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Pay & dismay over new £1: Drivers warned to expect car park chaos
beamerguy
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Pay & dismay over new £1: Drivers warned to expect car park chaos because payment machines will not accept the coin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4266106/Drivers-warned-expect-car-park-chaos-new-coin.html
EXCEL better move quickly with their already dodgy machines as this will be the next defence in court
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4266106/Drivers-warned-expect-car-park-chaos-new-coin.html
EXCEL better move quickly with their already dodgy machines as this will be the next defence in court
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I bet the PPC's are loving it. Christmas will come twice for them in 2017.
Notice the silence from the BPA in the article on how they would expect their members to act if machines are unusable.Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street0 -
You just beat me to it. I can foresee an upsurge in invoices being given because machines will not have been modified. Best course of action, as far as I can make out, is to keep a supply of both versions or use other coins if the machines take them. Parking Lie etc must be rubbing their hands and Crapitas shares peaking, well maybe not.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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Unless the PPCs get their acts together and modify their machines, then surely this must be bad news for them. If they try to take someone to court because they only had old coins, I cannot imagine a judge ruling that current coin of the realm is not legal tender.You never know how far you can go until you go too far.0
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Bit of a non story really. As has been pointed out by some sensible (for a change) comments on the DM article, most machines will accept other, lower denomination coins.
As for supermarket trollies, they're very tolerant of what coins they will accept. Many take Euro as well as pound coins and will also accept those tokens you can buy and attach to a key ring.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
I don't think this will cause any issues to the PPCs, machines can be easily converted.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD0 -
I think part of the problem will be the time scale to convert, the manufacturers think there will be an overlap.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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