Consumer Protection (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Ryan_Bryan

Half_way wrote: »

I haven't had time to read it yet, let alone time to digest it but hopefully it will give consumers some leverage not only against the PPCs but more importantly it will give consumers the chance to claim against those who allow PPCs to operate on their land as their agents/for or and on behalf of.
something like claiming against Morisons/Aldi/Welcome break/whoever for the antics of Parking eye, or ASDA for Smart parking for example.
Much as the PPCs should be despised some of the focus if not all should be against the landowners, or those who take these company's on and hide behind the nothing to do with us mate attitude/policy's.
It would be quite satisfying to see the supermarkets etc having to re-fund people who have fallen for the antics of their agents and paid these trumped up parking charge notices.

I was thinking about this today. If a PPC victim who received court papers from, say Parking Eye for example. If they were to counter sue could they add the land owner. If this was to happen then some land owners (IE: Tesco) would surely tell PPC to back off double quick.

Half_way

Ryan_Bryan wrote: »

I was thinking about this today. If a PPC victim who received court papers from, say Parking Eye for example. If they were to counter sue could they add the land owner. If this was to happen then some land owners (IE: Tesco) would surely tell PPC to back off double quick.

The issue is that a PPC can/will approach a landowner/car park owner and offer them a pain free, and above all a free way to solve their car park problems that may or may not exist and if they did exist there would be better ways to solve them than a camera on a stick.
So the supermarket thinks its getting a bargain - free car park management to solve all their so called issues plus someone else to do the dirty work
the PPC has a licence to print money, the motorist gets scammed ( or 'fined' ) and blames the PPC and not the supermarket/car park owner.

Their is absolutely no excuse in a supermarket /large retailer/chain with all their legal departments jumping into bed with a PPC, or even allowing a PPC to continue to operate the usual parking charge notice/speculative invoice business model.
It is the car park owners the likes of Sainsburys/ASDA/ALDI/Lidl, Tesco, Morrisons the property management company's such as Savils etc etc and so on that should be held fully responsible for the acts committed in their name with their full knowledge abd blessing.
And as for the individual staff/store management who lie to customers and say its a council owned car park managed by smart parking they too should individually be held responsible. To me that sounds like it could possibly be interpreted as obtaining money by deception/fraud