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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,453
    edited December 2025
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    Agree with the first part, disagree with the second part of your opening post
    I parked in an Asda back in September for longer than the hour and a half, my own fault but I'm not going to simply pay up to these leechers - Appealed to ParkingEye saying that I wasn't the Driver, they refused it because I'm still the Registered Keeper, I've now taken the appeal to POPLA (Gone as far to say that the time stamps on the letter could easily be photoshopped), and am waiting on their outcome.
    All my appeals have gone in, using the relevant threads that are readily available on the Money Saving Expert Forum which are filled with information on how to fight any parking PCN type parking ticket.
    The only reason I disagree with the second part of your opening post, is ParkingEye reduced the fine to £60 whilst the appeal was going through them, but now its with POPLA they've put it up to £100
    Scammy bastards, I genuinely hate it when anyone meekly pays up the fine, as it gives them confidence to keep getting away with what they're doing - I should have emailed Asda myself right at the beginning, with a rant, as know they would have cancelled the fine themselves, without going through the appeal. Shows how "water tight" these PCN's truly are.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,844
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    Depends how much time and patience you have vs the cost of the fine. 
    For most people, time also has an associated value. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,181
    i also wonder how far they will push it for £50. I mean court proceedings..... really? It's that age old question - can you go to prison over a parking ticket. If you never paid it how far can they go?
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,431
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    I had one that went all the way to court in Nov, after 18 months of letters. 
    They bottled it and withdrew a week before the court date. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,181
    Valiantphil said:
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    I had one that went all the way to court in Nov, after 18 months of letters. 
    They bottled it and withdrew a week before the court date. 

    I mean this is the thing….. courts have got enough going on without having to worry about a £50 parking ticket. 

    Take my situation…. If I explained it to any court the judge would surely tell them to fuck off and they would know that. Their whole business model is based on scaring as many people as possible into paying up
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,682

    The way some large companies use the court system to basically bully private individuals is, I think, a massive issue. I remember my ex-Mrs receiving a blunt, one-line letter from the HR department of her former employer - she’d left on good terms few months earlier - stating that she had been paid for holiday she hadn’t earned. They claimed it hadn’t been adjusted in her final pay packet, so she needed to pay it back within a set number of days or they would pursue her through the courts. I seem to remember them mentioning that they had a history of successfully doing this in the past.

    I remember the details clearly and I remember saying it was obviously just a straightforward administrative error that a firm of their size would normally swallow after the fact. She wrote a decent email back to them, but she then received a summons in the post. It obviously went on a bit longer than that, and I can’t remember all the to-ing and fro-ing now, but I do remember they dragged it right up until just before the hearing, then withdrew it.

    They had basically used the court system to scare her into paying the balance, with no intention of actually going through with it. I’m not sure how much of the court’s time this kind of thing takes up, but surely there should be some sort of financial penalty for larger firms that clearly do this - even if only on a moral basis?

    Wish they took her to the farkin cleaners now though tbh.....

  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,914
    SuedeAdidas said:
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    Depends how much time and patience you have vs the cost of the fine. 
    For most people, time also has an associated value. 
    This is true. I agree 100%.
    Valiantphil said:
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    It amazes me how many people will just pay up. Appeal everything. The amount you might have to pay stays the same. As you see with gribbos post, if you push the far enough most of the time they eventually give in.
    I had one that went all the way to court in Nov, after 18 months of letters. 
    They bottled it and withdrew a week before the court date. 
    And there we have it.
  • redashdave
    redashdave Posts: 66
    Gribbo said:

    The way some large companies use the court system to basically bully private individuals is, I think, a massive issue. I remember my ex-Mrs receiving a blunt, one-line letter from the HR department of her former employer - she’d left on good terms few months earlier - stating that she had been paid for holiday she hadn’t earned. They claimed it hadn’t been adjusted in her final pay packet, so she needed to pay it back within a set number of days or they would pursue her through the courts. I seem to remember them mentioning that they had a history of successfully doing this in the past.

    I remember the details clearly and I remember saying it was obviously just a straightforward administrative error that a firm of their size would normally swallow after the fact. She wrote a decent email back to them, but she then received a summons in the post. It obviously went on a bit longer than that, and I can’t remember all the to-ing and fro-ing now, but I do remember they dragged it right up until just before the hearing, then withdrew it.

    They had basically used the court system to scare her into paying the balance, with no intention of actually going through with it. I’m not sure how much of the court’s time this kind of thing takes up, but surely there should be some sort of financial penalty for larger firms that clearly do this - even if only on a moral basis?

    Wish they took her to the farkin cleaners now though tbh.....


    Gribbo said:

    The way some large companies use the court system to basically bully private individuals is, I think, a massive issue. I remember my ex-Mrs receiving a blunt, one-line letter from the HR department of her former employer - she’d left on good terms few months earlier - stating that she had been paid for holiday she hadn’t earned. They claimed it hadn’t been adjusted in her final pay packet, so she needed to pay it back within a set number of days or they would pursue her through the courts. I seem to remember them mentioning that they had a history of successfully doing this in the past.

    I remember the details clearly and I remember saying it was obviously just a straightforward administrative error that a firm of their size would normally swallow after the fact. She wrote a decent email back to them, but she then received a summons in the post. It obviously went on a bit longer than that, and I can’t remember all the to-ing and fro-ing now, but I do remember they dragged it right up until just before the hearing, then withdrew it.

    They had basically used the court system to scare her into paying the balance, with no intention of actually going through with it. I’m not sure how much of the court’s time this kind of thing takes up, but surely there should be some sort of financial penalty for larger firms that clearly do this - even if only on a moral basis?

    Wish they took her to the farkin cleaners now though tbh.....

    Good to know you don't  bear a grudge 

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