UKPC ticket

w00519772

I received a parking ticket from UK PC yesterday. It says: "driver left site". I have checked the photo evidence on their website and there is no photo of me leaving the site. The car park is supposedly free for two hours.

I also have a receipt of something I purchased at the specific visit. The purchase was approximately 50 minutes after I parked up and received the ticket. What do I do?

1) Do nothing as a lot of other posts suggests. I will then hear nothing from them because they can no longer use DVLA to access my records. However, by doing this I am concerned that they will come after me in the future if they are given access to DVLA data again and it will cost me a lot more.

2) Contact the store I made the purchase from and ask them to sort it out.

3) Appeal to UKPC on the basis that:
a) there is no photo evidence,
b) I left the site within two hours,
c) I have a receipt (the purchase was £17.99).

waamo

This would be better off on the parking tickets board just above this one. Read the faq's first though as they cover most of your questions.

AdrianC

It's a very specific situation, and you seem to have left some details out.

This is, presumably, a store car park?
Can you confirm that you parked, left the site on foot, returned on foot, then used the store for the purchase? In other words, you were not on site and using the store for the entire time you were parked?

If so, the ticket would appear to have been correctly issued.

waamo

.1) Do nothing as a lot of other posts suggests. I will then hear nothing from them because they can no longer use DVLA to access my records

Not sure where you got that from either. They had a 3 month suspension a few years back but clearly that has now passed.

w00519772

I have appealed to UKPC (within the time frame). They say they will take 35 days to respond.

I now want to return the item to the store because I no longer need it. I bought a keyboard because my current keyboard was faulty, however my current keyboard works again. Therefore I have two options;

1) Keep the keyboard as a spare in case UKPC use the fact I returned it as ammunition.
2) Return the item on the basis that UKPC won't find out.

Does it even matter if they find out?

I genuinely went to the site to buy the keyboard. If I was guilty of leaving site then I would just pay up and move on.

waamo

Just take the keyboard back. I'm not sure how they could use it as ammunition other than to fire it from a catapult at you.

AdrianC

w00519772 wrote: »

I now want to return the item to the store because I no longer need it. I bought a keyboard because my current keyboard was faulty, however my current keyboard works again.

Retail... doesn't work like that.

Therefore I have two options;

1) Keep the keyboard as a spare...

...because you bought it and there's nothing wrong with it.

But that's completely separate to the parking ticket. If you park in the store's car park, go into the store and do retail things in there (buy, browse, return), then you're using the car park correctly.

The ticket was issued not because you bought an item that you may or may not later return, but because you parked then left the site.

w00519772

AdrianC wrote: »

Retail... doesn't work like that.

...because you bought it and there's nothing wrong with it.
.

Not sure what you mean by that. There is a one month return policy. I have not opened it

AdrianC

Ah... You sort of forgot to mention that bit.

sheramber

Are you supposed to register your car in store when you arrive to prove you used the store?

w00519772

sheramber wrote: »

Are you supposed to register your car in store when you arrive to prove you used the store?

That is not necessary.