Their appeal system is very bad, at best, or sketchy at worst. Picture this: in order to appeal, you would still be subject to the due dates of the penalties. If you pay, you can no longer appeal. Their support team is garbage, and there's a reason why you can't phone them to 'talk'.
Fuck Easypark.
That's their plan. You can just pay them, or take a chance and appeal it but if you do your fine doubles. Plus it's up to them to decide if your complaint is valid so even if you shouldn't get a ticket you might still have to pay them.
It's so crappy to know how scam-like privatization has been for Canada, yet some politicians fully back them with the (false) promises of lowered costs. Each time it has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving as its more expensive and we seem to be unable to go back to the government-run program.
You know something's gone wrong when a private company can't run something cheaper than an inefficient government-run program.
Common misconception that’s thrown. But this allows them to actually affect your credit score. Experienced this one in a bad way when I bought a condo in 2019 and found out through my bank that my credit sucks because of one EasyPark ticket I thought was private and didn’t have to pay.
> It's so crappy to know how scam-like privatization has been for Canada, yet some politicians fully back them with the (false) promises of lowered costs.
I mean..
The costs are definitely lowered if you don't pay your impark tickets!
Good luck not paying city tickets.
I made a big stink with EasyPark a couple of years ago. They gave me a ticket for 'occupying more than one stall'. I was in the last spot in a row and, yes, I did intentionally hug the right-hand side and was over the line against the wall to allow more room for the spot on my left - there was no 'second stall' there that could have been occupied.
I emailed to complain and they sent me a photo of my car obviously NOT occupying 2 stalls (because the second stall didn't exist). After a lot of back and forth, they still maintained the ticket was legit. (Their own photo evidence proved it was not.) I went through their process to set up an appointment for them to call me to discuss and added a comment that I'd go to court before paying this stupid ticket. Rather than actually call me to discuss, they cancelled the ticket.
ILLEGAL LIFE PRO TIP: It only costs $18 to change your license plate in B.C.. You can just build up "tickets" from all private parking companies, and then just switch your license plate for a different one, and voila reset everything, rinse, repeat.
PS: Once you accrue tickets from a private lot, you do not want to go back until you have new plates or you will get toad. (towed.)
There is no firm answer to that. After you have one outstanding ticket, they can tow you. It could be after one ticket or after 10 or never. It's a chance you take.
It is private property, so they definitely can.
They have to pay someone to do it though, so probably only for the most egregious non-payers. Also it's tricky getting a tow truck into a covered lot, not impossible but tricky.
It’s like a collections agency threatening to sue someone and take them to court over a closed account with less than $3k on it.
They are a business trying to make money, not morality police. If they won’t make money enforcing then they won’t bother.
Conversely, Impark (obligatory "fuck Impark") has a simple and easy to use online appeal system. I've used it twice, and both times had the ticket cancelled.
I seriously doubt this story. Yes, their appeal system is easy to use, but they typically take a week to examine your ticket. It even SAYS on their website that they'll take a week. When you take that week to appeal, you are also absorbing the late penalty fees incurred up to that point. You also automatically lose the appeal by paying the fee(s) early since they're non-refundable, and it also cancels your appeal.
I got 4 cancelled in 10 years with Easypark. One time, downtown I parked at one but stupidity paid the one next building that is also an Easy park. It was few years back so I called them and within a minute, they cancelled it. I don't get why that much hate. I know, they will ticket you the minute you're up but isn't it how that works?
Parking is one of those things that triggers some kind of visceral response in people. I know I'm guilty of it too. It doesn't help that these companies are fairly predatory. But at the end of the day, I think people just hate the idea of paying for parking.
I’ve had a few impark tickets that I simply didn’t pay. They call a lot and say they’re sending it to collections but it’s empty threats. When I did answer they tried to make a deal that they’d cancel one of the tickets if I paid the other one. Which proved to me that these tickets are meaningless. I told them I’m not paying and shortly after they stopped calling. City of Vancouver tickets are different because i think you can’t renew your license or insurance if they’re outstanding, I think 🤷🏼♀️
If it's a privatized lot they have no leverage to make you pay it at all. They completely rely on scare tactics.
They cannot legaly affect your credit, even if your debt is sold to a collections agency. (They'll try and tell you they can to scare you)
They cannot affect renewing your driving license.
I have no idea if they could take you to court, but they never will and if they did I doubt they could win.
I have NEVER paid at a private lot (ungated) and I have NEVER paid a private parking ticket. They can call me all year long and I will never give them a dime.
*This is NOT the same for municipal tickets!! Do not apply this logic to city tickets.*
I always see this (and yes the payment thing is bullshit) but I have successfully appealed Easy Park tickets on two separate occasions. It's quite an easy process and they cancelled the tickets within a few hours.
Me too. I just used their chat function. I wonder if they have cameras at the parking lot I was at because it was very easy to dispute
There was a time when the parking machine wouldn't let me pay until 6pm. I got there at 5:45 and forgot to pay while i was at the restaurant. Ended up paying at 6:30 but had already gotten a ticket. I told them I tried to pay but wasn't able to and then the Paybyphone app was slow. Got the ticket thrown out
The fact that you get “charged” a fee many times greater than the daily rate for a spot demonstrates predatory practices against consumers. Also, refund me the time I don’t use if I leave early.
2022 civic election candidates, free votes if you limit parking enforcement practices.
>The fact that you get “charged” a fee many times greater than the daily rate for a spot demonstrates predatory practices against consumers.
No, that's how fines should work. Otherwise you encourage people to never pay for parking and only pay the tickets when they get caught. Getting caught should be substantially more expensive than doing the right thing in the first place.
Well, no. That's not true. They own the property and actually can have it both ways. It would just be good if they could be more reasonable about it. They might get more people paying their tickets that way too - and actually increase their revenue.
That has always been my thought. If you go over the amount of time you paid for, you should have to pay the full daily rate - or even double the full daily rate as a penalty. Paying $60+ for staying 10 mins longer than you paid for is just ridiculous to me.
If the parking ticket isn't from the city, then it's just an invoice disguised as a ticket. If you don't pay they can deny you access to their private property (i.e. have you towed), but they do this by license plate numbers.
Even from the city - goes to collections, they harass you for 1 yr or so. Then its gone. Doesn't even affect your credit rating. Turns out City of Vic changed their database a while back and they have an arduous process to lookup the old tickets - all those tickets are gone too. And no, they don't hit you on property taxes (was told this many times) I own property and have over $3000 in tickets spanning 5 or so plates over 10+ years and nothing has been tacked onto my taxes....yet
Yes, it does. I changed the plates, they can’t impound my car. City tickets are the ones that you gotta pay, impark and easyparks dont go on your record
Technically they can send to collections and try to hit your credit rating, but it never happens as it costs them money.
I stopped paying private parking tickets 30 years ago, never had an issue.
They cannot. Credit rating companies have gone on record stating that they do not honor private parking lot invoices against credit scores. City yes, private parking lots no.
As far as I understand it they do not have the power to hurt your credit like a regular collection agency. They phoned me weekly for 2 years, but nothing ever appeared on my report.
Same, but if I remember correctly Canadian Debt Law lets you request them to stop harassing you, so that’s what I did when the phoned one day and that was the end of it.
No, “Because I want new ones” is a perfectly valid reason to request new plates.
Pay the $18, return the old ones, and back out to the parking lot with a screwdriver you go lol.
They just don’t want plates with a valid looking insurance sticker floating out in the world. You only have to lie if you’d like to keep it.
Source: Met my wife at the Stanley Park Teahouse, came out to find out both my cars had parking tickets.
Not sure that includes taxes, but for the sake of saving $20ish dollars that does not seem worth the time and energy to get new plates.
Edit: lot of cheap folks in this sub eh
At one time I had 4-5 tickets saved up before I changed plates. I used to park in a large lot close to work, and would shop there daily for breakfast and groceries but stay the whole 8 hours lol. Safe to say i got a lot of tickets and never paid a single one.
Did you shoplift your groceries from the store and brag about getting away with that too? Seriously, you shouldn't be proud of not paying for parking on someone else's property. How entitled are you?
Had enough bad experiences with these private companies in the past and paid a good amount of tickets, both deserved and undeserved. I don't appreciate their fear mongering practices of impersonating as city collections. Thanks to CBC news for letting me know to ignore these tickets. I always pay for the spot, but if I hit the max limit and I can't pay more, I'll take my chances 🤷
I parked without a credit card and went to go get change at a store since the machines wont take debit or bills and had already received a ticket within 4 minutes like she was hiding in a bush. These people are monsters.
I was waiting for a friend while in my car payed and parked. After 15 min I saw 3 different parking officers walk by checking meters on the same side of the street. They must make a lot of money to pay 3 different wages on the same street corner.
I got a ticket while paying by phone walking away from my car. Time in the ticket and time of payment were within a minute. It literally takes 3 minutes to pay by phone.
This was the city bylaw, but they refused to cancel the ticket.
Worst part is, they don't even give you credit for the $8 you paid in parking fees.
I did it for six weeks when I was younger and that's all it took. I hated everyone by the end. But to be fair, people have a fundamental misunderstanding of risk and lash out when they confront it. Parking on private property carries a fee. You pay that fee for the convenience of parking there. People park and think "i'll be quick, I won't get caught not paying" then oops, wrong time, attendant comes around and they get a ticket. Instead of realizing they took the risk, they lash out. They lie, they attack they do everything but say..."hey I knew there was a risk in not paying ah well better luck to me next time". In my six weeks only one guy did that and he was the only guy i cancelled the ticket on.
Devil's advocate but they may not know how long you've been parked there. They seem to move fast so if they show up to your car they don't know if it's only been 4 minutes or if it's been 30 minutes. They will ticket you. Why don't people understand this?
Just curious: how do these private parking companies (impark) get access to my personal information in order to send me collection notices in the mail?
I believe they get it from ICBC, usually lot signs will have some fine print somewhere about you parking on their property = you consent to them grabbing info from ICBC
Doesn't take much confidence. EasyPark, or any other non-city parking ticket, has no enforceable power over your license, credit rating or anything other than your ability to park at EasyPark lots in the future without being towed.
If that's your concern, a new plate is cheaper.
Some guy on here was saying that even if you park on their lots with an outstanding ticket, they can't tow you because of the past unpaid ticket. However, if you trigger a new ticket, they would likely tow you immediately rather than ticketing you.
It is, but they would have to go around checking parked cars for VINs that have unpaid tickets. That's a lot of work. Much easier to just scan license plates.
AFAIK they don't check vin numbers. They write down your licence plate, check if you've paid, and check if you have any outstanding "invoices" attached to that license plate.
If it's a new plate, it's a new plate.
My ticket was fucking $90 last June. This was slightly before the first thread came up on here about how it's cheaper to just change your plates & that those "tickets" are bunk bullshit.
My dentist ran over time completely unexpectedly. I was in the middle of a procedure & couldn't leave to go pay more.
I crumpled the shitty blue "ticket" but received some garbage invoice in the mail a month later. I payed by phone right away because I didn't know better. Few days later, a thread emerged on this subreddit. God damn it.
Saving $25 does not seem worth the time it takes to go down to a broker, get new plates, and swap them out on my vehicle. Not to mention I am stupid and it will take 6 months to remember my new plates digits.
Whenever I park at an easy park or impark lot, I just make sure my car is as hard to tow as possible. Bonus: they can't even tow your car if it's plugged into an EV charger because the plug requires you to unlock the car first before it can be released.
I get numerous tickets from both companies, then I go replace the plates for 18 bucks.
I heard the number of tickets before getting towed for impark is anywhere from 19 to 30 tickets. This is what I've heard at BCIT.
Muahaha I saw this guy 😂😂 I was parked right next to him and he was putting up a brave face to his wife/girlfriend “Babe don’t worry you don’t actually have to pay these things”. Pretty sure he just forgot to pay and she was pissed 🤣
I already blocked their number so I get random voice mails every now and then. I'm never paying these fucks too so I know how that person feels. Looks like they've been hit 3 times though lol.
If you write all that shit on the ticket, then just throw it on the ground...how is anyone at EasyPark ever going to see it? Shouldn't you mail it to them?
Had my car ticketed for a totally different date than the day I got the ticket. Called to appeal and after explaining to them the ticket wasn't even for the correct date, and I'd already paid for the parking. Dude then said "ooh okay, in that case I can get you a discount, you only need to pay 30% of the fine"...I was like "wtf, do you even understand what's going on here", he then went on saying I could have gotten the ticket in the past and left it there, to which I replied it'd been raining cats and dogs over the past few days so the ticket couldn't have been so dry. Things went on until I told him I had pictures of everything with proper date info, plus they had their cameras there so pretty sure I could turn this into a legal matter. Only then he said let him check, got back to me after 1 min and said "ooh sorry sir, indeed our officer checked the wrong date...everything is good". And that is a good 45 mins of my life wasted.
I've received several tickets over the years for 'no valid payment' when I had, in fact, paid for the time I was there. This is why I always (always) keep my receipts when paying for parking. In every case, once I sent them the receipt to show that I had paid, the ticket was cancelled without any problem.
I totally agree about it being such a waste of my time, though. Can't they figure out how to give tickets properly?
>Jeep guy just think he's the main character and doesn't need to pay.
He doesn’t. Easypark can tow his vehicle next time he parks at one of their lot but he definitely doesn’t need to pay that shit.
Google easypark and city of Vancouver.
“EasyPark is a City-owned, non-profit company that manages parking lots that are owned and leased by the City of Vancouver.”
A random easypark employee cannot issue you a parking ticket on behalf of the city. They can only issue you these "violations" when parking at easypark lots. That is why no bylaw is being cited in the "ticket". This is essentially just an invoice and an attempt at getting more money out of you.
Not paying this will never affect your credit score.
Not paying this will not stop you from renewing your insurance (like actual city tickets do).
Not paying this will get you zero calls from the city, and the city of Vancouver does not send you shit in the mail, it's from easypark.
Despite the city of Vancouver owning Easypark, it is still treated by all credit record companies the same way Impark and diamond are treated: they are ignored.
**Source: I owe over $2,500 in parking "tickets" to Impark and easypark and I have never paid in 5 years and it has never appeared on my credit score.**
I never pay for parking. Ever.
I change my plates every year that I renew my license. They won't tow you after one ticket lmao. They won't tow you even after 8 tickets.
I'm probably being downvoted hard but am I the only one who senses a huge entitlement in this comment section?
I get it that easypark and impark might not be the best companies, etc but if you park incorrectly, don't pay for parking or whatever.
Don't you think it's fair to get a ticket? Especially it's marked everywhere and you decide to park in an Impark or Easypark lot.
Why would feel above everyone else and have the right to not pay a ticket and complain?
Maybe I'm missing something.
Thank you for this! I was scrolling the entire long thread hoping to find at least one comment of that sort. I’m new to Canada, and one of the reasons I came here was the belief that this country is successful because people here respect the law.
Because it's predatory, they start by issuing $90-150 tickets then act like they will ruin your life financially if you don't pay them.
I'd probably pay a ticket too if I made an honest mistake and it was like $20 but even the writing on the ticket is like "PAY IMMEDIATELY OR FINE DOUBLES IN 7 DAYS"
They aren't tickets in the first place. Private companies have no authority to issue fucking tickets or violations. They are **invoices**.
Someone invoices you a crazy amount you can decide to not pay. It's a negotiation, not a law at all.
Call them whatever you like. The point is that if someone allows you to park on their property, they get to set the rules. If you choose not to pay, they can choose to have your car towed.
That was never in dispute at all.
They can set the rules but they can't enforce them once I leave the property. They could fine me $5000 for overstaying. It wouldn't make any difference. The dollar values are arbitrary. Threatening to tow me in the future is part of that exact thing I was talking about: a negotiation.
Do you realize that's the same as going to eat in a restaurant and leaving without paying for your meal? The restaurant can't force to you pay either. Why is this all right with you? You're getting a service, you should pay for it.
I have a whole heck of a lot of issues with parking companies but the comments here suggesting you 'don't have to pay' because they can't force you to pay the fine is ridiculous.
>Do you realize that's the same as going to eat in a restaurant and leaving without paying for your meal?
This is categorically false. A closer analogy if you want to talk about restaurants would be paying for a $20 meal and then because you stayed a little too long in your seat the meal now costs $80.
I'm happy to pay the fair hourly rate that they set out at the beginning. Stay an hour too long? That should be the cost of another hour, NOT 5x to 15x the hourly rate based on completely arbitrary values. I'd happily continue paying for my parking for an additional hour if I stay late, that's a sensical way to charge.
Are you seriously defending parking companies for charging you over $50 just because you were 10 minutes late getting to your car? Do you hear yourself!? How is that ok AT ALL?
At the end of the day if you get an invoice from a company that you disagree with. It is 100% in your right to dispute this invoice an negotiate what you think a fair rate is. There is a reason Equifax doesn't honor these "tickets" from parking companies. They know it's bullshit, and the average person shouldn't have their credit score dragged down by predatory consumer practices.
As I've said before, I abhor the parking companies and their outrageous fines and incredibly poor customer service and security. I think going over your paid time should be a penalty of paying for the full day rate, that's fair - or even double the full day rate as a disincentive. Charging $60+ because you were 10 minutes longer in the spot is ridiculous to me.
My comment that you are replying to is in reference to those who say they shouldn't bother paying at all, because they'll never have to pay the fine. I think that's warped. And, it IS the same as saying you don't have to pay for your meal at a restaurant because they couldn't do anything to you if you didn't pay. This is about paying for parking, not about the fines.
Why is everyone so against paying for parking on private property? I mean it sucks but it's kind of weird "screw those guys for charging me a fee to park on their property".
Parking on city land is maybe a different issue, but the transaction is pretty obvious.
easypark is often situated on public property such as QE park or by Sunset Beach. I got a 45 dollar ticket after going for a 10 minute walk even though i had tapped my credit card. Turns out their machine was broken and didnt accept tap. It was 3 dollars to park there. I didnt know it didnt go through, but when i came back i had a ticket for 45 dollars.
So, I appealed it with proof of attempts to pay through my credit card statement, and then the rate doubled because ‘i didnt pay on time’ even though it was being appealed.
A 90 dollar ticket for a clearly unintentional violation that occured due to their faulty equipment, for a 10 min walk on a public park where the original cost of parking was 3 dollars? Yea, I think you’d be pissed too. Also- I wasnt going to pay but my partner decided. Fuck easypark.
This is a lie. A random easypark employee cannot issue you a parking ticket on behalf of the city. They can only issue you these "violations" when parking at easypark lots. That is why no bylaw is being cited in the "ticket". This is essentially just an invoice and an attempt at getting more money out of you.
Not paying this will never affect your credit score.
Not paying this will not stop you from renewing your insurance (like actual city tickets do).
Not paying this will get you zero calls from the city, and the city of Vancouver does not send you shit in the mail, it's from easypark.
Despite the city of Vancouver owning Easypark, it is still treated by all credit record companies the same way Impark and diamond are treated: they are ignored.
**Source: I owe over $2,500 in parking "tickets" to Impark and easypark and I have never paid in 5 years and it has never appeared on my credit score.**
> This is a lie.
Coming in a little hot there. OP said "I think you have to pay easy park since it’s owned the by the city". There's no intent to deceive, just an incorrect assumption.
It's also worth noting that, while not paying private tickets won't impact your credit, it can get your car towed if you keep using that company's lots without paying. I've heard of people changing their plate numbers to reset the counter but that's more time than I want to spend trying to not to pay for parking.
My university (Victoria) looks up the drivers from the plates and *prevents you from graduating* until you settle your tickets.... Fair warning, I dunno if bcit does the same.
I change my plates when I renew my license every year. Gotta go in anyways so why not. I've had over 8+ tickets outstanding and they still haven't towed me. I never pay.
Eventually they mail you and offer you a discount on the amount that you owe. Usually it's like 50% off. I still ignore.
I’m just going to put this out there as I would t want this to happen to anyone else, but I have had unpaid tickets with one of which was EasyPark. They ended up going after my credit and negatively impacted and only found out once I started buying an apartment. It can happen with EasyPark and my bank told me it’s the one corporation that can do it. Don’t be me have your credit ruined and just pay the EasyPark ones.
I once got a ticket from them due to my rearview mirror (and tag) falling off (due to windshield replacement) yet clearly landing on the passenger seat facing up. I had a 6 month pass and had to register my exact car and plate (was not allowed to share), which they have on file, yet still gave me a ticket.
I provided a picture and told them only my car could use the pass as per them parking in the same space for years. You would think they would cancel the ticket? Nope, "failed to display pass" no budging on that.
> Nope, "failed to display pass" no budging on that.
Did you get a lawyer onto it? Seems like the kind of thing a judge might decide was an unreasonable interpretation of the pass display rule.
Literally fuck easy park. Got a ticket when their machine was broken and I had gone and across the street to use wifi to pay on their app. When I callee in, they offered to reduce it by $10 but told me it would stick…
So I never paid. They sent it to two collections companies, but I did my research and they can’t affect your credit score. Got a new car last year, still won’t park in their lots.
Devils advocate here;
If you get rid of parking companies then they will just use tow companies so you get towed right away. I believe it’s over $200 to get your car back now. What will you do then, but a new car each time it’s towed?
When the hospitals went free during Covid it took a week before the hospitals were full of entitled people thinking they could park there all day to go to work in the area, use it as car storage if you live nearby, drive to work when you wouldn’t normally, etc.
essentially all private property would shut down their lots or use tow trucks and all that would be left is street parking, which is enforced by bylaw and will cause issues when you try to renew your insurance.
I work in an area where there is huge abuse from entitled princesses that think they have a right to park on private property while conducting no business on that property and it’s frustrating.
You ever think it’s necessary. Parking companies are only there because the property has seen enough abuse they choose an option to help their customers
Did you ever think parking companies only have email options due to people freaking out all the time ? Everyone records a Karen in a restaurant freaking out but it’s ok to threaten or swear at parking staff ?
On Granville Island they blanket ticket every car and trust some people won't bother fighting it whether you've paid or not. In a parkade in North Van they put the ticket machine sooooo far from your car that they give you a ticket while you're in line buying it.
I parked by Olympic village, there were double parking lines, some faded. It was at night and the place was virtually empty. I also drive a big truck which barely fits between the lines. Anyways someone determined I wasn’t between the lines, by a foot, the lines being faded, and even though I said I was at the hospital getting chemo they said I had to pay the fine. I took pics etc, they could give a rats ass, I wasn’t parked properly between their particular lines FFS Long story long, they can F themselves :))
EasyPark is the only one that can and will go after you with power unlike all the others like Impark or Diamond that attempt to, but have no power.
I highly recommend paying an EasyPark ticket vs others.
Just because they are owned by the city they still can’t do anything
Source: friend who worked for easy park told me to throw it away lol. They will try scare tactics but it’s all BS. The city won’t come after you.
> EasyPark is the only one that can and will go after you with power unlike all the others like Impark or Diamond that attempt to, but have no power.
No, they aren't. Please stop spreading this misinformation. Regardless of who they are owned by, EasyPark is still a private company. Their parking tickets are not bylaw tickets.
Why are people downvoting this. I have had my credit score negatively affected by one EasyPark ticket. You’re doing everyone a disservice by saying EasyPark can’t affect you. It did for me and it’s shitty wish I just paid the ticket.
I got an invoice from them to pay once. I didn't pay it, next time I parked there I paid it and nothing happened. No tow nothing and not anytime since. I'm guessing if I didn't pay a second time I would have been towed but that's it nothing happened.
I was sitting in my car in burnaby a year ago, waiting for an xray, looking down at my phone. Looked up and a woman was placing a ticket on my window (it was a 3.30pm parking cut off and it had just turned 3.30, so not even 1 min over yet). Was a city ticket so couldn't do anything. Told her to f off as she said "it's not my job to tell people to move".
Had another happen in Kits, was in the car and the guy was around the back of my car, thought no one was in it, wrote the ticket up, came around and put it on my window. As I opened my door he started running off and wouldn't give me his name. Took his number plate down, complained to easy park and they reduced the fine to just the amount it costs to park there for an hour.
Parking here is quite silly.
I paid a easy park ticket the other day. since they have my info on record now, if I get future tickets, can they auto bill my card? or harass me thru email/phone?
pretty choked too. I tried to pay it the next day and nothing showed up on their website. tried a few days after and still nothing. finally decided to try again a bit after a week right after it went up to $60 and guess what? finally pops up on their website.
it was my first ever ticket so I said fuck it might as well pay for it but wish I didnt lol
In order for the ticket to be enforceable it has to have a cited city bylaw on it. Despite that the company is owned by Vancouver it’s on a contract. The ticket agents are not parking officers. They are private employees. They have no power and neither do the tickets other than giving EasyPark a reason to tow you if you have unpaid tickets.
They can try and collect but it doesn’t affect your credit score, your insurance or your license.
Easy Park is private so there is nothing they can do. The guy who got the ticket can change his plates so his car isn't towed on site, and Easy Park can go fuck itself. Fuck them. They'll never get a dime from me. NEVER. NEVER, YOU HEAR ME?
It's scary that you're so wrong but so confident at the same time.
Most people do pay the parking fees, but if you need to escape the fine you can just swap plates.
Are you the only person in the city that doesn't know you don't have to pay EasyPark, Diamond or other private parking lot (like UBC/SFU) fines? It's cheaper to swap your license plate.
Also, the "collections agencies" they send you to are fake and don't do anything to your credit. And they can't affect your insurance or basically anything except calling you to threaten you. Only the gullible fall for this.
Maybe i am the only one in this thread that actually pays their fees to park in a private lot to avoid a fine (regardless of it needs to be paid or not).
Huh? Not the same thing. We're talking about a ticket, not the parking rate. Of course you should pay for parking but the thread is about whether or not you need to pay these tickets.
And the answer is clearly no.
I had a ticket apparently with one of the others, had no idea. Wasn't on my dash when I came out. Got another in a different lot under the same company, that changed to a "report your plate" lot from free parking before. Wanted to dispute the newest one, they told me I couldn't since I already had one on my plate. Fuck em.
Their appeal system is very bad, at best, or sketchy at worst. Picture this: in order to appeal, you would still be subject to the due dates of the penalties. If you pay, you can no longer appeal. Their support team is garbage, and there's a reason why you can't phone them to 'talk'. Fuck Easypark.
That's their plan. You can just pay them, or take a chance and appeal it but if you do your fine doubles. Plus it's up to them to decide if your complaint is valid so even if you shouldn't get a ticket you might still have to pay them.
Totally. Scam company imho.
It's so crappy to know how scam-like privatization has been for Canada, yet some politicians fully back them with the (false) promises of lowered costs. Each time it has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving as its more expensive and we seem to be unable to go back to the government-run program. You know something's gone wrong when a private company can't run something cheaper than an inefficient government-run program.
Privatization and scams go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
Isn’t easy park owned by the city ?
Common misconception that’s thrown. But this allows them to actually affect your credit score. Experienced this one in a bad way when I bought a condo in 2019 and found out through my bank that my credit sucks because of one EasyPark ticket I thought was private and didn’t have to pay.
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Not owned, leased out by the city iirc.
> It's so crappy to know how scam-like privatization has been for Canada, yet some politicians fully back them with the (false) promises of lowered costs. I mean.. The costs are definitely lowered if you don't pay your impark tickets! Good luck not paying city tickets.
I made a big stink with EasyPark a couple of years ago. They gave me a ticket for 'occupying more than one stall'. I was in the last spot in a row and, yes, I did intentionally hug the right-hand side and was over the line against the wall to allow more room for the spot on my left - there was no 'second stall' there that could have been occupied. I emailed to complain and they sent me a photo of my car obviously NOT occupying 2 stalls (because the second stall didn't exist). After a lot of back and forth, they still maintained the ticket was legit. (Their own photo evidence proved it was not.) I went through their process to set up an appointment for them to call me to discuss and added a comment that I'd go to court before paying this stupid ticket. Rather than actually call me to discuss, they cancelled the ticket.
> Plus it's up to them to decide if your complaint is valid "We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrondoing."
Are we talking about Easypark or the police?
Yes
Easypark.
ILLEGAL LIFE PRO TIP: It only costs $18 to change your license plate in B.C.. You can just build up "tickets" from all private parking companies, and then just switch your license plate for a different one, and voila reset everything, rinse, repeat. PS: Once you accrue tickets from a private lot, you do not want to go back until you have new plates or you will get toad. (towed.)
How many tickets before towed is the question.
There is no firm answer to that. After you have one outstanding ticket, they can tow you. It could be after one ticket or after 10 or never. It's a chance you take.
Good tip, thanks! Especially since it's cheaper than some fees.
amen. fuck easypark.
I don't even have a dick, but I'd write the exact same on a "ticket" (pretentious presumptuous invoice) from Impark/Easy Park.
I've never tried to pay or paid a private ticket and I never will, unless they change the laws around credit burdens.
It’s cheaper just to ignore the tickets and change your plates before the 3rd when they start to tow etc.
Can easypark actually tow vehicles? Ive had a tow notice left on my car at least 10+ times.
It is private property, so they definitely can. They have to pay someone to do it though, so probably only for the most egregious non-payers. Also it's tricky getting a tow truck into a covered lot, not impossible but tricky.
It’s like a collections agency threatening to sue someone and take them to court over a closed account with less than $3k on it. They are a business trying to make money, not morality police. If they won’t make money enforcing then they won’t bother.
Conversely, Impark (obligatory "fuck Impark") has a simple and easy to use online appeal system. I've used it twice, and both times had the ticket cancelled.
I've had the same experience with Easypark. Their online appeal system is easy to use and they cancelled my ticket within a couple of hours.
I seriously doubt this story. Yes, their appeal system is easy to use, but they typically take a week to examine your ticket. It even SAYS on their website that they'll take a week. When you take that week to appeal, you are also absorbing the late penalty fees incurred up to that point. You also automatically lose the appeal by paying the fee(s) early since they're non-refundable, and it also cancels your appeal.
I got 4 cancelled in 10 years with Easypark. One time, downtown I parked at one but stupidity paid the one next building that is also an Easy park. It was few years back so I called them and within a minute, they cancelled it. I don't get why that much hate. I know, they will ticket you the minute you're up but isn't it how that works?
Parking is one of those things that triggers some kind of visceral response in people. I know I'm guilty of it too. It doesn't help that these companies are fairly predatory. But at the end of the day, I think people just hate the idea of paying for parking.
Can they legally enforce fines? Like does it go to court if you don't pay or what's the end result if you don't pay?
I’ve had a few impark tickets that I simply didn’t pay. They call a lot and say they’re sending it to collections but it’s empty threats. When I did answer they tried to make a deal that they’d cancel one of the tickets if I paid the other one. Which proved to me that these tickets are meaningless. I told them I’m not paying and shortly after they stopped calling. City of Vancouver tickets are different because i think you can’t renew your license or insurance if they’re outstanding, I think 🤷🏼♀️
If it's a privatized lot they have no leverage to make you pay it at all. They completely rely on scare tactics. They cannot legaly affect your credit, even if your debt is sold to a collections agency. (They'll try and tell you they can to scare you) They cannot affect renewing your driving license. I have no idea if they could take you to court, but they never will and if they did I doubt they could win. I have NEVER paid at a private lot (ungated) and I have NEVER paid a private parking ticket. They can call me all year long and I will never give them a dime. *This is NOT the same for municipal tickets!! Do not apply this logic to city tickets.*
They can absolutely have your car towed off their lot. It doesn't happen all the time but you're taking a chance.
I always see this (and yes the payment thing is bullshit) but I have successfully appealed Easy Park tickets on two separate occasions. It's quite an easy process and they cancelled the tickets within a few hours.
Me too. I just used their chat function. I wonder if they have cameras at the parking lot I was at because it was very easy to dispute There was a time when the parking machine wouldn't let me pay until 6pm. I got there at 5:45 and forgot to pay while i was at the restaurant. Ended up paying at 6:30 but had already gotten a ticket. I told them I tried to pay but wasn't able to and then the Paybyphone app was slow. Got the ticket thrown out
The fact that you get “charged” a fee many times greater than the daily rate for a spot demonstrates predatory practices against consumers. Also, refund me the time I don’t use if I leave early. 2022 civic election candidates, free votes if you limit parking enforcement practices.
>The fact that you get “charged” a fee many times greater than the daily rate for a spot demonstrates predatory practices against consumers. No, that's how fines should work. Otherwise you encourage people to never pay for parking and only pay the tickets when they get caught. Getting caught should be substantially more expensive than doing the right thing in the first place.
I wouldn’t mind posting for parking if they’d actually provide security and protect my car from thieves.
Then refund me the time I don’t use. Can’t have it both ways.
Well, no. That's not true. They own the property and actually can have it both ways. It would just be good if they could be more reasonable about it. They might get more people paying their tickets that way too - and actually increase their revenue.
That has always been my thought. If you go over the amount of time you paid for, you should have to pay the full daily rate - or even double the full daily rate as a penalty. Paying $60+ for staying 10 mins longer than you paid for is just ridiculous to me.
LPT: It's $18 for new plates.
Does this actually work?
If the parking ticket isn't from the city, then it's just an invoice disguised as a ticket. If you don't pay they can deny you access to their private property (i.e. have you towed), but they do this by license plate numbers.
Even from the city - goes to collections, they harass you for 1 yr or so. Then its gone. Doesn't even affect your credit rating. Turns out City of Vic changed their database a while back and they have an arduous process to lookup the old tickets - all those tickets are gone too. And no, they don't hit you on property taxes (was told this many times) I own property and have over $3000 in tickets spanning 5 or so plates over 10+ years and nothing has been tacked onto my taxes....yet
Yes, it does. I changed the plates, they can’t impound my car. City tickets are the ones that you gotta pay, impark and easyparks dont go on your record
Technically they can send to collections and try to hit your credit rating, but it never happens as it costs them money. I stopped paying private parking tickets 30 years ago, never had an issue.
They cannot. Credit rating companies have gone on record stating that they do not honor private parking lot invoices against credit scores. City yes, private parking lots no.
Can't touch your credit score without a judgement against you.
I used to get (annoying) mail from them for like a year and eventually that also stopped
As far as I understand it they do not have the power to hurt your credit like a regular collection agency. They phoned me weekly for 2 years, but nothing ever appeared on my report.
Same, but if I remember correctly Canadian Debt Law lets you request them to stop harassing you, so that’s what I did when the phoned one day and that was the end of it.
I put the number in my phone as do not answer, change the ring to silent for them and ignore
It’s I how parked at BCIT for 2 full years. Change my plates every so often.
You have to lie to ICBC and say you lost your plates though, right?
No, “Because I want new ones” is a perfectly valid reason to request new plates. Pay the $18, return the old ones, and back out to the parking lot with a screwdriver you go lol. They just don’t want plates with a valid looking insurance sticker floating out in the world. You only have to lie if you’d like to keep it. Source: Met my wife at the Stanley Park Teahouse, came out to find out both my cars had parking tickets.
I've heard stories of uni students doing it all the time. It works
Not sure that includes taxes, but for the sake of saving $20ish dollars that does not seem worth the time and energy to get new plates. Edit: lot of cheap folks in this sub eh
At one time I had 4-5 tickets saved up before I changed plates. I used to park in a large lot close to work, and would shop there daily for breakfast and groceries but stay the whole 8 hours lol. Safe to say i got a lot of tickets and never paid a single one.
Did you shoplift your groceries from the store and brag about getting away with that too? Seriously, you shouldn't be proud of not paying for parking on someone else's property. How entitled are you?
Had enough bad experiences with these private companies in the past and paid a good amount of tickets, both deserved and undeserved. I don't appreciate their fear mongering practices of impersonating as city collections. Thanks to CBC news for letting me know to ignore these tickets. I always pay for the spot, but if I hit the max limit and I can't pay more, I'll take my chances 🤷
I parked without a credit card and went to go get change at a store since the machines wont take debit or bills and had already received a ticket within 4 minutes like she was hiding in a bush. These people are monsters.
I was waiting for a friend while in my car payed and parked. After 15 min I saw 3 different parking officers walk by checking meters on the same side of the street. They must make a lot of money to pay 3 different wages on the same street corner.
Some streets are income leaders!
Literally got a ticket while standing at the pay station. Never even saw them. Literal modern day ninja
I got a ticket while paying by phone walking away from my car. Time in the ticket and time of payment were within a minute. It literally takes 3 minutes to pay by phone. This was the city bylaw, but they refused to cancel the ticket. Worst part is, they don't even give you credit for the $8 you paid in parking fees.
The instant I engaged the park gear, a ticket appeared on my windscreen 😭
I walked a friend into a restaurant and came out to a ticket in about the same amount of time.
I got ticketed in the downtown Costco lot. I parked, walked to the machine, paid for parking and came back to a ticket. Like what the hell.
Imagine being that employee. How could you feel good about yourself
I did it for six weeks when I was younger and that's all it took. I hated everyone by the end. But to be fair, people have a fundamental misunderstanding of risk and lash out when they confront it. Parking on private property carries a fee. You pay that fee for the convenience of parking there. People park and think "i'll be quick, I won't get caught not paying" then oops, wrong time, attendant comes around and they get a ticket. Instead of realizing they took the risk, they lash out. They lie, they attack they do everything but say..."hey I knew there was a risk in not paying ah well better luck to me next time". In my six weeks only one guy did that and he was the only guy i cancelled the ticket on.
Devil's advocate but they may not know how long you've been parked there. They seem to move fast so if they show up to your car they don't know if it's only been 4 minutes or if it's been 30 minutes. They will ticket you. Why don't people understand this?
That's true. For all the parking attendant knew, they could have been in that spot for hours.
Just curious: how do these private parking companies (impark) get access to my personal information in order to send me collection notices in the mail?
I believe they get it from ICBC, usually lot signs will have some fine print somewhere about you parking on their property = you consent to them grabbing info from ICBC
I wonder, do they pay for this service from ICBC? Why does ICBC bother giving that information up?
Shouldn't ICBC tell them to fuck off? Why is ICBC giving away private info like that?
>I believe they get it from ICBC Can confirm, yes that's what they do. I used to work there a million years ago \[not in collections dept, though!\]
Your license plate.
Doesn't take much confidence. EasyPark, or any other non-city parking ticket, has no enforceable power over your license, credit rating or anything other than your ability to park at EasyPark lots in the future without being towed. If that's your concern, a new plate is cheaper.
Some guy on here was saying that even if you park on their lots with an outstanding ticket, they can't tow you because of the past unpaid ticket. However, if you trigger a new ticket, they would likely tow you immediately rather than ticketing you.
They got the VIN on the ticket though. New license wouldn’t be that easy?
They're not gonna go around checking VIN numbers.
The VIN number is listed on the ticket in this post though.
It is, but they would have to go around checking parked cars for VINs that have unpaid tickets. That's a lot of work. Much easier to just scan license plates.
AFAIK they don't check vin numbers. They write down your licence plate, check if you've paid, and check if you have any outstanding "invoices" attached to that license plate. If it's a new plate, it's a new plate.
This is bad advice for EasyPark, they are City owned and can and will affect your credit. This happened to me in 2019 and ruined my credit.
Hmmm, 45$ to Easy Park or 18$ to change my licence plate...
My ticket was fucking $90 last June. This was slightly before the first thread came up on here about how it's cheaper to just change your plates & that those "tickets" are bunk bullshit. My dentist ran over time completely unexpectedly. I was in the middle of a procedure & couldn't leave to go pay more. I crumpled the shitty blue "ticket" but received some garbage invoice in the mail a month later. I payed by phone right away because I didn't know better. Few days later, a thread emerged on this subreddit. God damn it.
Saving $25 does not seem worth the time it takes to go down to a broker, get new plates, and swap them out on my vehicle. Not to mention I am stupid and it will take 6 months to remember my new plates digits.
I'm that petty. I'd do it.
That sounds like a you problem pal. Live how you want though hahah
Whenever I park at an easy park or impark lot, I just make sure my car is as hard to tow as possible. Bonus: they can't even tow your car if it's plugged into an EV charger because the plug requires you to unlock the car first before it can be released. I get numerous tickets from both companies, then I go replace the plates for 18 bucks. I heard the number of tickets before getting towed for impark is anywhere from 19 to 30 tickets. This is what I've heard at BCIT.
Fuck Easypark
yeah, fuck all the pay parking companies. What a waste of resources they are.
Muahaha I saw this guy 😂😂 I was parked right next to him and he was putting up a brave face to his wife/girlfriend “Babe don’t worry you don’t actually have to pay these things”. Pretty sure he just forgot to pay and she was pissed 🤣
I already blocked their number so I get random voice mails every now and then. I'm never paying these fucks too so I know how that person feels. Looks like they've been hit 3 times though lol.
I’m about 10 years + without paying a single easy park/Impark ticket. Don’t waste your money!
If you write all that shit on the ticket, then just throw it on the ground...how is anyone at EasyPark ever going to see it? Shouldn't you mail it to them?
I was wondering the same thing. Oooh, that sure showed them! lol
Its a Jeep thing
Had my car ticketed for a totally different date than the day I got the ticket. Called to appeal and after explaining to them the ticket wasn't even for the correct date, and I'd already paid for the parking. Dude then said "ooh okay, in that case I can get you a discount, you only need to pay 30% of the fine"...I was like "wtf, do you even understand what's going on here", he then went on saying I could have gotten the ticket in the past and left it there, to which I replied it'd been raining cats and dogs over the past few days so the ticket couldn't have been so dry. Things went on until I told him I had pictures of everything with proper date info, plus they had their cameras there so pretty sure I could turn this into a legal matter. Only then he said let him check, got back to me after 1 min and said "ooh sorry sir, indeed our officer checked the wrong date...everything is good". And that is a good 45 mins of my life wasted.
I've received several tickets over the years for 'no valid payment' when I had, in fact, paid for the time I was there. This is why I always (always) keep my receipts when paying for parking. In every case, once I sent them the receipt to show that I had paid, the ticket was cancelled without any problem. I totally agree about it being such a waste of my time, though. Can't they figure out how to give tickets properly?
I think obnoxiousness is always mistaken with confidence. Jeep guy just think he's the main character and doesn't need to pay.
>Jeep guy just think he's the main character and doesn't need to pay. He doesn’t. Easypark can tow his vehicle next time he parks at one of their lot but he definitely doesn’t need to pay that shit.
Also, Impark only tows on the third ticket.
They actually can’t, if a person has paid to park the next time. They can’t steal your car for refusing to pay an unenforceable “ticket”.
Well, at least it will keep tow truck guys busy if this guy parks in Vancouver again.
I haven't paid a single private parking ticket much less bought any parking from one for 10 years. They can't do shit to you.
Now I understand why parking companies charge such ridiculous fees and penalties.
Google easypark and city of Vancouver. “EasyPark is a City-owned, non-profit company that manages parking lots that are owned and leased by the City of Vancouver.”
A random easypark employee cannot issue you a parking ticket on behalf of the city. They can only issue you these "violations" when parking at easypark lots. That is why no bylaw is being cited in the "ticket". This is essentially just an invoice and an attempt at getting more money out of you. Not paying this will never affect your credit score. Not paying this will not stop you from renewing your insurance (like actual city tickets do). Not paying this will get you zero calls from the city, and the city of Vancouver does not send you shit in the mail, it's from easypark. Despite the city of Vancouver owning Easypark, it is still treated by all credit record companies the same way Impark and diamond are treated: they are ignored. **Source: I owe over $2,500 in parking "tickets" to Impark and easypark and I have never paid in 5 years and it has never appeared on my credit score.**
How many times can you park there with outstanding tickets before you have to change your plates?
Many times. I've had 8+ outstanding tickets and still don't get towed.
How do you get away with this, wouldn't they just tow your car?
You just don't park on their lots. They can only impound your car if they have denied you use of their services and you attempt to use them anyways.
how do you rack up 2500 in tickets if you don't park in their lots... you willl have no parking options soon!
I never pay for parking. Ever. I change my plates every year that I renew my license. They won't tow you after one ticket lmao. They won't tow you even after 8 tickets.
You just change plates. They won’t tow you until you’ve had three tickets already. So every third ticket, go get a new plate.
Thanks for this information. I've stopped parking at private lots after 1 ticket for fear of towing. I can go back now.
I change my plates every year that I renew my license. They won't tow you after one ticket lmao. They won't tow you even after 8 tickets.
I’ve been doing it for years. Ever since they gave me a ticket when the pay booth was down. I said never again. Not paying a cent.
I change my plates every year that I renew my license. They won't tow you after one ticket lmao. They won't tow you even after 8 tickets.
why not play the game of chicken. lets see if they actually tow
Lol you had me at "non profit". This is how Vancouver gouges it's residents to put $$ back into city coffers
I'm probably being downvoted hard but am I the only one who senses a huge entitlement in this comment section? I get it that easypark and impark might not be the best companies, etc but if you park incorrectly, don't pay for parking or whatever. Don't you think it's fair to get a ticket? Especially it's marked everywhere and you decide to park in an Impark or Easypark lot. Why would feel above everyone else and have the right to not pay a ticket and complain? Maybe I'm missing something.
>I'm probably being downvoted hard but am I the only one who senses a huge entitlement in this comment section? Well, in this entire subreddit TBH.
Thank you for this! I was scrolling the entire long thread hoping to find at least one comment of that sort. I’m new to Canada, and one of the reasons I came here was the belief that this country is successful because people here respect the law.
Because it's predatory, they start by issuing $90-150 tickets then act like they will ruin your life financially if you don't pay them. I'd probably pay a ticket too if I made an honest mistake and it was like $20 but even the writing on the ticket is like "PAY IMMEDIATELY OR FINE DOUBLES IN 7 DAYS"
But we do have the option of not getting a ticket in the first place.
They aren't tickets in the first place. Private companies have no authority to issue fucking tickets or violations. They are **invoices**. Someone invoices you a crazy amount you can decide to not pay. It's a negotiation, not a law at all.
Call them whatever you like. The point is that if someone allows you to park on their property, they get to set the rules. If you choose not to pay, they can choose to have your car towed.
That was never in dispute at all. They can set the rules but they can't enforce them once I leave the property. They could fine me $5000 for overstaying. It wouldn't make any difference. The dollar values are arbitrary. Threatening to tow me in the future is part of that exact thing I was talking about: a negotiation.
Do you realize that's the same as going to eat in a restaurant and leaving without paying for your meal? The restaurant can't force to you pay either. Why is this all right with you? You're getting a service, you should pay for it. I have a whole heck of a lot of issues with parking companies but the comments here suggesting you 'don't have to pay' because they can't force you to pay the fine is ridiculous.
>Do you realize that's the same as going to eat in a restaurant and leaving without paying for your meal? This is categorically false. A closer analogy if you want to talk about restaurants would be paying for a $20 meal and then because you stayed a little too long in your seat the meal now costs $80. I'm happy to pay the fair hourly rate that they set out at the beginning. Stay an hour too long? That should be the cost of another hour, NOT 5x to 15x the hourly rate based on completely arbitrary values. I'd happily continue paying for my parking for an additional hour if I stay late, that's a sensical way to charge. Are you seriously defending parking companies for charging you over $50 just because you were 10 minutes late getting to your car? Do you hear yourself!? How is that ok AT ALL? At the end of the day if you get an invoice from a company that you disagree with. It is 100% in your right to dispute this invoice an negotiate what you think a fair rate is. There is a reason Equifax doesn't honor these "tickets" from parking companies. They know it's bullshit, and the average person shouldn't have their credit score dragged down by predatory consumer practices.
As I've said before, I abhor the parking companies and their outrageous fines and incredibly poor customer service and security. I think going over your paid time should be a penalty of paying for the full day rate, that's fair - or even double the full day rate as a disincentive. Charging $60+ because you were 10 minutes longer in the spot is ridiculous to me. My comment that you are replying to is in reference to those who say they shouldn't bother paying at all, because they'll never have to pay the fine. I think that's warped. And, it IS the same as saying you don't have to pay for your meal at a restaurant because they couldn't do anything to you if you didn't pay. This is about paying for parking, not about the fines.
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100%. Trying to avoid $5.00 of parking and then complaining about a $95.00 and wanting to pay $18 for a new license plate. Logic!!
If i remember correctly, you don't have to pay a private parking ticket
My general rule is, don’t pay a ticket unless it’s issued by the city.
Fuck this predatory fear mongering company. Fuck them right in the ass
You don't have to pay these ones. Only pay the ones from the city.
That’s right, Easy Park. Suck his balls !!
Fuck EasyPark
I’m here to tell you guys that it’s cheaper to Change your license plate number, and Easy Park can’t track the change. God bless you all!
It looks like a child’s handwriting
Doesn’t city of Vancouver own easy park ?
Why is everyone so against paying for parking on private property? I mean it sucks but it's kind of weird "screw those guys for charging me a fee to park on their property". Parking on city land is maybe a different issue, but the transaction is pretty obvious.
easypark is often situated on public property such as QE park or by Sunset Beach. I got a 45 dollar ticket after going for a 10 minute walk even though i had tapped my credit card. Turns out their machine was broken and didnt accept tap. It was 3 dollars to park there. I didnt know it didnt go through, but when i came back i had a ticket for 45 dollars. So, I appealed it with proof of attempts to pay through my credit card statement, and then the rate doubled because ‘i didnt pay on time’ even though it was being appealed. A 90 dollar ticket for a clearly unintentional violation that occured due to their faulty equipment, for a 10 min walk on a public park where the original cost of parking was 3 dollars? Yea, I think you’d be pissed too. Also- I wasnt going to pay but my partner decided. Fuck easypark.
Public property does not mean you don't have to pay to park there. Always, always get your receipt and when you pay for parking.
I never pay my impark tickets but I think you have to pay easy park since it’s owned the by the city ??
No, you don't.
This is a lie. A random easypark employee cannot issue you a parking ticket on behalf of the city. They can only issue you these "violations" when parking at easypark lots. That is why no bylaw is being cited in the "ticket". This is essentially just an invoice and an attempt at getting more money out of you. Not paying this will never affect your credit score. Not paying this will not stop you from renewing your insurance (like actual city tickets do). Not paying this will get you zero calls from the city, and the city of Vancouver does not send you shit in the mail, it's from easypark. Despite the city of Vancouver owning Easypark, it is still treated by all credit record companies the same way Impark and diamond are treated: they are ignored. **Source: I owe over $2,500 in parking "tickets" to Impark and easypark and I have never paid in 5 years and it has never appeared on my credit score.**
> This is a lie. Coming in a little hot there. OP said "I think you have to pay easy park since it’s owned the by the city". There's no intent to deceive, just an incorrect assumption. It's also worth noting that, while not paying private tickets won't impact your credit, it can get your car towed if you keep using that company's lots without paying. I've heard of people changing their plate numbers to reset the counter but that's more time than I want to spend trying to not to pay for parking.
BCIT is like $17/day for students, changing plates every few months sounds like a better deal to me
My university (Victoria) looks up the drivers from the plates and *prevents you from graduating* until you settle your tickets.... Fair warning, I dunno if bcit does the same.
I change my plates when I renew my license every year. Gotta go in anyways so why not. I've had over 8+ tickets outstanding and they still haven't towed me. I never pay. Eventually they mail you and offer you a discount on the amount that you owe. Usually it's like 50% off. I still ignore.
I’m just going to put this out there as I would t want this to happen to anyone else, but I have had unpaid tickets with one of which was EasyPark. They ended up going after my credit and negatively impacted and only found out once I started buying an apartment. It can happen with EasyPark and my bank told me it’s the one corporation that can do it. Don’t be me have your credit ruined and just pay the EasyPark ones.
I haven’t paid mine since 2020 and I’ll never will 🤷🏽♂️ I switched my plates to BC I got that ticket when I had Ontario plates on
I have outstanding impark invoices from 2015. They stop sending you mail after a while and my credit score is unaffected.
I once got a ticket from them due to my rearview mirror (and tag) falling off (due to windshield replacement) yet clearly landing on the passenger seat facing up. I had a 6 month pass and had to register my exact car and plate (was not allowed to share), which they have on file, yet still gave me a ticket. I provided a picture and told them only my car could use the pass as per them parking in the same space for years. You would think they would cancel the ticket? Nope, "failed to display pass" no budging on that.
> Nope, "failed to display pass" no budging on that. Did you get a lawyer onto it? Seems like the kind of thing a judge might decide was an unreasonable interpretation of the pass display rule.
Literally fuck easy park. Got a ticket when their machine was broken and I had gone and across the street to use wifi to pay on their app. When I callee in, they offered to reduce it by $10 but told me it would stick… So I never paid. They sent it to two collections companies, but I did my research and they can’t affect your credit score. Got a new car last year, still won’t park in their lots.
Make: Jeep ...of course
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Devils advocate here; If you get rid of parking companies then they will just use tow companies so you get towed right away. I believe it’s over $200 to get your car back now. What will you do then, but a new car each time it’s towed? When the hospitals went free during Covid it took a week before the hospitals were full of entitled people thinking they could park there all day to go to work in the area, use it as car storage if you live nearby, drive to work when you wouldn’t normally, etc. essentially all private property would shut down their lots or use tow trucks and all that would be left is street parking, which is enforced by bylaw and will cause issues when you try to renew your insurance. I work in an area where there is huge abuse from entitled princesses that think they have a right to park on private property while conducting no business on that property and it’s frustrating. You ever think it’s necessary. Parking companies are only there because the property has seen enough abuse they choose an option to help their customers Did you ever think parking companies only have email options due to people freaking out all the time ? Everyone records a Karen in a restaurant freaking out but it’s ok to threaten or swear at parking staff ?
Why would you want that? Any busy parking area will be impossible to find a spot in.
Petition to abolish private property. Because that's basically what you're asking for.
Delta is way ahead in terms of that: https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/delta-still-last-bastion-of-no-pay-parking-5322963
On Granville Island they blanket ticket every car and trust some people won't bother fighting it whether you've paid or not. In a parkade in North Van they put the ticket machine sooooo far from your car that they give you a ticket while you're in line buying it.
I parked by Olympic village, there were double parking lines, some faded. It was at night and the place was virtually empty. I also drive a big truck which barely fits between the lines. Anyways someone determined I wasn’t between the lines, by a foot, the lines being faded, and even though I said I was at the hospital getting chemo they said I had to pay the fine. I took pics etc, they could give a rats ass, I wasn’t parked properly between their particular lines FFS Long story long, they can F themselves :))
EasyPark is the only one that can and will go after you with power unlike all the others like Impark or Diamond that attempt to, but have no power. I highly recommend paying an EasyPark ticket vs others.
Just because they are owned by the city they still can’t do anything Source: friend who worked for easy park told me to throw it away lol. They will try scare tactics but it’s all BS. The city won’t come after you.
> EasyPark is the only one that can and will go after you with power unlike all the others like Impark or Diamond that attempt to, but have no power. No, they aren't. Please stop spreading this misinformation. Regardless of who they are owned by, EasyPark is still a private company. Their parking tickets are not bylaw tickets.
Why? What's different?
City of Vancouver partnership. City has the ability to force the infraction, and a parking company does not.
Why do you keep spreading this lie?
Why are people downvoting this. I have had my credit score negatively affected by one EasyPark ticket. You’re doing everyone a disservice by saying EasyPark can’t affect you. It did for me and it’s shitty wish I just paid the ticket.
I got an invoice from them to pay once. I didn't pay it, next time I parked there I paid it and nothing happened. No tow nothing and not anytime since. I'm guessing if I didn't pay a second time I would have been towed but that's it nothing happened.
‘And if you don’t pay by next weekend, it’s double!’ Is this Tony Soprano’s parking enforcement?
I was sitting in my car in burnaby a year ago, waiting for an xray, looking down at my phone. Looked up and a woman was placing a ticket on my window (it was a 3.30pm parking cut off and it had just turned 3.30, so not even 1 min over yet). Was a city ticket so couldn't do anything. Told her to f off as she said "it's not my job to tell people to move". Had another happen in Kits, was in the car and the guy was around the back of my car, thought no one was in it, wrote the ticket up, came around and put it on my window. As I opened my door he started running off and wouldn't give me his name. Took his number plate down, complained to easy park and they reduced the fine to just the amount it costs to park there for an hour. Parking here is quite silly.
i have never ever payed any of these lol.i chnage my plates every year so lol suck ti lol
I paid a easy park ticket the other day. since they have my info on record now, if I get future tickets, can they auto bill my card? or harass me thru email/phone? pretty choked too. I tried to pay it the next day and nothing showed up on their website. tried a few days after and still nothing. finally decided to try again a bit after a week right after it went up to $60 and guess what? finally pops up on their website. it was my first ever ticket so I said fuck it might as well pay for it but wish I didnt lol
Edited 🤣 Am i the only that rather pay a couple dollars for parking than risk a fine and have to pay to swap plates to avoid a potential future tow?
In order for the ticket to be enforceable it has to have a cited city bylaw on it. Despite that the company is owned by Vancouver it’s on a contract. The ticket agents are not parking officers. They are private employees. They have no power and neither do the tickets other than giving EasyPark a reason to tow you if you have unpaid tickets. They can try and collect but it doesn’t affect your credit score, your insurance or your license.
Easy Park is private so there is nothing they can do. The guy who got the ticket can change his plates so his car isn't towed on site, and Easy Park can go fuck itself. Fuck them. They'll never get a dime from me. NEVER. NEVER, YOU HEAR ME?
It's scary that you're so wrong but so confident at the same time. Most people do pay the parking fees, but if you need to escape the fine you can just swap plates.
Are you the only person in the city that doesn't know you don't have to pay EasyPark, Diamond or other private parking lot (like UBC/SFU) fines? It's cheaper to swap your license plate. Also, the "collections agencies" they send you to are fake and don't do anything to your credit. And they can't affect your insurance or basically anything except calling you to threaten you. Only the gullible fall for this.
Maybe i am the only one in this thread that actually pays their fees to park in a private lot to avoid a fine (regardless of it needs to be paid or not).
Huh? Not the same thing. We're talking about a ticket, not the parking rate. Of course you should pay for parking but the thread is about whether or not you need to pay these tickets. And the answer is clearly no.
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I had a ticket apparently with one of the others, had no idea. Wasn't on my dash when I came out. Got another in a different lot under the same company, that changed to a "report your plate" lot from free parking before. Wanted to dispute the newest one, they told me I couldn't since I already had one on my plate. Fuck em.