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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: dajonic on January 17, 2013, 01:09:58 am
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Ok just after your thoughts on this one...
I took my 82 year old mum out to tescos yesterday for some shopping, the problem is she spent 6 weeks in hospital leading up to christmas and for the immediate future (and possibly from now on) she requires a wheelchair for any long periods of time. After circling the parking lot to find a space big enough to take care getting her and the wheel chair out of the car there was nothing within a reasonably close distance to the entrance so i thought i'll use one of the disabled car spaces. As i was getting my mum sorted i could see the ticketing man speaking to another person and it was obvious we'd spied each other. Now it was pretty obvious and time consuming doing what i was doing but he left, and me and my mum went about our business in the shop.
So we come out about an hour later and theres the ticket stuck to the window, so again after getting mum settled in the car again i begin looking for the parking attendant to have a word and to use a bit of common sense. Needless to say he was nowhere to be seen so finding out where his office was and trying to speak with him or the manager apparently they'd all been called into a meeting and to call back in an hours time.
Back home and onto the computer to google this and there are pages and pages of this happening and reading through, the approach to use is to ignore all contact from the parking company and ride it out. Now i dont have all the information to hand but basically they have no rights to issue tickets or to collect money. They can ask for the information of who was driving but I dont have to provide this and they can threaten all sorts of proceedings but basically they have a loud bark but no bite.
Has anyone else had experiences of shopping parking tickets because at the time I wanted to see the person and just sort it out calmly and sensibly but after using the computer that approach would seem to have been the worst option and just to ignore all correspondance. So at the moment I haven't caled back.
Over to you boys, what do you reckon?
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Me and my mates have had loads of tickets from overstaying in carparks from meets. None of us ever pay.
We only pay the council ones, but private companies and private land, no chance.
But yeah just ignore any letters
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Who is the issuing body? Council . Tesco . Indy?
What a git he was for issuing it, no doubt the excuse was your not displaying disabled badge.
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Remember, the law changes recently regarding parking tickets issued by independent bodies. Previously you could ignore it completely unless it was by the council.
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IRRC as its not a council issued ticket they are not allowed to call it a 'fine', its a 'charge' and they cant really enforce it! Like others have said I have got 2 now and didnt pay, never heard anything else from them!
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It is a speculative fine to cover potential lose of revenue, not a penalty. The ticket is issued by a private company as such it is not enforceable.
File it and forget about it. Just so you know you will receive a couple of letters threatening legal action but nothing will come of it.
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Indeed, and dont even reply or aknowledge receipt of the letters:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets
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For the benefit of other members, this is not Legal Advice :P
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I had a restaurant with a car park and continuously got people parking and buggering off for an hour walk (it was in the countryside) return and drive off even though there were many signs about private car park. Spoke to the local council and consabulary and they said there is nothing I can do, if I clamped the cars they said I was taking the law into my own hands. :fighting:
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I forgot my blue badge once, went to Asda, the trolley guy decided to contact NCP who then came and gave me a ticket. When I came out and noticed the ticket it then took me about 10 seconds to see the NCP guy and the trolley guy stood beside the trolley bay smirking away so I went over and politely explained I have a blue badge but had forgotten to put it in my motability car and if he looked at my tax disc he would even see it's on disability class but he laughed and just said to pay the fine and advised me not to park there again. I felt this was extremely rude so I thought I'd make a scene. I lifted my pant to show my prosthetic and he apologised and took me to one side and said it's been issued now so nothing he can do about it but also said to ignore everything about it and nothing will ever happen from it.... Seemed it was true, I didn't even get warning letters though either!
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Had 2 or 3 "Parking Tickets" from non council owned "Private" car parks and not once have I paid them or ever heard from them, then again if you stick a made up number plate on your car before you leave it parked there your not gonna hear from them anyway, how about "DO02 ONE" or perhaps just remove your reg plate :signLOL: as long as you put your correct pllate on before hitting the public road your doing no wrong. A mate of mine after having his plates stolen countless times now removes his plates every time he parks up (as long as not on a public road) this includes car parks :happy2:
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Had 2 or 3 "Parking Tickets" from non council owned "Private" car parks and not once have I paid them or ever heard from them, then again if you stick a made up number plate on your car before you leave it parked there your not gonna hear from them anyway, how about "DO02 ONE" or perhaps just remove your reg plate :signLOL: as long as you put your correct pllate on before hitting the public road your doing no wrong. A mate of mine after having his plates stolen countless times now removes his plates every time he parks up (as long as not on a public road) this includes car parks :happy2:
... and tax disk :wink:
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Thanks for all the replies guys, very welcome news. :happy2:
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Tesco Tools..... I have a parking ticket placed on my windscreen at least 3 times a week from these guys... I always park over the white line to avoid anyone opening their doors into the car when shopping plus we all know the types of people who push their trollies between cars :confused: I always do this in the so called quiet part of the car park to avoid any hassle with people looking for spaces...
This has been going on for the last 2 years...
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Remember, the law changes recently regarding parking tickets issued by independent bodies. Previously you could ignore it completely unless it was by the council.
Yeh the law has changed and the RK is now responsible for tickets, but could just nominate someone never to heard again!
Ignore them, you still don't need to pay even with the change in law.
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Tesco Tools..... I have a parking ticket placed on my windscreen at least 3 times a week from these guys... I always park over the white line to avoid anyone opening their doors into the car when shopping plus we all know the types of people who push their trollies between cars :confused: I always do this in the so called quiet part of the car park to avoid any hassle with people looking for spaces...
This has been going on for the last 2 years...
I always park over the line at the local tesco extra but normally on the end of bay one which has 3' of cross hatch lines and haven't got any tickets. Saying that my local one is intent on clamping HGV's that park there, just waiting for the day they clamp one of the highways agency's trucks
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Some interesting takes on this...
My works car park is now controlled by Euro Park - or something along them lines...
I recieved a ticket early last year and have not paid it a few red lettered letters have arrived which I have ignored and nothing is to come of it yet so fingers crossed... :)
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I do refurbs on Tesco stores and Asda stores and have been told by numerous store managers that if you get a parking ticket from their car parks just ignore it..........it will go away!! :happy2:
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Sorry I should say that if you as the RK is required to name the driver.......reply saying you were not driving at the time. You fulfil your liability in law (this Ofcourse different to the speeding ticket in the post name request).
Tesco Tools..... I have a parking ticket placed on my windscreen at least 3 times a week from these guys... I always park over the white line to avoid anyone opening their doors into the car when shopping plus we all know the types of people who push their trollies between cars :confused: I always do this in the so called quiet part of the car park to avoid any hassle with people looking for spaces...
This has been going on for the last 2 years...
I always park over the line at the local tesco extra but normally on the end of bay one which has 3' of cross hatch lines and haven't got any tickets. Saying that my local one is intent on clamping HGV's that park there, just waiting for the day they clamp one of the highways agency's trucks
Clamping is now illegal apart from police/council!
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Sorry to dig this back up but just wanted any more thoughts on this one. I had a good read through the money saving expert link and it talks about appealing the fine from the get go and the stages you go through. I've just got back from holiday after not hearing from them for a while to pick up another letter now from a debt recovery company. I'll paste the letters for you to have a look over. Any legal eagles on here??
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fxx321%2Fdajonic%2FTescosparkingcharge1stJan2013A.jpg&hash=9fcd90c412a1f68189c9ea5d0e2afea6be89ab1a)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fxx321%2Fdajonic%2FTescosparkingcharge19thApril2013A.jpg&hash=a393c066d0669e7ddbd9b95e57b7b86372a937d9)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fxx321%2Fdajonic%2FTescosparkingcharge15thMay2013A.jpg&hash=c7e2cf674bb61d936a0fc7cbee196a2030554737)
The bit on the last letter stating "if we do not receive full payment or contact from you etc etc, this matter may be passed to the landowners solicitors to commence court proceedings" Sounds to me as they have no power to collect and I dont take any further action , they just bounce it back to TPS???? All very confusing :confused:
Anyone else had it go this far??
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I'd ignore it.
Had loads of these through and nothing has ever come of it.
We even drove in with a mates numberplates and he got chased for a while but nothing ever came of it.
Left car is silver with silver wheels - right car is yellow with white wheels.
In the close up of the number plate you can see the elastic bands holding them on :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/296534_3685999428137_179413255_n.jpg)
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On the top it says CHARGE NOTICE. Thats a bit tricky with the wording, obviously to SCARE you, as private parking companies must indicate it is a Parking Charge Notice, not Penalty Charge Notice(enforceable by the likes of po-po, councils, cnuts in suits, TFL et etc)
I may be wrong, its otherwise know as a "speculative invoice" :confused:
If you do abit of digging on the web most, if not all of these companies print their solicitor letters from the same printers.
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My wife got one from our local Morrisons, I called up and had a chat with the store manager he said pop in with your receipt for the day and if it ties in with the fine as they have times on them as well as your receipt he would make it go away , And was good as his word never heard anything again
Speak with the manager either show him the receipt or credit caard statement and get him to deal with it or you will never shop with them again.
Problem is some twats are to tight to pay for parking and leave there cars there all day etc get on the train to work etc and think its cool and funny ,why would a superstore provide free parking , OK yours is slightly different but the parking wardens have a job to do if you havent got a blue badge ,I expect he considered you fair game despite you thought he noticed you give him the benefit of the doubt
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My bro had to go to court in the end for something he ignored.
He was made to pay what his overstay would have cost the land owner in lost revenue, so was charged £2.
He then went to town on the parking company and charged then £600 for wasting time.
There's loads of forums that say ignore ignore ignore then if they decide on court turn up and say £90 is no where near what it cost them and I'll agree £5 lol
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Totally ignore. Do not respond as they will know your location for sure. They will give up chasing you after about 7 or 8 warning letters, your debt will increase for the first 4 demands, then its gets passed to another collector and the moneys outstanding starts getting less to encourage you to respond :laugh:
They will give up chasing you, give it time. Do not worry.The letters will stop. :happy2: