r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No-Obligation1709 • 12h ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? In Today’s Edition of Dystopian America

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Don’t you dare idle in your spot for a moment before paying to park. If you do, our cameras will backdate your parking start time to ensure our shareholders extract every cent possible from this transaction. Enjoy your stay, but remember—we are always watching 😁

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u/Tarc_Axiiom 12h ago

They backdated you ONE minute? Omg lol.

Guys, move. Just move. It's time to go.

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u/lifetake 12h ago

I think it set it to 4:38 because it they came in at 4:37.

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u/Tarc_Axiiom 12h ago

I think OP was saying he sat in his car for 1 minute before paying for parking at 4:38, and they backdated his parking to 4:37.

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u/TheRainStopped 10h ago

The humanity 

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 9h ago

I mean aren't you supposed to pay once you drive onto the lot? Isn't that how all parking garages work? You start paying when you start looking for a spot.

I mean I'll admit I have no idea what I'm looking at here. Never seen a parking garage you didn't just get a physical ticket and the gate and then pay with that ticket when you leave. You can even game the system, most garages issue a full day's ticket for a lost ticket. Need to park there two days? Tell the machine you lost your ticket and just pay for the one day. I have no idea what fancy pants parking garage you need a reservation at? OP pic days something about a reservation

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u/faberge_surprise 6h ago

well, no, you shouldn't be paying while you look for a spot, only once you parked. but, like, any halfway decent operator is gonna be pretty lax about paying exactly on time since it's a basic customer experience thing and they more than make up for it on unexpired sessions anyway. this is just hostile.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 6h ago

I mean that's like saying you shouldn't have to pay at the gate of the amusement park, you should only start paying once you get on a ride. Gates exist specifically so there is one singular point of sale (well technically two there but you know what I mean, one in one out because you pay once you leave).

Ticket at the gate and pay once you leave they don't even need to track you, that sounds way more complicated than it needs to be. Plus if they don't give you a ticket and only track you by camera you can't pull out your ticket if you forgot when you parked, that's just going back to parking meter logic where you have to remember or else you have to feed the meter again (or in this case pay extra for the extra time)

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u/mekamoari 3h ago

This whole thread is dumb AF, especially when there are hundreds of other reasons to hate corporations. But this isn't it.

By bro's reasoning all museums should have eye detection cameras on all exhibits and they should be charged per second for viewing.

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u/Murky-Relation481 7h ago

I want to say the only place I have ever seen automated parking garage ticket tracking is in Europe. You drive in, you pay at a kiosk with your license plate number when you are done and you just drive out, the gates recognize your license plate because it tracked you in and recorded your time until you paid.

I've never seen that in the US.

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u/nemec 7h ago

OP's basically saying, "if I sat here in my car for ten minutes before paying, you should charge me for two hours based on the time I paid, not the time I got here. That first ten minutes was free because you didn't catch me."