Parking fines: Excel Parking drops woman’s £1,906 charge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627zp5d0qeo
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Parking fines: Excel Parking drops woman’s £1,906 charge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627zp5d0qeo
Posted by One_Psychology_
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Company drops this particular instance of grifting bullshit when publicly called out
About 10 years ago I’d been chased for bills for about 5 years… from a mobil3l3 company just to set time/frame
I had people sent to my door, letters to my parents (as if they would help) They harassed everyone they could including neighbours.
Finally sent them an email saying they were destroying my life and I’d see them in court.
Email to say debt free. If in UK fight these
I’ve a £2000 + charge dating back over a year, I will forever refuse to pay
I beat them out of £350 this year also. I’ve never had a fight in my adult life but this parking attendant for excel was making me want to risk it all. Just for context I’m a larger person and the parking guy was basically the size of a squirrel so I chose not do anything. The guy was outrageously rude and stupid and put me a ticket on a visitors parking bay. He wouldn’t have it and this began months of hassle providing evidence and responding to emails from the muppets. The UK is absolute disgrace for letting these thugs operate. Only council should be issuing tickets in my opinion. I’m glad this person won her case and for bringing attention like this.
“it’s not a fine its an invoice” except thanks to the previous government happily taking bribes the law is now completely on the vulturous parking companies side because they couldn’t fight fairly, case to case, so they had the law changed to default to them dipping into your pockets.
A whole industry built around extracting money unfairly from people, they absolutely take the piss, say what you want about people parking like plonkers, I’m all for some method of parking enforcement, its just so simple to have a maximum/fixed £30 charge, it’s the fact they can just keep increasing the imaginary debt and although it’s massively unfair they know they can just sit on it for years, the onous on you to prove you didn’t breach whatever contract they scribbled on the back of a fag packet, then 4 years down the line when they know your sick of the debt collectors and threatening letters and have probably moved home, rush through a case and get you a CCJ and ruin your life for the next n years.
Basically it’s set up in such a way that even if you know you’d probably win in court the implications of not winning are so rouness you best cough up the £30 or £60 at the first opportunity, I suppose you could try appealing to the parking companies own “independent” popla dispute process but they have absolutely no incentive to help motorists, they exist to make sure parking operators can make £££ and of course they they can make their own £££.
I think what’s made this so much more unfair over recent years is the ubiquitous nature of ANPR systems, one second over and you’re getting a fine, sorry, an “invoice” (except you have to pay it) and the willingness of the DVLA to just spam around your personal details for civil matters, the government isn’t even making any money from it!
Very strange how this woman has managed to rack up 10 of these particular charges, though.
>DCB Legal, which represents Excel Parking, has donated £60 to the Teenage Cancer Trust at Miss Hudson’s request, in lieu of the first PCN she paid
Definitely a thing that people do when they’re convinced that they’ve got a rock solid court case.
My mum had a 300 quid fine because she parked, with the intention to go into the shop, but was on her phone for a bit. She likes to walk and talk, so she walked to the entrance of the car park and took a couple of steps outside before re-entering and going shopping there. The parking company fined her because the rules sate “You can’t park here if you aren’t shopping here.” She kept the receipts of having used the shops attached to the car park.
They tried bullying her with threats of a CCJ and wound end up paying more. That just pissed my Dad off who turned around and said that he was going to sue them if they don’t drop the fine. They dropped the fine.
Some of these companies are just there to make profit and will try every tactic under the sun.