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Should the fine be paid?

DSkinner1234
DSkinner1234 Posts: 1 Newbie
edited 28 April 2018 at 11:13PM in Parking tickets, fines & parking
Parking at B&Q Oldham on Game day and the car parks around surrounding areas were full and could therefor not park. I needed to get to the hospital which is right next to B&Q. Parked up at 2:30 and made their way up. Came back to a ticket on the car saying they was observed leaving the car on the car park at 2:46 and the ticket was issued at 2:57.
Came back at 3:45 so they was gone for just over an hour - the car park says customer parking for a maximum of 3 hours only. There are no cameras to monitor the cars incoming and outgoing of the car park so
quite confused.
Should the fine be paid or ignore it? The company is Total Parking Solutions and have been told by many people to ignore if the police or council haven!!!8217;t issued it.

Comments

  • Redx
    Redx Posts: 38,084 Forumite
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    only a fool ignores a private parking ticket in E & W so those people giving you "help" are morons and their advice is 6 years past its sell by date

    now please read the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread and appeal it as keeper on day 26, using the template

    do NOT reveal who was driving

    levaing site is difficult for them to prove, plus if they fail POFA2012 the keeper isnt liable anyway
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    Wot Red said.

    You should only pay it after you have stuck pins in your eyes. Have you stuck multiple pins in your eyes?
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Throughout here you are advised never to reveal who was driving

    Edit your post to remove details of who was driving

    The ppcs monitor this forum and can use your posts against you

    If you have inadvertently used your real name as your forum name then ask MSE to change it to something completely anonymous
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 155,731 Forumite
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    Jeez do we really need such 'victim' thread headings, like this one too today?

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5835928/to-pay-or-not-to-pay

    Both asking if they PAY...PAY?!

    What is the matter with the forum sticky, if people still ask 'shall I pay?' OBVIOUSLY NOT.

    It's only TPS!

    Read the sticky thread for NEWBIES. Appeal and win, stop thinking paying is an option.
    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 THREAD
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,564 Forumite
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    The advice o ignore is wrong, and dangerous, plus this isnt a fine, up until now you have been getting some exceedingly bad advice.
    for starters always refer to the parking event in the third person, so the driver parked, or the vehicle was parked in X car park, no I/He/She/Friend/Wife/Mother/Sister etc, just driver, or vehicle .

    Take a read of the sticky thread and post back here#


    And to Answer your Question
    should the fine be paid
    As you haven't been fined then you cant pay something that doesn't exist
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
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