Car Park Ticket Con Costing Us Millions ; Change Kept by Machines

Sunday Mirror › March 13, 2011

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DRIVERS are losing millions of pounds a year to car park machin es that don't pay out change.

Pay-and-display operators are cashing in on motorists who don't have the exact coins. A driver who only has a pounds 1 coin for a 40p ticket, for example, gets nothing back while parking operators pocket the 60p difference. Campaigners say the rip-off is costing motorists millions of pounds a year at a time when petrol prices are soaring.

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Car Park Ticket Con Costing Us Millions ; Change Kept by Machines

Town halls and train companies are the worst offenders. Twelve of 18 m...

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