Parking ticket..
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Just received a text from the previous owner of our new car to tell me he has just received a parking ticket for the day after we bought it.
He tells me it is for a Halford's car park where we were actually buying a CD player at the time! Shocked to be honest as I just tried to call them and 'The office is now closed, please call back during office hours of Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.30pm'. Pretty sure it is Friday at 4.15pm?
Anyway, I have told him to send them our details and will see what happens from there! Gobsmacked lol
He tells me it is for a Halford's car park where we were actually buying a CD player at the time! Shocked to be honest as I just tried to call them and 'The office is now closed, please call back during office hours of Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.30pm'. Pretty sure it is Friday at 4.15pm?
Anyway, I have told him to send them our details and will see what happens from there! Gobsmacked lol
As I understand it, as long as it's a private car park as opposed to a council run one, you can simply pop the ticket in the bin. They may send you a few threatening letter but again, file in the bin.
Can't remember the ins and outs of it all now but there are plenty of old threads on here about it.
EDIT: e.g this thread - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Can't remember the ins and outs of it all now but there are plenty of old threads on here about it.
EDIT: e.g this thread - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by Risotto on Friday 20th May 16:35
Risotto said:
As I understand it, as long as it's a private car park as opposed to a council run one, you can simply pop the ticket in the bin. They may send you a few threatening letter but again, file in the bin.
Can't remember the ins and outs of it all now but there are plenty of old threads on here about it.
EDIT: e.g this thread - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Only problem with this is that the previous owner is going to be the one getting these letters, and not everyone is willing to keep ignoring that kind of thing on the back of what the person responsible says.Can't remember the ins and outs of it all now but there are plenty of old threads on here about it.
EDIT: e.g this thread - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by Risotto on Friday 20th May 16:35
Not going to be a problem if the OP can explain it and calm them, but they don't stop sending letters for a while.
Unfortunately, he has already said he has sent them our address. I spoke to the Halford store in question and they explained that the carpark is now privately run. 30 minutes parking for store customers only.
We were in Halfords for over 45 minutes. 30 minutes is ridiculous! I understand you say to ignore it but as I haven't got the letter in front of me just yet I don't know exactly who they are or what they are stating!
We were in Halfords for over 45 minutes. 30 minutes is ridiculous! I understand you say to ignore it but as I haven't got the letter in front of me just yet I don't know exactly who they are or what they are stating!
Chicane-UK said:
Can you not copy the receipt and send it to them to show you made a purchase from the Halfords store? Agreed with you... 30 minutes is fricking ridiculous if you were browsing and making a purchase from the store!
It's taken me 30 minutes to get SERVED in some Halfords stores!!
That was the issue. I saw 2 members of staff during the whole time I was in there! I have told Halford's and they have told me if I can prove I purchased something and didn't 'breach the rules' then its fine!It's taken me 30 minutes to get SERVED in some Halfords stores!!
Madness I tell thee!
Once the old owner sends the company the new details, they will contact you. I bet if you search for the company name it will bring you to a whole host of threads about what to do.
Very simply, DONT contact them at all. We had the same thing, and only one of us received a ticket, but we were both there for the same amount of time.
I remembered I drove in via the exit (yes naughty I know) and left by the exit aswell. But my friend came in the entrance and left by the exit. Seems the scameras can’t work it out unless you go in and out properly
Anyway, they received the ticket, I researched it and in about 5 mins found the no contact route was proven. We got the same letters in the same order as everyone else, then nothing! that was last year.
Basically don’t panic and don’t contact them until you research the company.
Very simply, DONT contact them at all. We had the same thing, and only one of us received a ticket, but we were both there for the same amount of time.
I remembered I drove in via the exit (yes naughty I know) and left by the exit aswell. But my friend came in the entrance and left by the exit. Seems the scameras can’t work it out unless you go in and out properly
Anyway, they received the ticket, I researched it and in about 5 mins found the no contact route was proven. We got the same letters in the same order as everyone else, then nothing! that was last year.
Basically don’t panic and don’t contact them until you research the company.
The Telegraph have a motoring section, by Honest John, quite a well regarded chap by all accounts. On issues such as this he always recommends, that you send a token, very small, amount, in full and final payment for any contravention of their condition of parking, and to consider the matter closed. Sundays supplement if you want any more info, there's always a link to it.
icepop said:
The Telegraph have a motoring section, by Honest John, quite a well regarded chap by all accounts. On issues such as this he always recommends, that you send a token, very small, amount, in full and final payment for any contravention of their condition of parking, and to consider the matter closed. Sundays supplement if you want any more info, there's always a link to it.
Do not do this!Do not correspond at all, nothing, nada, nil, zero, zilch, nowt, nought etc
It works, its what pepipoo advised me.
But I would write to Halfords explaining to them that it is far easier to retain an existing customer than win a new one, and that they are not doing a good job of retaining you!
Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 21st May 09:52
I would be back onto Halfords asking them why they think it's reasonable that their contracted agency persecutes one of their customers. The store's explanation is just rude. Even if you didn't buy anything but spent the time in their shop should be enough reason for them to value your custom.
I had no idea I could just ignore it. What a chump.icepop said:
The Telegraph have a motoring section, by Honest John, quite a well regarded chap by all accounts. On issues such as this he always recommends, that you send a token, very small, amount, in full and final payment for any contravention of their condition of parking, and to consider the matter closed. Sundays supplement if you want any more info, there's always a link to it.
Honest John is talking out of his arse. Which bit of 'ignore, job jobbed' do people not understand!!!Donatello said:
Unfortunately, he has already said he has sent them our address. I spoke to the Halford store in question and they explained that the carpark is now privately run. 30 minutes parking for store customers only.
We were in Halfords for over 45 minutes. 30 minutes is ridiculous! I understand you say to ignore it but as I haven't got the letter in front of me just yet I don't know exactly who they are or what they are stating!
Yep, 30 minutes is woefully inadequate. You should be able to present a receipt and have the fine waived. Private parking companies are a law unto themselves.We were in Halfords for over 45 minutes. 30 minutes is ridiculous! I understand you say to ignore it but as I haven't got the letter in front of me just yet I don't know exactly who they are or what they are stating!
I really hope my store doesn't get told to start doing something as utterly f
king retarded as this. Plenty of my customers spend half an hour browsing alone, particularly if they're looking at bikes, never mind if they're having a head unit fitted on a complex car.
I can just imagine one of these wardens coming up and ticketing a car that our fitter is inside working on at the time
As above, an absolutely massive +1 to ignoring it completely. I am informed that my car picked one up recently, and I do not plan to entertain any correspondence.
The parking contract is with the driver at the time, not the registered keeper, and you are under absolutely no obligation to disclose who the driver was at the time of the breach of contract, because these things are not supported by any aspect of law. Even if they send you a set of timestamped photos clearly showing you driving the car, getting out of it in the space, leaving it there for too long or whatever, then getting back into it and driving it away with a ticket, you still don't have to confirm that it was you!
This string of things you don't have to do under any circumstances leads right back to answering the first letter. Do nothing, therefore admit nothing, therefore pay nothing. Sorted.
Note that this is only applicable to tickets served on private land like the OP's situation - wardens in council-run public car parks and the like are supported by the law and therefore do have power over you.
king retarded as this. Plenty of my customers spend half an hour browsing alone, particularly if they're looking at bikes, never mind if they're having a head unit fitted on a complex car.I can just imagine one of these wardens coming up and ticketing a car that our fitter is inside working on at the time
As above, an absolutely massive +1 to ignoring it completely. I am informed that my car picked one up recently, and I do not plan to entertain any correspondence.
The parking contract is with the driver at the time, not the registered keeper, and you are under absolutely no obligation to disclose who the driver was at the time of the breach of contract, because these things are not supported by any aspect of law. Even if they send you a set of timestamped photos clearly showing you driving the car, getting out of it in the space, leaving it there for too long or whatever, then getting back into it and driving it away with a ticket, you still don't have to confirm that it was you!
This string of things you don't have to do under any circumstances leads right back to answering the first letter. Do nothing, therefore admit nothing, therefore pay nothing. Sorted.
Note that this is only applicable to tickets served on private land like the OP's situation - wardens in council-run public car parks and the like are supported by the law and therefore do have power over you.
Edited by McSam on Saturday 21st May 10:13
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