Received a fine from a Private Parking Company? MUST READ INFORMATION - Page 3 - Saxperience

wolf_gsxr · 30th January 2012, 20:40

Epic. Permission to link page to other forums plz

craig180^p · 30th January 2012, 21:31

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Epic. Permission to link page to other forums plz

Fill your boots mate

L33h · 15th November 2012, 00:06

Just wondering.... Does this apply to hospital car parks? Im not sure if they're private companies or not?

mechsman · 15th November 2012, 06:43

Depends who issued you the thing stuck on the windscreen. Does it say the exact words PENALTY CHARGE NOTICE on it? or does it say something like parking charge notice? Hospitals, train stations, ports, airports can, SOMETIMES, be subject to slightly different rules regarding parking.

Go and have a read of the consumer action group forum and see if you can understand your situation a bit better.

Rach_ · 4th December 2012, 11:11

I had a private parking ticket while at uni. Overstayed by about 10 minutes. After reading up about these private companies issuing tickets, I learned it was best to ignore the ticket and letters threatening the debt collectors to come round. Haven't heard from them in about a year now!

Just DON'T ignore ones issued by the police or the council. You should be fine then

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=3924959

Rach_ · 4th December 2012, 11:15

oh, this video is self explanatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3J-Xl6rSlk

craig180^p · 4th December 2012, 11:37

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Originally Posted by L33h

Just wondering.... Does this apply to hospital car parks? Im not sure if they're private companies or not?

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Originally Posted by Rach_

oh, this video is self explanatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3J-Xl6rSlk

Nice find

Rach_ · 4th December 2012, 11:41

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Originally Posted by saxo180

Nice find

Thanks! I used it to convince my dad to stop worrying haha!

craig180^p · 4th December 2012, 20:04

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Originally Posted by Rach_

Thanks! I used it to convince my dad to stop worrying haha!

I've had quite a few and now deliberately park in private car parks to avoid paying lol

danny-vts · 4th December 2012, 22:31

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Originally Posted by Rach_

I had a private parking ticket while at uni. Overstayed by about 10 minutes. After reading up about these private companies issuing tickets, I learned it was best to ignore the ticket and letters threatening the debt collectors to come round. Haven't heard from them in about a year now!

Just DON'T ignore ones issued by the police or the council. You should be fine then

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=3924959

i had one while parked up at services on M1 coming back from work 1 morning, over stayed by 30 odd minutes, letter came through post with my car entering and exiting the services.
originally billed for £100, payment to be made within 28 days, or it will be discounted to £60 within 14 days.....the crafty buggers sent it out a while later and gave me all of just over 2 days to find £60.
looked online about ParkingEye and every forum i looked at said the same thing...ignore them, so i did lol.
had 2 letters in total and now haven't heard anything from them for at least 2 months

wadoryu · 5th December 2012, 10:01

Just to recap if its not been covered yet, since the new regulations in October, resulting in the owner is responsible for the car not the driver. Ignor this still, I did and no action has been taken. Find another way of getting around it, example I said if thy couldn't prove it was my car, then they can jog on. As it was at night they couldn't even tell me the colour.

craig180^p · 14th January 2013, 18:51

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Originally Posted by chrisman99

that sucks

Prepare to elaborate?

Scott^p · 14th January 2013, 18:56

He's just trying to spam to 100 posts. Badly

Ryanoo · 20th May 2013, 01:47

I got a 2 parking tickets in July/August 2011 from two different private companies, one near me and one in Cornwall.

I ignored the letters, got threatened with Court action the fines went from 80 to like 250 each, still ignored them, after 6 months or so they gave up contacting me, haven't heard anything since like Jan 2012.

I got one from the police in Nov, paid that straight away, £30. Don't ignore council/police fines, you'll regret it as these are enforceable by law, I think.

Private companies can only take you to court to sue for damages like any normal person, best bet is to ignore them. Unless legislation had changed? Best place to discuss is on moneysavingexpert.

Hope that helped,
Ryan.

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mlawlan69 · 21st August 2013, 15:26

Still all valid? Got one today and it seems the law has changed slightly, reading around would lead me to believe that BPA approved cowboys hold more sting than unlicenced ones and have access to the dvla database! Still going to ignore it for now £100 for an empty bay (not once seen a car there in 4 months-owned by a bar..staff drink so don't drive)

Input, Craig. Lol

craig180^p · 21st August 2013, 19:26

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Originally Posted by mlawlan69

Still all valid? Got one today and it seems the law has changed slightly, reading around would lead me to believe that BPA approved cowboys hold more sting than unlicenced ones and have access to the dvla database! Still going to ignore it for now £100 for an empty bay (not once seen a car there in 4 months-owned by a bar..staff drink so don't drive)

Input, Craig. Lol

If it's not council or police ignore it. It can't and won't be enforced. The law hasn't changed since this, but the means of obtaining information has.

Dvla aren't helping by handing out keeper details for a fee.

Mickswan · 21st August 2013, 19:50

Sort of relevant, so what's the script with clamping? I know it's changed that much that when I googled it I got a mix of results so I don't know if anyone can confirm the crack.

wadoryu · 21st August 2013, 22:45

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Originally Posted by Mickswan

Sort of relevant, so what's the script with clamping? I know it's changed that much that when I googled it I got a mix of results so I don't know if anyone can confirm the crack.

It's illegal to clamp on private property.

mlawlan69 · 22nd August 2013, 01:40

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Originally Posted by craig180

If it's not council or police ignore it. It can't and won't be enforced. The law hasn't changed since this, but the means of obtaining information has.

Dvla aren't helping by handing out keeper details for a fee.

thought as much, i just wanted to hear someone tell me what i already suspected

thanks a lot, any and all correspondences will be ignored.

Paul^p · 16th September 2013, 14:06

Craig, what's the situation with parking on Post Office car parks?

Been parking on local post office car park for a few months now (right next door to my works) and they've been complaining a lot lately. First I started off having a bit of banter with them about it but last week one of the little old ladies in the post office threatened to phone the police next time I parked there.

Decided to call her bluff today.. turned out she wasn't bluffing! lol. Had a copper come around to my works and ask me to move car, had a laugh with him etc and moved it.

Just wondering the legal side of it if I was to park there again ?

The car park does have a gate and has to be locked at 5pm for security reasons etc which the copper brought up. Only problem is in shithole Burnley there's literally no where to park in the town centre, and the council milk it... they have 3 parking wardens walking around every day.. I believe I've paid more in parking tickets in the last year than I have on car insurance lol!