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I have received a parking charge notice from Euro car parks today for something I don't understand. The breach of terms states "No valid pay and display/permit was purchased for this vehicle". There was no option to enter your registration at the machine and I purchased a ticket that had not expired.

It was displayed clearly on the dashboard and the PCN was stuffed down into the bulkhead under the bonnet, I didn't see it at first. The PCN was placed about 6 inches away from the ticket I had purchased. Is it worth appealing or should I just ignore? I've got little faith in BPA who I gather are still funded by the operators themselves or has this changed? Many thanks

The normal advice is to wait for a postal issued Notice to Keeper.

Be sure to keep the parking receipt.

Never reveal the driver's identity.

So when talking about matters you always say, "the driver did this and the driver did that"

Are you the Registered Keeper?

Okay - this looks to be a Sainsburys Store Car Park - are you a customer?

I suspect that the hospital next door has insufficient space so they charge at this location as a result.

The images on GSV are from 2018 so I cannot see which type of payment machines they are using - how sure are you about the non VRM entry requirements?

I paid £2 for 2 hours parking

The date and Time are when I purchased the ticket, not the expiry.

This was the only ticket that came from the machine. To top it off some woman informed the person behind me not to use the QR code attached to the lamppost as it was apparently a scam.

I purchased the same ticket on Saturday for my visit. The thermal print again printed at a right angle to the pre printed text on the paper and was barely readable. I did not get a parking ticket. This ticket seems slightly different because the coupon is not pre semi cut and is not easily detachable like the one on Saturday was.

It looks like a receipt rather than a displayable ticket but I can assure you it is the only thing that came out of the machine.

Has anyone got any further advice? Should I bother appealing? We had a big issue with euro car parks in 2020 I think it was. They purchased my wifes details from the DVLA then sent all correspondence without the first line of our address. It ended up in a CCJ which we eventually had struck off and they had to pay our costs but it was obviously a right pain.