Smart parking invoice.

ScottishParker

My wife visited Perth last week and against local advice chose to park in the multistory at Kinnoul Street, Perth. She went about her business with her friend and small child in tow returning to the carpark, paid ( with the assistance of one of the carpark attendants ) and left.

Happy days ( or so she thought )

We have now received an invoice. There is no reason displayed on the invoice.

So.... she dug out the ticket... At the top of the ticket it has at time and date in big letters. This Time is exactly 3 hours after she left... ( Even tho the time and date issued which is clearly printed at the bottom of the ticket is correct at the point of her leaving? )

Confused

DoaM

The event was in Scotland. I presume you also live in Scotland?

If yes, as per the NEWBIES FAQ (you have read it, haven't you?) then the advice is to IGNORE everything except an actual Sheriff's Court claim (the likelihood of which is infinitesimally small).

Herzlos

Keep the ticket, and ignore Smart parking and any debt collectors. Complain to the car park owners if you can be bothered (don't name the driver), but don't waste any more time on it than that.

pogofish

Yup - No POFA 2012 in Scotland, so no keeper liability - So you just ignore these jokers and the shonky debt collectors that will follow.

That is no communication whatsoever - If they don't know who the driver was, they cannot take any further action.

The only thing you respond to is properly issued court papers from a Scottish court - and confirm they are genuine with the court concerned first!

AltheHibby

Herzlos wrote: »

Keep the ticket, and ignore Smart parking and any debt collectors. Complain to the car park owners if you can be bothered (don't name the driver), but don't waste any more time on it than that.

Herzlos, Smart are the owners. It's their ex-Council multi-storey in the centre of Perth.

OP, as the others say, ignore, ignore, ignore.

ScottishParker

Yes we are in Scotland...
we will keep the ticket and stuff and forget about it.
Thank you

beamerguy

ScottishParker wrote: »

Yes we are in Scotland...
we will keep the ticket and stuff and forget about it.
Thank you

Please help the cause. Smart just like all the other parking vermin in Scotland already know what you have been told.
SIMPLE SCAMMERS

Tell all your friends and ask them pass it on.
It's amazing what word and mouth can do

thanks

Getoffofmycloud

Hi, forgive me for being a nervous nelly.

I have read the newbies and made no contact with smart parking but I wanted to check if you should still do this when you know you have left without paying for the full time we stayed.

A conference a group of NHS workers attended over-ran, we'd parked at Kinnoul Street as suggested by the venue then 3 of us got tickets because we left in a rush to pick up kids from nursery etc. The range of times is from 3 mins to an hour, although I don't have my ticket and in none of the correspondence specifies how long we had overstayed.

Is the advice still to ignore? My colleagues are getting nervous and I don't want to tell them to ignore it if this is bad advice! One has already spoken to the company as her son in the police advised her to and the charge is £130!

Thanks!

pogofish

The Sticky is quite up to date but hijacking threads is not-on.

Umkomaas

One has already spoken to the company as her son in the police advised her to

I do hope her ‘son in the police’ is better at catching crims than he is at giving advice on private parking issues.

If he’s that good at catching miscreants, perhaps he should be making a phone call....... :cool:

beamerguy

Getoffofmycloud wrote: »

Is the advice still to ignore? My colleagues are getting nervous and I don't want to tell them to ignore it if this is bad advice! One has already spoken to the company as her son in the police advised her to and the charge is £130!

Thanks!

Take notice of the advice on here, police have no place
in this and we do not want bad advice being given