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[PhilRich]

Pet hate of mine Mark,! 'Big Brother' is a major PITA & needs to be addressed NOW at local MP level across the Nation by everyone! If allowed to go unchecked, God only knows where it will lead to? My blood pressure goes through the roof every time I see one of these compliant idiots entering my details into the 'system' whenever I go to do the shopping! For goodness sake, if only this level snooping was applied to 'real wrongdoing' we could all sleep a bit sounder in our beds!!!!!

[PhilRich]

Got £40 fine for being 3 hours in a supermarket carpet when the limit was 2 hours, ANPR on entry and exit it, although i didn't see any cameras.

Sneaky b@stards 

Have you got a receipt for your shopping, should get you off, mind that is a lot of shopping it it takes you 3 hours...

3 Hours isn't a long time in the company of a dedicated Female Vamps!

[BigAl]

Got £40 fine for being 3 hours in a supermarket carpet when the limit was 2 hours, ANPR on entry and exit it, although i didn't see any cameras.

Sneaky b@stards 

If you did spend the time in the shop go to customer services, ramp up the anger/volume, and demand to speak to the manager - and harangue the arse off of him over the ticket, until he folds 8-)

[Elite Pete]

Knowing Tunnie I cant see him wanting to spend enough cash to warrant being in Morrisons for 3 hours unless he spent a couple of hours going through the Whoops shelving

[STMO999]

In little old Wakefield our whole city centre is covered by CCTV. All the main routes in and out are ANPR. There are two car parks with ANPR and they are constantly in the news for their heavy handed approach. Unfortunately, it's all legal.

[Kevin Wood]

Was the car park clearly marked with terms and conditions including the 3 hour limit?

Did you overstay the limit?

Did you shop there and have you got your receipt?

In most cases, these parking bullyboys aren't employed by the stores but by a company contracted to do so, so the manager of the store, should you decide to give him some abuse (and you should, if you were shopping there) will probably tell you it's out of his hands.

If you've got the b@lls, just completely ignore their letters and they'll go away 99% of the time. Whilst they could theoretically pursue you through the civil courts it's expensive for them and by no means an open and shut case.

In fact, aren't you in the process of moving house? Didn't the letter get lost in the chaos / go to the wrong address, etc? 

Kevin

[tunnie]

yeah it was clearly signposted, and i overstayed the limit by 1 hour 10 mins  :-/

Its right next to the town centre..

I did buy something in there, it was lunch / snacks before going onto the Estate agency in town to view the flats. The plan was for just 1 viewing, but then the other cropped up and the one i was not expecting to see which i ended up buying!

So its a fair cop really, but don't think i have a copy of the receipt any more, can't remember if i paid cash or not  :-/ - I think actually mother T bought lunch 

[tunnie]

letters are not recorded or signed for either 

[Kevin Wood]

Lots of advice on these on the internet, e.g.: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets

I tend to take his view. If you did break the rules and the charge is not exorbitant but reflects the cost to them of your breach of your "parking contract", then pay up.

Otherwise, give them a hard time every step of the way.

Kevin

[tunnie]

thing is parking is free there and i 'did not see the signs'

Also done some interneting, and found this:

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/parking-traffic-offences/246635-parkingeye-penalty-charge.html

Looks like they give up after a while, thinking back mother T paid on card for lunch so that will be on a bank statement 

[Elite Pete]

Got £40 fine for being 3 hours in a supermarket carpet when the limit was 2 hours, ANPR on entry and exit it, although i didn't see any cameras.

Sneaky b@stards 

So who's the sneaky b@stard. The supermarket for trying to catch the people that abuse their facilities or the person who thinks i'm not paying to park in town, I will park on Morrisons, spend £2 on a sandwich which makes me a customer and stay an extra 1hr 10 mins. I would say its a fair cop and a hard lesson learnt

[tunnie]

Got £40 fine for being 3 hours in a supermarket carpet when the limit was 2 hours, ANPR on entry and exit it, although i didn't see any cameras.

Sneaky b@stards 

So who's the sneaky b@stard. The supermarket for trying to catch the people that abuse their facilities or the person who thinks i'm not paying to park in town, I will park on Morrisons, spend £2 on a sandwich which makes me a customer and stay an extra 1hr 10 mins. I would say its a fair cop and a hard lesson learnt

Considering it was a Monday afternoon and had entire floor to myself in multi-story i think they could have spared the room 

[Banjax]

i agree with pete, although i wish these parking attendants would come down hard on able-bodied shoppers sweeping into the disabled spaces in their chelsea tractors instead 

[Elite Pete]

Got £40 fine for being 3 hours in a supermarket carpet when the limit was 2 hours, ANPR on entry and exit it, although i didn't see any cameras.

Sneaky b@stards 

So who's the sneaky b@stard. The supermarket for trying to catch the people that abuse their facilities or the person who thinks i'm not paying to park in town, I will park on Morrisons, spend £2 on a sandwich which makes me a customer and stay an extra 1hr 10 mins. I would say its a fair cop and a hard lesson learnt

Considering it was a Monday afternoon and had entire floor to myself in multi-story i think they could have spared the room 

Oh right, so if I come and dump my car on your drive when everyone is out thats ok then

[Elite Pete]

i agree with pete, although i wish these parking attendants would come down hard on able-bodied shoppers sweeping into the disabled spaces in their chelsea tractors instead 

They should, and the idiots that park in the mother and toddler parking spaces because its closer to the door