Comments | si_lloyd: Parking Fine

si_lloyd

Parking Fine

Sep 24, 2009 14:06

So, I got a parking ticket recently and now the private ticketing company want £65 to make them go away. I have drafted the following appeal email to the address supplied ( Read more... )

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arwel September 24 2009, 13:24:55 UTC

Send it

doctor_kaos September 24 2009, 13:55:42 UTC

The Arwel is right. Send it.

You've kept your receipt for the petshop?

si_lloyd September 24 2009, 14:43:33 UTC

Yup!

doctor_kaos September 24 2009, 14:46:32 UTC

Then you were parked legally in their carpark. Simple as

kingandy September 24 2009, 18:10:32 UTC

I assume from your argument that it was one of those car parks that is for customers only?

In which case, yes, having a receipt for one of the shops in question should totally blow them out of the water. What time is the ticket registered?

si_lloyd si_lloyd September 26 2009, 11:27:44 UTC

The ticket was timed at 13:14, so I bought the item after the ticket, technically speaking.

Always complain. Never surrender! zombie_all_star September 24 2009, 18:36:33 UTC

send it.
Also send a letter to Pets at Home stating that the ticketing policy on their car park will cause paying customers to go elsewhere unless the private firm are reigned in.
They'll pay the car park monkeys to stop noncustomers from parking there, not to deter paying customers.

Re: Always complain. Never surrender! si_lloyd September 26 2009, 11:29:47 UTC

Good idea, Nook, I will do.

ajon September 24 2009, 20:18:43 UTC

It sounds incredibly harsh that they ticketed you. I agree, send it!

nattydreadi September 25 2009, 07:57:30 UTC

I've been ticketed 4 times in my life, 2 I was bang to rights (not reading signs) and paid up, once I was bang to rights, but they made an admin error so I wrote a snotty letter about their staff being sub-humans ... the last time I had a valid permit that the agent said wasn't visible ... Both the ones I queried they let me off with ... it costs them money to go through appeals anyway, and it does sound like you were entirely within your rights.

If they come back with something, ask to see evidence of their claims, don't just accept their assertions, they have a duty to provide evidence to you in case they decide to press you for the payment in court.