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chelle7 · 05-03-2010, 15:40

hi

just to let you all know i know how you feel.
I am from blackpool and had my car towed by the two "travellers"!!!

I went to town with my mum to go to a furniture shop. We pulled up and got out of the car and went to walk in the shop to see that it had closed down. We went and looked in the window to read the sign where they had moved to. We decided to nip into granthams while we were there which is next door to the furniture shop. Like most people i didnt think twice about moving my car 10 feet, i just left it there. We were in the shop for 10 minutes at the most and when we came out the car had gone. At first i thought it had been stolen, i went over to a group of lads asking if they had seen anyone steal my car and they said they hadnt seen anything. A guy from a few hotels up came over and said it had been towed away and to ring the number on the sign on the wall.

A few minute later a pick up truck came with two fat greasy gypos in!! We gave them a piece of our mind saying how we had genuinely been going in the furniture shop and decided to pop in granthams next door, their answer to that was we should of moved the car. I said its only 10 foot away, they said it doesnt matter you should of moved it. I said i wasnt any longer than 10 min and commented on how quick they were and they made no comment to that!! They said it would be £275 to get the car back and we said we havent got that kind of cash and they drove off leaving us stranded!!!

I rang the number and they told me that they would have to come and pick us up and take us to a cash point ( as they only take cash!!! ) and take us to where the car was because they would not tell us where the car was!!! There was no way i was getting in a car with strange men!!

While waiting for my dad to come and get us we spoke to a few people who happen to walk past who had had the same thing happen to someone they knew only weeks before!!! We were told the hoteliers get £20 for every car the report to CID security!! That would explain why there were so quick to catch the car being parked there!! They have the CID security signs all over Blackpool so there is no way in 10 mins their one tow truck happens to be in that area!!!

My dad came and we sat in the car waiting for them to come back. My dad got out and paid the men and we then followed them to where the car was! Nothing but a black fenced of corner on rigby road with a few cars in!!

My mum has since rang trading standards who said they cannot operate at a building that is shut!!! They have contacted CID security ( based in blackpool NOT london) and has given them a week to produce documents that will show they have permission to operate there off the owners even though the shop is shut. If they do not produce that we will be getting our money back! something tells me they will spend a few hours over their PC compiling a letter themselves!!!!

Blackpool council shouldnt let a company like CID security operate in Blackpool!!! They show no compassion and are really really dodgy!!! I had my childs seat in the car and how were they to know i didnt have her with me!!! i could of been stuck there with a child and no transport!!!

chelle xx

p.s before anyone says, i know i should of moved the car or read signs etc!! But if you are genuinly going into a shop you dont read signs saying customers only! As far as i was concerned when i pulled up to the furniture shop i was a customer!!

05-03-2010, 15:40	#13
chelle7 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: security firms who take your cars away! hi just to let you all know i know how you feel. I am from blackpool and had my car towed by the two "travellers"!!! I went to town with my mum to go to a furniture shop. We pulled up and got out of the car and went to walk in the shop to see that it had closed down. We went and looked in the window to read the sign where they had moved to. We decided to nip into granthams while we were there which is next door to the furniture shop. Like most people i didnt think twice about moving my car 10 feet, i just left it there. We were in the shop for 10 minutes at the most and when we came out the car had gone. At first i thought it had been stolen, i went over to a group of lads asking if they had seen anyone steal my car and they said they hadnt seen anything. A guy from a few hotels up came over and said it had been towed away and to ring the number on the sign on the wall. A few minute later a pick up truck came with two fat greasy gypos in!! We gave them a piece of our mind saying how we had genuinely been going in the furniture shop and decided to pop in granthams next door, their answer to that was we should of moved the car. I said its only 10 foot away, they said it doesnt matter you should of moved it. I said i wasnt any longer than 10 min and commented on how quick they were and they made no comment to that!! They said it would be £275 to get the car back and we said we havent got that kind of cash and they drove off leaving us stranded!!! I rang the number and they told me that they would have to come and pick us up and take us to a cash point ( as they only take cash!!! ) and take us to where the car was because they would not tell us where the car was!!! There was no way i was getting in a car with strange men!! While waiting for my dad to come and get us we spoke to a few people who happen to walk past who had had the same thing happen to someone they knew only weeks before!!! We were told the hoteliers get £20 for every car the report to CID security!! That would explain why there were so quick to catch the car being parked there!! They have the CID security signs all over Blackpool so there is no way in 10 mins their one tow truck happens to be in that area!!! My dad came and we sat in the car waiting for them to come back. My dad got out and paid the men and we then followed them to where the car was! Nothing but a black fenced of corner on rigby road with a few cars in!! My mum has since rang trading standards who said they cannot operate at a building that is shut!!! They have contacted CID security ( based in blackpool NOT london) and has given them a week to produce documents that will show they have permission to operate there off the owners even though the shop is shut. If they do not produce that we will be getting our money back! something tells me they will spend a few hours over their PC compiling a letter themselves!!!! Blackpool council shouldnt let a company like CID security operate in Blackpool!!! They show no compassion and are really really dodgy!!! I had my childs seat in the car and how were they to know i didnt have her with me!!! i could of been stuck there with a child and no transport!!! chelle xx p.s before anyone says, i know i should of moved the car or read signs etc!! But if you are genuinly going into a shop you dont read signs saying customers only! As far as i was concerned when i pulled up to the furniture shop i was a customer!!