[Steve. Taylor]

Got clamped today cleaning in a private flat on private ground for not displaying a permit
customer told me to park in her place

£150 + vat + 5% credit debit charge was told if i didnt pay within 24 hours vehicle would be towed £250 + vat plus clamp release fee + £30 a day storage told them i would not pay and lost the plot

They drove off and came back and told me £100 cash and they would take it off i hit the roof and lost the plot.

My question is this what would you have done 

[Simon@arenaclean]

I had this a few years ago and did just what you did, it didn't help! If there are signs clearly stating you will be clamped and there is a release fee, and you were not displaying a permit you're stuffed. Negotiate the best deal you can, then brood on it for a week like I did

[The Great One]

Hi

Cut it off with a cutter (hire shop) and then take it down to the police station and say you found it.

Martin

[colin thomas]

i have a block of apartments near me and each apartment has it's own parking bay for the vehicle registered at the address, even if your in the correct bay at the owners consent you get booked!! stupid or what. i wont work there unless the customer stands guard by my van to warn me of clampers on the horizon!

colin

[John Kelly]

I just wouldn't work there full stop. Once turned up to similar place and Mr residents commitee man came out and said no commercial vehicles were allowed in the car park. I asked him where he expected me to park and he said outside the gates. All double yellow lines and too far for hoses anyway. Rang customer and told her I wasn't doing the job and she hit the roof, I said tuff and drove off giving Mr residents the churchill salute. Took great pleasure in telling future enquirees from that place why I couldn't come.

Funnily I went back a couple of years later to do a flood job and again a nosey neighbour came out and tried to tell me the same thing, I just ingnored her.

[jasonl]

Should have caled me steve , I have got a stihl saw for that purpose , I have used it 3 times , never had any come back.

[Hilton]

My brother in law came back to his van to find all the usual on his windscreen, he rang the mobile number and told them he was cutting off,they said that it was a £125.00 release fee, he said it would cost him nothing 

They turned up all shaven headed and black jacketed to find the in-law just finishing and the clamp thrown across the car park. They took one look at him  collected the clamp, got in their 4 wheel drive and drove away. :

Suffice to say nothing came of it, there is other little old ladies they can bully on another day.

[jasonl]

My brother in law came back to his van to find all the usual on his windscreen, he rang the mobile number and told them he was cutting off,they said that it was a £125.00 release fee, he said it would cost him nothing 

They turned up all shaven headed and black jacketed to find the in-law just finishing and the clamp thrown across the car park. They took one look at him  collected the clamp, got in their 4 wheel drive and drove away. :

Suffice to say nothing came of it, there is other little old ladies they can bully on another day.

BULLIES  ,,, exactly  they will never do anything if you take direct action and stand up to them.

[paul wallace]

It happened to me serveral years and I payed after I'd calmed down and called the police to see if it was legal (wasn't gone five minutes) but I still remember the companies name and every dog has his day; so thanks for the reminder.  They owe me £75 with interest 

[Colin Day]

If anything makes my blood boil, it's any type of traffic enforcement. I've always felt the urge to go around cutting wheel clamps off people cars and weighing them in at the scrap yard

[derek west]

i hate clampers just as much as i hate people that park in front of my drive, them f&%kers should be clamped.

work that one out

[david_claxton]

This always works for me.

Phone the number on the sign about the enforcement. Explain what you are doing and why you need to park where you are. They will either say it's not a problem as they're not scheduled to patrol that area for the next few hours/days or they'll say put a note in the van window with your mobile number on saying they have given permission and if someone wants you to move they can call the mobile. Works everytime, though I suspect it's pretty bleedin obvious whats going on as we have a truckmount.

[Neil Williams]

Took great pleasure in telling future enquirees from that place why I couldn't come.

Exactly the same situation around here with blocks of flats near the railway station, I just won't do them.
This might be worth a try too. Once clamped arm yourself with enough food and drink to see the situation out. Sit in your van and lock your doors. They wouldn't dare try lifting or towing a vehicle with someone sat in it. Call the police and the local press and say you're being held hostage. Sit there and wait for them to unlock the thing, which with all and sundry present they will.

[Carpet Dawg]

Would be easier to go and hire a cutter, cut it off and then phone them up and to say you want released. A nice wasted journey for them 

Luckly the practise of clamoing is now banned here in Scotland. Only the DVLA can clamp you if you dont have a valid tax disc.

Tony

[Colin Day]

Would be easier to go and hire a cutter, cut it off and then phone them up and to say you want released. A nice wasted journey for them 

Luckly the practise of clamoing is now banned here in Scotland. Only the DVLA can clamp you if you dont have a valid tax disc.

Tony

I wish our country shared the Scots logical way of thinking.... No such luck