tim..... wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Norman Wells wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote

Just had another e-mail from the car park company:-

Thank you for your email in regards to the above parking charge.

We of course are happy to waiver additional charges and accept a
reduced charge of £20.00 as full and final settlement for this charge.

I suppose you can't blame them for trying.

Does show that Mr Wells many posts about legally enforceable contracts
doesn't seem to be shared by someone who actually knows.

How does it do that then?

You've gone on and on that they can legally charge you anything they want
for parking. As by parking there you've accepted their terms without
question.

So why would they ever reduce the amount they demanded as a penalty?

because, as has already been explained to you, by more than one person -

enforcing their legally enforceable charge

They don't have a legally enforceable charge. He has the till slip
that proves that he used the store when his car was in that carpark.

will cost them more than that charge.

Certainly will when he proves that they
don't have a legally enforceable charge.

So they are cutting their losses and telling you they will accept a lower
amount because it saves them aggro

They either didn't bother to read the email or have an
automated system that sent that reply automatically
or have read the email and believe that he is lying
about having a till slip that proves he did use the
store when his car was in the carpark.

It's the problem of employers paying out in bogus discrimination claims
because paying is cheaper than fighting - in reverse

Nothing like it in fact. They keep adding additional charges
to the original claim in an attempt to monster people into
paying up when they have thrown out the till slip as most
do and can no longer provide that and are too stupid to
realise that the parking company will do nothing if they
are ignored.