TESCO Every little helps

By : Forum Regular
Published 5th August 2013 |
Read latest comment - 17th February 2014

Well, arriving at TESCO's in Beverley after a trip/morning to HMP Full Sutton (near York). I thought I would buy lunch (from TESCO's), sit in the market square, enjoy a bit of civilisation and ponder the content of my impending report. Being healthy I then walked in to my office (Beverley) with a view to collecting my car later that afternoon. "4" hours later returning to my car and then home.

14 days later and having just got back from Holiday I read my mail and discover that I got a parking ticket, issued on behalf of TESCO and using ANPR the company note that I stayed beyond my welcome and should now pay them

Thanks,
Ray Priestley
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Was the Tesco notification about the maximum time limit for free parking and the charge for over-staying (or some similar notice) clearly displayed and visible to all users of the car park? If it wasn't, tell them you want your

Linda
CareersPartnershipUK

There are a lot of these private parking tickets issued. They are quite safe to ignore. So if you haven't paid already, just ignore it. This guide on MSE is quite useful to read if you had a fine from a private parking company. I myself had tickets years ago from private companies (one for overstaying, another for stopping in a bus lane near airport) and was sent letters demanding payment and debt collectors threat. But as always ignored it and nothing happened

For those supermarkets that give their parking control over to private companies don't realise that once customers are issued a parking ticket while they are shopping, it just p**ses them off and in the long run losing much more revenue as means of losing the customers for years to come (as in your case).

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fourth-monkey

So it is legal for DVLA to give out to a private company the home address of over-stayers?

Having checked with solicitors from work (my day job being a probation officer) I am reliably informed that the government changed the privacy laws to help these companies and it is perfectly legal for the DVLA to share your information.

Thanks,
Ray Priestley

Similar thing happened to me, parked across 2 bays in a B & Q car park, run by UKPC, got a ticket for

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Barney

Regrettably I paid the

Thanks,
Ray Priestley

Quick reply, TESCO failed to respond to my complaint, guess they could not afford to buy a stamp out of the

Thanks,
Ray Priestley

I'd be tempted to go back to Tesco's purchase a

Thanks,
Barney

Slightly illegal but very tempting....will sleep on it and ruminate

Thanks,
Ray Priestley

Reminds me, bought a box of weetabix years ago, opened it, and it was full of maggots!

Never took it back, shoved it in the neighbours bin..

Was ages before I could ever face a weetabix again Bet I could have got a fortune in vouchers!

Go on Ray, go for it

Steve Richardson
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