Wife’s parking ticket

Bambi1701

As expected they have rejected the claim that machines were not working and have said that there were adequate ways to pay , my wife says she should just pay it as it is now £100 that she has to pay , thoughts on this please 

Car1980

It's not a question of whether there were adequate ways to pay or not.

The point is that no contract was formed. In this case payment was impossible or difficult SO the contractual offer was declined and your wife left.

She could have read the tons of small print on the signs and also decided to leave and declined the offer. No contract.

She could have suddenly remembered she had to be elsewhere and so declined the offer and left. No contract.

For a contract to be be formed there has be consideration ie. an exchange of items of value. No payment was made, and the use of the parking space didn't happen because she left. Therefore nothing of value was exchanged by either side.

Your mistake was arguing over a faulty payment machine instead of no contract. But somewhat moot because they would have still probably told you to pay up.

The 10 minutes period to decide to pay or leave is by the by. Your wife's actions of trying to pay isn't limited by an arbitrary time. It's just an attempt to claim the contract has been agreed or breached after a set period of time, but it clearly hasn't been formed in your case.

Anyway, don't pay whatever you do. In most parking cases you don't owe the money. In this one you definitely don't owe it.

ChirpyChicken

You certainly dont pay

Bambi1701

I think she’s made up her mind to pay up as it’s making her really anxious, a friend of hers had a bailiff at the door demanding £1600 for her daughters non payment of a pcn 

ChirpyChicken

She should come here and get proper advice 
Her friends daughter would not have a 1600 bill for one pcn. That just isnt correct 
Tell her to sit up and take notice of this forum 

Bambi1701

Apparently it had gone to court and the daughter didn’t attend and so it just escalated from that , to the point of high court enforcement at 7am in the morning demanding £1600 , they said that the mother whose house it was had to prove she owned everything in the house or else they were going to take it away ,

because the appeal is lost she feels that it’s time to give up , caused a bit of an argument so best left where it is , if it was me I’d go to court and fight but sadly she feels anxious about it all , thanks everyone for the advice , Bambi 

Car1980

Stop!

You haven't appealed to the IAS yet have you?

Absolutely nothing to lose. Zero stress. 

We'll tell you what to write this time. Quite often parking companies just cave in because they can't be !!!!!! d sending in their evidence.

James_Poisson

Why on earth is she anxious about it, they are not an authority they are just a firm that some chancers have set up to extract money from people by making up rules that they know are going to be difficult to comply with.

These companies literally want these incidents to happen it's their only revenue stream, anyone can start a parking company when they are basically devoid of any other skills it's simple.

Coupon-mad

Bambi1701 said:

Apparently it had gone to court and the daughter didn’t attend and so it just escalated from that , to the point of high court enforcement at 7am in the morning demanding £1600 , they said that the mother whose house it was had to prove she owned everything in the house or else they were going to take it away ,

That person was plain stupid. What a daft situation to allow to happen. And then to PAY! My goodness that was clueless of them.

Also, that WILL NOT have been one PCN.

because the appeal is lost she feels that it’s time to give up 

No she doesn't.

She got no amenity from the site. She parked elsewhere! Nobody pays District Enforcement. I'm a woman and I hope she's listening. This isn't the example you set in a family. Come on...she's not someone to pay a scam to make it go away.

She's better than that. Don't let her pay.

Ralph-y

plus .... please tell her that if she pays then I am going to send her some invoices  for my time and all the other forum members who are helping ...... I know how to use BIG RED fonts and how to sound scary .... ....