cman6
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- Comment on Parking industry leader: 'If the signs are unclear, park somewhere else' | ITV News 3 days ago:
Top tip: Provided you’ve not received a PCN from the council… do not pay, and do not contact the company EVER, not even to contest the PCN.
These parking charges are a civil matter, not criminal, and essentially the parking operator is claiming you broke a contract with them, which you had agreed to when you parked your car.
If you refuse to pay they can take you to court but are unlikely to, and they can only claim the reasonable damages of you breaking the contract.
You will likely receive threatening letters from the parking operator up until you actually go to court.
Any threats of bailiffs is total BS. Only the court can send bailiffs and only if you don’t pay what the court has demanded.
As the article says, these companies make their money by people paying uncontested fines.
(IANAL)
- Comment on Just a moment... 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s an April 1st joke!
- Comment on Schools tell BBC about 'astronomical' repair bills as 25-year PFI contract heads into meltdown 2 months ago:
What I don’t understand, so please forgive my naivety, is that surely Equans is in breach of contract, so the schools and/or council could sue? I’m wondering why that hasn’t happened…
- Comment on The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models 2 months ago:
I remember having that “net” version of a MiniDisc player, and I would have kept it but it was SO slow to copy music from your computer onto the device.
Plus eBay had those stick shaped MP3 players for about £25 which could hold around an album’s worth of music, and transfer times were much faster; although slow by today’s standard