Paying for car parks.

UPDATE

Husband has been on to Bank who were really helpful. She said it’s a well known scam. Around the care park are professional signs regarding parking - there were at least 6 in this car park. It explains how to use the RingGo App and what the penalties are if you don’t pay.

What happens is scammers change the phone number on the signs so you are ringing a dodgy number and giving them all your details!! If we had seen any evidence of a changed number we would have gone elsewhere.

Anyway, Bank has cancelled both the £1 and £60 plus any further monthly £60 payments and has stopped his card. She says you may receive phone calls from the scammers still asking for details and to just put the phone down.

You have been warned!

I'm surprised that people are willing to pay for parking in so many different ways. I just get muddled so I don't park in carparks that demand money anymore unless it is a hospital appointment where there is someone on duty to help. My brain just can't handle it!

Athrawes

I'm surprised that people are willing to pay for parking in so many different ways. I just get muddled so I don't park in carparks that demand money anymore unless it is a hospital appointment where there is someone on duty to help. My brain just can't handle it!

I now catch the bus, especially to the hospital. I now have my free bus park and no worries about parking!

Athrawes

I'm surprised that people are willing to pay for parking in so many different ways. I just get muddled so I don't park in carparks that demand money anymore unless it is a hospital appointment where there is someone on duty to help. My brain just can't handle it!

I only want to pay by cash. I hate apps, phone payments etc.

That option is being taken away it seems- so much for getting our country back lol!

I went in the simplest car park ever in Hereford today. It has number plate recognition at the entrance , so you don’t have to do anything when you arrive. When you get back, you type your number plate into the machine, it tells you the amount, you present your card, have a receipt if you want one, and when you get back to your car you just drive up to the barrier, which knows that you’ve paid, lifts and off you go. No hassle at all.

Perhaps I'll go to Herefrd to shop in future, Casdon.

Hereford, even!

It’s the Old Market carpark, and you even get two hours free parking if you shop at Waitrose, which is accessible from the carpark. Win, win!

Oh yes, thank you

When I'm mobile again. I used to enjoy a trip to Hereford but haven't been for ages, don't know why.

Casdon

I went in the simplest car park ever in Hereford today. It has number plate recognition at the entrance , so you don’t have to do anything when you arrive. When you get back, you type your number plate into the machine, it tells you the amount, you present your card, have a receipt if you want one, and when you get back to your car you just drive up to the barrier, which knows that you’ve paid, lifts and off you go. No hassle at all.

We’ve got some of those too and they are easy.

However, once we had pulled into this car park and messed about for ages trying to do the app I was concerned that even if we drove off to another car park we could get a parking fine.

The app at The Westgate car park in Oxford is the best one imo.
The barrier opens on entry and charges on the way out!
As simple as it gets. No faffing with tickets, cards, cash etc

It seems that officialdom puts more and more hurdles and hoops for ordinary folk to jump over or through. Makes life more difficult all round.

I try and avoid all car parks with cameras and apps to pay. I have heard too many stories of them getting it wrong. I would much rather walk a bit further.

Germanshepherdsmum

It was so simple when you just put one or two coins in the machine …

Wasn’t it just!
The problem is that apps don’t always work and different areas of the country take different apps.
I prefer therefore to use card or cash.Sometimes nothing works with the machine and you have to either park there and take a risk of a fine or find another carpark.🤬

Grantanow

It seems that officialdom puts more and more hurdles and hoops for ordinary folk to jump over or through. Makes life more difficult all round.

This😫

It seems that there is a time limit for the car park at a new Lidl that has been built nearby. But people didn’t realise that if you returned to the car park the same day, even though you’d only been parked there for a short amount of time, you’d be fined. It’s been catching a lot of people out.