More Unhappy Parking Eye "Customers".

trisontana

The_Deep wrote: »

What's hard to understand about that?

Nothing at all for me, but what about those people who constantly confuse "complement" with "compliment", "stationery" with "stationary" " there" with "their"?

And "advice/advise" or "lose/loose".

bargepole

The_Deep wrote: »

What's hard to understand about that?

Nothing at all for me, but what about those people who constantly confuse "complement" with "compliment", "stationery" with "stationary" " there" with "their"?

People with such a poor grasp of English spelling and grammar are usually beyond help anyway. These are often the same people who say they've read all the info in the stickies and the newbies thread, and don't understand any of it.


if you try and help such people, you will end up writing all their appeal letters, or court defence submissions, for them. And they still won't understand a word of it.


Maybe we need another sub-forum for remedial English tuition.

getmore4less

bargepole wrote: »

One of the main issues with this car park is the signage.


It's a pay and display facility, and the money from that all goes to the Whitlingham Country Park to help with the maintenance costs of the site.


If you return to your car and find you've overstayed the time paid for, there is a means of topping up your payment to cover the additional time - £1.20 per hour, or something similar.


But this is not prominently advertised on the PE signage, it's buried in the small print, so many people simply drive off and then get a £100/£60 parking charge in the post some days later.


So if they are going to keep going with their PE contract, they need to make it a condition that the top up facility is prominently advertised, which will reduce the money going into PE's coffers, and increase the P&D takings for the site owners, which has to be a good thing for this important local amenity.

If there is that facility then there is no need for a pre estimate of loss it can be calculated exactly.

Ivor_Pecheque

the PE business model does seem to disadvantage those of most need. Well done the local authority for stepping in.

4consumerrights

bargepole wrote: »

People with such a poor grasp of English spelling and grammar are usually beyond help anyway. These are often the same people who say they've read all the info in the stickies and the newbies thread, and don't understand any of it.


if you try and help such people, you will end up writing all their appeal letters, or court defence submissions, for them. And they still won't understand a word of it.


Maybe we need another sub-forum for remedial English tuition.

I'm sure you have a couple of candidates in mind here Bargepole. Although it has to be said that not all bad spellers are ignorant about parking companies and contract law.:D

Umkomaas

4consumerrights wrote: »

I'm sure you have a couple of candidates in mind here Bargepole. Although it has to be said that not all bad spellers are ignorant about parking companies and contract law.:D

And has to be said that not all those ignorant about parking companies and contract law are bad spellers!

Two sides to each equation .

Miss your regular input 4CR, but understand why!

Ivor_Pecheque

I wish people on here would get over this hang up over the use of the word "fine". Of course it is a fine, just as keeping a library book longer than one should attracts a fine

The folk who respond to posts on here are extremely enthusiastic when it comes to parking law. Myself included, It usually comes around as a result of a sense of injustice about how we've been treated by the bully boys.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that we actually become quite pedantic, and forget about how it seems to "The Man on the Clapham Omnibus," who, on reciept of the bumph sent out by the bully boys, does perceive it as a "fine."

bargepole

Ivor_Pecheque wrote: »

... Sometimes it's easy to forget that we actually become quite pedantic ...

Speak for yourself. I don't need to 'become' pedantic, as I already am pedantic.

Ivor_Pecheque

It's not always a bad thing. Pedant's are probably the most important cog in this wheel of sh*t. Ever tried to make sense of a PE small print ? I can't.

Of course, victims always get robust advice on here and pepipoo.

I'm sure it must become extremely irritating when, for the 2001st time, someone refers to a charge as a "fine," but, isn't it our responsibility to start out from the victims point of view ?

Coupon-mad

Pedantic, moi??