Parking stories in the News/media

B789

What excremental reporting and more gullible victims who just pay the scammers:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23567184.car-park-ticket-machine-confuses-man-dyslexia/

Umkomaas

B789 said:

What !!!!!! reporting and more gullible victims who just pay the scammers:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23567184.car-park-ticket-machine-confuses-man-dyslexia/

Looks like he's going to get his money back. 

Just look at the amount of information on the signs surrounding the ticket machine, and then the instructions on the machine itself. Looks like the DLUHC have underestimated what can be achieved in the 10-minute 'consideration period', especially as that clock starts ticking the moment the vehicle passes the ANPR camera!

Coupon-mad

Former teacher's credit rating ruined for 6 years because Creative Car Parks (aka CEL) couldn't be bothered - apparently- to comply with the BPA CoP and trace her address before litigation:

https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/23570451.woman-charged-using-basingstokes-red-lion-hotel-five-years-ago/

Christine Hunter, a former teacher at The Costello School, committed the heinous crime of staying at a hotel to assist with the exam season. AND she registered her car.

Sadly, she just knee-jerk PAID THE CCJ RIP OFF IN FULL before checking to discover (too late) that she didn't have to pay it and that it would still affect her credit rating.

Even more sadly, she wrongly thinks she has to pay a solicitor to remove the CCJ now, despite the fact she lives in the Southampton/IOW Court circuit, where setting aside that CCJ will be a shoo-in.

Creative Car Parks (aka CEL) named and shamed.

Anyone fancy trying to contact her via the paper? She just needs to come here!

 

Coupon-mad

Idiotic decision by the Falmouth Hotel to attack all their customers - AND THE HOTEL'S OWN STAFF - by letting ParkingEye loose in the car park:

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/23571717.parkingeye-anpr-cameras-falmouth-hotel-cornwall-car-park/

"The company proposes to install a car park management system on the existing car park owned by Richardson Hotels Limited which uses automatic number plate recognition cameras (ANPR), to monitor the entrance and exit of vehicles within the car park."

THIS IS A LISTED BUILDING.

The Falmouth Hotel is named and shamed, along with ParkingEye for getting away with the spiel they trot out YET AGAIN, and Richardson Hotels Limited who actually fell for the crap about "ANPR providing rich data" and the yawn-worthy PEye special rhetoric about "deterring abuse", "improving footfall" - and all for free!

What could possibly go wrong?

Improving footfall at a hotel?  Deterrent?!  HAH!  Targeting their own customers and staff is the truth, according to a PEye whistleblower:
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/2016/12/parkingeye-employee-reveals-their-rape.html?m=1

Did Richardson Hotels Limited take leave of their senses or just forgot how to Google and learn about the 'rape and pillage' approach?  

https://cornishstuff.com/2017/03/22/newquay-parking-firms-slammed-by-double-mp-names-shames-notorious-outfits-who-damage-local-reputation-2/

Even the local MP knows about ParkingEye and what they do to businesses, their staff and the public.

@ Richardson Hotels Limited:
Come on, engage your brains and do some much-needed research before it's too late.

The number of actual 'car park abusers' there each month will be able to be counted on one hand. And guess what? To make their money back, ParkingEye will have to 'fine' HUNDREDS, especially in the first months.

OVER THE SUMMER. YOUR BUSY SEASON.

Guess who those victims will be?

Do you know what this will do to your TripAdvisor rating and reviews within months?

Do you know how difficult it will be to extract yourselves from a money-grabbing, reputation-ruining ANPR contract like this, as other UK Hotels have found out to their cost?

B789

Coupon-mad said:

Anyone fancy trying to contact her via the paper? She just needs to come here!

I've emailed the reporter and asked him to put the victim in touch with the forum or to contact me personally and I will assist if necessary.

B789

A hotel in Falmouth about to become infested with PE ANPR coming up against a bit of planning resistance…

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/23571717.parkingeye-anpr-cameras-falmouth-hotel-cornwall-car-park/

Jenni_D

That's the same as what C-m posted above.  

patient_dream

B789 said:

A hotel in Falmouth about to become infested with PE ANPR coming up against a bit of planning resistance…

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/23571717.parkingeye-anpr-cameras-falmouth-hotel-cornwall-car-park/

What is wrong with hotels who employ money scammers, it's a death wish ... same with pubs

Near me there is a Crowne Plaza and there is a barrier gate which lifts as you drive in. There is no time limit and to get out, reception will give a token to lift the barrier. They either need a room number or receipt from the restaurant

This method is acceptable and shows common sense

It does beg the question how much are hotels/pubs paid to employ these cowboys and vermin and hold customers in contempt

B789

  My bad...

Coupon-mad

Now we must name and shame 

The Plough pub Tilehurst

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/23577476.plough-pub-tilehurst-install-24-hour-ancr-cameras/

The journalist forgot to spell-check ANPR but the point is really that this pub is now doomed.  ABSOLUTELY STUPID.

That's their TrustPilot and TripAdvisor reviews ruined, their staff and cleaners all 'fined' and repeat custom almost dead within six months due to unsuspecting customers being the real targets. 

Did this pub forget how to Google and find all the stories of ruined pubs and businesses, including what happened at 'We Three Loggerheads' pub in Wales, where Smart Parking's overzealous attack on genuine customers and staff brought the pub owner perilously close to bankruptcy. 

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/loggerheads-mold-car-park-fines-13774891

Any ANPR business model is in my opinion likely to cause "rape and pillage" of the pockets of staff & customers, as exposed here (article is about hospital ANPR but the approach will be exactly the same):
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/2016/12/parkingeye-employee-reveals-their-rape.html?m=1