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[Rob Randall]

^Yes, I remember that incident. It begins this thread. What became of that?

[VicHockeyFan]

^Yes, I remember that incident. It begins this thread. What became of that?

 

Nothing.

[victoriassecret]

Why didn't you sue the guy in small claims court?

[Bingo]

Bum crack alert at :35   

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xseVvT8y_c0

 

 

[Mike K.]

Ha! I got a ticket once buying a parking ticket.

No word of a lie. I park, walk to the pay machine, pay, turn around and see the Commissionaire putting a ticket under my wiper. He was pretty angry when I approached him, told me I was scamming the system.

The rest of my day was actually pretty good, though.

[LJ]

I don't mind paying for parking, if I find the charges onerous I will park elsewhere. What I don't like is obvious traps like some of those in the Marketplace piece, those I would get incensed about. Like the one guy that stated he was stopped for like 8 seconds and the guy came up and gave him a ticket. Sort of flies in the face of the parking czar that stated that they allow them a generous grace period.

[VicHockeyFan]

I don't mind paying for parking, if I find the charges onerous I will park elsewhere. What I don't like is obvious traps like some of those in the Marketplace piece, those I would get incensed about. Like the one guy that stated he was stopped for like 8 seconds and the guy came up and gave him a ticket. Sort of flies in the face of the parking czar that stated that they allow them a generous grace period.

 

The Robbins lot where I had the guy smash the camera out of my hands, placed a boot immediately on any car that did not have a ticket on the dash.

 

[Bingo]

I don't mind paying for parking, if I find the charges onerous I will park elsewhere. What I don't like is obvious traps like some of those in the Marketplace piece, those I would get incensed about. Like the one guy that stated he was stopped for like 8 seconds and the guy came up and gave him a ticket. Sort of flies in the face of the parking czar that stated that they allow them a generous grace period.

 

Sometimes the attendants sit in their vehicle at the back of the lot waiting for tickets to expire.

[Bingo]

The Robbins lot where I had the guy smash the camera out of my hands, placed a boot immediately on any car that did not have a ticket on the dash.

 

 

That is so cruel, smashing a camera and taking away a persons livelihood.

[johnk]

Sometimes the attendants sit in their vehicle at the back of the lot waiting for tickets to expire.

Quotas?

[LJ]

Bingo, on 21 Nov 2016 - 11:26 PM, said:

Sometimes the attendants sit in their vehicle at the back of the lot waiting for tickets to expire.

I wonder if they get a portion from every ticket they write?

[HB]

I was. I was assaulted by an employee and had my camera knocked out of my hands and to the pavement.

That employee no longer works for Robbins. But Robbins refused to replace my damaged (not beyond repair) camera.

Please give details on this event

[Jill]

See the first post in this thread.

[Jill]

An international student who flew to Saudi Arabia for his father’s funeral and returned to find his BMW had been sold by Kustom Towing has been awarded $14,000 by the Victoria provincial small claims court.

 

On May 21, 2014, Mohammed Alattas received news that his father was dying. Alattas, who was a student at Royal Roads University and had an apartment in Victoria, wanted to get to his father’s bedside quickly. He bought an airline ticket for the next day, then went to Robbins Parking to arrange payment for parking at one of its lots. Robbins gave him a decal, but Alattas forgot to put it on his car, Judge Adrian Brooks noted in his ruling.

 

On June 16, Robbins had the car towed away by Kustom Towing. However, for months afterward, Robbins continued to charge Alattas for the parking. “As a result, Mr. Alattas had no suspicion that his car was anywhere but safely parked with Robbins. Unbeknownst to him, and all due to the chain of events set off by his moment of forgetfulness, his 2007 low-mileage BMW, valued at between $14,000 and $19,000, was sold by Kustom for $2,000,” Brooks said.

 

http://www.timescolo...udent-1.4487126

[Rob Randall]

Fair ruling. Logically you'd think that Robbins would check their own files as a last resort before selling the car. I mean, really, how often are people abandoning BMWs?

[Jill]

Private parking operators seem to take an adversarial approach to their own customers just as a matter of course -- kind of like Canada Post.

[Awaiting Juno]

Fair ruling. Logically you'd think that Robbins would check their own files as a last resort before selling the car. I mean, really, how often are people abandoning BMWs?

 

Robbins only had the car towed, it was Kustom that sold the car to pay for unpaid storage costs.  But you'd think that Robbins should check records (I'd assume he would have "registered" the license plate of the car) prior to resorting to towing.  It seems like bad business to tow customers who have paid their bill, but failed to display a decal....

[VicHockeyFan]

Robbins only had the car towed, it was Kustom that sold the car to pay for unpaid storage costs.  But you'd think that Robbins should check records (I'd assume he would have "registered" the license plate of the car) prior to resorting to towing.  It seems like bad business to tow customers who have paid their bill, but failed to display a decal....

 

It might also be bad business to wash your hands of it.  You have a $10,000+ car, you are just going to give it to Kustom, not have them check back if it's not claimed?

 

Also, did Kustom also meet their full obligation in listing the car for sale and taking the highest offer?  How does it end up selling for $2,000 (conveniently to a friend of Kustom) when it's worth 5x that?

[Mike K.]

Doesn't the law prohibit cars from being sold in this way?

[VicHockeyFan]

Doesn't the law prohibit cars from being sold in this way?

 

No.  But you have to list it for sale and take the highest price.  I'm not sure if you have to hold the difference (if you get more than the fees owed) in some type of escrow.

 

EDIT:  Yes, you are supposed to turn over the surplus to the owner:

 

 

http://www.bclaws.ca...480_01#section4

 

Disposition of proceeds of sale

6  (1) From the proceeds of the sale the warehouser must satisfy the warehouse lien and must pay over the surplus, if any, to the person entitled to it.

(2) The warehouser must, when paying over the surplus, deliver to the person to whom the warehouser pays it a statement of account showing how the amount has been computed.

(3) If the surplus is not demanded by the person entitled to it within 10 days after the sale, or if there are different claimants or the rights to it are uncertain, the warehouser must pay the surplus into the Supreme Court on its order.

(4) The order referred to in subsection (3) may

(a) be made on an application without notice to anyone and on the terms and conditions as to costs and otherwise as the court may direct, and

(b) direct to what fund or name the amount of the surplus must be credited.

(5) At the time of paying the amount of the surplus into court the warehouser must file in court a copy of the statement of account showing how the amount has been computed.