Clamped by management company!

Maudi · 28-08-2015 10:09am #1

Thanks charlesland wood management company ..i come out early this morning to find my car clamped..thanks a bunch..I HAVE A PERMIT..but i had by mistake put my tax disk over it..has your night time employee no way of checking by using my reg? Before clamping ..would this be to much to ask? Perhaps its too dark at 4am ..anyway theres going to be a serious episode where somebody with and injured child or perhaps having a heart attack or going into labour will make for their car to find it clamped ..thanks charlesland wood management company i would have been a supporter but thats me finished with you lot.

Johnny K · 28-08-2015 10:36am

I think the title of the thread is a little misleading. You were clamped for non display of a parking permit, which as you say was your mistake I can't see how this is corrupt. I understand it is terrible to come out and find your car clamped but it all happened in a system you knew about. BTW I have nothing to do with Charlesland wood.

Maudi · 28-08-2015 12:16pm

Johnny K wrote: »

I think the title of the thread is a little misleading. You were clamped for non display of a parking permit, which as you say was your mistake I can't see how this is corrupt. I understand it is terrible to come out and find your car clamped but it all happened in a system you knew about. BTW I have nothing to do with Charlesland wood.

Sorry jonny maybe you are right..id change it to extortion but dont seem to be able to edit it..maybe a mod could do it..thank for your imp put tho..also should have added the post was for wood residents and mng company

28-08-2015 1:01pm

Title changed.

gaz wac · 28-08-2015 1:07pm

Maudi wrote: »

Thanks charlesland wood management company ..i come out early this morning to find my car clamped..thanks a bunch..I HAVE A PERMIT..but i had by mistake put my tax disk over it..has your night time employee no way of checking by using my reg? Before clamping ..would this be to much to ask? Perhaps its too dark at 4am ..anyway theres going to be a serious episode where somebody with and injured child or perhaps having a heart attack or going into labour will make for their car to find it clamped ..thanks charlesland wood management company i would have been a supporter but thats me finished with you lot.

You should send this in a mail to Charlesland Wood Mang Company...maybe they will answer any questions you may have regarding the clamping?

Charlie-Bravo · 28-08-2015 3:44pm

Did you not pick the lock Maudi. Or use bolt cutters?

Maudi · 28-08-2015 4:17pm

Dont know about pucking it astro..would a big bolt cutters take the chain off?

loyatemu · 28-08-2015 4:59pm

Set the car on fire to destroy the clamp - that'll show 'em...

Maudi · 28-08-2015 5:13pm

Ha thanks loyatemu?

stanley1980 · 28-08-2015 7:49pm

I can understand your frustration and appreciate it was an easy mistake to make but I don't see how you can blame the management company/clampers for doing their job! From the clampers point of view they saw a car with no permit. It'd hardly be practical if they had to also check the reg of each car they came across it to decipher if it's registered or not!....that's what the sticker's for!

That said hopefully you won't be charged as you have a permit.

Maudi · 28-08-2015 8:39pm

Have to disagree..although i have permit and mistakeingly covered it up..a secondary check of simply running my reg through their system would have confirmed i had permit..as stupid as having clamping in a estate is a secondary system isisint asking too much..i would have been a fan of mng company and supported them but not anymore..

stanley1980 · 28-08-2015 8:56pm

Sorry I'm not totally sure I follow your last post. You're saying you now don't support the management company (presumably you did up till yesterday?) because they didn't take enough elaborate and possibly costly measures to anticipate and rectify a mistake you made? Sounds a little churlish to me.

I for one am a big fan of the parking permit scheme. I thought it was pretty clever & effective way of ensuring people pay their fees to make sure the area is kept as well as it is currently. As they said at the time, it was a desperate measure brought in to tackle people who simply wouldn't pay their share.

Maudi · 28-08-2015 9:07pm

You dont need to be sorry..your one the right track..you as a supporter wont ever see my point tho ..how would it be costly to run a reg number through a system just to check a number before you deprive someone of transport to work..deprive me of a days pay etc...1400 units in charles land x avg of 500e a year? Its an extortion x protection racket

stanley1980 · 28-08-2015 9:15pm

protection racket? ahem.... seems we'll just have to agree to disagree. Best of luck.

Maudi · 28-08-2015 9:36pm

Thanks.

Jimjay · 29-08-2015 12:06am

we have to pay for the permit and to register the cars registration number on the system why do they bother registering the number plate if they don't bother checking? i would imagine it would be very quick and easy to check the number plate.

If that was me i would have cut it off. why should you pay to have the clamp removed after proving you had a right to park there. there should be some flexibility, it would be simple to say oh yes you made a mistake there make sure you don't do it again, but i imagine the management company have no say over the clamping company they have employed. the reason clamping is in place to make sure owners pay their management fees - not to make money and penalise home owners for small mistakes.

for those of you who posted that the car should have been clamped - this is a private estate - the clampers are hired "by the residents" to make sure management fees are paid. if a resident who apparently employs the clampers in the first place makes a little mistake and then proves they have the right to park the the clamp should be removed with no fee. how can you disagree with this?

Maudi · 29-08-2015 12:54am

At last..a human being answer and not a reply like previous spa.mbots..

endacl · 29-08-2015 1:04am

I think you should cut the bastard off. Simply because it was put on by a private clamping company.

But hey. That's just my 2c. Take it or leave it!

HappyDaze007 · 29-08-2015 1:55am

Think they take photos of the clamp on your car so as if/when people remove them they can be charged damage for the clamp..
A cordless angle grinder are great for s job like this...

Cold War Kid · 29-08-2015 2:17am

That happened to me before - in a place I worked in: my permit was hidden by a parking disc I'd forgotten to remove. They had no way of seeing I had a permit. Appeal it by providing the information that you have a permit. That might be enough. If it was a requirement that you had to have the permit on display, it could be another story though. Fingers crossed for you. Hope they'll understand it was just a mistake.

stanley1980 · 29-08-2015 9:41am

@Maudi. did you have to pay to have for the clamp to be removed?

P.S. I'm a human being- not a 'spam-bot'. I take it anyone else who doesn't agree with you is also sub-human?

bido · 29-08-2015 12:11pm

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Don't Chute! · 31-08-2015 2:19pm

Maudi wrote: »

At last..a human being answer and not a reply like previous spa.mbots..

So all you were looking for was someone who just agrees with you?

Maudi · 31-08-2015 4:33pm

Dont be so bloody pedantic..im looking for some one to say yes it is a bit rich to clamp a car that is registered and can be confirmed to be registered with a quick check..the permit can be seen even though the tax cert is over it...cant see your reply bido maybe you could pm me..

LEIN · 31-08-2015 7:46pm

Jimjay wrote: »

we have to pay for the permit and to register the cars registration number on the system why do they bother registering the number plate if they don't bother checking? i would imagine it would be very quick and easy to check the number plate.

If that was me i would have cut it off. why should you pay to have the clamp removed after proving you had a right to park there. there should be some flexibility, it would be simple to say oh yes you made a mistake there make sure you don't do it again, but i imagine the management company have no say over the clamping company they have employed. the reason clamping is in place to make sure owners pay their management fees - not to make money and penalise home owners for small mistakes.

for those of you who posted that the car should have been clamped - this is a private estate - the clampers are hired "by the residents" to make sure management fees are paid. if a resident who apparently employs the clampers in the first place makes a little mistake and then proves they have the right to park the the clamp should be removed with no fee. how can you disagree with this?

Couldn't agree more.

No real need for the disks, just another money spinner and a way to catch people out like maudi.

Clamping in general is a complete scam.

stanley1980 · 31-08-2015 7:56pm

LEIN wrote: »

Couldn't agree more.

No real need for the disks, just another money spinner and a way to catch people out like maudi.

Clamping in general is a complete scam.

So what alternative suggestions do you have to ensure people pay their management fees?

LEIN · 31-08-2015 8:15pm

stanley1980 wrote: »

So what alternative suggestions do you have to ensure people pay their management fees?

Education in what it means not to pay fees would be a great start?

stanley1980 · 31-08-2015 8:18pm

LEIN wrote: »

Education in what it means not to pay fees would be a great start?

I don't follow you?

Cerco · 01-09-2015 6:28am

stanley1980 wrote: »

So what alternative suggestions do you have to ensure people pay their management fees?

How are they enforced for those who do not own cars?
Clamping is a draconian method of forcing compliance.

LEIN · 01-09-2015 7:04am

stanley1980 wrote: »

I don't follow you?

Education is very straightforward? What are you not following?
People believe if they ignore it, it will go away. A simple information leaflet to all owners explaining that the debt never goes away.
Maybe a breakdown of what the money is used for?
Very simple stuff that was probably not even thought of before pissing off the people who do pay.

cocker5 · 01-09-2015 8:45am

LEIN wrote: »

Education is very straightforward? What are you not following?
People believe if they ignore it, it will go away. A simple information leaflet to all owners explaining that the debt never goes away.
Maybe a breakdown of what the money is used for?
Very simple stuff that was probably not even thought of before pissing off the people who do pay.

In my experience people don't care about leaflets, they go in the bin.

For the best part you will only ever get people to react when they are hit in the wallet.

Also I would like to point out based on a location of Charelsland I would say 98% / 99% people own cars, so therefore clamping hits home with nearly all residents.

Clamped by management company!

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