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£800 Parking tickets - completely unjust - where do i stand?
(England)
DIR By: Joshpm166
Date: September 7, 2025, 11:06 am
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Long story short, I am being charged 8*100=£800 for parking
tickets which I completely disagree with and want to know where
I stand and if anything can be done.
What happened: I purchased a monthly season ticket for the month
of July for use of a car park (saba parking) at a local train
station via an app. As July was coming to an end, I was looking
forward to August and therefore chose the autorenew option on
the monthly season ticket. I was sent an email (attached pic) to
confirm that I don't need to do anything and the monthly season
ticket would renew for august.
It was only until around the 20th August I started to receive a
number of parking tickets in the post (because these scumbugs
wouldn't send them out straight away would they, as to bend you
over even more) that I was being fined as i didn't have a
monthly/weekly ticket or didn't pay on the day.
To me, I was sent an email confirmation that categorically
stated i didnt need to do anything and that it would auto renew.
I did not receive any further email or correspondence from saba
parking since.
In this time and checking through my banking, it doesn't look
like a payment was taken. I believe this is because in the last
week of july sometime, the app unexpectedly shut down and a new
saba app was launched and there must have been a technical
hitch.
Either way, this is not my issue and second, there should at
least of been another email or correspondence to say a payment
wasn't taken and needs to be made. I was left to believe that it
was confirmed that "I did not need to do anything" and the
season ticket would be autorenewed.
I have made appeals on all of the tickets and have just received
a rejection on all of them. The letter basically stated it was
my duty to check that a payment was made and that because a
payment wasn't made I am being fined.
I really don't feel I have done anything wrong here, I was led
to believe, and it was confirmed that it would just autorenew
and I don't need to do anything. I am not sure of the legal term
but surely this is along the lines of false advertising/
entrapment.
Moving forward they have given me 3 options.
Pay a reduced rate of £60*8= £480 within 14 days to clear the
tickets.
Make a further appeal to "ASparking" - which claim to be
independent, but look anything but. And if they uphold the
decision (which they most likely will as they basically run a
cartel) then I would loose the "reduced rate" and have to pay
the full 8*100=£800 fine.
Make a complaint to the Ombudsmen service - However, they note:
"we have not chosen to participate in their alternative dispute
resolution service" (LOL) and basically refer back to making an
appeal to "ASparking".
This feels like an absolute racket, and as mentioned i really
don't feel i have done anything wrong. I was made to believe
something that wasn't true.
Do I have a leg to stand on, what should I do?
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Re: £800 Parking tickets - completely unjust - where do i stand?
(England)
DIR By: martin_t
Date: September 7, 2025, 11:57 am
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Saba, eh? Railway property, eh?, July, eh? Payment problem, eh?
This sounds eerily similar to my current circumstance!
This is my thread:
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#Post#: 88809--------------------------------------------------
Re: £800 Parking tickets - completely unjust - where do i stand?
(England)
DIR By: jfollows
Date: September 7, 2025, 12:12 pm
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What did you say in your appeals?
Did you identify the driver?
Railway car parks are generally covered by bylaws and PoFA 2012
can not be used to transfer the liability from the driver to the
registered keeper.
But if you told them who the driver was, this is irrelevant.
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Re: £800 Parking tickets - completely unjust - where do i stand?
(England)
DIR By: b789
Date: September 9, 2025, 5:18 am
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Do nothing. SABA have 6 months in which to lay information
before a magistrate. They won’t, because there is no money in it
for them as any “fine” would go to the public purse, not SABA.
However, they will tell you that if you don’t pay it, they will
issue a county court claim for the alleged debt. They can’t,
because you cannot prosecute a statutory offence in the county
court.
It is all part of a giant scam that should be reported to the
police (not Action Fraud) as the Penalty Notices are instruments
of fraud and an illegal attempt to extort money from you under
the false pretence that you are criminally liable.
If they were ever so stupid as to try this on, either in the
magistrates court or the county court, they would be spit to
strict proof of their standing to issue Penalty Notices.
You cannot prosecute a safely ignore all debt recovery letters.
Debt collectors, just like SABA, are powerless to actually do
anything in this case beyond making unlawful threats in the hope
that you are low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree and are
likely to pay up out of ignorance and fear.
Keep us updated on their responses. We don’t need to see any
debt recovery letters but any correspondence from SABA
themselves must be kept as evidence of their illegal activity,
especially if they threaten debt recovery through the county
court for a Penalty Notices are.
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