Parking eye hound dogs are after you at Aldi car park if you dare to park for longer than 90 mins you will get an official looking letter demanding you pay an excess charge of £40 within 14 days or it will rise to £70 . if you fall foul of this check out the web for parking eye whatever you do DONT PAY!!!!!!! i wonder how much Aldi get for everyone caught?????

but after all how big is Aldi? does it really take you as long as an hour to look around Aldi? ok granted it takes about 20 mins to pay as they only ever have one till open but come on... 1 hr is more than enough time.

Why should they pay rent for you to park your car in their car park when half the people that use it do not even shop at Aldi.

Fair play to them!!!

are you not allowed after spending your hard earned cash at ALDI to look around the shops gathered around them or is it highway robbery ie GIVE ME YOUR MONEY THEN SCRAM how will this help the other traders.

Just a quick update on this I have contacted Aldi twice now but to date I have not received any replies. Has anyone else received a ticket?

just another example of large companies making as much money as possible. next there will install payment ticket units.

@leaperslair have you had any further letters?

@leaperslair that’s good news so far then. However I don’t think they will give up that easily. I do not know of anyone else to receive this type of letter in Thornbury and although I have contacted Aldi in Thornbury I was told that I would need to contact their head office to discuss the issues. I have made several attempts to contact someone at their head office but so far I have been unsuccessful on every occasion, But I will keep trying though.

@leaperslair well lets hope they have given up........... :-)

expect to get some really scary letters. however if you go to that pepipoo dot com forum i linked earlier you will get lots of advice and reassurance. the law is completely different for private "ticket" like aldis compared to "real" ones from local authorities. private companies are not permitted to issue penalties - they have to comply with contract law, which includes not being threatening or misleading - hence why the law is on your side if you receive the kind of letter that i expect you are! the previously mentioned forum gives examples of letter chains from these latter-day highwaymen. 99.999% come to nothing, so don't worry about taking a stance against these cowboys! power to the people!

Hi all just to update you : all quiet on the home front regarding parking eye. I think we can safely assume they have given up !!!!
Regards

I think Parking Eye is still very much active, judging by our experience. We parked to shop at Aldi on Sunday Sept 11. I went in, leaving my wife in the car to tend to our seven-week old who needed feeding. I came back out 20 mins later, having spent £10 or so. We then went back in and did a comprehensive shop (£60-plus). We didn't rush, but who does with a baby and a toddler in tow? Once out, our toddler needed something to eat, so we sorted that in the parking space. Total time in car park: 1hr 40mins. Total time permitted: 1hr 30. Result: £70 demand from these opportunist, devious b*****ds. Aldi message: spend £70 with us, get a free £70 fine. Thankfully we have our receipts, but I have NO intention of "appealing" against the letter from Parking Eye, which is incidentally designed to frighten any impressionable recipient, thanks to the subliminal Battenburg police-style border design and the use of the PCN abbreviation. PCN means penalty charge notice in common parlance - which is enforceable in law. Here, it means extortion, a huge blunt instrument to tackle a parking problem that possibly doesn't exist (the car park was nearly empty when we visited). Will we visit Thornbury Aldi again? You know the answer to that...

@Leaperslair any more contact from them?

Needless to say that I have contacted Aldi and told them about all the comments but they have failed to respond to all three contacts.