Took the S out for a drive the other day to Windsor and parked in a small pay and display car park between the castle and the river. I paid for 3 hours parking, got back to the car after just over 2 hours to find I had been clamped! My 'sticky' car park ticket fell off the window and onto my seat upside down.

I phoned the number which was left and after a couple of minutes I was greeted by a lady and her 'minder'.

She said - "We can clearly see you have a car park ticket but can't read it, so therefor we clamped your vehicle".

I then show them the ticket and I get this response "You are well within your time getting back to the car, unfortunately we can't let you go without paying the

 

my dad got a note on his window from the car park managemnt company for sainsburys warning him if he stays more than 2 hours next time he would get a ticket / clamped. He parked there all day as it is round corner from my flat and I didnt have enough parking for him.. We assumed they would never check

Anyway - fair play to the car park attendants. totally in their right to have ticketed him.

 

you should have a look on pepipoo

ticketing on private land is not covered by the rta

there is considerable evidence that any 'penalties' (they can't fine) are unenforcable, without evidence the owners of the land don't have

hence the popularity of clamping.......

worth reading up on

but what was their justification for rejecting your appeal?

 

We received a letter at our company for one of our drivers as he stayed over two hours in a Tesco car park - sad though it is - he was actually in Tesco that long - had something to eat, did shopping, bumped into several people he knew on the way round, wife looked at clothes, he looked at electricial stuff.

We've also got a retail park that has two entrances and my friend got a ticket but thankfully got let off as she had gone in entrance one, gone out entrance two (which doesn't have a camera) and then went back five hours later to return something to Next - went in entrance two and out entrance one so they assumed she had been parked five hours. Apparently quite a few people have been caught out but it's purely because they don't monitor the second exit.

 

The reason for rejecting the appeal was I failed to display my ticket correctly. Which I can understand, but to me that doesn't deserve clamping when they could see the ticket on the seat let alone a

 

I believe that there is also some legislation that says charges must be proportional

I would like to see them justify

 

[QUOTE=Taylot,Oct 14 2007, 07:19 PM] The reason for rejecting the appeal was I failed to display my ticket correctly. Which I can understand, but to me that doesn't deserve clamping when they could see the ticket on the seat let alone a

 

Sale of Goods act

 

What's the law regarding using bolt cutters on a clamp?
Can they charge you for anything except the value of the padlock?

 

It constitutes criminal damage - so not to be recommended, as odds on the clamping company will report it to Dibble.

If you can remove it without damaging the clamp, that's fair game.... Of course, it will probably involve disassembling the suspension to do so