This is why I won’t let a valet park my car
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | 2 CommentsOkay, so this story is a bit different than my usual posts, but I saw this earlier and had to say something about it.
In the video above, the news reporter goes undercover to show how valet companies in Los Angeles, CA are taking up public parking spaces to make money. One owner says that he only does it because he needs more room. I’m sorry, but that is no excuse to take parking spaces from the public to profit from them.
Chris and I both discussed this and thought that perhaps someone’s pockets are being padded so that the valet companies can get away with this. If these signs are illegal to put up, then how are they not being arrested or at least fined for doing it?
Then, there are valets that are parking without putting money in a meter and getting tickets on other people’s cars. That’s outrageous enough, but to make matters worse they aren’t telling people that their car had a parking ticket put on it.
These business practices are deplorable and should not be tolerated. It is awful that it’s happening somewhere as densely populated as LA, but there’s not much that most people can do except hope that law enforcement can do something about it.
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Tags: signs, law enforcement, business practices
Jennifer | Thu, Oct 01 2009
Wow, that was messed up! I never use valets because it always felt weird to trust someone I don’t know to drive away with my car, and now I definitely feel justified in that suspicion. It’s really frustrating they keep putting up signs and cones and whatever (especially that they actually have the guts to argue about it, but I guess if they’ve never been challenged before they think they do have the right, haha) but the thing about not telling them their cars got tickets just infuriates me.
Chris McClelland | Thu, Oct 01 2009
I know it is pretty bold to make fake signs and do this. I was at my computer when Jen was watching the video and had to watch along.
What I don’t get is why something isn’t being done to these valet companies, I mean this is fraudulent activity here.