Parked without clearly displaying a valid PCM UK Ltd permit (at time of enforcement)

LokinUK

Hi,

I was hoping you could all help me please.

I had rented an holiday apartment and was allotted a parking space in a secured gated car park of the building ground floor. My car has been parked for those allotted 3days of my stay, displaying the permit on my dash.
Second day morning, I went to the car park to notice a car parking tickets on my vehicle. The parking permit had slipped down the dash on this day, and was partially visible under the black tint of the windscreen and could also see the outline of the ticket in PCM pictures.

I unfortunately replied and appealed to these tickets in haste without checking these forums in what I deem to be a factual reply stating that 1) rented space with a allotment of parking bay, 2) can provide evidence of the parking permit received and the fobe to enter the electronic gate, 3) that it's slipped and partially visible and 4) that my car has been parked in that space only after allotment. Clearly I underestimated the compassion of this company who immediately rejected and then provided me 2 option (1. to Pay and 2. to appeal through IAS).

I have since read the forums which are very informative and regret appealing as PCM is not registered under BPA. This also means they now have my details.

The letter has given me 2 choices which are to either pay the fine or appeal to IAS, and hoping for advice on this forum as to what I should do. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Coupon-mad

Do the third choice - ignore them now and beat them in court, when they get Gladstones to issue a claim. You clearly have a defence, and I don't think we've ever seen a post here lose v PCM's predatory tickets.

Did you wonder how the permit suddenly slipped? I would. Could have been someone leaning on the car, that's what clamping firms used to do years ago to scam money from people. PCM are ex-clampers.

The_Deep

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.