Parking Eye In Scotland

crm

Hi All, I read the pinned thread and it said to ignore in Scotland,

Question I have is that I received one in Scotland (Where I live) this morning. Now on it says not to ignore and they have managed to successfully take people to court in Scotland and won and they mention a date in which they managed this.

Is the most recent advice still to ignore in Scotland and is all the information on this letter just bluster?

waamo

If you want to kill it dead then complain to the landowner. If that's too difficult ignoring in Scotland is absolutely fine.

Coupon-mad

Now on it says not to ignore and they have managed to successfully take people to court in Scotland and won and they mention a date in which they managed this.

What, ParkingEye reckon they won a case in Scotland? there was a case that VCS won, where the hapless keeper had admitted she was driving, on the umpteen occasions the car was ticketed, leaving her little defence.

However, you are a registered keeper and PE do not know who was driving, so don't help them. No appeal.

Complain to the retailer to get it cancelled - or the site Managing Agent if a multi-retailer park, just saying 'we' will never visit again in a ranty style, so as not to state who was driving even in the complaint, in case it gets passed to PE (in fact you can demand that it is NOT).

DoaM

ALDI car park?

Just ignore everything. (In Scotland and NI only).

craobhan

I have just got one of these damned things in the post this morning concering Aldi car park in Dumfries for an overstay of 15 minutes.The amount is £40 - reduced from £70 provided payment is made by 24 October 2017

There are two small photos of the car that are so dark (despite it being mid afternoon) that you cannot see who (if anyone) is in/driving the car. You can't even see my Blue Badge which I always display, even if I am not in an actual disabled space. The number plate is of course clear and repeated in cropped snapshots below each photo! Presumably the original images are clearer?

I've been reading the newbies post and watching the recommended video and few others but they mostly refer to England.

The letter states that it is a parking charge and the photos have a day and time stamp on them. The arrival one is of the front of the car, the departure one is of the rear. So it seems they are sticking to rules of BPA membership mentioned in one of the videos.

What is not so nice is that the bottom of the frontof the letter says "Please ensure the amount paid is correct, any overpayment will not be automatically refunded. A charge will added tobalance shoulda payment be returned unpaid. (A charge refelcting the cost to ParkingEye may apply for payments made with a credit/debit card)". I thought it was now against the law to charge anything for use of a debit card and if they did decide to add a surcharge for credit cards, should they not state what their charging structure is?

I intend to follow advice and ignore PaymentEye letters but hould I go in to the store and complain or would that make things worse?

Have included a link to a copy of the wording on the back of the letter so yo can see what an up to date ParkingEye letter for Scotland says now.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vo7z9mv6dwcbccn/File.jpg?dl=0

pogofish

craobhan wrote: »

I've been reading the newbies post and watching the recommended video and few others but they mostly refer to England.

The Newbies Sticky is fully up to date for Scotland too.