The 45 minute parking meter trick that cost me $60

I figured I'd save 15 minutes by parking in that 2 hour zone near the courthouse downtown, but the meter ate my coins and I came back to a $60 ticket plus the tow fee on my way home from work last Tuesday - has anyone else had a parking app actually save them money?

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the_lee29d ago

Start by saying those digital meters are a gamble every time you feed them coins. @annaw73 your buddy's story is why I switched to an app last year after a machine ate my lunch money. The city app saved me twice now, once when I forgot to move my car and it texted me to add time. Still hate paying a service fee but beats a $60 ticket and a tow.

lee_reed28d ago

Is it just me or does paying for parking feel like entering a roach motel?

annaw7329d ago

Down in my neighborhood they switched all the meters to that pay-by-plate system and I swear it's a racket. My buddy Tom put in a full hour's worth of quarters and the machine just froze up, wouldn't print a receipt or even spit his money back. He ended up taking a picture of the error screen with his phone and hoped the meter maid would see it, but nope, $75 ticket and the app he tried to download later kept crashing on his old phone. Last week I got lazy and used the city's official app for the first time ever, paid for 30 minutes and forgot about it until I got a notification two hours later saying my session was still running, cost me an extra $1.50 but at least it didn't triple like that broken meter would have done.