BBB started to process the case

Just got an email from BBB about the diamond parking ltd. complaint.  Copy as following:

Thank you for contacting the Better Business Bureau (BBB) about your dispute. Your complaint has been processed and assigned case #1233157 in our files. Please make a note of this number for future reference.
Your complaint has been applied to the following business:
Diamond Parking Ltd
817 Denman St
Vancouver, BC V6G 2L7
The case has been reviewed and has now been forwarded to the business for their written response. This business has until June 10, 2010 to respond to your complaint.
We will be sure to contact you once we know more, but if you would like to check the status of your complaint we encourage you to use our online complaint system. The website address below will take you directly to this complaint:
https://mbc-web.app.bbb.org/complaint/view/1233157/c/ol3kzd
Sincerely,
XXXX XXXXX
604 681-4282
xxxxx@mbc.bbb.org
Better Business Bureau of Mainland B.C.
Dispute Resolution Department

Diamond Parking reply on 5/19/2010

I got a standard business reply email on 5/19/2010:

Thank you for providing me with an opportunity to respond to your concerns.  I have read your e-mail carefully and would like to note the following.  We provide an enforcement service to the property owner at this site and have posted parking rules signs that indicate that it is a violation of parking rules to park in the lot and go to another place of business. We did received your letter on May 5, 2010, however we did not have your contact number to contact you.    Our enforcement officer noted that on February, 2010 at 7:19pm and 7:21pm the drivers parked their car in  the lot and left, this is a contravention of these posted parking rules. Without any receipt we are not able to cancel these tickets.   Our agent has offered you $57.50 for each ticket to settle the account.   Please contact our agent at 604-681-8797 ext. 2 to make your payment.

I just replied with the following:

I don't agree with your enforcement officer.  It's outrageous to give ticket without any evidence and apparently with bad intent.  I cannot pay for something that I did not do.  In my letter previously and the letter to Better Business Bureau, I've indicated my position clearly.

I understand your company's procedures as well.  Since it's the enforcement officer's mistake, may be we can get together with the enforcement officer and solve the problem together.

Talking to Collection Agency on May 18th, 2010

 

I received phone call from Wiggings Adjustments Ltd. on May 17th for money collection.  I wasn’t home and they left a number for me to call back.  I called back on May 18th, Pers Brown from Wiggings Adjustments Ltd. heard there is a dispute, and gave Diamond Parking email address to me, saying we should finish dispute process first, and they will hold the “interest” until dispute is finished.

So I wrote the email to Mike Poirier of Diamond Parking (I saw his email in public forum before as well, so I’m not going to write it here) this morning, attached my April 12th letter to Diamond Parking, asking them to respond to the letter.

I’ll keep post about the process.

Get a notice from debt collector

 

On May 12th, 2010, I get two letters from Wiggins Adjustments Ltd.  Looks like Diamond parking already sold the “debt” to a collector company.  The amount for each “ticket” went from $105 to $214.  How interesting.

The letter looks like following:

I wrote a letter to this company, content like following:

Wiggings Adjustments Ltd.

Collection Department

To whom it may concern,

I received 2 letters with account # xxxxx and xxxx, each with $213.68 balance.

I’ve dealing the issue with Diamond Parking. And I’ve filed complaint with Better Business Bureaus. I’ve attached the letter after this letter so you understand what the situation is.

From my point of view, you have no right to collect any money for Diamond Parking because I don’t owe them, and thus don’t owe you. If you make any move to damage my credit score, I’ll have no choice but to sue you and Diamond Parking together.

So please remove these 2 accounts from your database and pass the case back to me and Diamond Parking.

One more thing to note here, the collecting money is doubled in your letter (from $104.69 to $213.68), I think you got cheated by Diamond Parking.

Best Regards

韩寒关于幼儿园凶杀案的博客

刚才看了一个韩寒评论幼儿园凶杀案的新闻，在同意新闻不应被控制的同时，也有些疑惑。

这些起案件接连发生好像是凶手被传染了一样。就像电影和小说里经常描写的那样，很多凶手的犯罪情节都是受别人启发的。所以传媒如何描写和评论类似的惨案是一门学问。像政府这样掩耳盗铃肯定是不行的，因为口耳相传的情节很容易走样，反而容易造成更坏的影响。

几个切实可行的办法：

1. 人数超过一定量的学校必需配备保安，允许配备电击警棍等设备。

2. 堵不如疏，通过对宗教，网络，和非政治社会组织活动的有组织开放，增加对社会不满宣泄的渠道。

关于政改，这个不好说，没想好，美国不也是经常发生校园案件和社会报复案件吗。。。

下面是原新闻：

http://www.popyard.com/cgi-mod/newspage.cgi?num=515908&r=0&v=0&j=0

目前博客上就有几个字了：爷爷们，你们请尽兴

泰兴幼儿园中的小孩也被人砍了，32人受伤，死亡情况不明。这个新闻因为离开上一次南平幼儿园袭击的新闻太近，我甚至一度误以为是同一个幼儿园。

在最近的变态凶手杀人事件中，他们都选择了幼儿园和小学，相信在很多想报复社会的人心中，去幼儿园小学杀人成为了一种时尚，因为在杀人过程中，你将遇到最少的抵抗，杀掉最多的人，造成民间最大的痛苦的恐慌，是最有效的报复社会手段。除了杨佳以外，几乎所有杀手都挑选了向弱者下手。这个社会没有出口，杀害更弱者成了他们唯一的出口。我建议把全国地方政府门卫间里的保安们抽调去保护幼儿园，孩子都保护不了的政府不需要那么多人保护。

这些杀人事件的产生很大原因是这个社会不公正，不公平。是的，让公平正义比太阳还要有光辉。但太阳不是每天都出。我们的阴天和黑夜是否稍微太多了一些？所以，提出让公平正义比太阳还要有光辉并不伟大，做到让太阳分分钟都挂在你头顶上才伟大。

在泰州幼儿园杀人事件中，新闻被控制了，这些孩子们生不逢时，死更不逢时。在相关部门的认识里，在这喜庆的气氛里，这事当属杂音。我们只知道，泰州幼儿园杀人事件中，受伤32人，政府和医院一再强调，无一死亡，但是坊间又传说，死了多个孩子。你说我应该相信谁呢？相信政府吧，那为什么他们禁止家长见到孩子呢？至今还封锁着医院和新闻，没有孩子的照片和视频，况且一个杀人用刀劈了32个人，结果一个没死，那他到底是在杀人还是在做手术呢，也太小心了。相信传闻吧，毕竟传闻都是喜欢往夸张了传的，我们无图无真相，也不能相信。于是我一搜索泰州，出现的新闻居然是----《泰州近日三喜临门》，日期是4月30日。

我只是非常的诧异，泰州政府通过了封锁消息，封锁医院，控制媒体，禁止探望，转移视线，等手段，居然成功的将人们对于杀手的愤怒转移到了自己身上，这是何苦。你以为他有什么目的，其实不是的，除了要配合世博会《和谐欢歌》以外，这只是惯性，是政府处理类似事件的习惯，是七步曲：吃饭喝酒到一半，出事了----隐瞒，隔离，撤媒体，发禁令，发通稿，赔钱，火化----继续吃饭喝酒。他们处理问题的手段不比凶手高尚多少，也难怪在网上看到有幼儿园挂出横幅----冤有头债有主，出门左转是政府。

短短的一个多月内，五起校园凶杀案件，短短的一周以内，就发生了两起，4月29日，泰州，4月30日，潍坊。我不想去探讨其中的社会原因，只想告诉大家，也就在这里，一个人冲进幼儿园砍了32个小孩是不能上社会新闻的，32个加起来才超过一百岁的孩子，你们被砍了，连个报纸都不给你上，因为在几百公里以外，召开了一个盛会，那里光烟花就放了上亿，同时在你们的家乡泰州，要召开国际旅游节，经贸洽谈会和华侨城开业典礼，正三喜临门。

也许在那些爷爷们眼里，你们，是扫兴的。

但是，我们可怜的孩子们，奶粉毒害的是你们，疫苗伤害的是你们，地震压死的是你们，被火烧死的是你们。就算是成人们的规则出了问题，被成人用刀报复的也是你们。我愿望真的像泰州政府说的一样，你们全部都只是受伤，无一死亡。年长者失职了，愿你们长大以后，不光要庇护你们自己的孩子，还要让这个社会庇护所有人的孩子。

-- 3/30/2012: 晕,韩寒看起来是一场骗局？！！！