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Even worse, my Dad met us for brunch and overstayed his allotted time in one of these systems by 8 minutes. Would be ok if they billed him the same rate perhaps
by toddmorey 3y ago
Even worse, my Dad met us for brunch and overstayed his allotted time in one of these systems by 8 minutes. Would be ok if they billed him the same rate perhaps, but they "fined" him $80 for the "violation". All the while trying to look like the local police as much as possible. All these companies are scam artists.
- winrid 3y agoChargeback!
- t0mas88 3y agoMost of these shitty apps pay over 10 dollars to the payment companies to process a chargeback. And if they get too many their rates increase or they get kicked out. So chargebacks for bullshit "fines" is a great solution to teach them not to charge those.
- notatoad 3y agochargebacks have consequences. they could easily ban you nationwide, at all the parking facilities that payment processor serves. or if their ToS doesn't allow banning, your payments will just start failing their fraud checks, and you'll be effectively banned. if that's an acceptable consequence then go ahead and do a chargeback, but don't recommend it to others who don't know the consequences.
- winrid 3y agoThat's fine. I don't do business with crooks.
- crote 3y agoThe whole concept of "allotted time" is a scam anyways. Sure, it made sense with analog pre-paid parking meters, but it's complete nonsense when you are modernizing it like this. Billing the actual parking time down to the minute is pretty trivial, so having to reserve a specific time means they are intentionally trying to defraud you by either a) making you pay for time you won't use, or b) fining you for not reserving enough time.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoLove how when someone overpaid in coins the next one parking there could take advantage of it while now the payment is instead tied to your license plate. Actually, I don't love it at all.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoRemember the altruistic folks who would feed expired meters and such? Good times.
- mikeryan 3y agoIn downtown Santa Cruz the only way you can pay is by the minute via ParkMobile I believe. I always forget to stop the timer when I get back to the car and pay the Max so I hate it. YMMV Maybe it’s me but I prefer the allotted time. I only regret that when paying at a meter at least if I have excess someone else can use it.
- justjustin 3y ago[dead]