I am heartened to see I am not alone. I recently went to the Llyn Peninsula with the wife, and duly received a fine for being a total of 6 minutes over. The photo shows the car going into the car park. So give me a minute to park (in an empty car park), another one to get the right change and the ticket...then a minute to come out of the park, so really £80 for three minutes.
A big THANK YOU to everyone standing up against these threatening letters.

i drove to hospital with what i know now was a broken foot. i was in agony. it was 06.00 in the morning and i got my dad to get dropped off to pick me and my car up at 08.45. when i got to the hospital i put six pound coins in the machine as i knew i would be a while. i recieved a letter from parkingeye today saying i over stayed the allowed 2 free hours and owed £70 reduced to £40. are they for real i put six pound in the machine. after reading this and when my foot is better ide loke to go to chorley and kick their butt. im paying nothing

Had my Parking Charge Notice from ParkingEye Ltd on 21/12/12 for parking at Aldi on 11/12/12 for 12 mins over the 1 and half hour. The CCTV photo shows my car still on the Public Highway at their stated Arrival Time and on the Public Highway at Departure Time. I had not reached the Relevant Land let alone PARKED.

The Notice states that Schedule 4 (RECOVERY OF UNPAID PARKING CHARGES) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (which came into force on 1/10/12) is the Act relied on. I immediately looked up the Act on the Internet (Free to the public)

at Schudule 4 Section 2 (1) I read "Relevant Contract" means a contract (including a contract arising ONLY when the vehicle was PARKED on the relevant land) between the driver and a person (a) the owner or occupier of the land, or (b) authorised under or by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the PARKING of the vehicle on the land.

(My caps above)

On producing the Aldi shopping receipt the Manager cancelled the Charge.

BUT, as Parking Eye had to get my personal info from the DVLA I wonder what EVIDENCE OF PARKING the DVLA relied upon ?

I shall forward my Evidence to the DVLA ie copy of the Parking Charge Notice, copy of the Act and photo's I have taken.

Maybe there is a different interpretation of the 'relevant law' If there is the DVLA will inform me.

ParkingEye state the DVLA Dept to write to on the reverse of the Notice making it easier.

Just ignore them as they are not council fines and therefore cannot be upheld in court.

I received PCM from parking eye for allegedly parking at Mecca bingo Moor Lane Bolton.I most certainly was,nt driving my car on the 17 November.but they have a picture of my car. I do know who was driving and this person did purchase a ticket at a machine.does,nt remember how much was put into the machine or for the time allocated.I did see a parking ticket in the car a few days later as I cleaned the vehicle. Help required

As others have said - just ignore the fines from these operators and they go away.
I wouldn't bother contesting or arguing with these people...you are wasting more of your own time and stresing yourself.
Just think what is the worst that could happen? They may take you to court (which is highly unlikely) and you get fined what the judge thinks is the actual loss to the operator (which could even be less...highly unlikely to be more than what they want) and it costs them to take you to court.
There is loads on the internet about this...people seem to read it and still panic....seems the scare tactics work on the more gullible!

Last month I stayed in a hotel in Sheffield where you have to pay £5 a night to park, as the car park is operated by these people. In spite of paying and having an itemised bill from the hotel, I still had a bill for £90 from Parking Eye. - which eventually the hotel got sorted for me.

Same has happens to me driving for 5 hours up the motorway .called in to Berger king for something to eat from the st Nicholas end went onto the internet to find a b&b drove out the London rd entrance checked in to b&b then drove back through and got a parking fine for overstaying 11 minutes and this was between 8 & 10.30pm this gives visitors to the city a very good welcome

the same thing happens to me at Morecambe,
We used to go nearly every weekend to shop
That was three years ago, have not been back,
the shops loose out

Its not a fine, its an invoice. Just ignore it they can't take you to court. Only the land owner can do that and only for losses incurred. Its a free car park therefore his losses are nil. More info at http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163