Parking at Wickes car park

[WorcesterRed]

Not sure if this has been posted before but please beware of the following:

I parked in Wickes car park on Saturday and I know that Wickes/Charlie Brown etc have now closed down. I parked in front of the parking signs and read it clearly before parking my car.

The sign says that the car park is for the use of customers of Wickes/Charlie Browns and says you have two hours, after which you run the risk of being clamped/vehicle towed away. I parked at about 2.45pm.

The sign is misleading because it does not say 'No parking' as such and I thought (stupidly) that I'd have two hours parking.

Returned to Car Park after game and of course, the car has been towed away. Rang a mobile number on the sign and was told that it would cost £334.00 (£285 plus VAT) to get my car back. Thankfully the guy was still in Swindon but I had gone to Tesco's to ring a taxi home and another chap saw what had happened and said the same thing happended to him the week before and he had to go to Weston to pick his car up as that was where it was being stored.

Of course, I am fully aware of my responsibility and it is my fault but I just thought I'd vent my frustration and also offer a word of warning to any other car drivers.

If they didn't want people to park there, they should put a barrier up - this is an absolute con. I would guess that these people wait at prime times (Saturday home matches being one of them), KNOWING that there'd be a few cars parked there (which there were - probably about five or six as well as mine) and then start towing them away.

Very nice business at £334.00 a throw - just needs a few cars every weekend to rake in a fortune.

Sorry about the long post - just wanted to save anyone else from having to fork out this sort of charge to a money grabbing bunch of cunts.

[Batch]

Sorry to hear you got done.

They have been doing this for quite some time now in the Charlie Browns carpark. I remember a load of City fans got done last year

Since it is 'dead space' you'd have though they would charge £2 a car on match days. Presumably not as profitable as towing though.

[Arriba]

this has been going on a while now,and also at burger king

[sonic youth]

I recall them doing this a few years ago at the home leg of the play-offs, massive crowd, lots of cars, few spaces and they clamped/towed everything in their car parks - despite letting people off for most of the season.

It's completely cuntish, especially now it's deserted.

[WorcesterRed]

Sorry to hear you got done.

They have been doing this for quite some time now in the Charlie Browns carpark. I remember a load of City fans got done last year

Since it is 'dead space' you'd have though they would charge £2 a car on match days. Presumably not as profitable as towing though.

I have taken it on the chin and fully understand it is my fault - have no issue with that. The point is, the signs were obviously in place when the industrial units were trading and they have not been changed and (to me anyway), are misleading.

Like you say, you'd need a lot of cars at £2.00 a day to rake in £334.00 but I just think that either a barrier needs to be installed or the signs need changing to say 'No Parking'.

No doubt this is lawful, but there's something about this that stinks and is immoral.

[reeves4england]

Presumably you were at the match for longer then the allotted 2 hours anyway? So even if they stores had been open you would probably have been done!

My Dad always used to park in Charlie Browns until they put the signs up and now I usually just park on the other side of the road up next to the railway. Always space up there cos pretty much nobody knows about it!

Until now! Although with the state some people on here get into on matchday I hope very few of you guys drive to games anyway!  

[WorcesterRed]

Presumably you were at the match for longer then the allotted 2 hours anyway? So even if they stores had been open you would probably have been done!

My Dad always used to park in Charlie Browns until they put the signs up and now I usually just park on the other side of the road up next to the railway. Always space up there cos pretty much nobody knows about it!

Until now! Although with the state some people on here get into on matchday I hope very few of you guys drive to games anyway!  

Left at 2.45pm, got back say about 5.00pm so Yes BUT the funny thing was, a mate of mine said he saw my car on the tow truck at about 3.30pm (he was driving past Tesco's) so the car had only been there for 45 mins!!

Anyway when I rang the bloke - I was obviously peed off - but didn't rant and rave and said "You have got my car - how do I get it back". He then got all high and mighty and said "If you'd care to speak to me civilly, I will tell you how you can get your car back!!".

Like your gonna give these people a call and be perfectly civil with them aren't you?

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[Bushey Boy]

Fair play worcester you have taken this well.

Car parking at the county ground is very bad, unless of course you rent out a house without the 4 spaces at the back of county road....

Your best bets pay the fire station people

[WorcesterRed]

Fair play worcester you have taken this well.

Car parking at the county ground is very bad, unless of course you rent out a house without the 4 spaces at the back of county road....

Your best bets pay the fire station people

I'm more wound up about it today but I generally go through life thinking that if there's nothing that you can do to change a situation, then you may as well just get on with it.

Mind you, said to the girlfriend on our way to pick the car up that I really wish I was one of these people that just wouldn't stand for this and had pictures of a 6ft skinhead built like a brick shithouse taking a baseball bat with him to pick up his car.....

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[STFC Village]

Park in Tesco?

[Bushey Boy]

sometimes its best to just accept teh cost and not lose sleep over it.  Lucky we won!

[Panda Paws]

To be honest, I usually park in the multi storey over by B&Q ... although the downside to that place is it doesn't open for evening games. Almost got done at the Tranmere game a couple of seasons back when it was open at 7 but closed by 10 ... We only got our cars back because about 60 of us made the same mistake and barracked the poor bloke who had to come out and open it up.

To be honest, the council should think about opening it for evening games now considering the school is now closed.

[sonic youth]

Park in Tesco?

It's a nightmare to get out after a game lately, I always park there. Left my car there for over 8 hours on Saturday without a problem, probably won't be long before they start charging/clamping/towing/slashing tires.

[Sippo]

They used to check at one point? But how can you tell who's going to football or not apart from the obvious?

[Samdy Gray]

I've parked in Tesco's car park for the past two seasons and I've never had a problem.