Am i in the wrong or the right?

Deep

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Outside my university you have to pay for parking, it costs 40p an hour and a max stay of 4 hours.

Yesterday i parked my car at 9.20 and put 90p into the machine, this covered me till 11.35. I had an exam at 12.30 so i needed to stay at most till 12.05.

At 10.41 i put some more money into the machine, this time i put £1.20, this covered me till 13.41, which was more than the 4 hours but i was not going to be staying that long.

I went to my car at 12pm and then saw i had a parking ticket there!

The attendent saw my car at 9.55 and 11.37 (according to the parking ticket), and the penalty he charged me with was Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond the initial time.

Now on the signage around the parking areas it doesnt say that you can only pay once it just says that you are not allowed to stay more than 4 hours.

I am contesting this ticket as i didnt stay longer than 4 hours!

Would you contest this or would you just let it slide?

Deep
 
I'd say contest it. Most parking rules are just plain petty. You paind in full to park your car for an allocated time; why should you be reprimanded?

Edit: I just read the max stay of 4 hours part. I suppose technically they are well within their rights to issue a ticket. But if you bought a second ticket to rpelace the first, how will they know you've been there longer?
 
I can't see how you could pay exactly to take you up to the 4 hour total, so you simply overpaid. Should have paid for 4 hours to start with. Seems like a silly charge, but you are guilty of it. It's like you've been done with intent, which is ridiculous.

I'd contest it too
 
It is actually against the rules to 'feed the meter' and add more payment to extend the stay beyond your initially paid for stay.

This is the most retarded rule ever, and is utterly pathetic.
 
Conscript said:
I'd say contest it. Most parking rules are just plain petty. You paind in full to park your car for an allocated time; why should you be reprimanded?

Edit: I just read the max stay of 4 hours part. I suppose technically they are well within their rights to issue a ticket. But if you bought a second ticket to rpelace the first, how will they know you've been there longer?
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He was only there about 3 hours so he was under the limit regardless
 
it's only a uni car park, just rip the ticket up. Me and my mates used to get them all the time and none of us ever paid them, although I have heard of some uni's refusing to let you graduate if you owe them any money...but with our uni it was an independent company that monitored the car parks, so the uni never saw it as owing them money
 
[TW]Fox;11779529 said:
It is actually against the rules to 'feed the meter' and add more payment to extend the stay beyond your initially paid for stay.

This is the most retarded rule ever, and is utterly pathetic.
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Really? These parking rules are shocking :/
 
[TW]Fox;11779529 said:
It is actually against the rules to 'feed the meter' and add more payment to extend the stay beyond your initially paid for stay.

This is the most retarded rule ever, and is utterly pathetic.
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It's almost as pathetic as non-transferable tickets. As long as someone has paid for the space, what does it matter whose car is parked there?
 
If it says nothing on the signs and nothing on the ticket about topping up then I don't see how they can fine you for it if you were under 4 hours.
 
I truely despise all methods of parking control, they seem to be designed not to aid parking but simply to **** everyone off and cause maximum hassle whilst generating maximum revenue.
 
"He did what?!"

"He put more money in the parking meter sir, so we fined him more money too!"

"Top work, that'll show em to pay more for their parking!"

:rolleyes:
 
I still laugh at the ticket machines that ask you to put in your registration number, but only allow you to put numbers in, excellent, so I can just put 06 in there and give to the ticket to another 06 reg if I so wished and no one would be any the wiser.
 
markyp23 said:
The OP doesn't suggest it is the local council, I read it as a private company.
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It doesnt read like that to me, I admit its possible but nothing suggests a private company - it even says 'outside my University'. Outside my University is on-street council parking meters (at £1 an hour.....)
 
[TW]Fox;11779529 said:
It is actually against the rules to 'feed the meter' and add more payment to extend the stay beyond your initially paid for stay.
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But that needs to be clearly written on any signage.

Burnsy
 
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