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Complaint Review: Parking Violations Bureau - Los Angeles California
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Parking Violations Bureau
9911 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Parking Violations Bureau ripoff, consumer fraud ripoff. Los Angeles California
First of all, I'm a student from Canada with very limited financial resources. I am currently living in an apartment building without parking and have to park on the street. Street parking is very sparse and if your not home by 5pm. your out of luck.
Trying my best to avoid any parking violations, it was only a matter of time before I got my first ticket. In Canada you were notified about your tickets and asked to pay. If you weren't able to pay, you wouldn't be able to re-insure your vehicle. I would usually pay my parking tickets when I would insure my vehicle. At least I had notice of what would happen if I didn't pay.
I had never recieved any notice of was what was to happen next. They put a "boot" on my vehicle and expect me to pay $580 in the next few days. I can barely afford to eat let alone pay this ridiculous amount. I feel like I'm being held hostage. Without my vehicle I can't survive.
I feel that because my vehicle was out of state, the parking violations bureau saw $$$$ in their eyes. Knowing that they couldn't get in touch with me they targeted my car.
Jake
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
Trying my best to avoid any parking violations, it was only a matter of time before I got my first ticket. In Canada you were notified about your tickets and asked to pay. If you weren't able to pay, you wouldn't be able to re-insure your vehicle. I would usually pay my parking tickets when I would insure my vehicle. At least I had notice of what would happen if I didn't pay.
I had never recieved any notice of was what was to happen next. They put a "boot" on my vehicle and expect me to pay $580 in the next few days. I can barely afford to eat let alone pay this ridiculous amount. I feel like I'm being held hostage. Without my vehicle I can't survive.
I feel that because my vehicle was out of state, the parking violations bureau saw $$$$ in their eyes. Knowing that they couldn't get in touch with me they targeted my car.
Jake
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Marilynn
Mesa,Arizona,
U.S.A.
suggestion for out-of-state students in Los Angeles & Jake
#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, May 25, 2003
There's no question that the ruthless Parking Enforcement Bureau of Los Angeles, and its sidekick the Parking Violations Bureau, prey on hapless out-of-state students who drive vehicles bearing out-of-state plates. Los Angeles has long skirted California's mailed notification requirements to out-of-state vehicle owners and relies on this insidious methodology in order to double the price of an unpaid parking citation, then seize and tow the out-of-state vehicle to extort maximum excessive dollars from the ignorant negligent student. It's a scam of scams, void of due process, for out-of-state vehicle owners, and is part of a rip-off "system" that brings in more than $100 million annually to City of Los Angeles coffers. I urge Jake to spread the word to any other out-of-state students driving out-of-state vehicles, whose owners similarly received no mailed notices of delinquent parking violation, and ask that they too tell Rip-off Report of their experiences with City of Los Angeles parking enforcement. A Rip-off Report filed on 9/25/02 addresses the very issue Jake described.
