Clamped by Euro Car Parks,worth appealing to The Independent Parking Appeals Service?

Interesting mixed views there,just enclosing some of the response i got after the letter of appeal with rejected-




"""We have been retained by the hospital to specifically clamp those parkers not displaying a valid pay and display ticket or parking without displaying a valid permit.

Prior to purchasing a parking ticket we allow 30 minutes grace time in order for people to obtain change to feed the meter, which has been agreed with the hospital is sufficient time to obtain change.

In this case, unfortunately by your own admission, you were not displaying a valid Parking Ticket which is an absolute requirement of the Hospital and is highly displayed on the signage in situ.

I am afraid in these circumstances I am unwilling to make a refund in this case as we were carrying out exactly what we had been instructed to do. You should appreciate that there is a cost to us each time we apply a clamp and then return the officer to declamp.

You may refer your appeal to our Independent Appeals Officer who is a third party with no commercial relationship with Euro Car Parks. Details of this service are below : """"





And so thats it really,as you can see we had admitted at the time of event unbeknowingly to us of the changes not paid and displayed but upon realising we had proceeded to do so but were not allowed even though we were within the time allowed as admitted by EuroCarparks before putting a sticker on the window.

For those who are not familiar with the Hospital grounds,the units are way up the back far from the main hospital and resemble an old state nursing home with around 15 spaces for cars to park which on any occassion i have visited were less than 50% full and the staff park there too.

Might i add one of the staff nurses had her clamped the previous week and goes to prove how bad it is,wasn`t she informed,pure badness.

And it`s great the Hospital get the money true,but my grans pension goes to them too.

I can`t fully remember how visible the signs are but there was 3 people in the car and we parked near the end of the row so we had a good few yards to walk and not one of us saw the signs in that time,i do remember them to be higher than i would expect but thats all i can recollect about them.

Keep your thoughts coming i`m still not sure what to do,but the appeal department is lets say looking less appealing.