Hi guys, just looking for a bit of advice in regards to a parking ticket I got.
A couple of months back, I went to Manchester. Noticed a smallish car park in the area I wanted to be in, so rather than drive round looking for a better spot I just opted for that. I went and bought my ticket, went back to the car and displayed it on the dashboard just like the sign on the ticket machine said.
Fast forward a couple of hours and I come back to find a big yellow ticket stamped across my windscreen. I check it and the reason for the ticket is "failure to display a parking ticket".
Now, admittedly the ticket was slightly faded but you could still make out the number/details (and it wasn't as if I was going to slam another fiver in the machine in the hope of a better printed ticket!) so as you can imagine I was fairly riled up.
I got home and wrote a brief but polite notice explaining I had paid for a ticket but it was slightly faded etc (I scanned it in and printed a copy off - you could still see the details even then!). A week later I get a reply saying that the ticket i'd sent to them was for a council car park and the one I had parked in was private. Now, it was only a small car park, there were no others nearby, the ticket machine was literally 3 meters from my car and i'd also noticed a good 3-4 people using the same machine when I was going back and forth - a pretty good indication that was the machine to use!
They go on to say the ticket wasn't valid for the area I parked in - yet the area they state on the letter is about 8-9 miles from the car park I was actually in!
They are saying they will "honour the early paying price of £50" if I pay it now and then the usual rubbish about bailifs etc if I don't (which is what makes me think they're just hoping that people will pay up) - but I don't see why I should. Am I likely to get any grief off these people if I don't pay up?
The company in question is Stop Illegal Parking but I can't find anything about them on Google.
Thanks.
A couple of months back, I went to Manchester. Noticed a smallish car park in the area I wanted to be in, so rather than drive round looking for a better spot I just opted for that. I went and bought my ticket, went back to the car and displayed it on the dashboard just like the sign on the ticket machine said.
Fast forward a couple of hours and I come back to find a big yellow ticket stamped across my windscreen. I check it and the reason for the ticket is "failure to display a parking ticket".
Now, admittedly the ticket was slightly faded but you could still make out the number/details (and it wasn't as if I was going to slam another fiver in the machine in the hope of a better printed ticket!) so as you can imagine I was fairly riled up.
I got home and wrote a brief but polite notice explaining I had paid for a ticket but it was slightly faded etc (I scanned it in and printed a copy off - you could still see the details even then!). A week later I get a reply saying that the ticket i'd sent to them was for a council car park and the one I had parked in was private. Now, it was only a small car park, there were no others nearby, the ticket machine was literally 3 meters from my car and i'd also noticed a good 3-4 people using the same machine when I was going back and forth - a pretty good indication that was the machine to use!
They go on to say the ticket wasn't valid for the area I parked in - yet the area they state on the letter is about 8-9 miles from the car park I was actually in!
They are saying they will "honour the early paying price of £50" if I pay it now and then the usual rubbish about bailifs etc if I don't (which is what makes me think they're just hoping that people will pay up) - but I don't see why I should. Am I likely to get any grief off these people if I don't pay up?
The company in question is Stop Illegal Parking but I can't find anything about them on Google.
Thanks.
