Hi All
Would you like to have a read of the following and comment /advise/ recommend what action to take
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Someone parked their car in a small car park in Sennen Cove Cornwall( top end near the lifeboat station) The charge for parking appeared to be a reasonable £1.00 for a couple of hours
which is even payable on a Sunday
. The person went to pay and after finding the machine was playing up by rejecting his pound coin
, he tried another couple of coins, Eventuality the whirred and clicked and a message appeared in the small window.
"This Transaction is compete" but no ticket was produced
. The person tried again to obtain a ticket and whilst doing so spoke with another punter using the adjacent machine which also appeared to be giving him problems.
Having tried again the same message appeared Transaction complete.
As it was quiet and plenty of spaces around 1100 am he decided to have a wander to a local café form an all day breakfast.
This was followed by a walk up to the headland to absorb the wonderful vista laid out before him. He was at one with nature and following a moment of reflection of his dearly departed wife made his way back to the car, and drove off.
Back at the accommodation some 50 miles away he notice something stuck to the windscreen and under the drivers side wiper blade. Closer examination reviled and yellow sticky bag containing parking ticket (Picture 1)
Feeling extremely angry
he couldn't understand why he had received this notice, but as it was a Sunday was unable to contact anyone. As he was holiday the ticket was forgotten about
until Saturday 28th June when a letter postmarked from Truro arrived
which is demanding that £100
be paid a penalty for paying the original charge. ( picture 2) it also states that that if not paid enforcement action will be taken and additional cots incurred.
He would now like to make the following observations.
The ticker was not clearly displayed on the car as it wasn't seen until arriving back at the hotel. It was placed under the wiper blade but as the a below the eye level of the bonnet and in a recess and hidden from view from the driver.
The ticket machine was faulty it either didn't accept the coinage correctly ( two or three pound coins were used until the machine started to work. No ticket was printed out and the message in the window was very ambiguous.
3 The original date of the incident was 26th April and he only just received 28th June any correspondence in relation to the matter
Over to you guys he awaits your comments etc.
other photos to follow