Need smartphone to park?

Car_54

born_again said:

user1977 said:

Brie said:

user1977 said:

faringdon said:

I have a smartphone

How are people supposed to pay if they dont have a smartphone?

How are people supposed to pay if theyve just had their smartphone stolen?

How are people supposed to pay if their smartphone battery is flat?

Sorry to put this forward but its getting like you dont exist unless you have a smartphone.

But you do have a smartphone, so what's the problem? Just use it.

But you still get fined.  

"Speculative invoices", not "fines", please.

Councils can fine you. 

No, they can’t. They issue Penalty Charge Notices.

BlueonBlue

As stated people dont know the great difference between unregulated private parking speculative invoices and council parking tickets or fines .
So its easy money many just pay up under the highly practised shallow threat .

The PPC.s are issuing over 39000 a day which in the most recent year was 14.4 million invoices in the 24/25 year.
So wake up and smell the coffee your dealing with some real low life .
They use the small claims track/court.... as a debt collection agency .
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/private-parking-companies-issue-a-record-14.4m-tickets-to-drivers-in-a-sing

LightFlare

Currently there are ways of not paying any PPC “demands”mostly due to technicalities

IF the PPCs ever get their act together, then they really will be making a fortune as people will still remain unable to follow any rules - just they won’t have a get out defence

Mildly_Miffed

BlueonBlue said:

As stated people dont know the great difference between unregulated private parking speculative invoices and council parking tickets or fines .
So its easy money many just pay up under shallow threats .

The PPC.s are issuing over 39000 a day which in the most recent year was 14.4 million invoices in the 24/25 year.

How else are landowners and -operators meant to prevent a free-for-all on their land from the terminally entitled?

They aren't allowed to clamp or tow.
Physical barriers aren't always an option.

The general public is their own worst enemy sometimes. I would suggest that the vast, VAST majority of that 14.4m deserved to be penalised.

Marcon

born_again said:

Marcon said:

Have you raised this with your local councillor?

We have app only & it will not be changed as Idiots kept breaking the cash machines.

If you can't pay because it's impossible (ie no signal in the location concerned), that's the point you need to raise with your local councillor.

Baldytyke88

Mildly_Miffed said:

How else are landowners and -operators meant to prevent a free-for-all on their land from the terminally entitled?
They aren't allowed to clamp or tow.
Physical barriers aren't always an option.

The general public is their own worst enemy sometimes. I would suggest that the vast, VAST majority of that 14.4m deserved to be penalised.

At Manchester Airport they had barriers and changed the system. Because of an error, I was issued with 2 £60 fines, which I refused to pay as it was not resonable.

Had they sent an invoice for a reasonable amount, I would have paid and they would have made a profit. With tech, it's really cheap and easy to issue an invoice.

Marmaduke123

faringdon said:

Hi,
I have a dumbphone and a laptop with a mobile router which are on EE contract.
I have a smartphone, which i occasionally  use on pay-as-you-go with O2 (its locked to O2 and cant be unlocked despite what they say) , but to be honest, i am not too hot at using the smartphone. (wrong generation, now 56 years old).

Anyway, i need to go to Reading centre for interview at 1430 on tuesday. All the car parks in reading centre are now smartphone only.

Eg the riverside car park in central reading.

How are people supposed to pay if they dont have a smartphone?

How are people supposed to pay if theyve just had their smartphone stolen?

How are people supposed to pay if their smartphone battery is flat?

Sorry to put this forward but its getting like you dont exist unless you have a smartphone.

I cant actually access my gmail from my smartphone......i often use my smartphone by logging in to my laptop mobile router.....when i try and log into gmail, it askes me to "sync"...and then gives me a message saying "sync is not currently working".

So i believe all these parking apps require one to have an email account?...but i cant access that from my smartphone......i have the gmail app......or at least i think i do.....but it often just closes down and tells me its closed down.

My smartphone  has a different number than my dumbphone. I used to just ring a number on my dumbphone and park like that...but in many car parks you cant now do that.

Park in Queens Road car park, not the Oracle. You can still pay there using your contact less card. Tap in and out.

born_again

Marcon said:

born_again said:

Marcon said:

Have you raised this with your local councillor?

We have app only & it will not be changed as Idiots kept breaking the cash machines.

If you can't pay because it's impossible (ie no signal in the location concerned), that's the point you need to raise with your local councillor.

There is not problem with the signal.