Parking Fine.

Just ignore this letter and every urgent reminder/last warning.

Let them waste money on paper and postage. Your making work for someone, they get paid - this could be a solution to Europes unemployment problems!
 
Steve2000 said:
We all know for a fact how it will turn out if he doesn't pay the fine :confused:
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Easy tiger. I did not know for a fact when I made my post nor did the OP, just because some random people on a forum tell me it will be ok does not mean I am going to take there word for it.

But now seeing the watchdog video that has abit more meat behind it I now do know.

Useful money saving thread thanks OP:)
 
garsands said:
Easy tiger. I did not know for a fact when I made my post nor did the OP, just because some random people on a forum tell me it will be ok does not mean I am going to take there word for it.

But now seeing the watchdog video that has abit more meat behind it I now do know.

Useful money saving thread thanks OP:)
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Maybe you should give advice based on fact?
 
Slade2 said:
Ok,

Thinking about it and watching the video from watchdog I am tempted to try the following.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I received a parking ticket on **/**/** but I will not be paying your demand for payment as I was not the driver of the vehicle at the time in question. I am also under no obligation to disclose who was driving the car so please do not contact me again with regards this matter.

Yours Thankfully,



That letter is actually copied from the letter on moneysavingexpert. There is another letter on there to use if you continue to get letter so I might see how far this goes.
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Just NO! Don't even give them anything to go on. Bin it and move on. :)

My missus got one recently and she did the same.
 
Slade2 said:
Thanks for the advice. I will probably just pay it since its only £30 now
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£30 quid wasted if you do.

and if it does go to court
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It wont go to court. If it does I'll pay your fine ;)

I would love to fight it if
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You don't need to fight it - just bin it and ignore subsequent letters.

I had a good enough reason to but dont fancy going to court and losing if it got that far.
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It wont go to court.
 
From experience from my brother, he replied and implicated himself and was taken to court for his parking fine and was ordered to pay £90 IIRC. If you are not going to pay the fine, then ignore everything they send you.
 
Really good site called pepipoo.com. Take a look.

Its a free forum that has highly active and knowledgeable lawyers who assist by advising on stuff like this. Take a look.

I used it to help challenge a council fine and I won on stupid little things like the format of the deadlines of payment etc.
 
Bear said:
From experience from my brother, he replied and implicated himself and was taken to court for his parking fine and was ordered to pay £90 IIRC. If you are not going to pay the fine, then ignore everything they send you.
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No he wasn't - don't lie. If you're not lying, please provide the case reference number and the court it was heard at so we may read the case ourselves.

Unless of course you're talking about a council/police issued parking fine, which isn't the same scenario we're talking about.
 
amigafan2003 said:
No he wasn't - don't lie. If you're not lying, please provide the case reference number and the court it was heard at so we may read the case ourselves.

Unless of course you're talking about a council/police issued parking fine, which isn't the same scenario we're talking about.
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Entirely possible that he did - the reason you don't have to pay is that any contract you are deemed to enter into is between the driver and parking company however they can't prove who the driver was and thus you can duck the ticket on the technicality that they can't prove it was you and you aren't obligated to tell them who it might have been. Thus they are thwarted and cannot take their case any further.

If however you try to argue your case and inadvertently admit that it was in fact you driving then you're bang to rights and they'd quite happily be able to take you to court and win.

That's why the MSE letter specifically denies driving and mentions the lack of obligation. The easiest way by far to not accidentally implicate yourself though is to just ignore all communication from them.
 
amigafan2003 said:
No he wasn't - don't lie. If you're not lying, please provide the case reference number and the court it was heard at so we may read the case ourselves.

Unless of course you're talking about a council/police issued parking fine, which isn't the same scenario we're talking about.
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I'm not lying and I don't give a flying one if you don't believe it. It was a private company at Willan Lake in Milton Keynes. I've written about it when he was going through the court case here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18392717&highlight=Parking+username_Bear
 
poker_999 said:
It was probably clearly marked the hours you are allowed to stay he went over the allotted time, he should pay.
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But that's an "implied contract" based on the assumption that he read those signs before entering the car park. As pointed out by MANY independant studies, these signs are always too small to read from a moving vehicle.

The onus is on the parking company to prove the driver not only read the sign but understood the terms. Since there is no way they can prove this then the contract is invalid.

The only way they could extract money from someone parking in the car park is seeking damages through lost revenue. Since the car-park has no parking fees then there is no loss in revenue.

But all that's moot because to bring that to court it has to be the legal land owner themselves and parking companies are not therefore there's no legal standing before you even get to the contract arguement.
 
Ignore, I had them ring me and kept asking who was driving. Aslong as you don't tell them your fine :) There "fine" is with the driver. Not the RK
 
Slade2 said:
Ok,

Thinking about it and watching the video from watchdog I am tempted to try the following.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I received a parking ticket on **/**/** but I will not be paying your demand for payment as I was not the driver of the vehicle at the time in question. I am also under no obligation to disclose who was driving the car so please do not contact me again with regards this matter.

Yours Thankfully,



That letter is actually copied from the letter on moneysavingexpert. There is another letter on there to use if you continue to get letter so I might see how far this goes.
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Don't contact them, it will only encourage them. Basically you ignore it, and ignore their increasingly frantic letters for the next few months, and then hear nothing ever again.
 
Whats the situation with private clamping now a days? It was made illegal a while ago wasn't it?
 
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