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NCP Pre-arranged £5 parking deal cost £3700 after ticket mix-up from previous NCP deal went wrong months earlier. He exceeds his CC limit and causes him grief until it is sorted out.
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Always been a bit wary of those automated things myself if they exhibit anything out of the ordinary in the process.
A recent trip to the hospital carpark went wrong - gave me a ticket on entry, but on exit the barrier went up before I put it in the machine. So I just drove through.
When I got home I looked at the ticket I still had and the reg was on it, but wrong by one character. I rang them and they said it would in fact have been a problem, and did a manual correction, so it was lucky I did go through telephone menu hell for ten minutes. Never heard anything more, although I kept the ticket for a month to be certain. Actually I think it's still in a drawer, just in case...
Otherwise I perhaps might have been in the same boat as the chap in the article next time I use that car park.
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>> When I got home I looked at the ticket I still had and the reg
>> was on it, but wrong by one character. I rang them and they said it
>> would in fact have been a problem,
but not necessarily your problem
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Very true, but I couldn't be certain they didn't have another cctv image showing me leaving/arriving or whatever, so worth the call just to keep it all clean.
Who knows what data they gather, and how.
An ounce of prevention is worth, how does the rest of that go?
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 26 Nov 15 at 08:38
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This is disgusting! Why doesn't his brother pay for his own cake?
Eh?
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Kingston Sainsburys have adopted ANPR on entry and exit .
It does not always read my number plate correctly so a potential problem !
I know this because it flashes up the number on a display at the entrance.
Normally I just drive in and the display has not yet appeared but if i creep in I can see what has registered.
There are no barriers so it is easy to exit without being aware of payment problems.
Sainsburys do offer a bar coded ticket at check out for the machine but to ensure no risk of a fine the database needs searching to identify the mis read.
Half baked implementation !!!
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>> Kingston Sainsburys have adopted ANPR on entry and exit .
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Sainsbury at Cobham has no such problems with parking.
A much better class of punter in there, to boot.
Sniff.
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>> >> Kingston Sainsburys have adopted ANPR on entry and exit .
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>> Sainsbury at Cobham has no such problems with parking.
4 miles to the nearest station, a longish walk into town, its virtually in the middle of knowwhere.
>> A much better class of punter in there, to boot.
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>> Sniff.
Not really, all the rif raf from Esher go there.
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So long as I'm alive I will never be able to remember which one is Cobham and which one is Chobham.
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>> So long as I'm alive I will never be able to remember which one is
>> Cobham and which one is Chobham.
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Chobham with an H is on the heath ?
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>> >> So long as I'm alive I will never be able to remember which one
>> is
>> >> Cobham and which one is Chobham.
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>> Chobham with an H is on the heath ?
The M3 cuts through Chobham, and the A3 cuts through cobham.
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>> The M3 cuts through Chobham, and the A3 cuts through cobham.
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I think I've got it then. The one with an "M" in it is near the M3, the one with an "A" in it is near the A3. Great.
Oh, hang on.........
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>> So long as I'm alive I will never be able to remember which one is
>> Cobham and which one is Chobham.
Cobham is in Surrey and so is Chobham. Except for the Cobham and Chobham in Kent.
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>> Cobham is in Surrey and so is Chobham. Except for the Cobham and Chobham in
>> Kent.
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*slashes wrists*
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>> which one is Cobham and which one is Chobham.
Until you said that I'd never realised they were two different places. I'd always assumed tehre was just some spelling confusion.
Sad, especially as I used to work near there.
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>> >> which one is Cobham and which one is Chobham.
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>> Until you said that I'd never realised they were two different places. I'd always assumed
>> tehre was just some spelling confusion.
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>> Sad, especially as I used to work near there.
That was Windlesham.
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It's like coots and moorhens. However many times I'm told which is which, I will never retain this information.
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The way I remember is that Moorhen has a 'R" in it and they are the ones with the Red beaks, the others are white.
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Coot white beak and top of head. Hence bald as a coot
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>> So long as I'm alive I will never be able to remember which one is
>> Cobham and which one is Chobham.
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As long as you never go there it won't matter.
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I stopped at Cobham services late one night after arriving at Gatport Airwick from somewhereorother. It was absolutely heaving with young people obviously using it as a meeting point. Struck me as an odd place to want to do that but then I'm not quite in that demographic any more.
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>> I stopped at Cobham services late one night after arriving at Gatport Airwick from somewhereorother.
>> It was absolutely heaving with young people obviously using it as a meeting point. Struck
>> me as an odd place to want to do that but then I'm not quite
>> in that demographic any more.
Cobham services have more fuel pump handles than any services in Europe.
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That's QI actually. My abiding memory was being sold a sort of curry there in a cardboard box. Must have been special cardboard because it didn't leak. Curry was fairly indistinguishable from its container sadly.
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>> That's QI actually. My abiding memory was being sold a sort of curry there in
>> a cardboard box. Must have been special cardboard because it didn't leak. Curry was fairly
>> indistinguishable from its container sadly.
Popped in for a wee and a coffee this morning on my travels. I noticed they have a New Salad bar there, called - wait for it - Tossed!
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 2 Dec 15 at 17:06
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>> Popped in for a wee and a coffee this morning on my travels.
'Begob, says I, I hope you doesn't be doing them both in the same cup' (Myles na Gopaleen aka Flann O'Brien, 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - highly recommended if you haven't read it and have a sense of humour).
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>> >> >> Kingston Sainsburys have adopted ANPR on entry and exit .
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>> >> Sainsbury at Cobham has no such problems with parking.
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>> 4 miles to the nearest station, a longish walk into town, its virtually in the middle of knowwhere.
You're going shopping, not catching a train!
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>> >> 4 miles to the nearest station, a longish walk into town, its virtually in
>> the middle of knowwhere.
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>> You're going shopping, not catching a train!
Which is why there is no issues with parking. Its only used by shoppers, not commuters,
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>> Sainsbury at Cobham has no such problems with parking.
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>> A much better class of punter in there, to boot.
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I get two hours free parking ( minus the shopping circuit ) that lets me do some quick shopping in Kingston.
Cobham is a trek both too it and across the carpark.
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NCP's most expensive 6 hour Parking - £3700 - Crankcase
