Charge notice (Parking) for CPPlus - Claiming parking illigally

DJMK4

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Hi all,

I have had a parking charge notice for a location at a service station, stating I exceeded parking on a date of 03 Jan 2017 - 12:34 pm to 04 Jan 2017 12 something PM, duration of stay 23 something hours.

They Had sent images of my car driving round the correct lane going through to the fuel station. But show me no images of me parked illegally,

1) I would not stay there for 23 hours

2) I know for a fact and have evidence I was in work that day, but may have been at the services.


I can see a lot of people harping on the moneysaving expert website about these people.


I'm probably going to ignore this, but has anyone managed to speak to them as numbers go through to automated services...

Its clearly bull
 
Ignore until they really start to push it, then ask for actual evidence that you parked there etc.

Basically waste their time and be as bad for business as possible and they usually give up.
 
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DJMK4 said:
I can see a lot of people harping on the moneysaving expert website about these people.
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Friend of mine got "Parking-Eyed" recently.

It was a Lidls and she made the mistake of transposing two of the letters on her registration number when "Signing out"

She is scrupulously honest and, realising that the T&C's stated that she was responsible for correctly entering the reg no, she sent off her cheque with a covering letter explaining her error.

Imagine our slack jawed astonishment when the cheque was returned with a letter stating that the charge was cancelled.

Basically she won the appeal without actually appealing!

They are not all bad it seems, We both see Parking Eye in a somewhat different light now.
 
Post it up on fightback forums and they'll tell you exactly how to avoid paying it (which nowadays is usually not by ignoring it!)
 
Yeh I will do that. I'm going to try and contact their appeal and ask. Im sending work emails through out the day from a laptop in the office. Not at a service station for 23 hours. so this is pretty much a null/void what they are claiming
 
Did you possibly go to the same services two days on the trot?

My guess is their inadequate camera system only captured you leaving once if so.
 
I had this at Tescos once, I had delivered there in the morning and collected in the afternoon, about 7 hours apart, yet they somehow only managed to film me going in the morning and coming out in the afternoon.

I just took the letter to the store manager and asked him to sort it out as it wasn't my problem.
 
Ask them for their bank details along with their three digit security code and let them know your Nigerian finance advisor will sort it out.
 
Does sound a bit mad, most service stations i've visited are out in the middle of nowhere, so it's hardly likely you'd park your car up and go and do whatever for 23 hours.
 
I wonder how many other people their dodgy cameras have picked up entering but not leaving. Maybe it thinks some people parked up and never left, still counting up the days/months/years :P
 
Just tell them that you weren't parked for that time, and unless they can provide evidence that you were, you will not be paying any prospective invoice.

Also inform them that other than confirmation that the matter is now closed, you do not expect to receive any further communications from them, and any further contact will be chargeable, I tend to go with £50/letter.
 
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paradigm said:
Did you possibly go to the same services two days on the trot?

My guess is their inadequate camera system only captured you leaving once if so.
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Yep looks that way to be honest I'm thinking system error not capturing me on my way out

I'll try and give them a ring tomorrow or go via appeal. I don't want no automated crap though
 
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Similar thing happened to my brother parking at a Morrisons before Xmas.

They had photos of his car entering the car park in the morning and leaving in the evening, but in fact he'd gone in early to pick up the Xmas tree then left but had returned in the evening. So some of the photos had been missed or their system didn't log them properly.

To their credit it was dropped once he raised it with them.
 
How clean was your car on that day? I've heard this can happen if your rear number plate is particularly dirty and obscured. The entry camera reads the front reg and the exit camera reads the rear plate.

If the service station's camera/billing system was faulty then I would think a lot of people would be getting notices!
 
Number plate is readable. I mean it is a diesel so you do get a bit of soot. But it's wasn't caked in soot and mud like you see some people. I cleaned it over Xmas period
 
Mysterae_ said:
How clean was your car on that day? I've heard this can happen if your rear number plate is particularly dirty and obscured. The entry camera reads the front reg and the exit camera reads the rear plate.

If the service station's camera/billing system was faulty then I would think a lot of people would be getting notices!
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Judging by the internet this is a common thing :p
 
Mysterae_ said:
How clean was your car on that day? I've heard this can happen if your rear number plate is particularly dirty and obscured. The entry camera reads the front reg and the exit camera reads the rear plate.

If the service station's camera/billing system was faulty then I would think a lot of people would be getting notices!
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The number of cars i see on the road these days with filthy rear number plates amazes me. To the point you can't even read them at 3 feet, let alone at any particular distance.

So if one of these was involved in a hit and run, trying to capture their number plate would be a waste of time.

I also wonder how speed/gantry cameras pick up dirty number plates.
 
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