Parking Eye & Underhand Tactics
Discussion
Morning all,
I'm after a bit of advise for my brother who's not a member here.
Recently he was parked down at Fistral Beach - Newquay.
He's paid for a ticket, come back from the beach (he was taking pictues of his mate surfing) got in his car & left the car park.
(There was no ticket attached to the car).
Fast foward to yesterday & he receives through the post a parking ticket from "Parking Eye" asking him to pay the ticket.
(See Document below).
The company has a PO BOX Address in Chorley, an 0844 number to pay via phone or a web address.
He's obviously pretty hacked off as he's thrown the ticket away & has no proof that he was ever parked there in the first place.
He's done a bit of Googling & it seems to be a lot of the surfers down there just cover their plates when they leave & nothing ever comes of it.
The company has apparently also been on Watchdog.
Other surfer forums have said they'll send you the first letter asking you to pay the amount on the document.
Then they'll send you another letter within 4 days saying if you pay it within a set period they'll reduce it to £50.
Then they'll send you another letter saying they're taking you to court & then if you ignore that they just leave you alone "apparently".
My question is, is this one of those companies you just ignore until they get bored of sending letters or do you actually have to pay it & lump it?
As always any help greatly appreciated PH'ers.
I'm after a bit of advise for my brother who's not a member here.
Recently he was parked down at Fistral Beach - Newquay.
He's paid for a ticket, come back from the beach (he was taking pictues of his mate surfing) got in his car & left the car park.
(There was no ticket attached to the car).
Fast foward to yesterday & he receives through the post a parking ticket from "Parking Eye" asking him to pay the ticket.
(See Document below).
The company has a PO BOX Address in Chorley, an 0844 number to pay via phone or a web address.
He's obviously pretty hacked off as he's thrown the ticket away & has no proof that he was ever parked there in the first place.
He's done a bit of Googling & it seems to be a lot of the surfers down there just cover their plates when they leave & nothing ever comes of it.
The company has apparently also been on Watchdog.
Other surfer forums have said they'll send you the first letter asking you to pay the amount on the document.
Then they'll send you another letter within 4 days saying if you pay it within a set period they'll reduce it to £50.
Then they'll send you another letter saying they're taking you to court & then if you ignore that they just leave you alone "apparently".
My question is, is this one of those companies you just ignore until they get bored of sending letters or do you actually have to pay it & lump it?
As always any help greatly appreciated PH'ers.
This is what i'm thinking.
I now need to convince him to listen to me & not our dad who's telling him to pay it & be done with it.
It's a pretty good business at the end of the day, ticket everyone who you think's in the wrong.
I bet the majority of people who receive the tickets pay them aswell!
I now need to convince him to listen to me & not our dad who's telling him to pay it & be done with it.
It's a pretty good business at the end of the day, ticket everyone who you think's in the wrong.
I bet the majority of people who receive the tickets pay them aswell!
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