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

81 replies

apprenticemum · 17/10/2011 13:46

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.

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BlingLoving · 17/10/2011 21:33

This really winds me up. Particularly in my local car park where the minimum time you can buy is 2 hours. I park there if I go to the doctor which normally takes about 20 minutes and I've paid for 2 hours so I don't understand why I can't give the rest of my time to someone else.

Trills · 17/10/2011 21:36

YABU

You don't have the right to give your ticket to someone else.

They let you park on their land for a certain amount of money with certain conditions. One of those conditions is that the ticket is non transferable.

So YABU to think you have "the right" to give your ticket to anyone.

sunshineandbooks · 17/10/2011 21:45

I hate pay and display. I rarely carry cash and quite often have put off a trip into town because I don't have any cash to pay for pay and display because I need to get to an ATM first - which is town...

As a result, I buy most things online. I think there must be many people like me. If you want to encourage people to shop in town centres, ban pay and display and use the type where you take a ticket as you go in and pay at a pay station on your way out.

SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 17/10/2011 21:55

Pascha, but diesn't that mean you can only park for 15 minutes? Confused

My worst parking experience was at the zoo. Despite teh fact that most people will want to park for the whole day, the machine did not take notes. Other option was to call the number and pay over the phone. 20 minutes later an automated voice asked for my reg no

NQ32 7AR

We've got "MQ32 7AR". Now, how would you like to pay?

AARRRRRRGH all that time and effort and no way of telling the sodding thing it has my reg no wrong!

ZombiouslyGhoulblivious · 17/10/2011 22:03

You should try living here - you'll be lucky to find a working pay and display machine. The council are passively-aggressively 'encouraging' people to use their pay by phone parking system by not repairing machines as they break (which is often) and disabling others. There is uproar.
The council have commented that they can't believe anyone wouldn't have a mobile phone and a credit card in this day and age. They're wrong!

Oblomov · 17/10/2011 22:07

I love giving my ticket to someone else. Makes me feel all 'happy'.
Am shocked that you all don't have change for the car parking machines. I keep a car parking fund, in my ashtray. Always have done. Inside is about £8 or £9 in all sorts of coins £1, 50p,20p,10p's. Means I always have carparking money and always money to hand if I need a pint of milk or a newspaer or whatever.
Don't you all do this then ? [hhmm]

exoticfruits · 17/10/2011 22:11

I always give my ticket to someone else. It may well say 'not transferable' but as far as I am concerned I have paid for a space for 2 hours. I love it when someone passes one to me. If there is no one around I put it on the machine for the next person.

PattySimcox · 17/10/2011 22:14

Oblomov in an ideal world yes but then the kids find it and raid it for sweets etc

lovecat · 17/10/2011 22:16

Oh Stealth, I can go one better than that...

Car park at Watergate Bay this summer. Parking costs £6, will only take £1 coins, nothing more, nothing less. We have notes, £5 in £1 coins, several £2 coins and a load of other change, but everyone else in the queue for the machine is in the same predicament and not prepared to part with their precious £1 coins.

So I ring the number to pay by card.... half an hour, several misheard registration numbers and a nervous breakdown later, I finally get the damn robot on the phone to get my reg. right. "please confirm you want to pay for reg. XXXXXX, a grey Fiat Panda" - we have a dark blue estate car...

Start the process over, they get the registration right again, but insist that it belongs to a grey Fiat Panda and I can't talk to a human to correct them...

I hate parking machines...

Strawbezza · 17/10/2011 22:17

I give my ticket to someone else. If there's nobody else there I'll stick it on the machine, so the next person coming to pay can take it.

CristinaaarghdellAaarghPizza · 17/10/2011 22:18

You really want a grey Fiat Panda don't you lovecat? The machines knows

Tortington · 17/10/2011 22:22

if you didn;t enter into a contract with nc fucking p in this town - you wouldn't go to town to shop

.....oh wait many dont anymore which is probably why there are lots of charity shops popping up

yes all off to chichester where the parking is half the price

money grabbing ncp and council cunts

Blondeshavemorefun · 17/10/2011 22:51

i love giving my ticket away - gives me a warm fuzzy feeling and perople always smile and say thanks

hospitals are the worst for parking - have no probs paying, but needs to be when you leave - if there for an appointment, you put in 2hrs worth - just incase and out in 20mins as actually running on time [hangry]

if you put an hour in, then course they will be running late, you rush back out to put an extra hour in, telling receptionist what you are doing,only to find in the 2 mins you are absent that you have been called and missed your appointment - like what happened to dh - he was pissed off!!!

fortyplus · 17/10/2011 22:59

What's happening when you overpay for the time in a council car park is that you're subsidising
meals on wheels
the arts
play schemes
children's events
etc etc

Does this really make you so unhappy? Give your ticket to someone else so they don't have to pay and it's anothe £ or two that has to come from somewhere else.

Serenitysutton · 17/10/2011 23:05

I do it-I'll do so as long as I can! It's funny, but councils don't take people to court for this. You know that you can put anything in t&cs, it doesn't make it legally enforceable?

notlettingthefearshow · 17/10/2011 23:06

No, you don't have the right, but it's very annoying! If you pay for 2 hours, it's your choice to leave earlier if you wish.

Serenitysutton · 17/10/2011 23:13

I like to do this and will do so as long as I can. It's funny that councils don't take people to court for this- it's worth remebering that you can put anything in t&cs - it doesn't make it legally enforceable

Serenitysutton · 17/10/2011 23:13

How odd posted twice!

Serenitysutton · 17/10/2011 23:17

Forty plus- that's not true. Parking revenue is ring fenced for transport only.

picnicbasketcase · 17/10/2011 23:20

Parked in one the other day. Reasonable cost for up to 1 hour, and up to 2 hours. Unfortunately, we were there for just over two hours and it went up to £7.

I think the registration number meters are particularly unfair at hospitals. £3 for all day, but visiting is only a two hour period. And you obviously can't then give it to someone else who's just arriving for an appointment or whatever, so that's £3 from every single car, even if someone's only there for ten minutes. Angry

CotherMuckingFuntingZombie · 18/10/2011 07:07

£3 for all day at a hospital?? I went in for a scan when I was 21wks pg. I mentioned that I had been bleeding the day before and they sent me up to the ward. I was waiting to be seen for 4 hours, then kept in for another 4 hours. When I left I went to the ticket machine and it was something around £20. I didn't have that much as I'd only been expecting to be there for an hour or so. I went to the ticket office and explained. They said it was tough and made me phone my dad for him to pay over the phone Shock Angry

picnicbasketcase · 18/10/2011 07:32

That's dreadful Angry £3 for all day is perfectly reasonable, I know, but it's more the fact that most people aren't there very long and you can't give your ticket away to someone who might actually use the whole allowed time. At least it's not like one I went into that charged 70p for every ten minutes you were there.

borderslass · 18/10/2011 07:37

£3 for all day is good I had to take DD2 to A&E a couple of years ago at night after a severe allergic reaction was there for 2 hours cost me £4 was barrier car park as well only just managed to scrape it together

hauntedstateofmind · 18/10/2011 08:38

All cars here come with an in-car-unit that you insert a card in, the card can be loaded with money at supermarkets, banks, machines. The card has money deducted when you go out of carparks or go through road-pricing gantries in the city centre.

You don't have to find cash and you only pay as you leave carparks for the time you've used.

It is a great system and everytime I visit the UK and have to faff around finding cash (and guessing how long I'll need) I think they ought to do something similar.

Whatmeworry · 18/10/2011 08:42

I am not sure they can enforce their order in court, as you have bought the time. They are profiteering, and it may be illegal, may be worth a test case even.

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