Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat
Legalised Scam
pilgrim:
--- Quote ---If you have to pay, you may as well make them pay as well!!
--- End quote ---
totally agree that you shouldn't have to pay, but lets not go overboard - hospitals are starved of cash as it is.
dazzawhipple:
--- Quote from: "pilgrim" ---
--- Quote ---If you have to pay, you may as well make them pay as well!!
--- End quote ---
totally agree that you shouldn't have to pay, but lets not go overboard - hospitals are starved of cash as it is.
--- End quote ---
OKay I have no problems with the NHSor anybody associted with it thay do a grand job but I pay tax and NI for it surley operating parking charges cost them money would it not be bettter spent elseware???
Staff should not pay but neither should someone with an appointment
I live 10 miles away so public transport was not an option
Darren
Darren
Budgie:
--- Quote from: "pilgrim" ---
--- Quote ---If you have to pay, you may as well make them pay as well!!
--- End quote ---
totally agree that you shouldn't have to pay, but lets not go overboard - hospitals are starved of cash as it is.
--- End quote ---
I was actually talking about payment in terms of bad publicity rather than any financial burden!! :wink:
Plus you're doing a public service yourself by warning other visitors so they don't find themselves in the same situation. :D
davidlandy:
I say give em the bad press - whichever way you look at it paying for parking at a place like that is bad , whether you be an employee or a patient, or a visitor - ok if you are going there just for a laugh or to use the car park for visiting the local shopping centre, then fine, expect to pay.
I often wonder how much it costs in the admininstration and collection of the fees by comparision to how much comes in in revenue. At our local hospital staff now have to pay £20 per month to park and thats DOESNT guarantee them a space , plus if there is a 2 tier system for them depending on engine cc, over a certain cc = more money! If I was staff and had to pay £20 per month I would be tempted to build a little garage on that spot and lock it up when I wasnt there!!!
Complain to the hospital and let them escalate the problem to the authorities, and then onto government tot give them the correct budget to work with rather than squander the extra they get on admin tasks, and reports. Once again the motorist is a soft and easy target.
Dirty Gertie:
When my mum was dying in hospital, I spent a few nights sleeping in her room, one day I left my car on the car park and had a lift home to shower, change etc, and I accidentally left the 'pay on exit' car park ticket in the jeans I had taken off, so to get out of the car park, I had to go to the car park office and notify the staff of my 'lost' ticket. The man I spoke to told me that they would send me a bill for the fee; which they would charge at the full day rate of £10, and in fact, this would be substantially less than the fee I would have had to pay in the ticket machine, since the car had been there over 24 hrs. Mum died on Nov 20th, as yet I've not received a bill for the ticket.
A legal note; if the signage is not clear, or is placed in such a manner that the motorist would not see it (ie, on the opposite side to that to which your attention is directed at the time) then you have a case for not paying, if you cannot be held in law to have been 'notified' you canot be expected to know! I can't remember the precedent case, but there defintely was one.
HTH
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version