to think I have the right to give my pay & display ticket to someone elce if I wish.

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Many local pay & display car parks are now installing machines that force you to add your registration number to the ticket so that you cannot pass any unused time on to another parker. I think this is a bloody liberty! If I have paid for 2 hours parking and unexpectedly get back after only an hour, I should get a refund if I'm not permitted to pass on the ticket. Apart from boycotting these places, I'd love to know if there's another way to get my own back.

YANBU. This really, really riles me. I have to pay for a minimum of one hour in our Tesco's car park. Even if I'm only going in for ten minutes to buy a pint of milk. Fuck 'councils balancing their budgets' - they won't give change or refunds, they are demanding more than I would be spending - why shouldn't I give that parking time, that has been extorted paid for, to someone else, who might also only need ten minutes?

(Didn't realise quite how this makes me until I saw this thread )

Tesco charge for parking? are you sure it is their car park or is there just a Tesco store next to a council car park?

Our local authority has entirely free car parks. This is nice but it is offset by the fact we have one of the highest council tax charges in the country. I'd rather pay for parking tbh.

No, you're right georgimama - it's a council car park, situated bang next to Tesco so is universally referred to as 'Tesco's car park' .

They're still thieving bastards though, rant rant

The only supermarkets i've seen that charge for parking usually have refund vouchers on for if you shop in store.

I read about a proposed scheme in my town (where parking generally is a nightmare anyway) suggesting that people could get 10 minutes for free before charges started to kick in.

My exH refuses to pay for parking. He gets about two tickets a year, and reckons he saves money that way .

yanbu

We had them installed about 3 years back but there was so much disruption and moaning because the queues were so long that that stopped you havin to put you car reg in.

ScreamingHeebieCJs In a town close to where I grew up there is a scheme like that first hour is free after that you buy a ticket.

It annoys me when machines don't give change. It annoys me even more when they don't give change and don't charge nice round amounts. erm yeh, of course I have exactly £1.65 in my purse....not.

The worst I've seen is in Torbay where they charge for odd amounts of time like 75 minutes and the ticket doesn't tell you what time it expires. I bet lots of people there get tickets because they've incorrectly worked out what time they have to return to the car.

Oh, and now they won't take 5ps either. So I can't even get my petty revenge and offload all my stupid loose change on them.

Even more

I always pass my ticket on. And I love it if someone does the same for me. I just picked my mum up from hospital, and it cost me £1.70 for the 10 minutes it took to go in and collect her and all her bits.

That's ridiculous.

I always get caught out when I come to the uk. Where I am (the arse end of nowhere in Brittany) carparks have just gone up to 2.20? per 24 hours . It caused outrage

Or they have bizarre systems where you pay 10c for 9 mins, 20c for 18 mins, 50 c for 37 mins, etc. It takes me longer than I need to be parked for to work out how much I need to put in.

When I'm in the uk I always give my ticket to someone. I paid for it, I should be able to choose who uses it.

I pass my bus tickets on too if I get a chance as round here a return ticket can be used for the whole day. Don't suppose the bus company would be too pleased but they get enough days out of me where I've only been on a short journey and been forced to pay the same set price as someone who is travelling around all day so it evens out IMO.

We all know its breach of contract really, I love the idea that you've paid for it so its 'your' space for that time & therefore up to you who uses it! I give my tickets away too, but I'm not crazy enough to imagine I've 'rented' an individual space and therefore its mine to do as I wish with rather than paying a contribution towards the convenience of having the whole car park provided, staffed, maintained etc in that location.

i think you are ANBU. It is lovely when someone passes on the ticket to you.

yabu. it's the terms of the contractIf you don't like it don't enter the contract

I always pass on tickets - didn't know you weren't allowed

I guess though that's the not tranferrable bit?

OP YANBU, but I guess in this climate they have to try and make money from somewhere?

'Don't enter the contract' - it's not as if you have a choice. And they are taking advantage of that fact.

YABU, you've never had that right, it's just that they now have the technology to stop you.

This annoys me too. Before we had the registration meters around here, a ticket warden saw me handing my ticket to someone else and got furious until we pointed out there was actually nothing to say they were non-transferable! He insisted that 'everyone knows they are not' but IMO if it doesn't say it they can fuck right off.

It's a really nasty moneygrabbing thing - I always liked how the old system led to a little bit of courtesy among strangers when someone offered you half an hour off their ticket or you did for them.

What mayor quimby said. If you don't like the contract, don't enter into it. i.e. go park somewhere else.

That said, I pass on and accept passed on tickets if there isn't a reg on them.

Now what Really gets my goat (yes you helmsley) is having to display a ticket on a motorcycle, where it can be stolen or blown away, but they still do you for not displaying a ticket even if you can prove you bought one and displayed it on good faith.

The scary thing is that sometimes council parking is often more expensive than the privately owned stuff..

Is it true that the parking fines are not enforceable if the carpark is privately owned??

I think that parking charges are ridiculous and if they insist on 'funny' amounts (like 1.80/1 hr) the machines should give change!!

So, in short, YANBU

A local car park just started doing this, and I miss the little bit of joy you get when you pass a random person a whole free hour, but the price of the parking has gone down considerably... so I don't mind.

What are you actually buying when you buy a parking ticket though? Surely it's the rent of the space. None of this "it's the terms of the contract" wank, I want a lawyer to tell me. I love these civil disobedience suggestions here., must remember to overload machines with small change. I always pass on tickets. And everyone I know who has ever challenged a parking fine has had it reduced/cancelled.

I found out last year in my local NCP car park that if you leave within 15 minutes of taking the ticket the pay machine asks for no money. I was totally crapping myself as I put the ticket in the exit machine but the barrier came up straight away and I now feel very smug.