The meters here print out a ticket that you can put on your dash, inside, so not subject to the wind/rain/theft/etc. Must the ticket be put on the window there?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/4/17, Ralf R Radermacher, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>then stay away from the local ASDA Superstore and its car park, located >>on a hill where it's always rather windy. The parking tickets from the >>vending machine are particularly flimsy and have a 86 percent chance of >>flipping over when you close the car's door. >> >>40 quid!!! >> >>The note you'll find on your windscreen is almost two feet long and the >>endless fine print makes it quite clear that behind all this is a bunch >>of accomplished shysters. The process to enter an objection with photos >>and other suporting evidence is about as simple as applying for UK >>citizenship as a EU foreigner. We've grudgingly paid to avoid the >>increased amount of 70 quid plus additional fees and levies. We had >>always been wondering why they have someone permanently patrolling this >>rather small car park. Now we know the business model behind this. What >>a scam! >> >>The next car park, near our favourite fish and chips place in Tenterden, >>has tickets with a slightly sticky rear side, like post-it notes. But >>why should the folks at Ashford ruin a perfectly working scheme to rip >>off unsuspecting visitors? What a clever and innovative use of wind energy. >> >>The staff at the superstore have of course nothing to do with all this. >>The car park is outsourced to another company. They were really sorry >>and that was it. > > If you had bought a ticket, and you have that ticket to prove it, even > though it was not 'properly displayed', I would still contest it, if it > were me. These parking businesses are outrageous and cannot be allowed > to get away with a license to print money. > > If it had gone to court, I don't see how the parking company could have > won - you had a ticket and as far as you were concerned, an act of God > prevented it from being displayed properly ! > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, > || (O) | Web Video Production > ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
