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Complaint Review: Carolines Towing - CVS Pharmacy - Palmetto Georgia
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Carolines Towing - CVS Pharmacy
7930 Bowen Rd Palmetto, 30268 Georgia, U.S.A.
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CVS Pharmacy - Carolines Towing Towing Fraud Palmetto Georgia
I recently experienced what someone would call questionable fraud. I have parked my 1998 Pontiac Firebird at what seemed to be an abandoned parking lot for approximately two weeks with a For Sale sign visibly in the window with a clearly written phone number. At the time I parked the car on the lot, there were no signs indicating "Customer Parking Only." After returning from a weekend trip to visit family members, my wife and I discovered the car to be missing.
When I pulled into the lot at which the car was parked, I found a brand new sign on the lamp post indicating a "CVS Customer Parking Only." No courtesy phone call was made to inform me that my car would be towed if it was not moved. To my added shock and disbelief I read further down on the sign that the car was towed to a place two hours away at Caroline's Towing in Palmetto, Georgia. The town of Athens, Georgia is a town that has many towing companies.
The closest one being approximately 2.6 miles away with over 600 towing companies within a reasonable radius. I am not sure why the CVS Pharmacy chose a company that was two hours away instead of one that would be less than 5 minutes away. CVS obviously has no regard or mercy about their victims they take advantage of.
In addition, Caroline's Towing was only open until 5 p.m. and does not have anyone available until 11 p.m. to pick up their car. When we went to pick up our ransomed car we talked with the lady that was in charge of the after hours pick ups. She informed me that Caroline's Towing tows cars as far away as Tennessee. After towing the cars, they wait three days and send a letter to the owner of the car by finding out the address from the DMV. If they do not get a response within 30 days Caroline's Towing applies for a title and owns the car. After owning the car, they resold it. The lady told me that they just recently sold a 2007 Isuzu vehicle with only 500 miles on it after being towed. This whole system seems like it is illegal or at least is should be.
Contacts/Information
CVS Pharmacy
4044 Lexington Road
Athens, Georgia
(706) 546-7903
Caroline's Towing
7930 Bowen Rd.
Palmetto, Georgia 30268
(770) 477-5535
CVS Pharmacy Parking lot owned by:
Walco Investments LP
5370 Oakdale Rd.
Smyrna, Georgia 30082
Parking Lot Information
Class Code: C4-Commercial
Parcel Number 233 024B
Acres: 12.18
Sale Date: 03-23-2006
Deed Book: 3060 395
Grantor: Willowood Partners LTD
Grantee: Walco Investments, L.P.
(information obtained from (((link redacted))))
Tony
Winterville, Georgia
U.S.A.
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When I pulled into the lot at which the car was parked, I found a brand new sign on the lamp post indicating a "CVS Customer Parking Only." No courtesy phone call was made to inform me that my car would be towed if it was not moved. To my added shock and disbelief I read further down on the sign that the car was towed to a place two hours away at Caroline's Towing in Palmetto, Georgia. The town of Athens, Georgia is a town that has many towing companies.
The closest one being approximately 2.6 miles away with over 600 towing companies within a reasonable radius. I am not sure why the CVS Pharmacy chose a company that was two hours away instead of one that would be less than 5 minutes away. CVS obviously has no regard or mercy about their victims they take advantage of.
In addition, Caroline's Towing was only open until 5 p.m. and does not have anyone available until 11 p.m. to pick up their car. When we went to pick up our ransomed car we talked with the lady that was in charge of the after hours pick ups. She informed me that Caroline's Towing tows cars as far away as Tennessee. After towing the cars, they wait three days and send a letter to the owner of the car by finding out the address from the DMV. If they do not get a response within 30 days Caroline's Towing applies for a title and owns the car. After owning the car, they resold it. The lady told me that they just recently sold a 2007 Isuzu vehicle with only 500 miles on it after being towed. This whole system seems like it is illegal or at least is should be.
Contacts/Information
CVS Pharmacy
4044 Lexington Road
Athens, Georgia
(706) 546-7903
Caroline's Towing
7930 Bowen Rd.
Palmetto, Georgia 30268
(770) 477-5535
CVS Pharmacy Parking lot owned by:
Walco Investments LP
5370 Oakdale Rd.
Smyrna, Georgia 30082
Parking Lot Information
Class Code: C4-Commercial
Parcel Number 233 024B
Acres: 12.18
Sale Date: 03-23-2006
Deed Book: 3060 395
Grantor: Willowood Partners LTD
Grantee: Walco Investments, L.P.
(information obtained from (((link redacted))))
Tony
Winterville, Georgia
U.S.A.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Peter
Pony,Alabama,
U.S.A.
"Courtesy phone call"
#2Consumer Comment
Tue, August 05, 2008
Perhaps you should have given CVS a "courtesy phone call" to request permission before parking your vehicle on private property. Leaving a vehicle (or any other possession) on someone else's property for 2 WEEKS constitutes abandonment. The property owner had the right to tow you to the lot of THEIR choice. Get over it. You had absolutely no right to use CVS's property for your own FREE advertising campaign.
Robert
Buffalo,New York,
U.S.A.
Why?
#3Consumer Comment
Mon, August 04, 2008
Why do you think it's OK for you to use someone's property without permission? Instead of parking the car at your residence, you decided it was OK for you to turn someone else's property into you personal "used car lot" and now it's somehow a ripoff because they didn't give you a "courtesy call" to tell you it was going to be towed! How about a "courtesy call" from you to request PERMISSION to park your "for sale" car on their property? The property has to be purchased and developed to make a parking lot-this costs MONEY!!! I own several rental units with reserve parking for the tenants and I deal with cheapskates who are too cheap to pay a parking meter all the time. I don't hesitate to call a towing service to remove the inappropriate vehicles and I certainly make no effort to make any "courtesy calls" to ask them to remove it. You park you car on someone's property at your peril-especially if it's marked as such. It irks me to no end when folks decide it's OK to use someone's property without permission or compensation, but scream "VICTIM" when their vehicle is towed. To add insult to injury, you went out of town for some days and you weren't available to move it even if they HAD called you to move it. Remember this well the next time someone blocks your driveway or boxes you in at a parking lot.
