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Have you heard the story of the scorned wife who took her cheating husband’s brand new BMW to Heathrow airport’s short term car park and posted him the keys with a note saying ‘find it’? It’s enough to stop you ever looking at another woman again.

Customers of Pink Meet and Greet (not to be mixed up with companies which have similar sounding names) may not have cheated, but they had a similar experience.

Pink Meet and Greet was exposed by BBC Watchdog as a rogue company that told customers their cars would be kept in a secure compound near the airport, when in fact their vehicles were parked on industrial estates, on the side of busy roads, at supermarkets and even in fields.

Many cars were used, and driven at high speed, by the company’s employees while their owners were abroad.

Following the scandal, Pink Meet and Greet went bust, which may have saved several other motorists from having their cars abused, but made for an even bigger problem for those people who had used the company and were away at the time.

After the firm failed, hundreds of keys, belonging to holidaymakers who had flown from Gatwick, were mixed together and dumped in a box by Pink Meet and Greet parking operators.

The airport authorities worked overtime to try to reunite people with their cars but inevitably some could not be located, or had been stolen after being parked in an unsecured area.

I’ve used many meet and greet services and, thankfully, I can assure you that Pink’s policy was not typical.

Guest Article by Jeremy Skidmore
 

Friday, March 30th, 2007