Caporegime
What's the details, you just ignored a parking fine?
Yeah pretty much. UKCPM parking fine, just ignored it, fine kept getting bigger, now I have a court date.
What's the details, you just ignored a parking fine?
Look at this another way.....How long have you/and others spent appealing/review/checking the website/signs etc so far?
Not saying who's right or wrong, but for me, just pay the £70 and move on with life.
Spending more time and effort to dispute a relatively small fine, albeit not very clear in the wording of the place, I would just pay it a move on.
And this is why these vile parking companies exist. Whilst annoying, the value of the fine is small enough that the majority of people just cough up and these parking companies continue to profit by taking advantage of the unsuspecting general public.
I'm still fighting one. My appeal was rejected by the parking company (they always reject without even reading your appeal) and POPLA sided with them. The driver parked all day (and paid for the privilege - the car park has a flat fee so all day parking is the only option) but took longer than the allowed 10 minutes to do so. POPLA only look at points of law and on this basis, the driver broke the accepted law of 10 minutes 'grace'. I'm in the midst of receiving numerous debt collection letters. I await my court date.
good luck to you - hope it gets sorted to your satisfaction.
I ain't saying I would cough up for anything on a whim (i've ignored at least 3 tickets in the past) - but spending hours and hours/court dates/appeals/potentially still loosing - I just personally wouldn't spend any more time and effort fighting it and enjoy spending my time doing other things rather than waiting for court dates etc
Fact of life is these companies are scumbags. Pay and move on and forget about it.
booyaka said:good luck to you - hope it gets sorted to your satisfaction.
I ain't saying I would cough up for anything on a whim (i've ignored at least 3 tickets in the past) - but spending hours and hours/court dates/appeals/potentially still loosing - I just personally wouldn't spend any more time and effort fighting it and enjoy spending my time doing other things rather than waiting for court dates etc
Pretty petty, but it very obviously says that you have to register after you've exceed the four hours. Not that I would have read it properly at the time either.
Are people still advising "ignore" when these companies will take it to court? Pop over to Pepipoo and get their opinion - burying things rarely solves them.
They'll. Believe me.
As ridiculous as it may sound, at the moment, when you park on private land, you automatically agree to their terms and conditions, and that makes some form of contract.
There's some movement trying to revert that, as clearly most of the ridiculous terms and fines are abused by some vultures, but until then, no chance to appeal if it really goes to court.