Parking Fine in Edinburgh

Uptown_Boy

@Essex_Jim please ignore the prior 9 10 posts. They are irrelevant to your issue. You are safe to ignore anything from P4Parking or their debt crawlers. Come back if you happen to get a real Letter Before Claim.

In the meantime please enlighten your daughter that private parking is not a free-for-all, so not to be simply taken advantage of. She should come here and read the NEWBIES thread -  again, if that is the "MSE report" she was referring to.

Uptown_Boy

Umkomaas said:

Just ignore this, but tell your daughter she needs to wise up, especially if she is using your car. If she parks in England or Wales so wantonly, you will be the one in the firing line, especially if you're wanting to protect the little angel. 👼 

A side note ... the above raises a question. Does she have her own insurance on the car but you are merely the registered keeper? (If she's a named driver on your insurance but is the main driver of the car then you may need to be careful - the insurance company may see this as "fronting").

Scrapit

KeithP said:

Scrapit, why have you dragged this thread off topic?

Questions needed asking, one of which is why is a newb reprimanding genuine users with genuine questions. I suspect an AE in breach of the rules, probably banned for good reason.

KeithP

Scrapit said:

KeithP said:

Scrapit, why have you dragged this thread off topic?

Questions needed asking...

Did those questions really need asking?
Having asked those questions, what have you learnt?
And perhaps most importantly, have the answers helped the OP in any way?

Scrapit

KeithP said:

Scrapit said:

KeithP said:

Scrapit, why have you dragged this thread off topic?

Questions needed asking...

Did those questions really need asking?
Having asked those questions, what have you learnt?
And perhaps most importantly, have the answers helped the OP in any way?

In order: Yes, I've made some decisions, and not sure but the op has their answer and we do too.
Win win.

Essex_Jim

Folks, season of goodwill to all!

I am the one ignorant of the MSE forum rules and guidelines and posts BEFORE checking the FAQ's. My bad!

So, back on topic.

Daughter is wrong for taken ostrich approach. Guilty as charged.

Private land looks like student accommodation in Edinburgh.

Strange that the quoted post code does not exist while a ticket was left on the screen.

Where I sit is to pay up £125.

With me being sent the PCN notice - not the offender - and the post code, not valid, and no photographic evidence supplied, gut feel tells me to 'try my luck' with plan B albeit, we (daughter) is 'guilty as charged' . If the vibe is, 'No, guilty as charged', simple. I pay up.

So, being friendly to all, a blunt guidance to me please

Umkomaas

I refer to my earlier comment. Nothing has changed, regardless of the froth here!

Umkomaas said:

Just ignore this, but tell your daughter she needs to wise up, especially if she is using your car. If she parks in England or Wales so wantonly, you will be the one in the firing line, especially if you're wanting to protect the little angel. 👼 

There's plenty of time to see how this plays out, there's absolutely no reason to knee-jerk and march to the drumbeat of a private (small-fry) outfit who rarely try anything further than sending silly letters to prise the unwary, naive motorist from their cash.  And they have major problems in knowing where they might be able to pursue any legal claim. Too complicated for even the most savvy of PPCs ..... and P4Parking are not one of those. I don't think we've ever seen such a less than straightforward case progress anywhere. 

Redx

Plan A is the best option , told you this earlier

Personally I would not pay for the mistakes of third parties , neither the driver mistakes , nor the parking company mistakes

Plus the maximum allowed PCN charge is £100 so the back office  TNC have inflated the charge by at least £25 , so I definitely would not pay it , I would complain to the BPA AOS team

Check if P4 complied with POFA , if not you have no liability in law , irrespective of what others have done , or not

So only a foolish keeper would pay !!

Scrapit

This forum will never recommend paying a scammer regardless.

Scrapit

Uptown_Boy said:

I apologise to the OP for aiding and abetting the derailing of his thread. I've seen how Scrapit works in other threads and apologise for allowing myself to get dragged into his nonsense. He's now on my Ignore list so this shouldn't happen again.

Reported due to being in breach of the rules, the same ones they like to quote.