Parking Awareness Blackpool - PLEASE HELP

Umkomaas

Whatever you pay will NEVER be recovered, no matter what appeal you send in. Once you pay it there is absolutely no point in appealing!

No one here advises paying - there's plenty for you to fight on.

Redx

its not a "fine" , its a speculative invoice , so get the "fine" idea out of your head, it legitimises what is sharp practice or a sc@m

its well known that their parking spaces are small and cars dont fit in them properly etc (its either PWE or PAS , or both)

its also well known their operatives help people to park in such a manner that a rule is "broken" , like being over the white lines etc

a judge recently threw a case out on similar grounds against either them or a different firm , because the parking fee was paid and the parking area was small and no loss was incurred due to the correct fee having been paid

maybe yours was similar ?

you do not have to pay ONE PENNY unless a judge says so

CConnor

I managed to save the photos, I'll send one across to show you the position of the car, or I'll try to, it doesn't seem to want to work

Redx

host it on tinypic or photobucket and add a broken url to it , like changing http to hxxp

CConnor

It won't let me post links, the car was parked next to a parking meter and as far from the car next to ours, this meant the car was pulled very minutely onto the white line but it didnt infringe on other spaces or people walking to the parking meter.
If I copy and paste the template letter from NEWBIES into their appeal box on their website, will this be enough?

Redx

it will if you break the link or change http to hxxp like you were told to do

in these private parking cases, nothing is "enough" , especially with IPC members

you are creating a paper trail , in case it goes further (evidence)

Coupon-mad

CConnor wrote: »

Update: we have seen images of the car and it is on the very edge of the white line... however, we were still never issued a PCN, and the photos do not show one attached to the car... fair enough I'll probably have to pay the inital fine but can I still appeal for not being issued a PCN in the first place and having to pay £100 instead of £60???

Oh stop, please read the NEWBIES thread. No, you will not.

Why do people naively they think this is a FINE and that they 'have to' pay it?

Honestly sometimes I feel like giving up, why do we bother. I've just read about ten threads by people who can't read simple advice and can't find a sticky thread even when told what one is and where to look. And then here, we get a comment saying ''fair enough' about a private invoice from a rip-of merchant! You, the victim, are saying: ''I will probably have to pay''. Pardon?

What on earth makes anyone think that? Honest, genuine question. What makes a person think that? I wish I understood.

We are here to help newbies but the NEWBIES thread tells you what to do. It is not a FINE.

We do NOT say to ring up nor to pay it. What else can we do but what we already have, a NEWBIES thread of advice telling you how to play this, yet still no-one reads it and we have endless 'what do I do' threads we can't keep up with.

fisherjim

I agree with CM comments above, and what on earth does this actually mean it makes no sense to me at all:

"I'll probably have to pay the inital fine but can I still appeal for not being issued a PCN in the first place and having to pay £100 instead of £60???"