On 20/04/2011 10:28, David in Normandy wrote:
On 20/04/2011 09:46, 'Mike' wrote:
If you intend to visit your B&Q Garden Centre for your plants etc. Or
visit
B&Q for anything and stroll around and possibly pop in for a cuppa if
they
have an inhouse cafe ....................................

BEWARE ..................................

The one here on the Isle of Wight photographs your car on the way in and
times the photo.

and?

When you leave, it photographs it again, with the time.

and?

If you have been over two hours, you will receive a fine through the
post of
£50.00 if you pay within 2 weeks, otherwise the fine goes up to £100.00.

NOT LEGAL, but a frightener.

Check if your B&Q are doing the same thing.

Matalan are also doing this scam.

You might like to add any other stores etc who are doing this.

Mike



I read about someone getting hit with this a few months ago.
They'd been in B&Q for more than two hours choosing and sorting out
having a fitted kitchen or some such fitted and buying lot of things
associated with the project only to get hit with a fine through the post
for being parked there for something like 2 hours and 10 minutes. He
raised hell with the store manager considering the fact he'd just spend
several thousand pounds there but was unable to get his money back -
something to do with the parking company not being under the control of
B&Q. Quite rightly the guy was very angry and vowed never to shop at B&Q
again.

I can understand that such a deterrent is needed to stop people abusing
the car park and shopping elsewhere but I think the store manager should
have some sort of fine veto arrangement with the company they have the
car park managed through or it is a very good way of getting bad
publicity and losing good customers.


I don't know who decides how rigidly they enforce the rules but
certainly a friend of mine didn't get a letter after being in Tesco for
30 minutes longer than he should.
The B&Q example sounds crazy. I'd certainly talk to somebody further up
the scale.