Tesco carparks

armyknife

Odd that a thread about Tesco got parked in the wrong forum, a bit like how they parked those figures in the wrong year.

enfield_freddy

do Tesco sell bike tyres?




back on topic

Cornucopia

Are we sure that the OP was talking about a car?

enfield_freddy

are we sure it was Tesco?

27col

anotheruser wrote: »

But this is where I have questioned many times.

The ruling surely is that it IS enforceable, but only up to the amount of money they have lost by you overstaying.

Potentially someone could have used that space and spent £80 in store, thus £80 is a fair price to pay?

If it's clearly not ever enforcible then why do supermarkets/train stations/councils even bother, as they just look silly surely?

Except that the money does not go to Tesco, but to the parking company.

martindow

A recent Court of Appeal judgement has ruled that these charges ARE enforceable

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3052070/Plucky-motorist-loses-parking-fine-battle-court-RAC-says-days-sky-high-charges-private-firms-numbered.html

This article suggests that it may now go to the Supreme Court.

Cornucopia

To be fair, that judgment is a bit of a fudge.

No one wants the situation where consumers can be held to ransom by companies on the basis of trivial or manufactured contractual breaches. Hopefully the wisdom of the Supreme Court will endure.

Ultimately, though, this is a mess of the Government's creation, and they really need to sort it out by making the legislation more definitive.