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  • esmerobbo
    esmerobbo Posts: 4,979 Forumite
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    The_Deep wrote: »
    Mr Python, there is a vast difference between the occasional typo and the wilful abuse of the punctuation and grammar of one's mother tongue. Freddie has been told of the correct form, a sensible person would take it on board.

    Does it matter, we know what he means, and the posts, as does this don't add nuthin!

    I was in care from aged 8 and left at 18 with an educational age of 11-3/4. Not all have had the best education. ;)
  • Grimble wrote: »
    Trev having nightmares that you will visit him

    I've had dealings with Trev recently in my professional capacity.

    He strikes me as actually a decent chap, other than his choice of business. And I have said as much to him.

    Now Duffserve - that's a different story :rotfl:
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    My local supermarket was packed solid at Christmas. So much so people were queuing to get into the car park. The supermarket had the brainwave of having people with big signs directing you to a vacant larking space.

    It really helped free up the car park and got people in and out much more easily. So who did this signposting? Was it a car park management company? Was it heck it was store staff.
  • Grimble
    Grimble Posts: 455 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 100 Posts
    Hitlers Mum thought he was a nice lad :rotfl:
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    This is prime reason why these PPC leeches are no good for retailers or shoppers. It's Parking Eye and the artificial time limits they impose for shopping (from PPP)

    http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=97711&hl=

    My wife went in to Sofaworks in Croydon and spent about 2 hours looking at sofas and discussing options with the staff.
    It says that a receipt from the store will be acceptable for a appeal.. surely you can't buy a sofa in 1.5 hours and need time to look and and discuss with the store before you spend a good few thousand pounds.


    Why would you have to go to all that hassle to prove that you have shopped there? Even worse , what if that person had just been browsing and hadn't spent any money there?
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • photome
    photome Posts: 16,683 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Bake Off Boss!
    trisontana wrote: »
    This is prime reason why these PPC leeches are no good for retailers or shoppers. It's Parking Eye and the artificial time limits they impose for shopping (from PPP)

    http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=97711&hl=

    My wife went in to Sofaworks in Croydon and spent about 2 hours looking at sofas and discussing options with the staff.
    It says that a receipt from the store will be acceptable for a appeal.. surely you can't buy a sofa in 1.5 hours and need time to look and and discuss with the store before you spend a good few thousand pounds.


    Why would you have to go to all that hassle to prove that you have shopped there? Even worse , what if that person had just been browsing and hadn't spent any money there?

    Its a crazy situation, why is it only 1.5 hours anyway, I assume there are a number of stores on the site so 1.5 hours is nothing if you want to browse them all.
  • MothballsWallet
    MothballsWallet Posts: 15,904 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    And woe betide the sole traders such as Steven Cheetham. You can't Phoenix a human being. Personal bankruptcy looms.
    ... well, if you're the Doctor, you can phoenix yourself ;)
  • Ryan_Bryan
    Ryan_Bryan Posts: 265 Forumite
    If anyone thinks that PPCs have any positive use whatever then I suggest they say so on the next thread titled TICKET FOR PARKING IN MY OWN SPACE. These firms are pond scum who feed off peoples ignorance of and fear of authority and the law. I've had two tickets and paid neither. Has it cost me in the courts? No! Because on the first occasion I parked in a three quarters empty car park and the second I parked outside an apartment complex while undertaking work for the landowner. Euro and Premier tried to scam me. I will not be scammed.
    I will not change my opinion because a paid lackey from a PPC posts excuses herefor scamming people.
    Forums cost PPCs money and they hate them for it.
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,042 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    trisontana wrote: »
    Why would you have to go to all that hassle to prove that you have shopped there? Even worse , what if that person had just been browsing and hadn't spent any money there?

    I wonder if you could just get a letter from the store to say you'd been in there for over 1.5 hours.
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,528 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The private parking industry appears to opperate in some strange paradox (?)
    They say they are there to provide parking management and a service to their customers by preventing people from parking 'incorrectly' in the car parks. And its from these so called transgressors where the PPCs get their money to operate/pay for private education/horses, yachts etc .
    However if the PPCs are truly effective then no one would be breaking their rules and the money flow would stop.
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
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