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Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Parkingticket.com just announced new compatibility with the Safari web browser on Apple's iPhone, giving you new tools to immediately contest a parking ticket. The site is so confident in their service that if all steps are followed and the ticket is still not dismissed they will pay $10 towards your ticket. "The process begins by navigating the iPhone's Safari browser to the Parkingticket.com website where you'll find a straightforward means to fight a parking ticket; whether the ticket was issued in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. Simply register for a free account and choose the city in which the ticket was issued. Enter your ticket and vehicle details then answer a few quick questions. The detailed process takes about ten minutes, from A-Z. To allow easy entry of your ticket, a look-a-like parking ticket is displayed — for your specific city — with interactive functionality."
Is this an ad or something?
In New York City, the government offers to settle a ticket for 50% if you just challenge the ticket. The company takes half of the value you save, so they probably make a killing telling everyone to challenge and pay the settlement.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
They charge a fee of half the ticket fine, which they reimburse if the ticket does not get dismissed.
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What about this scenario?
$30.00 parking ticket.
deposit $15.00.
The ticket gets reduced to $25.00.
They refund $7.50, but you've still paid them $7.50.
You're out $32.50, more than the original ticket.
This happens in every case where the ticket is reduced less than 25%. They need to address this.
Still, I like the idea in general.
The summary doesn't make this completely clear and the website only reveals this in a FAQ section, but this is ONLY available for tickets written in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So, basically, in the end, you pay 75% of the ticket price? Doesn't sound like that good a deal to me. Most tickets are in the $5 to $20 range. Maybe you'd be better off determining how to challenge local tickets for yourself.
I don't know where in NYC you've been driving but I've never seen a $5 ticket, or even $20 for that matter. Forget to renew your registration, around $65. Illegal parking below 96th Street: $105!
Most tickets are in the $5 to $20 range.
No, parking fines in Manhattan range from $65 to $115. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/nyregion/02parking.html (multimedia sidebar popup).
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Because the Jury would sentence the person who was trying to get out of a ticket to death for wasting their time.
Isn't that how its supposed to work? Its just a big racket. They managed to find a way to automate getting a piece of it. In this economy props to them.
It's only fair, afterall; many large municipalities use tickets and violations as income streams. dnot forget the recent traffic signals scandal...
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I think the iPhone just became a positive ROI for many people in these areas.
Not really. From the article, in order to even start the process you have to pay parkingticket.com a deposit equal to 50% of the ticket fine. Here is what can happen:
I guess if you're into paying a 50% fee for having someone fill out the paperwork, it's a good deal.
"If the ticket is not dismissed, parkingticket.com will refund the deposit and pay 10% of the ticket"
FTFY
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
I've never been to New York, so I wouldn't know. I was thinking of parking fines more in line with just about everywhere else I've been. Those fines are outrageous.
He is actually understating the fines. Or I should say, the total cost. I just had a car returned to me, with an expired inspection. I was literally driving it to the shop to have it inspected when I was pulled over for that.
I looked it up, saw it was a $25 fine (since it had just expired) and pleaded guilty. Big mistake.
2 week later I received a bill. $25 fine, as expected, and an $85 SURCHARGE. The total, for what was originally a $25 fine, became a $110 fine for an out of date inspection.
Thank god that I'm also literally moving out of this state today. 6 hr drive ahead of me, but good riddance.
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According to your Bill of Rights, any American Citizen can request trial by a jury of their peers when the amount in question is in excess of $20.00.
Granted, that $20.00 was worth a lot more when the bill was passed, and any jury that got pulled from work to try your parking ticket is going to be pissed (good luck finding an unbiased group), but you do have the federally mandated right to do so.
The clip is long, but worth it. Never seen the show before but I'm tempted to start watching. That was classic.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
I should note that after doing a little more research, I found that the company has been in business for much longer. The founder has been in the getting-out-of-parking-tickets business since 1982, designed a system called ALARM in the early nineties that performed the service for companies with fleets of vehicles, and in 2001 (when they started parkingticket.com) he estimated the company's revenue at $3MM.
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
That's just not slashdot's style. AFAIK there has only been one post removed from slashdot... ever. The only reason THAT one went is because the Scientologists brought out the lawyer guns.
I could be wrong, but that's what I remember of my slashdot history.
If the ticket is upheld, you pay: $12.50 (deposit) + $25.00 (ticket) = $37.50
You receive: $12.50 (refund) + $2.50 (10% of ticket) = $15.00
Net paid: $37.50 - $15.00 = $22.50
Savings = $2.50
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Are you including administrative fees, filing fees, court fees, fee fees, etc?
Yes, by all means be careful. Where I live, my stepson got a ticket for a noise violation. His car is not really all that loud, but he is 16, which is almost as bad as a DWB. Anyway, I went with decibel meters and reports in hand to wrangle with the authorities, and the court clerk told me I had to pay $50 non-refundable if I wanted to go before the judge to plead my case, and the judge could decide to even raise the fine if he so chose. So I very grumpily and with mutterances about railroading and shady legal authorities paid the fine, as it was cheaper than stating my case.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
1. They don't do denver. 2. The cities they do cover have a policy that if you contest the ticket, they'll offer to settle at 25-50% discount.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.