Paid parking lot scams?
I don’t go downtown much, but a couple weekends ago I wanted to go to Thrift Con at the convention center and it was pouring that day so I ended up driving instead of taking the streetcar and walking like I’d planned.
I parked in the massive lot directly across from the center (400 Calliope) and scanned a QR code to pay as I was rushing through the rain and thought I was good. I was mad that it was like $23 but figured that’s the price of doing business.
Today I open a bill in the mail for $75 for a parking violation 😵💫 and I finally go back through my mass of unclosed tabs on my phone to see an error message saying my payment hadn’t processed. I would normally be inclined to say it must have just been my bad signal, but at least one other person I know had the same thing happen that day at that lot.
Is this a common scam or bad luck??? I haven’t had any issues using the premium parking lots before with the red signs, but I think this one is owned by a different company (bill came from one generically named “Parking Revenue Recovery Services, Inc”)