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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
I only read the first page but you will notice the "collection agency" has the exact same address as impark so I wouldnt worry about the letters.
Ive always been curious as to which scenario would be more profitable:
A- no attendant, pay a guy to hand out tickets, X amount of people dont pay their tickets which forces you to go to your "collection" company and go through the motions
B- Hire a guy for min wage to attend the entrance. Pay before you come in. Exceed your time and another guy on min wage boots your car until you come pay the remaining amount. To me this seems much easier and cheaper.
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It's interesting, always wondered the same thing. With A if people pay the fines they could take in a ton more cash than they guy collecting parking fees. It might be that even if a percentage pay the fines (parents of kids who park in inpark without paying (because old people are foolish)) their business model isn't parking, it's fining people.
Between my friends and I we must have had a thousand of these tickets. All piled up from the ages 18-24 in the Inpark lots around Cowboys, Ceili's, the Palace, The Capital etc. Oddly someone usually had a parking pass at UofC so we never got the tickets for Den nights.
The legal discussion is interesting. We didn't pay because we could get away with it. No moral highground, we just knew we could.
That said, and interesting occurrence related to some of the prior posts. I once dropped of a pair of shoes at a shoe repair store at the mall to have the soles replaced and a leather jacket to have the buttons replaced. The guy called, said shoes would be $100 and the jacket would be $50. I said don't do the shoes, just the jacket and I'll pick up next week. So the following week I go in and he's done the shoes. I tell him I'm not paying for the shoes, he can keep them I said to not do them. His reply was "okay, I'm not giving you your jacket back". So I wandered to the cop station across the hallway and told them someone was stealing from me and explained the situation. Cops told me they couldn't do anything. But, if I walked back into his store and stole something they'd arrest me.
So I went back and verbally tricked the guy into giving me everything back and I paid for the jacket and $20 for the shoes, which is an amount I would have agreed with. Idiot.