ParkingEye lose in court

Umkomaas

The Range - Shameless!

Cygnus_Alpha

Umkomaas wrote: »

More untruths from their legal representatives. Here's a few cases to put a lie to their assertion.

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=96042

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=85308

http://nebula.wsimg.com/de2566ded6f0a611c309f1494800790b?AccessKeyId=4CB8F2392A09CF228A46&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

And very well done - good work, Sir. :T

Thank you.

Their solicitor was very good and I had underestimated her. I thought I would be dealing with a chimp but she was good.

We had a big long chat beforehand as the case was 50 mins late starting and she was nice enough but in the courtroom she turned.

That said she was distraught at the end. I went up to her and shook her hand and I thought she was going to cry.

bazster

Cygnus_Alpha wrote: »

The mediation was me offering them £10 and them wanting £150.

This has cost them big time. Court fees, solicitors costs plus they will have to pay me £124 for £90 loss of earnings and £34 travel.

Let this be a lesson to you ParkingEye.

It's a lesson they are happy to repeat. They don't sue to make money out of the individuals who go all the way to court, they do it pour encourager les autres to cough up.

Marktheshark

I Never shop anywhere where Parking Eye operate.
That is my free choice.

bazster

Marktheshark wrote: »

I Never shop anywhere where Parking Eye operate.
That is my free choice.

Me too. And I always make a point of writing to the CEO to tell them why they have lost a customer.

Cygnus_Alpha

I would also like to thank everyone on this forum.

While I discovered this part of the forum quite late in the day (and hence didn't do all the right things - eg ignoring the PCN initially), it was a great help.

While I'm not good on the legal side, I am quite happy to help anyone else based on my experiences today.

I think had I been better at putting my case I would have won on the other points as well. But a win is a win.

Cygnus_Alpha

bazster wrote: »

It's a lesson they are happy to repeat. They don't sue to make money out of the individuals who go all the way to court, they do it pour encourager les autres to cough up.

Ahh I see. Heads on spikes. Hopefully this thread is the equivalent of me putting their head on a spike.

They fought aggressively at the end on costs. They said my costs were disproportionate given that it was a claim for £100. The judge said that it wasn't given that they were claiming for £175 in total when they add on the court fee and their solicitors costs.

They also said I should have switched the case to a court in London where I work but the judge said there was nothing in court directions that would have given me that option.

The judge did question me on the £90 as I was employed rather than self employed. But I said that my company had a flexible holiday scheme where you can buy and sell holiday and had I not taken the holiday I would have been paid for it. But he said that he could see no other way I could have got to Swindon cheaper than the £34 in fares I was claiming.

Their solicitor said that I had send them loads of documents and had not mentioned these costs and they had not had a chance to see them beforehand. I countered that I had not send them loads of defence documents - my bundle was 11 pages.

bazster

Sounds to me like you did pretty well.

Half_way

Flemming way?

If theres a coffee shop on site and you overstayed as a result of using the facilities on site then theres something wrong with parking eyes operation. ( although that can be said as a whole parking eye etc do not care about parking management - only maximising their profits from the sites that they infest.

if this is the flemming way site, then the Range/Halfords are just tennants and could possibly be equally !!!!ed off at parking eye as you ( well maybe the local managers )

Is this the site? http://www.londonmetric.com/~/media/Files/M/Metric-Property/our-properties/retail-park/Swindon.pdf

Ryan_Bryan

They said your costs were disproportionate? Sheer brazen effrontery.