Thread: euro car park fine

Originally Posted by Flapjack

I've tried ringing their office but it's always engaged.
Good! That means you didn't get to speak to them.

Should I send them a letter?
Nooo! Do not contact them at all.

thanks

Do not write to them
Do not telephone them
Do not reply to any of their letters
Do not pay them

gulp , I phoned Lidl and they took all my details and said they would pass them to euro car parks. just saw your responses now.

it was only a phone call so its meaningless. just ignore them all from now on.

EDIT: Just phoned Lidl and they took details and lodged an appeal form, they also said the ticket will be suspended until euro parks investigate and get back to me (15 days).

Translation: Lidl told Euro Car Parks about you, Euro said they would look at your 'appeal' and will send your 'appeal rejected' letter in about 15 days.

You don't have a fine. You have an unenforeable invoice from a private company like any other. There is no 'appeals process' - no private company will turn down profit.

Expect a couple of bits of junk from Euro, and then a couple of letters from Brinx or Credit Control before they give up and go away.

We know Euro Car Parks well.

Read up on the private parking threads to get your head around this national [problem].

people who have been on here a while laugh at Lidl invoices. in a while you will too.

thought I'd update this thread with what's happened thus far,

Lidl called me back and asked for the parking ticket with a view to revoking it. They also said the 14day charge will not take effect while the ticket is being investigated, so I mailed it with a letter explaining what had happened.

A few days later Lidl called back and spoke to my wife asking for proof of a shopping receipt, she said she didn't have one as she was on her way into the store when she saw the ticket man putting a ticket on the car.

Received a letter a few days later from a lidl salesman saying the charge stands.

For days later from the above lidl letter a euro park invoice turns up with a £70 charge. (what happened to the lidl's promise of 14 days grace?)

according to the time on the ticket she'd overstayed by 5mins.

Seriously 100% just ignore them and file any letters you receive in a draw somewhere! As soon as you make any contact with them it only provokes them to keep pestering you.

They have absolutely no power to enforce or distribute any sort of fine or penalty, unlike council traffic wardens or police. It's the same as if I sent you a bunch of letters saying you owed me £3000, you wouldn't pay that now would you!

You will receive:

2 or so letters from Euro Car Parks.
2 or 3 letters from Brinx debt collection.
2 or 3 letters from Credit Control.

Each letter you receive will be more threatening than the last, they'll even start to use red ink or capitals on key phrases and when it gets really bad you'll get a chequered border round the page (this is very frightening).

After a while you stop getting letters and relax! The whole thing works on you being scared into paying the money immediately or thinking that they have legal backing to issue fines.