Marathon Man
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I've spotted time discrepancies now and again on some of the parking meters in Drogheda - they can be a couple of minutes slow so I'm paying for parking that I didn't use (e.g. I park at 2.45pm and am charged from 2.42pm). Cheaper than having to pay an extra hour's worth, but annoying all the same!
Not quite. You're getting 1 hour from the time stamped on the ticket. QPark stamp an incorrect time on the ticket, for whatever reason, and this misleads the customer.....as you are getting what you pay for, ie you pay for one hour and you get one hours parking.
Do you do this? I don't nor do I expect to. I don't know anyone who does - I've asked quite a few. In any case see the point above.The simple solution is to go by your own watch. Take a look at it as your ticket is being issued, and be sure to be back before an hour has expired according to your watch.
I get a timecheck (nearly) every day. In any case both my watch and the QPark 'host's' agreed to the minute and he said it's (the QPark system time" always wrong.but fast compared to what? your view of the correct time?
As I said previously it stands to make a huge financial difference to QPark, even if they did not intend it. Anyone coming back within 6 minutes of the hour (or multiples of 1 hour) is going to be charged for an additional hour.unless their 'hour' isn't an 'hour' then it doesn't make any difference.
The simple solution is to go by your own watch. Take a look at it as your ticket is being issued, and be sure to be back before an hour has expired according to your watch. That way, it makes no difference what time is printed on the ticket.
Read my earlier posts. The QPark 'host' (as QPark call them) said that "They're (the timers) alway wrong". His watch agreed with mine, to the minute. Also I know that my own watch was, on the day at least, accurate. The nub of the issue is that there appears to be a variation between the timestamp and the information on the magnetic strip, both on the same ticket.Quote:
Your claim that the time printed on your ticket was "out" by 6 minutes is based purely on what your watch said at the time. If it was a case that the time on the ticket-issuing machine differed from the time on the pay machine by that much, then I would agree that you have a valid issue.
I agree. However what I'm saying is that, at the time of entry, i.e. physically getting the ticket from the m/c as you drive into the car park, nobody I know, before they drive off into the car park, checks the time stamp and their own watch. They, and I, do this after they park.Quote:Otherwise, it's just common sense to take note of the time you park.
..."there is a legitimate expectation that the time printed on the ticket a) is (reasonably) accurate - not out by 6 minutes, i.e 10% of the parking time unit. b) Corresponds with the computer system time and c) can be relied upon by the customer.
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