Parking Ticket too!!

[dodgydog]

Bloody hell, the day gets better. Mrs D and her sister went shopping last Saturday, Dunelm mills Huddersfield.
They've been before and can easily spend all day in the place (fuck knows what's in there, I never ask)
Now though, there's a 2 hour limit for parking! So now she's got a £90 "fine" or a very generous £60 if paid within 14 days.
Rang Dunelm and they say "it's not our car park, nowt to do with us, what? it's outside your fucking store isn't it?
Company is called Parkingeye, I've already checked them out on Pepipoo and consensus is to ignore.
Which I was going to do anyway, although Mrs D is bricking it now, what with one summons on the mat already today. What do they think I am, a fucking cash machine? arseholes.
They can all fuck off, they're getting fuck all.


Dog
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[fatpies]

Don't ignore them.

Instead write a pleasant letter to them telling them that you will never ever ever for the rest of your life shop there again. And that you will tell your friends not to shop there and everybody you know.

Dunlem will scoff at your letter but if enough people do this Dunlem will die horribly.

As said I did this recently with another organisation, pffft what does one matter..... what about two? Three four? Or more?

Even better borrow a wheel chair, put said wife in it. Then write to the local shopper type paper every town has, take some photos and complain about it. This will generate massive amounts of negative publicity for them. These shopper type newspapers never have enough to fill the column inches.
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[nowhere.elysium]

When you phoned them, you didn't give them any information that was specific to your ticket, did you? If not, then just ignore it. If you did, then they're going to chase you. You can still ignore it; they've got no legal power to do anything, but the harassment may get irritating after a while. Just don't let the Mrs. panic, is all. Fear is exactly what they're hoping to capitalise on.
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[Rogerborg]

[Kwaks]

Thank them for tracking your car, you will pass the info on to the police searching for the thieves.
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[Skudd]

Take the £200++ shopping back for a refund stating it was the parking charge that made you change your mind.

Perhaps they will start to think a bit more.
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[Phoenix]

You've been told, it's nothing to do with Dunelm Mill, it's not their car park, they only lease the building most likely.

Ignore parking eye and do not contact Dunelm Mill again, you will get reminders and threats of bailiffs/court action from parking eye then you'll get debt collectors letters but it's all waffle, they may even have photos of the car but it means absolutely nothing, ignore and don't go weak and they eventually just go away because there is nothing they can actually do.

In future, don't park for more than 2 hours.

[Clanger]

Scribble through the addressee on the envelope and return to sender, "not known at this address". Keep doing this, don't change tactic - they will soon get pissed off about not getting anywhere and will move to the next victim.
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[MattEMulsion]

Ignore them, they'll soon get bored and move on to the next victim. Besides they can only 'fine' the person who parked the car, not the registered keeper and who is to say that is the same person.

If it was me I would take the goods bought at Dunelm back out of principle, make a stink and involve the manager etc. You can always nip to another Dunelm and re-buy the same items from a different store if it comes to it.
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[Marmalade]

It seems that in exchange for banning clamping the government are giving private parking tickets like this the same level of legality of those given by council wardens.

Hoorah for clamping ban
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[Llama-Farmer]

Don't bother paying for it. I haven't paid for a single ticket (except those issued by the police and those traffic nazi's). Two of those were rather unfair and I contested and won, one was fair, I risked it and lost, paying a cheque in at a bank in town.

All the other ones in private car parks I just ignore, they can't enforce them, they just count on mugs paying without questioning the legitimacy.

One actually threatened to take me to court, so I got a legal friend of mine to counter threaten them, and it turns out they don't have a leg to stand on because their sign claimed that anyone parking there and reading the sign was obliging and agreeing to the contract on the sign, I merely said I didn't see a sign so didn't read it.

[dodgydog]

Updated.

Had a bit of to and fro with Dunelm, They eventually said to go back to the store with receipts and parking charge notice and it would be waived.
I already told sister in law about that, and to write to Parkingeye and give them my name and address (telling them I was driving) if she had another letter from them, and wasn't up for the long haul of ignoring the arseholes.
Even got her a nice template letter to send them.

And then.

She paid it, £60. Bugger. You just can't help some people, no wonder Parkingeye make so much money.

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[Rogerborg]

Well, that's her in the "Will pay the Danegeld" file.
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[R6 Wilson]

Ingore that shit

Protocol is bin any parking ticket not directly off the council

Rumour has it they'll spend more in legal costs trying to claim the money you owe them than the actual fine itself is

I got a parking ticket for £60 off a private company for parking in what was only 80% of a parking space, which was adequate for my moped at the time

I sent a letter contesting it, they never replied so I never paid and never heard anything off it
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[R6 Wilson]

Just read the bad news. FYL
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[dodgydog]

It's understandable how some people can get frightened by this kind of thing. What with horror stories on the idiot box about penalties increasing.
When I spoke to the sis in law at first, I could hear the fear in her voice, all she was concerned about was not having it escalate and her having to pay £90 - £120 or more. I pointed her to threads on Pepipoo, told her to just send Parkingeye my name and address if she wanted to, and sent her the replies I got from Dunelm.
She didn't want to send them my name and address, "in case it got me into trouble and the police got involved".
Looking back, I should have gone over to hers the same day and taken the paperwork, so she couldn't pay it.
It's not even my money but I'm royally pissed off about the whole sorry episode right now. I might even go over to Dunelm and stay three hours in their car park next week, get my own ticket and see if I can't fuck them about a bit. (Pissing in the wind, I know)




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[Raffles]

I feel your pain, Dog.
I'm fairly sure that Mrs Raffles would also have bottled it and coughed up the ransom.
Slightly off topic but it's been bugging me why Mrs Dog would have travelled all the way to Huddersfield when you have a Dunelm Mills store in your home country, on Sticker Lane
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