Will The Parking Firm Take This To Court?

[bad company]

I have to say that I sympathise with this lady. She didn’t want to download another app.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/retired-nurs...

[The Selfish Gene]

what if a person doesn't have a phone?

I hope she wins. Parking companies are s to the last man

[bad company]

The Selfish Gene said:

what if a person doesn't have a phone?

I hope she wins. Parking companies are s to the last man

My mum had a phone but wouldn’t know how to download an app.

[blueg33]

There is one car park I use frequently. The only way to pay is via app, except that no networks have coverage at the car park. Its a least a 15 min walk to a beach to get coverage.

I cant help but think that the company in question didn't think the strategy through!

[The Selfish Gene]

i have a degree in Computer Science - and I'm 48, and have a phone. I'm parking in London and losing my st about downloading a bloody app.

So I have every sympathy. The reason they want you to have an app is that they're taking the absolute piss on the charges, and thus they need direct card payment so you don't have to go to a bank for gold coins.

bunch of s seriously

[Retroman]

This is part of the problem with how companies are evolving.

They are assuming everyone has a smart phone, an internet connection and is able to use both and all the other options / alternatives for people without internet or a smart phone are slowly vanishing.

I would have responded in an appeal with "i don't own a smart phone, but i was able and willing to pay at the machine with cash / card. If you send me an invoice for the original fee i will be happy to pay it"

[Getragdogleg]

fk em !

I don't want another app on my phone trawling through data and peeping at all sort of stuff so the car parking co can then sell it off.

That's what this app st is about, its another revenue stream for them.

Good for her.

[blueg33]

The Selfish Gene said:

i have a degree in Computer Science - and I'm 48, and have a phone. I'm parking in London and losing my st about downloading a bloody app.

So I have every sympathy. The reason they want you to have an app is that they're taking the absolute piss on the charges, and thus they need direct card payment so you don't have to go to a bank for gold coins.

bunch of s seriously

Indeed. I currently have 9 parking apps on my phone and still seem to need a new ones when I go to a different city ( I tend to delete them if i don't expect to go there again) Many of the apps are infuriating to use and slow to download and populate.

[The Selfish Gene]

blueg33 said:

Indeed. I currently have 9 parking apps on my phone and still seem to need a new ones when I go to a different city ( I tend to delete them if i don't expect to go there again) Many of the apps are infuriating to use and slow to download and populate.

quite right. Also, I've had, 'you are trying to do a new registration, but you've reached your maximum without having a business account'

that's my favourite for smashing my face off a wall

[Cold]

In my local area there is one app that appears to have a monopoly on the council run parking spots. It's efficient and easy to use.

However, it's more expensive than feeding the ticket machine with real coins or even using a card at the machine and I can't really understand why except to conclude it's just simple profiteering.

[Saleen836]

A car park where I live has machines to pay with cash but the machine doesn't issue tickets, you enter your reg number and pay or download the parking app where you have to pay an additional 20p for the privilege
Local spotted page on FB has numerous posts from people saying they have been sent a parking charge for not paying for parking but with no ticket they can't prove it

[Zetec-S]

blueg33 said:

There is one car park I use frequently. The only way to pay is via app, except that no networks have coverage at the car park. Its a least a 15 min walk to a beach to get coverage.

I cant help but think that the company in question didn't think the strategy through!

Oh I'm sure they thought it through...

[motco]

I was taking someone to hospital this morning and the car parks on site were full - as it happens due to a technical breakdown of many weeks standing which allows non-visitors to park free of charge. I was obliged to park in the street in a council run parking bay. Either side of the road had its own pay station but both were out of order in that cash payments were not possible. I do have a Ringo app on my 'phone so I was able to pay (payments were still in force), but many other frustrated hospital visitors occasioned by the hospital car park saturation may not have access to non-cash payment means. I admit to paying for most things by non-cash methods, but I strongly object to being compelled to do so.

A recently sold an old car for cash privately and was therefore flush with sheaves of notes. Local banks have all closed their High Street branches so I am unable to pay this cash in without travelling to the local town - the same damned town where the ticket machines won't accept cash! I sometimes feel as if I live in the Harry Belafonte version of 'There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza!" in some Diabolical nightmare!

[NFT]

Zetec-S said:

blueg33 said:

There is one car park I use frequently. The only way to pay is via app, except that no networks have coverage at the car park. Its a least a 15 min walk to a beach to get coverage.

I cant help but think that the company in question didn't think the strategy through!

Oh I'm sure they thought it through...

Indeed, good portion will fail to pay, then ignore the first letter, and crumble under threat of court when the few hours stay is now costing over 100 notes. Good way to Increase earnings.

[Vanity Projects]

It’s the 2g/3g switch off…most old machines have a 3g sim to process the payment and as the networks are killing off the signal, the parking machines conk out too.

Hence the apps, instead of upgrading the machines.

A little standardisation or consolidation in the market wouldn’t go amiss.

[bmwmike]

blueg33 said:

Indeed. I currently have 9 parking apps on my phone and still seem to need a new ones when I go to a different city ( I tend to delete them if i don't expect to go there again) Many of the apps are infuriating to use and slow to download and populate.

Deleting em is not enough though as they already have your data at that stage.

I despise anyone requiring me to install an app.

Isn't there a discrimination angle here? No choice to park there, no reasonable way to pay if not technically savvy

[blueg33]

bmwmike said:

Deleting em is not enough though as they already have your data at that stage.

I despise anyone requiring me to install an app.

Isn't there a discrimination angle here? No choice to park there, no reasonable way to pay if not technically savvy

Certainly discriminated against some neuro diverse people.

[ChocolateFrog]

Hope she wins, I can't imagine the kind of person that would rule against her.

Well I can and they probably volunteer as a magistrate.

[SmoothCriminal]

If you don't want to accept their terms and conditions then park somewhere else.

No one is forcing you to use their carpark or download any app.

[Pit Pony]

SmoothCriminal said:

If you don't want to accept their terms and conditions then park somewhere else.

No one is forcing you to use their carpark or download any app.

I wonder if there are any planning restrictions, in the creation of the car park. That stipulate its a pay (with real coins) and display.

Our local waitrose was built 25 years ago on the site of a free carpark, and the planning (for a morrisons which became a safe way and then a waitrose) included the requirement that the parking was free for all people including none customers. I'm sure that this fact has been lost in the mists of time.