Clamping query

-Mike-

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-Mike-

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Hi all,

Just a quick query if any of you can help -

My girlfriend got clamped today in a carpark for being ten minutes late - due to a hypo though it sounds like a typical excuse it isn't.

Upon seeing the ticket she came back to my mother, who she was out with to get her wallet and ring the number of the company.

The guy was still in the carpark and then proceeded to tell her if she stayed by her car he'd have just taken it off. Is there any way to get this reduced or preferably squashed? £90 for the sake of ten minutes and a glucogel sachet is rather extreme!

Thanks for any help :)
 
No, she paid the release fee in the interest of getting our little bundle of joy home and so that she could meet other appointments she was late for.
 
I would suggest you head over to pepipoo.com forums with full details, and a scan/photo (in macro mode so its legible) of the receipt and ticket.

There are appeals processes in place for clamping firms, although I suspect for many it is a fruitless affair, but there could be a technicality somewhere.
 
They had a card machine on them for payments! Convenient how they manage that one! Its not like she didn't have a ticket, she was ten minutes late after waiting for her sugars to return to a decent level.

I'll ask over there, I may try writing a letter to them first and see how I get on with that :)

Thanks for the replies.
 
-Mike- said:
Hi all,

Just a quick query if any of you can help -

My girlfriend got clamped today in a carpark for being ten minutes late - due to a hypo though it sounds like a typical excuse it isn't.

Upon seeing the ticket she came back to my mother, who she was out with to get her wallet and ring the number of the company.

The guy was still in the carpark and then proceeded to tell her if she stayed by her car he'd have just taken it off. Is there any way to get this reduced or preferably squashed? £90 for the sake of ten minutes and a glucogel sachet is rather extreme!

Thanks for any help :)
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If it's a "legit" clamp and she paid it, i'm afraid you've come to the end of the situation.

LeeUK said:
Private car park? Take the land owner to small claims court.
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Why? :confused:
 
SB118 said:
If it's a "legit" clamp and she paid it, i'm afraid you've come to the end of the situation.
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Nope. See the Pepipoo forums for a number of cases whereby someone has successfully claimed back the clamp release fee.

SB118 said:
Why? :confused:
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To get the clamp removal fee back. 99% of the clamping firms are dodgy rogue outfits who are a law unto themselves. In order to legally issue a clamp release charge, they have to satisfy a number of criteria which, more often than not, they don't do fully. If this has occurred you can get the fee back through the small claims court.
 
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