Short update:- Another Email from work, surprisingly they said 'yes we'll pass this back to the travel company and you deal with them'. Within minutes got a phone call from the travel company who agreed to pass this all back to the car hire company when I explained the situation. Is this too easy so far? If I do get this passed back to the PPC, I will then have to explain to the car hire company what I think of their 2 x £25 admin charges. Bye for now Mr Soft

Just a thought - surely a dynamometer is for measuring power not speed although it may have a speedometer fitted, this is not it's primary purpose. However it's 20 years since I worked with them, things may have changed. Regards

Just bringing this up to date. Received an Email from work this afternoon asking me if I wanted to pay these 'parking fines' myself or did I want them deducting from my salary. Also included were copies of the original tickets and an invoice from the car hire company asking for 2 x £100 for the tickets and 2 x £25 admin fees. I rang the hire company to ask if these had already been paid by them - the answers I got were yes. then no, then maybe, then probably. I gave up. So the only positive thing I did was send an Email to work 'insisting that they do not pay these invoices on my behalf. Hopefully tomorrow I will find who, if anybody (Work, travel company, car hire company) has paid these. I do hope nobody has paid or else my arguments will be with the wrong people. Mr Soft

Hi Lamma, good point, I don't have the original documents but will certainly go in to the hire company on Monday and ask to see their standard hire agreement. Many thanks Mr S

Hi again, MaroonDevo - after I got the invoices I had a look round and the entrance you mention (by the pay booth) is 50 Metres (ish) past a lowered kerb entrance with no signage at all, which is where I entered. Also the entire piece of land appears to be divided by a few traffic cones, it sort of implies that when you park exactly opposite the hotel you are on the hotels ground. The pay booth doe's not appear to be manned, it seems like somebody comes around in a van, issues some 'tickets' then drives off to another site. By the way, I was not the only person 'ticketed'. It was the weekend of the Edinburgh marathon and I advised another couple and a single guy that their invoices were just waste paper, however they all looked doubtful, I told them to look at the CAG site - they did not seem convinced! I did my best, then went to the Spiders Web (I think) Regards Mr S

Hi again. Thanks Crem, I will write a letter with the points you have suggested. It was not my card that was used to hire the car, it was a travel company who are used by my employers. I am still curious as to whether anybody else has had to argue the point with car hire companies. I would have thought that this was a fairly common occurence and that the hire companies would have a clear cut policy. Regards and thanks Mr S

Hi guys I got two 'Parking contravention charge notices' while parked in the Morrison Street car park opposite the Premier Travel Inn in Edinburgh. I got the second one while I was in the hotel querying the first one. They were £100 reduced to £50 if paid within 14 days. I am quite content to go the 'ignore' route. However the car I was driving was a hired car. I did ring the hire company and ask what their policy was when contacted by these people. To be frank I did'nt get a definite answer from them. One person I spoke to kept referring to these notices as 'fines' then passed me to the legal department who kept referring to 'violations'. My questions are - 1.Has anybody had these charges paid by the hire company and then been asked for the money by the hire company (or had your card debited?) 2. I know the general advice given here is do not write to them but should I write to NCP and tell them I was driving so contact me not the car hire company? All advice appreciated. Mr S

Hi folks. A quick question. I am about to start reclaiming my C.C. charges and will have send a SAR request which can take up to 40 days. Can I inform them in a seperate letter that I intend to reclaim these charges and therefore stop the 6 years limit from moving on. ie. Stop the the clock ticking.? Mr Soft

Hello all, I registered about a week ago and have been reading lots of threads since. Great site, I feel in control already.Now it's time to get started, I am going after credit card charges, so two questions:- 1. One card is an Alliance and Leicester mastercard operated by MBNA and the other is a Beneficial/HFC, who would I initially contact A and L or MBNA? I think Beneficial/HFC are more or less the same thing. 2. Is there any benefit to using Special Delivery rather than recorded delivery? I realise that SD costs about £5 but I have read that some recorded gets 'lost'. Thanks in advance. I will post in the relevant sections shortly. Mr Soft