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On 3rd June 09 I received an £80 parking ticket in the Globe Road car park in Leeds.
I had paid for the parking there but the ticket had got lodged in the front air vent, probably when I shut the door.
I spoke to the parking attendant in the entrance booth who told me to just send in a copy of my receipt and that should suffice for the appeal. I did this but VCS wrote me a letter saying the rules state that a ticket must be on display at all times and whilst I hadn't intentionally meant to breach the regulations, there was still no grounds to appeal.
The letter they sent said that the ticket had to be paid by 12 May 2009 which is 3 weeks EARLIER than the ticket!
Does anybody know if I have grounds to appeal this since I was a) told by the attendant it shouldn't be a problem and b) the date for sending money in is wrong.
There is no appeals process. This is a private company - they'll never turn down cash. You'll always get back their 'appeal rejected' template letter back.
All you have is an unenforceable invoice masqerading as some sort of official 'ticket'.
It's a [problem].
• do not pay
• do not contact them again
• ignore their threatening junkmail
• same applies to the rubbish their powerless debt collectors will send you
• they will give up and go away
• they will not take you to court, but bleat on about it in the toilet paper they'll post to you
Private companies have no powers to issue fines, only recoup actual losses. You paying but not displaying has cost them £0. Could Tesco fine you if you bought and paid for a pint of milk but lost the receipt? Of course not.
It's a con. A trick.
Don't lose any sleep over it. Just forget about it and relax.
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NEVER EVER - act on a private message asking you to visit another website, make contact 'off list' or by telephone
- alert the siteteam IMMEDIATELY by hitting the black warning triangle on any message - Particularly if this results in a request to pay a fee to help you.
rather than hittting to be my friend - hit the star
people should NOT simply ignore these letters ..
They should :
Complain to the DVLA, via email, that their personal data has been released to a private company with that company giving No adequate reason (breach of agreement or breach of law) for your personal data to be released.
Complain to the ICO via email that the DVLA is releasing personal information to private companies without adequate reason for the release of the data.
I got an invoice of VCS in the same car park early last year for practically the same reason. After an initial flood of quite threatening letters - always containing the words 'may' but never 'will' - I've not heard anything for months. I must have got about 3 or 4 letters, plus a couple from a debt recovery company based at the same PO Box, and then they gave up!
1) Just ignore them
2) Report them as tobyjugg suggests
3) And don't park in Globe Road anymore. The landowner has lost around £540 in revenue from me because of this [problem]
p.s. there is a cheaper car park at Waters Lane that employs a real attendant who takes your money and does not require tickets to be displayed
VCS Parking Ticket
in the Globe Road car park in Leeds.
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