Al2O3 said:

Yes, I think so. I accused them of that, but they denied it. I was threatening everyone with the Information Commissioners Office in the end. Eventually, they dropped the fine. It's a major money making scam that is unregulated. I discovered parking fine companies do have a regulating body, but they got together and created it themselves! So, if you want to take your complaint to the highest body, you are just complaining to them about themselves, so they take no notice. They've got it all sewn up and they can be as unprofessional about it as they like. And they are!!

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Dippypud said:

Many of the Parking place enforcers, have a group they belong to, they occassionaly feck-up and are banned for a short period from accessing anyones deets from DVLA, they have to go thru DVLA to get keepers details, and if they don't do it within a certain time ... hazzarr, fine doesn't stand in law ...

Read up in : http://www.pepipoo.com/

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Al2O3 said:

Ive had a look at that and it seems to be about speeding. The British Parking Aseociation is the gang of bastaads car parks and ticket issuing companies created to look after their own dirty interests.

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Dippypud said:

Pepipoo forums covers all motoring 'disagreements', parking is a great one ...

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Badger said:

The ' tickets ' from private companies are in fact ' invoices ' as they don't have the right to fine you.

They will tell you all sorts in the print on their bits of paper you send them, but it's all worded to look like you owe them via a fine, when in fact it's an invoice.

Have a look on MoneySavings website, it's all there.

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Al2O3 said:

Just had a chance to have another look at this @Dippypud TBH I was looking on my phone before, but on the laptop now. If I'm reading it correctly, Private Parking Companies (PPC'S) don't have the legal right to ticket you anyway and you can ignore them? The ticket I was mistakenly sent was for a car park belonging to Sunderland University, but they had a private company issuing tickets for them.

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Dippypud said:

It depends if they have the 'right' to ... there was a major court case and the parking twunts won ... given a new lease of venom ...

Beavis v Parking Eye : https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0116.html

https://www.parkingcowboys.co.uk/parkingeye-vs-beavis/

http://www.allenovery.com/publications/en-gb/Pages/New-penalty-test.aspx

http://ukscblog.com/case-preview-parkingeye-limited-v-beavis/

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Al2O3 said:

You seem very well read on this subject. Have you had to do battle with the private Parking Cowboys yourself?

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Dippypud said:

Yeah, had a run in with one of them when my husband was to and fro for his chemo ... they could not access Keepers details as they'd been barred from applying by DVLA for 12 months and I stupidly responded to the screen ticket ...

Not heard a thing from the money grabber Rent-a-thug for a while now ...

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