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I am sure it is one of the dirty little secrets of the parking payment machines that a huge amount of profit is made from the change that they don’t give you. A computerised device like this must surely be able to be programmed quite easily to warn the owner, or the centre operator, that for example they are down to their last twenty R2,00 coins, but invariably you will put R10,00 in, and instead of getting R3,00 change, a receipt will be printed for you and another sign, somewhere else on the machine will indicate that you must then go to the central management, which is probably a kilometre from where you parked, and they will then refund you your R3,00!
As a point in principle, one should go more often to go and collect one’s change, but no doubt this works on the basis that the vast majority of people are either surrounded by crying children, or have other meetings or commitments or perhaps they are just too lazy, but one way or another, your 45 minutes parking ends up costing R10,00!
Posted by Michael de Broglio on Monday 13-Jun-11
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Lucretia said:
on Tuesday 14-Jun-11 01:24 PM
I feel sorry for the umpteen car guards who have now lost out on their security payments. I for one, will not pay the centre and then a car guard as well. Centres need to know they are killing employment.
Genevieve said:
on Monday 13-Jun-11 04:00 PM
The parking lot payments are ridiculous. Sometimes you run in for 5 min and have to pay R6 because you were there for 0-1 hour. It is a complete waste of money, but they know that consumers and customers will pay only because we really do not have a choice. There are almost no places left with a NO FEE parking lot area. And who is going to fight this?
David said:
on Monday 13-Jun-11 03:58 PM
paying for parking is one of the biggest scams around. my opinion is: if you want me to come to your shop and spend my money, then you need to provide me with somewhere to park. unfortunately no shops are interested in my opinion, and few are going to stop shopping at centres where you have to pay for parking... Luckily I travel by motorcycle, and there's always enough space for me to squeeze out wihtout paying at the boom.
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