, you saved us a small fortune. We need to keep an eye on this Parking Eye scam. Somebody should stop them from doing this.

as this is in england (or had it been in wales) then actually you should not be ignoring it

see here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822

Coupon-mad

DanTheMan69 wrote: »

Really glad I googled "Parking eye scam" because I wouldn't have found all this infromation and I think we would be feeling a bit stupid! I received a letter from them on Monday. We went to Blackpool last 11 January 2014 and parked at church street/Caunce street. I bought a ticket for 9 hours and will finish at 6:30 in the evening we leave the Parking area an hour earlier. Then 20 January 2014 they sent a letter of Parking Charge Notice. They got a picture of my car in and out of the parking but they never showed a picture of my car parked with a pay and display sticker, which should always be the case. They randomly sending you this letter of parking charge to get some more money. First reaction is to pay the £60 over the £100! Reading your posts got me thinking and you are all so right. They frighten us and we pay. We pay, they keep going. So they are not getting a penny from us. Shall let you know what (if anything) happens next! Thanks again, you saved us a small fortune. We need to keep an eye on this Parking Eye scam. Somebody should stop them from doing this.

OMG you read an ancient thread and think you are still OK to ignore it. PE sue people, they issued court papers to 8000 ignorers in 2013.

Thank Goodness Crabman took your post off the old thread you wasted your time reading. You now need to read the CURRENT forum advice as you should have all along. Google is NOT your friend when you don't check the dates of any forum postings. You only needed one click to get to page one of 2014 threads.

edward123

This is for the regulars:

DanTheMan69 wrote: »

Really glad I googled "Parking eye scam" because I wouldn't have found all this infromation and I think we would be feeling a bit stupid! I received a letter from them on Monday. We went to Blackpool last 11 January 2014 and parked at church street/Caunce street. I bought a ticket for 9 hours and will finish at 6:30 in the evening we leave the Parking area an hour earlier. Then 20 January 2014 they sent a letter of Parking Charge Notice. They got a picture of my car in and out of the parking but they never showed a picture of my car parked with a pay and display sticker, which should always be the case. They randomly sending you this letter of parking charge to get some more money. First reaction is to pay the £60 over the £100! Reading your posts got me thinking and you are all so right. They frighten us and we pay. We pay, they keep going. So they are not getting a penny from us. Shall let you know what (if anything) happens next! Thanks again, you saved us a small fortune. We need to keep an eye on this Parking Eye scam. Somebody should stop them from doing this.

Ive just had a PM from a "MSE Investigator" which I will quote:

Dear edward123

Just a note to let you know that following a complaint from Parking Eye, we have edited your signature. Please could you avoid using defamatory language such as "scam" in any future posts.

Kind regards

MSE Investigator

When has "Parking Eye" and the word "scam" been mutually exclusive or "inflammatory"? I post this because I just did a search of "Parking Eye scam" and I get this thread where it was googled by OP who found this MSE forum which helped him recognise a scam when he saw it.
Perhaps the OP will receive a complaint from Parking Eye and an MSE investigator will alter his post above?

Hello Parking Speyesters

Coupon-mad

I have had that email in the past! I do try to avoid using the word 'scam' in the same sentence as any particular PPC now. Easy enough to do if you just talk generally about 'PPC World' or something!

edward123

....just edited my signature. Still specific but no one can complain about it now! Now all I have to do is post a few times on other forums....spread the word.

SevenTowers

edward123 wrote: »

This is for the regulars:



Ive just had a PM from a "MSE Investigator" which I will quote:



When has "Parking Eye" and the word "scam" been mutually exclusive or "inflammatory"? I post this because I just did a search of "Parking Eye scam" and I get this thread where it was googled by OP who found this MSE forum which helped him recognise a scam when he saw it.
Perhaps the OP will receive a complaint from Parking Eye and an MSE investigator will alter his post above?

Hello Parking Speyesters

You could have just changed to "a" in scam to another vowel, I know which one I would pick

bod1467

What about Parking Eye Scäm?

android26

Scam;
a dishonest scheme; a fraud

If parking companies won every popla appeal and every single court case, we would have to accept, albeit grudgingly, that they always and in every case, act fully within the law.

However, it appears that many judges and popla assessors find that in a fair proportion of cases before them, that they act outside of what they are legally entitled to do. On pre-estimates of loss, for example, they are often found not to be genuine. Their claims dismissed by asking for expenses they are not entitled to and for amounts beyond any real loss suffered by any party, commercially justified or not. Then there are these apparent hidden exemption of the genuine shopper with receipts. Hidden terms that go against OFT Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations.

Does this make them or their schemes dishonest? If you feel so, then you would be entitled to hold the opinion of it being a scam, with court cases to back it up.

If not, then they are just like any other legitimate businesses and deserve our full backing in their quest to be as profitable as possible and in their own way, driving the country out of recession and helping to put the Great back into Britain!

Or then again, it's just the same money but coming out of the pockets that often can least afford it and migrating to a pocket that is already bulging with cash, to bursting point. Not much help to the balance of payments deficit.

I think porking eye do great job. If I owned a retail outlet where people came and gave me money for my over priced !!!!!, on credit they can ill afford to buy themselves a little happiness, I too would want to penalise them for making extra purchases thereby staying too long. And god forbid if they dared put an inch of tyre on my lovely white lines or even worse...on one of my nice yellow chevrons! Parking companies...heroes one and all.


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husheechee

dear oh dear,seems like parking spye is a bit upset with posters using the English language to describe them.
As android 26 says...scam is a dishonest scheme,a fraud. And as was suggested I tried other vowels instead of "a" and the only one that gave a definition according to the EOD is the use of the letter "u"instead.
Thought I would be kind to PE spysters and NOT actually use the word here and I wouldn't want the moderators to berate me for any bad language on this forum hence to say the definition is still quite interestin...."a layer of dirt on the surface of liquid...and the informal is.... "a worthless or contemptible person or group of people"...Who would've thought it?.....funny what you can find out with a google finger.....