Parking eye won cambridge case

salmosalaris

So is that a green light for any business to start charging their customers penalties because they are commercially justified ? If so case I can see a few schemes starting to appear

Bantex_2

Probably best to park within the lines, not use disabled bays (Unless you have a disablity) and not overstay beyond your allowed time for the meantime then?

Hot_Bring

Bantex wrote: »

Probably best to park within the lines, not use disabled bays (Unless you have a disablity) and not overstay beyond your allowed time for the meantime then?

But that doesn't guarantee you won't get an invoice.

MABLE

Tanglefoot222 wrote: »

Parking eye won hands down in cambridge today.
To bad you lot

It should be too bad not to bad. Monkey nuts come to mind. :rotfl:

James_N

Bantex wrote: »

Probably best to park within the lines, not use disabled bays (Unless you have a disablity) and not overstay beyond your allowed time for the meantime then?

This is indeed a sensible way to proceed, and one that most people would agree to. To this add: pay reasonable park charges when asked to do so (I mean the £1 per hour or £3.50 per afternoon, or whatever) Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the leeches will be off your back They will go for;

1 People that park ever so slightly over a line
2 People who visit twice in one day
3 People who have paid, and can prove it, but commit the heinous crime of UPSIDE DOWN TICKET (causing a £70 loss)
4 People who have paid, and can prove it, but commit the heinous crime of TICKET BLOWN OFF DASH (especially in windy locations, like docks) (causing a £70 loss)
5 People who visit ANOTHER PLACE as well as the retail park
6 People who "overstay" because they wanted to breastfeed or spend £5000 on a kitchen, or have a burger as well as shop, or (this list could go on).

I am sure there are many other circumstances where the leeches want to feed that are unjustifiable morally.

Bantex_2

Hot_Bring wrote: »

But that doesn't guarantee you won't get an invoice.

Then you can dispute on a basis that you did park within terms. I believe the case referred to was not on that basis, but about the parking companies right to make a charge when terms had been broken.

Bantex_2

James_N wrote: »

This is indeed a sensible way to proceed, and one that most people would agree to. To this add: pay reasonable park charges when asked to do so (I mean the £1 per hour or £3.50 per afternoon, or whatever) Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the leeches will be off your back They will go for;

1 People that park ever so slightly over a line
2 People who visit twice in one day
3 People who have paid, and can prove it, but commit the heinous crime of UPSIDE DOWN TICKET (causing a £70 loss)
4 People who have paid, and can prove it, but commit the heinous crime of TICKET BLOWN OFF DASH (especially in windy locations, like docks) (causing a £70 loss)
5 People who visit ANOTHER PLACE as well as the retail park
6 People who "overstay" because they wanted to breastfeed or spend £5000 on a kitchen, or have a burger as well as shop, or (this list could go on).

I am sure there are many other circumstances where the leeches want to feed that are unjustifiable morally.

As long as you know the terms before parking, I cannot see the problem of sticking to them are parking somewhere else.

Al the examples you give above are within the control of the driver.

This does assume the terms are clearly stated and legible.

Iceweasel

Hot_Bring wrote: »

But that doesn't guarantee you won't get an invoice.

I don't care - I live in Scotland - so yah boo sucks to Parking Eye and their ilk.

James_N

Bantex wrote: »

As long as you know the terms before parking, I cannot see the problem of sticking to them are parking somewhere else.

Al the examples you give above are within the control of the driver.

This does assume the terms are clearly stated and legible.

I would disagree. Even if charges of up to £100 are "justified" in accordance with the Cambridge case to create an environment of high "turnover" in retail car parks, there is no conceivable reason to be able to justify charges in the circumstances I have outlined, and some of them are outwith the control of the driver: how on earth is a cynical manipulation of APNR data on a double visit within the driver's control.

nigelbb

Bantex wrote: »

As long as you know the terms before parking, I cannot see the problem of sticking to them are parking somewhere else.

Al the examples you give above are within the control of the driver.

This does assume the terms are clearly stated and legible.

Except contract law does not allow penalties for breach of contract only that the injured party be reimbursed for their loss if a contract is breached. So if you don't check out of your hotel room on time the most that you can be charged is the price of another night. Likewise if you park straddling two parking bays the most that you owe is the price of parking another vehicle not a £100 penalty. If you pay for a ticket but it falls off the dashboard then the parking company has suffered no loss.