Paid on app and still charged

The_Deep

I am sure that the PPC are aware of this and, imo, they should have given you the option of paying say £10. The fact that they did not might go badly for them in court, judges are not fools and have to consider mitigating circumstances, but then all these parasites want is money. Fair play is an alien concept to them.

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 House of Commons recently

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

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.

Coupon-mad

dilby wrote: »

Thanks - sorry to hear you've had similar problems but glad you got it sorted. So shall I just now ignore all communication?

Yes. Ignore all debt collector demands.

Maybe send a FOI to the local Council, asking for how many complaints they have had, about people paying at that machine and how it is positioned in a misleading place, so that people are being scammed by a parking firm at the site. Ask for numbers of complaints like that and minutes of any meetings and any emails, letters or other communications that relate to this issue of this machine.

You can do that free, online, via WhatdoTheyKnow and can use any name.

The answer MIGHT be 'none' but it could be revealing, if not...maybe the Council has written to the landowner, etc!

Costs you nowt to ask under FOI and the Council MUST reply.

You cannot do the same of a private firm, no FOI available.