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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
This happened to me last summer. I was looking for a parking spot around the PNE and someone offered to rent me their street parking for $25. It was marked for residents only. They didn't give me a decal or anything after I paid them, which I should have known would be an issue.
A few hours later when I went to my car, there were 2 really old people standing next to my car yelling at me in a language that I didn't understand with their hand out saying "money" over and over. They were literally trying to prevent me from getting in the car and when I got in, the old man got into the back seat with my kid and the lady was standing in front of my car with her hands on the hood. I was trying to tell them that I already paid someone else for the spot. Anyway, I had to pull the man out and drove away with the old lady jumping out of the way. My poor kid was traumatized for a while after that.
For anyone in Vancouver, do not fall for this scam.
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$25 at least is not that much, and neither is the harm of the use of a spot for the length of a visit to the PNE. Crazy to jump in someone's car like that, but both you and them are victims of some jackass. That old couple is probably dealing with that all the time, which must be upsetting. Or, who knows, maybe they were the fraudsters pretending that they owned the spot haha
In the condo building where one of my friends lives someone had been tracking the empty spaces in the underground parking and selling them for blocks of six months at a time for thousands of dollars, only for some of the people who paid for those spaces to end up with their cars towed when the real owners found out.