Dog bite dog

Goldman and US Senate’s confrontation on April 27th, 2010 is a classic show of “dog bite dog”.  Each party tries to lay blames on the other for the market crash in 2008.  Even from my untrained eye, no one stands on moral high ground.  Wasn’t wall street backs on many politicians in Washington?   Weren’t many top economic officials from wall street initially? 

Blaming game is fun to watch.  But the real question is, will this ever happen again?  And answer will very likely to be, YES.  As history shows, people never learn…

Debt collector’s nightmare article

There is an interesting article in yahoo today, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Learning-How-to-Fight-the-nytimes-3387084735.html?x=0&.v=1.  it caught my eye since I’m wondering if Diamond Parking will eventually give those “fake” tickets to a collector company.  The really interest thing is that “http://www.debtorboards.com/” is not readable at this time: 4/26/2010, 11:04 pst.  I think the yahoo story generated too many requests to it. :)

Get the Final Notice for Diamond Parking Ticket

 

I get the two final notices from Diamond Parking on April 20th, 2010, for my 2 tickets described in previous blogs.  The main content looks like following:

I haven’t hear any respond from my letter to Diamond Parking, and has not heard their response from my complaint in Better Business Bureau’s webpage.

I’ll keep this updated.

Wrote a letter to Diamond Parking Ticket

I filed a complaint on Better Business Bureaus web site with my case: http://www.bbb.org/mbc/business-reviews/parking-lots-and-garages/diamond-parking-ltd-in-vancouver-bc-157865

I also wrote a letter to Diamond Parking, demanding them to void and clear my tickets.

Let’s see how it will work out.  I hope there are still some integrity out there.

I’m going to fight Diamond Parking Ticket

 

April 7th, 2010, I received 2 letters from Diamond Parking, each is a $104.69 parking ticket, for both of my car and my wife’s car.   I was first confused and then outraged after thinking of it over.

On Feb 24th, 2010, My wife and my daughter drive to Estea Beverage Club, No. 8400 Alexandra Rd Unit 180, Richmond (BC, Canada) ) at around 6:00pm.  I was a bit busy at work and went half an hour later at about 6:30pm.  I remember the TV in the restaurant still plays Russian Canadian Hockey Olympic quarter final game at the time (The game ended around 6:50pm as I researched today).  We both parked at the proper place inside the parking lot.  When my family finished dining and drive back home at around 7:30pm, there is no parking ticket displayed on our cars.

The lot is managed by Diamond Parking Ltd as shown below, which we can park for 3 hours if going to the business inside the Olympia Centre.

So the first thing I try to do after receive the ticket is trying to find my receipt.  Unfortunately, I paid by cash that day and didn’t keep a receipt.  Who keeps restaurant receipts for one month and half anyway?

I called Diamond Parking on Thursday, the lady on the phone said I’ve to pay $57 per ticket if no receipt can be found. 

I cannot agree with the ticket issuer’s practice with following reasons:

1. The ticket issuer can’t just give ticket to the cars that simply parked there without proofing they are not in the parking lot related businesses. The timing of 1st ticket is 19:19, and 2nd ticket is 19:21.  I can imaging the ticket issuer simply trying to give ticket to every cars parked in the parking lot.

2. If they give out ticket, they should put it on my car so that I can argue it immediately or the 2nd day. I don’t understand why the ticket is not on the car.

3. There are some internet forum posts blaming different kind of issues that some ticket issuers from Diamond Parking:

• Weasel out of Diamond Parking Ticket Urban Vancouver
• Diamond Parking - Vancouver Forum
• http://www.expertlaw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61643

What am I going to do is the following:

1. I’m not going to pay the parking ticket since I did nothing wrong.
2. I’ll write to them and ask them to remove the tickets, since I don’t want my cars be towed away if I park in their private lot again.
3. I’ll complain to Better Business Bureaus with my case: http://www.bbb.org/mbc/business-reviews/parking-lots-and-garages/diamond-parking-ltd-in-vancouver-bc-157865 
4. Increase the awareness of this issue to the public.
5. If Diamond Parking asks the collection company to collect, I’ll state the same and refuse to pay.

Thanks to the following blog which reminds me to write a blog as well:

http://annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com/

I’ll keep it posted for the future events as well.

Thanks for reading.