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xrachx
xrachx Posts: 4 Newbie
edited 1 April 2018 at 11:38AM in Parking tickets, fines & parking
Hi all, Just received a fixed penalty for a nine hour stay at a local retail park which was nothing of the sort. The car visited in the morning and again at night. The car was at home most of the day. Thoughts? thank you.
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  • Fruitcake
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    edited 1 April 2018 at 11:38AM
    You say a fixed penalty, so was this a Council ticket? If so, you should visit our friends over on pepipoo.com as they are the council/police motoring experts.
    We tend to specialise in private parking issues here.

    This is called double dip, but since Councils aren't allowed to use ANPR cameras which is what normally causes this problem, I'm wondering if this was instead a private parking issue, in which case you need to read the Sticky thread for NEWBIES. You will also need to edit your post to remove information about who did what. In private parking land, only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper, who are two different people.
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  • pogofish
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    You need to read the Newbies Sticky if its a private ticket to inform yourself properly and look at recent threads on "double dipping".

    Until you do that and clarify a number of things, your post is too confused to offer any viable help.
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    If this was a private car park, then this is a well known scam, known to us as "double dippig", and what you have received is an invoice for alleged breach of contract. Read some of these

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=double+dipping+parking&form=EDGTCT&qs=AS&cvid=cf0dc2537cc44741ac30243881dedc6a&cc=GB&setlang=en-GB&elv=AXK1c4IvZoNqPoPnS%21QRLOOG1NCRlnzryIYU0g%21FBMFI2rmkCx2eyCqblMV2rXc97S%21ggnuF3mSLut50zAmaOHkd6HgUZOc2xi1sEUspJYBY&PC=ACTS

    This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

    Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

    Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

    The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

    http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

    and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.
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  • Half_way
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    who issued the ticket?
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  • Guys_Dad
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    xrachx wrote: »
    Hi all, Just received a fixed penalty for a nine hour stay at a local retail park which was nothing of the sort. The car visited in the morning and again at night. The car was at home most of the day. Thoughts? thank you.

    Lots of others on here had same problem. Suggest you read these threads to get up to date advice, but much more detail required from you for specific help.
  • Coupon-mad
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    xrachx wrote: »
    Hi all, Just received a fixed penalty for a nine hour stay at a local retail park which was nothing of the sort. The car visited in the morning and again at night. The car was at home most of the day. Thoughts? thank you.

    Welcome to the world of double dip unfair PCNs!

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5550336

    Very common, and an 'outrageous scam' (Hansard 2.2.18).
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  • xrachx
    xrachx Posts: 4 Newbie
    Thank you for your replies. The carpark was at a retail park and the ticket was issued by Premier Park Ltd Exeter Devon
  • xrachx
    xrachx Posts: 4 Newbie
    If I appeal do I have to tell them the driver of the car? The registered owner was not the driver on the day.
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    So, not a fixed penalty at all but an invoice from a scammer.

    I wish OPs would conduct a modicum of research before coming on here wasting peoples' time.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    edited 3 April 2018 at 3:05PM
    Please do at least a modicum of research, it is not a fixed penalty, it is an invoice from a scammer for an alleged breach of contract.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
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