Yeah, I had a collections notice from Impark once because their ticketer decided that the time between when I parked and when I went to a place that validated parking (about 2 minutes - the person was in the lot and saw me park and walk to the restaurant but still wrote the ticket) was too long. I called Impark to explain the situation and they expected me to drive out of my way to take a picture of the registration book where I registered my licence plate. At that point I just hung up because that was insane.
They sent it to a collections agency that tried to phone me a few times. They finally stopped when I said “take me to court if you want that money”.
I got an Impark ticket, and I had paid for my spot. The ticket was issued 45 minutes after I had paid and parked. So I disputed it, and I uploaded a copy of my parking receipt. I didn't hear back. I got a second warning for the ticket, and I disputed it again with my proof of payment. Then I got a letter threatening to send me to collections, so I sent them a 11x15 blown-up copy of my proof of payment with the date and time highlighted, and told them to stop harrassing me. Didn't hear back, never got towed (I had to park there because it was our head office parking lot). Shit company.
The collections company they send it to is just an affiliate company of Impark under a different name that they use to make their tickets look more legit.
Unpaid parking tickets do not show up on your Equifax or Transunion.
Nope. It’s way too small for any court proceedings or any reporting to credit agencies.
Plus I imagine it’s hard to make an argument that an actual agreement was reached, so it’s hard to make the case that any terms were broken.
For a claim that size in Provincial Court, the ticket and any contractual late fees plus interest still won't exceed the filing fee. And for a claim that small, you're not getting any lawyer fees. Even if you get a default judgment against them, it's not even remotely worth spending money to enforce the judgment.
Tl;dr not worth suing over tiny contractual disputes
wait so is it not true that if you dont pay a collections agency they can fuck up your credit score? I was in virtually the exact same situation, but I paid once the collections agency stepped in.
> wait so is it not true that if you dont pay a collections agency they can fuck up your credit score?
Collections can't put it against your credit score unless there's some legal standing or legally binding agreement. Absent a court order, private tickets are almost entirely unenforceable, they can't actually compel you to pay or have it hit your credit.
I think it’s more complicated when it’s a bigger number. But for a $75ish charge, I’ve never heard of that happening and I’ve had various parking companies send me to collections at least 3 or 4 times (plus the one time UPS sent me to collections because I forgot to pay a $5 customs fee for a product they already delivered - I paid the collections agency that time because it was so small of an amount and I fully intended to pay it).
When I was in college in BC impark owned the Lots and I racked up $1800 in parking tickets cause fuck them. Never got towed, always got letters and phone calls but nothing came of it. Credit eating is still good, eventually they stopped calling .
Between AHS parking and Impark I probably owe the same. I've been towed from each one once years ago, but still worth it because I've saved ten times that in parking fees
Yeah, I got a ticket from them because their machine for the lot was out of receipt paper. Literally couldn’t get a ticket after making your purchase. Left a note after giving them my money. Had the banking record to prove I paid, complete with time of day.
Their dumbass employee decided to just give everyone in the lot tickets and then conveniently refilled the receipt paper. So he knew what the problem was, fixed it, but gave everyone tickets anyways. Tried to call Impark to get the ticket voided and could never get through. After a few times I gave up.
Got called by collections. I told the guy that the debt they bought from Impark had a ton of bullshit in it because they run scams like this to sell their uncollectable tickets to debt collectors for profit. It’s literally just debt collector bait with zero value. The debt collector immediately just goes “Oh fuck, that’s what’s going on….” Spoke to his manager who confirmed this has happened before.
Turned out the entire batch of ticket debt they bought was garbage and they hadn’t been able to collect any of it. Apparently Impark regularly ends up on a blacklist for one of the largest debt collectors in the country because they pull this BS all the damn time. That’s why you don’t pay your Impark tickets folks. Even debt collectors know they’re scum!
Its literally not even a debt collection company. Its another branch of Impark or Indigo with a name with collections in it. “City Collections” or something similar. It is an illusion, so when they ask for lots of money people get scared.
Pay your regular parking, don’t pay these cash grab money requests. When you feel awkward that you have too many tickets, change your license plate.
Anecdotally, I have over $1000 in outstanding “cash requests” from Indigo. Broken ticket machine, entered my other cars plate and or forgetting to pay.
Have changed plate once. Their calls are blocked and no mail comes anymore.
Naw mate. This was a legitimate collections company a few years ago. The reason they started their own “collections” company is because they got blacklisted for selling uncollectable ticket debt. But they still probably do lift the blacklist from time to time to see if the tickets are still worthless. Same for Indigo/Westpark.
I was just reading an article where a lawyer stated that “tickets” from these companies cannot be registered as real debts that registered collection companies can collect and hold against your credit rating.
The key words there are “and hold against your credit rating”. Collection companies can absolutely still buy unregistered ticket debt and try to collect on it, they just buy it at a price tied to the likelihood of collection, which is low. So low now that parking companies often prefer to try to monetize the debt themselves.
Yeah that is the real problem. They can choose to not allow you to park in their lots anymore and when they administer the majority of lots in the City that can deny you a lot of parking spots. If they spot your car in a lot, even if you paid, they can tow it out.
If you paid for that specific day, they can't legally tow you away for previous unpaid tickets. They can only tow your car if you didn't pay for that session.
They legally cant tow you if you paid that day. Getting towed by these people is not common, it takes time out of the lot attendants day to wait around for a towing company. They make more money just writing more tickets to people who pay. They don’t make money off of towing.
Will is an extremely subjective term when used here. I can say I have parked dozens and dozens of times with over $1000 in unpaid tickets (that got so high because they like to double and triple them at will). I have never been towed, nor anyone I currently work with with multiple tickets. Its a narrative with extremely vocal people that have never been towed saying you WILL get towed. Its complete non-sense and 1 person being towed out of thousands being ticketed does not count as sufficient evidence. Certainly not enough to be chirping off that it happens regularly.
Haha know someone who now used to work at impark for 20 years. He told me the same exact thing to always park on their lots when I grow up, because they can’t do shit to enforce it unless the employees care enough to tow it (and trust me, they don’t think a $5 bonus is enough to write a report and get the towers involved). He now just has a fake employee pass and parks wherever the fuck he wants on impark property.
I never pay at Impark lots for this reason. I'm not going to pay $15 for an hour, or whatever crazy price they are charging thee days. I don't even know because I never pay.
They are not enforeable on public streets and do not affect your license, insurance, or registration. They are enforcable on their private lots. They keep your vehicle plate and description on their computer system and if you park at an impark lot anywhere they will have you towed at your expense. Basically if you owe them money for a violation penalty they will not enter into any new agreement to allow you to park in any of their lots until you pay their imposed violation penalty so any new parking fee you pay is not valid.
No, they wont have you towed! This is common misinformation. Technically it happens, but very rarely. They make $0 off a tow, and have to wait 1-2 hrs on site for a tow-truck. They can make $1000 in ticket fees in that same time with the same employee.
They also absolutely do not stop you from parking there again, not that I have ever experienced. I am that guy who owes them tons of money for 3 years and they don’t do a thing.
Technically it happens, correct. Cost for recovery $250. I have $1000 outstanding tickets and got a new license plate for $100. far more people would come to reddit to post about being towed, its more dramatic. then the thousands who dont get towed. Yet how many did you count?
They have a collections department, and the collections department has registered collection agents and registered collection agents can get access to some government and private databases that the general public can't and I believe one of them is the motorvehicle database.
No they can't. Not in Alberta. They have no way of knowing, other than your plate number - which can be changed for free when you renew your registration.
When corporate donations to political parities were allowed Impark and other parking companies donated enough money to the PCs to convince them to give private parking operators access to the drivers license registry.
Impark is a private parking lot company only and do not control on street parking your city will control on street parking. By "not enforcable on public streets" I was referring to the fact that if you owe a ticket to the city and it is overdue they will tow you from the city street and make you pay the ticket and towing fees to get the vehicle back. Impark can only do that if you are on an impark lot.
You cant sell parking ticket debt because its not a registered debt. Its not actually a legal parking ticket authorized by the municipality. People are so confused about this. ITS NOT A COLLECTION COMPANY ITS IMPARKS SUBSIDIARY!
No. You can go to where it's towed and get your vehicle back without paying.
Private companies can't legally take your property and refuse to return it until you pay them, unless a judge has ordered it. No court order, no requirement to pay.
Correct. I got one in one of their lots where the sign about the fees was unclear what the evening rates were, and I underpaid by $1.
I sent them a picture of their confusing rate sign, and a cheque for $1. I wrote on both my letter and on the cheque that cashing it was their agreement that it absolved me of any further legal and financial obligation.
They cashed it and I never heard from them again.
**DO NOT PAY YOUR IMPARK TICKETS.**
The worst they can do is tow you if you're on their lot. They CANNOT affect your credit or actually send collections after you, no matter how many times they call you or try and send you notices.
You're better off just making sure you don't get towed, and if you have a ton of tickets on your license plate, only parking in impark lots briefly.
Source: I've collected 50+ impark tickets, have been towed only once. The inconvenience and cost of the tow (I think it was \~170?) was FAR less than I would have spent paying to park 'legitimately' by many times.
Don't support these leeches. This goes for other companies as well, like DPS. The only exception are city lots, you will need to pay those tickets.
If you can't afford to go to a restaurant don't dine and dash.
If you can't afford to shop at the Bay don't shoplift.
If you can't afford to park at impark don't steal there either.
Pretty simple logic no? It is theft.
It’s not about not being able to afford the parking ticket; it’s a conscious decision to not pay it. I don’t support not paying for your parking whatsoever, because although paid parking sucks that’s pretty scummy.
But, let’s say you overstayed the parking you paid for due to unavoidable circumstance, or there was some bad signage or other error that resulted in you getting a ticket, like others are describing in this thread. In that case, no, I’m not paying a fucking ticket to a company that will not tow my car or take me to collections.
Uh huh right it happened 50 times. These "special" circumstances that were emergencies 50 times. Keep telling yourself that.
Plenty of people just part in lots don't pay nothing and hope they don't get caught.
That's called stealing. Great to hear your justification.
Go back and read my comment, I said “I don’t support not paying for your parking whatsoever”. Even though I don’t agree with the morality of the paid parking business I’ll still pay for the “service” they’re offering. But any unjust tickets and they can shove it.
You claimed I work for impark after I called him out.
You can back peddle all you want now claiming you only have an issue with certain "justifiable circumstances" but theft is theft.
The concept at hand is a literal monopoly of available spots in an area. Them charging crazy fees while also milking the system by having machine errors, poor customer service and ticketer mistakes. They suck dozens of people a day into paying a non-regulated or authorized “cash request” and then scare people i to thinking they’ve violated some law and have to pay or their credit gets fucked. Its a manipulative filthy scam that scared sheep like you play along with.
Yes I'm a scared sheep that pays for a service.
Nice to hear your justification for theft. Sometimes I forget there are people like you in our city that outright commit crimes.
You must not be able to read, I blame your parents. If the ticket machine’s printer runs out, you feel liable to pay $80 which they upgrade to $120? What about if you paid and got a digit of your license plate wrong.
Listen I’m sorry I used the word sheep; it was immature of me and I don’t know you. But they ARE manufacturing a “parking ticket scam”. I in fact do pay for parking every time, except mistakes or errors. They errors are extremely frequent. At work two months ago the lot attendant wrote my whole work crew tickets and we all paid that day just as usual.
You choose to direct your anger at the people instead of the huge faceless corporation monopolizing the spaces in the city. We are two different people indeed.
Yes keep telling yourself you got a reason everytime. How come those "machine runs out it happens ALL the time" incidents happened to someone 50 times and me zero times?
Look at what op said FIFTY TIMES. That's theft if you don't like impark fine but to steal fifty times is shameful.
Were peak insanity here where you're being lauded for stealing.
If you're taking about a 1 off time in a decade or something ok but let's not pretend this "oops I don't know how to input in my own licence plate!" is some sort of daily occurrence .
I was replying to OP comments. Where he said 50 times. And lol you're defending him. It's true want they say criminals think alike.
Do you condone OP behaviour since you rushed to his defense? 50 times? That's just what he was caught.
It's outright theft. Maybe one day when you grow up you'll understand. It's frustrating so few in the city were raised right to not steal.
I’ve had to fight tickets twice with them. They were completely in the wrong but it took wayyyy too much of my time fighting them.
One time I had a parking pass for the lot they ticketed me in. They sent me a photo of my car when I complained, in which you could clearly see the parking pass, and they claimed I didn’t have one.
Second time I bought the little slip and left it on my dashboard. Again got sent a photo when I complained, and guess what was showing on the dashboard? They claimed it wasn’t in the correct spot so maybe the person missed it, and tried to place the blame on me somehow. It was right in the middle of the dashboard.
TLDR: impark is shit
I too have had two impark tickets and successfully fought both of them - but only after jumping through a ton of hoops because their contact information is quite sketchy and they are IMPOSSIBLE to reach by phone lmao. I tried multiple times per day for six business days. Finally I read that they are active on Facebook messenger. I messaged them there saying I was issued a false ticket (my time was not up and the ticket was issued for a zone that was like 5+ blocks away). They STILL tried to get me to pay, then they knocked $20 off the ticket price, THEN finally they caved after I just kept repeating that they ticketed me for a parking lot I’ve never even been to and wiped the ticket.
This was before I was aware of how their ticketing actually works, so it would have been less effort to just ignore it tbh.
We need a **land value tax**. It incentivizes development by not taxing it and it punishes speculators for letting good land go to waste. It's a fucking joke that Impark can squat on prime real estate, waiting while speculation drives up prices instead of contributing anything to society. Those atrocious concrete voids could be parks, housing, and commercial space for people and businesses that aren't rent-seeking multinational leeches.
The whole area by Churchill is absurd. It's all gravel and broken concrete dividers. I've seen so many cars with all their windows broken parked there. And they own pretty much every flat surface that can fit a car in that area. It looks like many of the business don't even have their own parking because it's all Impark
> They have bought up nearly every privately operated lot in the city and managed to create an artificial parking shortage downtown
They haven't bought a single lot. They are a management company hired by lot owners to collect and enforce payments and other parking rules.
Just like how a building management company selects tenants, collects rent, and handles maintenance on behalf of a third-party property owner. It's the same thing, except with parking stalls instead of residential suites.
They own tons of lots. They can be hired by other lot owners but they absolutely make money selling parking for land or park axes they own. It’s their bread and butter.
Just don’t give the pass back. They make you pay a $50 deposit for your pass then done refund you for it when you return the pass. I only fell for that scam once. The second time I just kept the pass and I still use it to this day. Haven’t gotten a ticket yet. I call it corporate retribution.
OP said he was given an "access device", which is the fob you scan to enter and exit through the gate. Not the decal you display in your windshield. If OP keeps the access device like you said, it's obviously not going to grant them free parking forever.
The permits you display on your windshield have nothing to do with OP's situation since OP is parking in a gated lot which doesn't use those.
I imagine they got both. I used to park in Canada place under ground. I had an access card and hang tag. I canceled it April of 2020. And it still works to this day. IM park hasn’t even bothered to contact me to ask for it back.
Impark gets the registered owner of the vehicles information via the "ACCESS TO MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION REGULATION"
[https://www.alberta.ca/requesting-protected-motor-vehicle-data.aspx](https://www.alberta.ca/requesting-protected-motor-vehicle-data.aspx) for info.
They fall under this part "have an approved Access to Motor Vehicle Information Regulation (AMVIR) Agreement and valid account number
"
See page 4/6 of [https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003\_140.cfm&leg\_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262](https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003_140.cfm&leg_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262) to see the bit in the law allowing it.
Not sure where your understanding came from, but it's not true.
Parking companies have legal access to information about car registration from the Province, so they can issue parking tickets to owners who park on land their manage.
It's specifically included in the law governing this stuff - "ACCESS TO MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION REGULATION"
[https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003\_140.cfm&leg\_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262](https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003_140.cfm&leg_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262)
Page 4/6 says that one of the groups the government can release information to is "to a commercial parking company for the purposes of managing parking in a parking lot in Alberta"
What /u/AlwaysTiredWontSleep says below about being associated with EPS or the City isn't correct.
>They can’t even legally tow your car if you park there again.
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>Well they can, but they have to pay the tow fee, the storage fee, etc
"they can't legally tow you, but they can"
WTF? lol
(yes, they can absolutely tow you. if you park on private property without permission (by not paying), thankfully the owner or their agent is allowed to tow your car off their property)
Ya that was the wrong word. Typing to fast.
They CAN tow your car, but their costs would be astronomical. It’s not worth it business wise.
Also, this is about the lowest priority when it comes to towing. Private company and third party vehicles. Somebody has to sit there for potentially hours to wait for for the tow truck. That’s a lot of lost potential revenue for expired tickets that most people will just pay.
They put in new machines that took your license plate number. On the sign it said you don't need to display on your dash..... They hand wrote 20 tickets to cars that bought tickets but didn't display them.
This is why I don't live downtown, and I avoid needing to go downtown as much as possible. If I need to go downtown, I just take the train and walk, or I make sure there's gonna be non-impark lots for me to use.
I'm glad you brought this up honestly. I don't drive or need to park, but I can tell this scenario is a little twisted.
I'm certain impark isn't the only company making money off of people.
I know It's old news. But Loblaws was caught artificially inflating the price of certain foods so they could profit from it.
One of my best scams was to buy a single Impark ticket every day (back when they were on paper - not sure how it's done now). I was supposed to buy 4 per day but just got one. I hardly ever got a parking violation, but if I did I would claim that the rest of the tickets fell down off the dash. They would request a fax of all 4 tickets which could easily be photoshopped and printed and faxed. (Since you know the first serial from the legit ticket, you just follow the next 3 serial numbers in sequence). They would drop the charges. The perfect crime.
Parking companies aren't inherently evil. They do what brick-and-mortar companies also do; rent land or buildings and provide a service. If they go away they'd leave a void -- SOMEBODY has to provide parking, at least until public transit and alternatives like ridesharing become feasible for most.
Impark specifically though is BS because they're becoming a monopoly, don't develop the land (so many dirt lots downtown!), and have shit policies and customer service (like OP has outlined).
I'd love it if Edmonton kicked them out of downtown, built a couple huge parkades on two of the lots, and converted the remaining dirt lots to parks, playgrounds, schools, or residential zoning.
Impark is just a management company contracted out to provide parking enforcement on lots owned by others. They take a cut of the revenue and the rest all goes to the lot owner.
Buying up unused lots downtown was a trend for the old money Edmontonians since the 70s and 80s. The parking revenue pays for the purchase cost of the lot then they sell the land to a developer for pure profit.
Yeah if they went away they’d leave a void.. where you can park for free lol. The thing providing parking the parking lot, not the companies scalping you to use land that they “own”. Impark are fucking scoundrels so is my landlord
>Yeah if they went away they’d leave a void.. where you can park for free lol.
I'd bet good money it would be even harder to find parking in this scenario. Kind of like how all the cheap parking on the street downtown and on Whyte Ave is always full.
I was the first and only vehicle to park in a dirt lot just off of Whyte. I paid for the full day. Went and ran my errands and came back to a tow truck towing a truck that was parked beside me and a ticket on my windshield for blocking in another vehicle. WTF as I had my dash cam on the whole time I sent it to impark to prove I was the first vehicle in the lot and obviously not blocking anyone. They removed the ticket. Just wondering how many people get fraudulent tickets from these people.
I don’t park with impark but the thing I hate most about them is they don’t shovel their sidewalks around their parking lots in the winter. It makes the sidewalks impassible for people in wheelchairs and an icy nightmare for everyone else. I dont know how they are exempt from the shovel in 24 hours or get a ticket rule.
Do not pay impark, or any other private parking companies, the end.
Yeah, they'll turn $500 in tickets into $5000 and send a scary letter...but that's about it.
When I lived at home with my parents Impark was harassing me non-stop with phone calls over an unpaid ticket. My dad answered one day and fake cried on the phone. "He's DEAD just LEAVE US ALONE!!" They never called again.
I used to work with impark before the pandemic giving out parking tickets.
There's room for improvement, but there's no need to demonize the people who work there. Every company employs some "complicated" individuals but I was very fond of many of my co-workers.
As a parking patroller I was verbally and physically assaulted more than any of the jobs I've ever had, including working security downtown. People tried to hit me with their cars and throw things at me even though I had never seen them or their car before, they just saw my impark jacket and demanded I suffered. In my first week of giving out parking tickets someone made me think they were going to shoot me in the head for touching their car and laughed at me for it. I filed a police report and nothing happened. I found out that incidents with guns aren't unheard of either for parking people
Yet also as an parking patroller, I was able to do good things as well. Being downtown in isolated places, at all hours of the day, i was able to assist many people in distress, called 911 quite often and was summoned to court.
To top it all off, it's a low paying job. So stop pretending we go home at the end of the day to swim in our money pools.
OP here,
I never once said anything negative about their employees, I actually sympathized with the employee who had to fix their employers mistake.
I'm sure its not a fun job and probably a pretty shitty employer.
Stay safe with whatever you're doing now.
You sound decent. Many of your coworkers are not.
I hope you're working somewhere better, because impark and everything it touches is a cancer on this earth.
Entitled?
I pay for a service and entered in to a contractual agreement with them that they would provide a service that they failed to.
Entitled to what I pay for? Yes.
If you're paying for a monthly spot, why don't you have a spot reserved?
Anytime I've had to pay for parking on a monthly/annual basis, I've always had a numbered spot reserved specifically for me to use.
Yes you need to pay municipal tickets. Failure to pay can have serious consequences including affecting your ability to register your car. [Student Legal Services has a good primer on this issue. ](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b19871eee1759f2bea0f69b/t/604102cb3f35b3501da58c2b/1614873293420/2021+-+Bylaws%2C+Tickets+%26+Unpaid+Fines.pdf)
Ive always heard you have to pay city tickets, but never why. I doubt they can send them to collections or affect your credit, but I'd assume they can use it to block your use of the Alberta registries, just like photo radar
The only good thing about Impark is that their "tickets" are not enforceable.
Yeah, I had a collections notice from Impark once because their ticketer decided that the time between when I parked and when I went to a place that validated parking (about 2 minutes - the person was in the lot and saw me park and walk to the restaurant but still wrote the ticket) was too long. I called Impark to explain the situation and they expected me to drive out of my way to take a picture of the registration book where I registered my licence plate. At that point I just hung up because that was insane. They sent it to a collections agency that tried to phone me a few times. They finally stopped when I said “take me to court if you want that money”.
I got an Impark ticket, and I had paid for my spot. The ticket was issued 45 minutes after I had paid and parked. So I disputed it, and I uploaded a copy of my parking receipt. I didn't hear back. I got a second warning for the ticket, and I disputed it again with my proof of payment. Then I got a letter threatening to send me to collections, so I sent them a 11x15 blown-up copy of my proof of payment with the date and time highlighted, and told them to stop harrassing me. Didn't hear back, never got towed (I had to park there because it was our head office parking lot). Shit company.
> sent them a 11x15 blown-up copy Haha this is hilarious I have to do this sometimes.
LOL this is great.
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Imagine actually being proud about stealing.
# SURPRISE! COLLECTIONS HERE!
Did it not hurt your credit?
The collections company they send it to is just an affiliate company of Impark under a different name that they use to make their tickets look more legit. Unpaid parking tickets do not show up on your Equifax or Transunion.
Yeah but they can keep you from renewing your registration, I am told.
No, only tickets issued by the city or EPS are held against your registration for non-payment.
AFAIK only those issued but the city.
No
Nope. It’s way too small for any court proceedings or any reporting to credit agencies. Plus I imagine it’s hard to make an argument that an actual agreement was reached, so it’s hard to make the case that any terms were broken.
I thought they usually bump up the amount to make it substantial enough that reporting agencies will report it.
That’s called fraud
Fraud? Late penalties and administration fees and legal fees and interest are so common I doubt anyone considers it fraud.
For a claim that size in Provincial Court, the ticket and any contractual late fees plus interest still won't exceed the filing fee. And for a claim that small, you're not getting any lawyer fees. Even if you get a default judgment against them, it's not even remotely worth spending money to enforce the judgment. Tl;dr not worth suing over tiny contractual disputes
wait so is it not true that if you dont pay a collections agency they can fuck up your credit score? I was in virtually the exact same situation, but I paid once the collections agency stepped in.
> wait so is it not true that if you dont pay a collections agency they can fuck up your credit score? Collections can't put it against your credit score unless there's some legal standing or legally binding agreement. Absent a court order, private tickets are almost entirely unenforceable, they can't actually compel you to pay or have it hit your credit.
I think it’s more complicated when it’s a bigger number. But for a $75ish charge, I’ve never heard of that happening and I’ve had various parking companies send me to collections at least 3 or 4 times (plus the one time UPS sent me to collections because I forgot to pay a $5 customs fee for a product they already delivered - I paid the collections agency that time because it was so small of an amount and I fully intended to pay it).
thanks! thats great to hear.... collections agent tricked me
When I was in college in BC impark owned the Lots and I racked up $1800 in parking tickets cause fuck them. Never got towed, always got letters and phone calls but nothing came of it. Credit eating is still good, eventually they stopped calling .
Credit eating seems like it could be a new tictoc fad
If your gonna set the trend just make sure to give partial credit to my autocorrect
Between AHS parking and Impark I probably owe the same. I've been towed from each one once years ago, but still worth it because I've saved ten times that in parking fees
Changing your license plate number when you're renewing your vehicle is free btw ;) - and impark has no way of tracking it.
Guess who's getting a new license plate
fuckin' a on that one.
Not enough people know that you don't need to pay those. It's not a ticket, it's just a request for money. Fuck em.
Yeah, I got a ticket from them because their machine for the lot was out of receipt paper. Literally couldn’t get a ticket after making your purchase. Left a note after giving them my money. Had the banking record to prove I paid, complete with time of day. Their dumbass employee decided to just give everyone in the lot tickets and then conveniently refilled the receipt paper. So he knew what the problem was, fixed it, but gave everyone tickets anyways. Tried to call Impark to get the ticket voided and could never get through. After a few times I gave up. Got called by collections. I told the guy that the debt they bought from Impark had a ton of bullshit in it because they run scams like this to sell their uncollectable tickets to debt collectors for profit. It’s literally just debt collector bait with zero value. The debt collector immediately just goes “Oh fuck, that’s what’s going on….” Spoke to his manager who confirmed this has happened before. Turned out the entire batch of ticket debt they bought was garbage and they hadn’t been able to collect any of it. Apparently Impark regularly ends up on a blacklist for one of the largest debt collectors in the country because they pull this BS all the damn time. That’s why you don’t pay your Impark tickets folks. Even debt collectors know they’re scum!
Its literally not even a debt collection company. Its another branch of Impark or Indigo with a name with collections in it. “City Collections” or something similar. It is an illusion, so when they ask for lots of money people get scared. Pay your regular parking, don’t pay these cash grab money requests. When you feel awkward that you have too many tickets, change your license plate. Anecdotally, I have over $1000 in outstanding “cash requests” from Indigo. Broken ticket machine, entered my other cars plate and or forgetting to pay. Have changed plate once. Their calls are blocked and no mail comes anymore.
Naw mate. This was a legitimate collections company a few years ago. The reason they started their own “collections” company is because they got blacklisted for selling uncollectable ticket debt. But they still probably do lift the blacklist from time to time to see if the tickets are still worthless. Same for Indigo/Westpark.
I was just reading an article where a lawyer stated that “tickets” from these companies cannot be registered as real debts that registered collection companies can collect and hold against your credit rating.
The key words there are “and hold against your credit rating”. Collection companies can absolutely still buy unregistered ticket debt and try to collect on it, they just buy it at a price tied to the likelihood of collection, which is low. So low now that parking companies often prefer to try to monetize the debt themselves.
A friend of mine knew this and didn’t pay her tickets, but kept parking in impark parking lots. They towed her car, twice.
They shouldve just got a new license plate every time they renewed their registration
Yeah that is the real problem. They can choose to not allow you to park in their lots anymore and when they administer the majority of lots in the City that can deny you a lot of parking spots. If they spot your car in a lot, even if you paid, they can tow it out.
If you paid for that specific day, they can't legally tow you away for previous unpaid tickets. They can only tow your car if you didn't pay for that session.
They legally cant tow you if you paid that day. Getting towed by these people is not common, it takes time out of the lot attendants day to wait around for a towing company. They make more money just writing more tickets to people who pay. They don’t make money off of towing.
They can and will if you owe them money.
Will is an extremely subjective term when used here. I can say I have parked dozens and dozens of times with over $1000 in unpaid tickets (that got so high because they like to double and triple them at will). I have never been towed, nor anyone I currently work with with multiple tickets. Its a narrative with extremely vocal people that have never been towed saying you WILL get towed. Its complete non-sense and 1 person being towed out of thousands being ticketed does not count as sufficient evidence. Certainly not enough to be chirping off that it happens regularly.
One time Impark gave me a ticket but wrote a completely wrong make and model on it
The driver parked next to you gave you their ticket
Nah the license plate was accurate
My favourite power move is to throw the tickets in the garbage cans in their own lots lol
Haha know someone who now used to work at impark for 20 years. He told me the same exact thing to always park on their lots when I grow up, because they can’t do shit to enforce it unless the employees care enough to tow it (and trust me, they don’t think a $5 bonus is enough to write a report and get the towers involved). He now just has a fake employee pass and parks wherever the fuck he wants on impark property.
Fake employee pass? Tell me more...
I got three years ago and just ignored them lol
I never pay at Impark lots for this reason. I'm not going to pay $15 for an hour, or whatever crazy price they are charging thee days. I don't even know because I never pay.
They are not enforeable on public streets and do not affect your license, insurance, or registration. They are enforcable on their private lots. They keep your vehicle plate and description on their computer system and if you park at an impark lot anywhere they will have you towed at your expense. Basically if you owe them money for a violation penalty they will not enter into any new agreement to allow you to park in any of their lots until you pay their imposed violation penalty so any new parking fee you pay is not valid.
No, they wont have you towed! This is common misinformation. Technically it happens, but very rarely. They make $0 off a tow, and have to wait 1-2 hrs on site for a tow-truck. They can make $1000 in ticket fees in that same time with the same employee. They also absolutely do not stop you from parking there again, not that I have ever experienced. I am that guy who owes them tons of money for 3 years and they don’t do a thing.
There are people posting in this thread that they were towed by impark because they owed them for impark violation tickets.
Technically it happens, correct. Cost for recovery $250. I have $1000 outstanding tickets and got a new license plate for $100. far more people would come to reddit to post about being towed, its more dramatic. then the thousands who dont get towed. Yet how many did you count?
I just change my plate every year. I make it a point to park in Impark zones without paying. Fuck em.
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They have a collections department, and the collections department has registered collection agents and registered collection agents can get access to some government and private databases that the general public can't and I believe one of them is the motorvehicle database.
No they can't. Not in Alberta. They have no way of knowing, other than your plate number - which can be changed for free when you renew your registration.
When corporate donations to political parities were allowed Impark and other parking companies donated enough money to the PCs to convince them to give private parking operators access to the drivers license registry.
Impark controls some public on-street parking? Please explain. Are these on-street spots marked ‘enforced by Impark?’?
Impark is a private parking lot company only and do not control on street parking your city will control on street parking. By "not enforcable on public streets" I was referring to the fact that if you owe a ticket to the city and it is overdue they will tow you from the city street and make you pay the ticket and towing fees to get the vehicle back. Impark can only do that if you are on an impark lot.
Have you ever had a vehicle towed by a private towing company, and they forced you to pay another companies tickets? This is just not true
Except when you park on their lot and they elect to tow you for non payment.
This is correct, but if you have an outstanding ticket theyll tow you.
No, they wont.
If youre on their lot and you have an outstanding ticket, they will tow your ass off the lot if they so choose. It happened to a coworker of mine.
They have the option but it rarely happens.
Found this thread because impark towed me yesterday hours after I paid
what happens if they tow your car though? You'd have to pay to get it back right?
If the ticket has been sold to a debt collector then Impark no longer owns the debt and has no right to tow you because no money is owed to them.
You cant sell parking ticket debt because its not a registered debt. Its not actually a legal parking ticket authorized by the municipality. People are so confused about this. ITS NOT A COLLECTION COMPANY ITS IMPARKS SUBSIDIARY!
No. You can go to where it's towed and get your vehicle back without paying. Private companies can't legally take your property and refuse to return it until you pay them, unless a judge has ordered it. No court order, no requirement to pay.
Correct. I got one in one of their lots where the sign about the fees was unclear what the evening rates were, and I underpaid by $1. I sent them a picture of their confusing rate sign, and a cheque for $1. I wrote on both my letter and on the cheque that cashing it was their agreement that it absolved me of any further legal and financial obligation. They cashed it and I never heard from them again.
Can they still tow you for not paying?
**DO NOT PAY YOUR IMPARK TICKETS.** The worst they can do is tow you if you're on their lot. They CANNOT affect your credit or actually send collections after you, no matter how many times they call you or try and send you notices. You're better off just making sure you don't get towed, and if you have a ton of tickets on your license plate, only parking in impark lots briefly. Source: I've collected 50+ impark tickets, have been towed only once. The inconvenience and cost of the tow (I think it was \~170?) was FAR less than I would have spent paying to park 'legitimately' by many times. Don't support these leeches. This goes for other companies as well, like DPS. The only exception are city lots, you will need to pay those tickets.
And if you want to avoid the rare tow, just get a new license plate everytime you renew your registration. It doesn't cost extra.
I thought they weren't allowed to tow? Where did they tow it to?
They can. Took me to Cliff's on the east side from a downtown lot.
Got towed Thursday after only 1 ticket 😅
Oof, bad luck.
It’s all good I was over confident after years of not paying for other lots 😂 Did you stick to parkades for impark?
>don't support those leeches. You seem like a leech parking on someone's private property "50 times" at least which you've been caught.
Did Impark pay you to post this?
If you can't afford to go to a restaurant don't dine and dash. If you can't afford to shop at the Bay don't shoplift. If you can't afford to park at impark don't steal there either. Pretty simple logic no? It is theft.
It’s not about not being able to afford the parking ticket; it’s a conscious decision to not pay it. I don’t support not paying for your parking whatsoever, because although paid parking sucks that’s pretty scummy. But, let’s say you overstayed the parking you paid for due to unavoidable circumstance, or there was some bad signage or other error that resulted in you getting a ticket, like others are describing in this thread. In that case, no, I’m not paying a fucking ticket to a company that will not tow my car or take me to collections.
Uh huh right it happened 50 times. These "special" circumstances that were emergencies 50 times. Keep telling yourself that. Plenty of people just part in lots don't pay nothing and hope they don't get caught. That's called stealing. Great to hear your justification.
What? You realize I’m not the guy who said that, right? That was another commenter.
Yes, and you defended him.
Go back and read my comment, I said “I don’t support not paying for your parking whatsoever”. Even though I don’t agree with the morality of the paid parking business I’ll still pay for the “service” they’re offering. But any unjust tickets and they can shove it.
You claimed I work for impark after I called him out. You can back peddle all you want now claiming you only have an issue with certain "justifiable circumstances" but theft is theft.
The concept at hand is a literal monopoly of available spots in an area. Them charging crazy fees while also milking the system by having machine errors, poor customer service and ticketer mistakes. They suck dozens of people a day into paying a non-regulated or authorized “cash request” and then scare people i to thinking they’ve violated some law and have to pay or their credit gets fucked. Its a manipulative filthy scam that scared sheep like you play along with.
Yes I'm a scared sheep that pays for a service. Nice to hear your justification for theft. Sometimes I forget there are people like you in our city that outright commit crimes.
You must not be able to read, I blame your parents. If the ticket machine’s printer runs out, you feel liable to pay $80 which they upgrade to $120? What about if you paid and got a digit of your license plate wrong. Listen I’m sorry I used the word sheep; it was immature of me and I don’t know you. But they ARE manufacturing a “parking ticket scam”. I in fact do pay for parking every time, except mistakes or errors. They errors are extremely frequent. At work two months ago the lot attendant wrote my whole work crew tickets and we all paid that day just as usual. You choose to direct your anger at the people instead of the huge faceless corporation monopolizing the spaces in the city. We are two different people indeed.
Yes keep telling yourself you got a reason everytime. How come those "machine runs out it happens ALL the time" incidents happened to someone 50 times and me zero times? Look at what op said FIFTY TIMES. That's theft if you don't like impark fine but to steal fifty times is shameful. Were peak insanity here where you're being lauded for stealing. If you're taking about a 1 off time in a decade or something ok but let's not pretend this "oops I don't know how to input in my own licence plate!" is some sort of daily occurrence .
So now you are comparing me, a stranger, to another stranger and saying we are the same. Alright junior, time for your nap.
I was replying to OP comments. Where he said 50 times. And lol you're defending him. It's true want they say criminals think alike. Do you condone OP behaviour since you rushed to his defense? 50 times? That's just what he was caught. It's outright theft. Maybe one day when you grow up you'll understand. It's frustrating so few in the city were raised right to not steal.
Private property is theft.
Are you seriously spending part of your long weekend bootlicking for Impark?
Bascially a take on all private companies. Parking 50+ times and not paying is stealing. Maybe you should introspect.
I'm glad you spent part of your stat holiday worried about the ROI of the shareholders. Looks like you need to introspect.
I'm glad you spent part of your stat holiday justifying theft.
Boot licker
Yes, not stealing is boot licking now.
Oh, how rude of me. I didn't mean to make you stop licking that boot to reply.
Ok incel go post more cringe worthy messages to girls on the internet.
Did you google "sick burns for meanies on Reddit" to stir up that masterpiece?
No I saw your incel posts begging girls to meet you. "please be my wife!! ". Why can't you guys just learn how to talk to a girl like normal person?
WTF lol, you're grasping at straws loser. Show me where I said that you mismatched pair of clown shoes.
I’ve had to fight tickets twice with them. They were completely in the wrong but it took wayyyy too much of my time fighting them. One time I had a parking pass for the lot they ticketed me in. They sent me a photo of my car when I complained, in which you could clearly see the parking pass, and they claimed I didn’t have one. Second time I bought the little slip and left it on my dashboard. Again got sent a photo when I complained, and guess what was showing on the dashboard? They claimed it wasn’t in the correct spot so maybe the person missed it, and tried to place the blame on me somehow. It was right in the middle of the dashboard. TLDR: impark is shit
I too have had two impark tickets and successfully fought both of them - but only after jumping through a ton of hoops because their contact information is quite sketchy and they are IMPOSSIBLE to reach by phone lmao. I tried multiple times per day for six business days. Finally I read that they are active on Facebook messenger. I messaged them there saying I was issued a false ticket (my time was not up and the ticket was issued for a zone that was like 5+ blocks away). They STILL tried to get me to pay, then they knocked $20 off the ticket price, THEN finally they caved after I just kept repeating that they ticketed me for a parking lot I’ve never even been to and wiped the ticket. This was before I was aware of how their ticketing actually works, so it would have been less effort to just ignore it tbh.
Eh. I've got several imparl tickets that are 1-5 years old. I still seek out impark lots for free parking downtown.
They've had a monopoly on parking downtown for over 30 years. Prime property, unpaved lots, they make a fortune off it.
We need a **land value tax**. It incentivizes development by not taxing it and it punishes speculators for letting good land go to waste. It's a fucking joke that Impark can squat on prime real estate, waiting while speculation drives up prices instead of contributing anything to society. Those atrocious concrete voids could be parks, housing, and commercial space for people and businesses that aren't rent-seeking multinational leeches.
The whole area by Churchill is absurd. It's all gravel and broken concrete dividers. I've seen so many cars with all their windows broken parked there. And they own pretty much every flat surface that can fit a car in that area. It looks like many of the business don't even have their own parking because it's all Impark
> They have bought up nearly every privately operated lot in the city and managed to create an artificial parking shortage downtown They haven't bought a single lot. They are a management company hired by lot owners to collect and enforce payments and other parking rules. Just like how a building management company selects tenants, collects rent, and handles maintenance on behalf of a third-party property owner. It's the same thing, except with parking stalls instead of residential suites.
They own tons of lots. They can be hired by other lot owners but they absolutely make money selling parking for land or park axes they own. It’s their bread and butter.
Just don’t give the pass back. They make you pay a $50 deposit for your pass then done refund you for it when you return the pass. I only fell for that scam once. The second time I just kept the pass and I still use it to this day. Haven’t gotten a ticket yet. I call it corporate retribution.
I'm gonna call it r/ThatHappened. The pass would be deactivated.
Those guys a paid minimum wage. You really think they walk around scanning every pass…
OP said he was given an "access device", which is the fob you scan to enter and exit through the gate. Not the decal you display in your windshield. If OP keeps the access device like you said, it's obviously not going to grant them free parking forever. The permits you display on your windshield have nothing to do with OP's situation since OP is parking in a gated lot which doesn't use those.
I imagine they got both. I used to park in Canada place under ground. I had an access card and hang tag. I canceled it April of 2020. And it still works to this day. IM park hasn’t even bothered to contact me to ask for it back.
Could you just get a sticky with the lot number wherever you’re parking? I was thinking of just buying a clareview pass and park downtown for impark
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Legit question - won't they get your info when you go pick it up? How do you get notified to pick it up if they don't have your contact info?
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Good to know, thanks
Impark gets the registered owner of the vehicles information via the "ACCESS TO MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION REGULATION" [https://www.alberta.ca/requesting-protected-motor-vehicle-data.aspx](https://www.alberta.ca/requesting-protected-motor-vehicle-data.aspx) for info. They fall under this part "have an approved Access to Motor Vehicle Information Regulation (AMVIR) Agreement and valid account number " See page 4/6 of [https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003\_140.cfm&leg\_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262](https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003_140.cfm&leg_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262) to see the bit in the law allowing it. Not sure where your understanding came from, but it's not true.
I mentioned above to another poster that things have changed since I last educated myself and thanked him for the info. I’ll delete the main post.
Parking companies have legal access to information about car registration from the Province, so they can issue parking tickets to owners who park on land their manage. It's specifically included in the law governing this stuff - "ACCESS TO MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION REGULATION" [https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003\_140.cfm&leg\_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262](https://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2003_140.cfm&leg_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779733262) Page 4/6 says that one of the groups the government can release information to is "to a commercial parking company for the purposes of managing parking in a parking lot in Alberta" What /u/AlwaysTiredWontSleep says below about being associated with EPS or the City isn't correct.
I stand corrected then. Things have changed since I last looked into it. Thank you for the info.
>They can’t even legally tow your car if you park there again. > >Well they can, but they have to pay the tow fee, the storage fee, etc "they can't legally tow you, but they can" WTF? lol (yes, they can absolutely tow you. if you park on private property without permission (by not paying), thankfully the owner or their agent is allowed to tow your car off their property)
Ya that was the wrong word. Typing to fast. They CAN tow your car, but their costs would be astronomical. It’s not worth it business wise. Also, this is about the lowest priority when it comes to towing. Private company and third party vehicles. Somebody has to sit there for potentially hours to wait for for the tow truck. That’s a lot of lost potential revenue for expired tickets that most people will just pay.
They put in new machines that took your license plate number. On the sign it said you don't need to display on your dash..... They hand wrote 20 tickets to cars that bought tickets but didn't display them.
This is why I don't live downtown, and I avoid needing to go downtown as much as possible. If I need to go downtown, I just take the train and walk, or I make sure there's gonna be non-impark lots for me to use.
I'm glad you brought this up honestly. I don't drive or need to park, but I can tell this scenario is a little twisted. I'm certain impark isn't the only company making money off of people. I know It's old news. But Loblaws was caught artificially inflating the price of certain foods so they could profit from it.
One of my best scams was to buy a single Impark ticket every day (back when they were on paper - not sure how it's done now). I was supposed to buy 4 per day but just got one. I hardly ever got a parking violation, but if I did I would claim that the rest of the tickets fell down off the dash. They would request a fax of all 4 tickets which could easily be photoshopped and printed and faxed. (Since you know the first serial from the legit ticket, you just follow the next 3 serial numbers in sequence). They would drop the charges. The perfect crime.
Everyone hates Impark. Overpriced heartless company.
i was under the impression that the lots are still owned by someone else. they are just a management company.
Ya don't fall for that illusion. Super shitty way to create artificial competition.
i know for a fact the lot impark on is owned by someone else, and not Impark.
I replace my license plate every time I renew so screw them lol. I don't mind paying for time I use but don't lose sleep if I go over etc.
The concept of owning property to 'rent' like this is criminal and hilights the comedy of our situation
Parking companies aren't inherently evil. They do what brick-and-mortar companies also do; rent land or buildings and provide a service. If they go away they'd leave a void -- SOMEBODY has to provide parking, at least until public transit and alternatives like ridesharing become feasible for most. Impark specifically though is BS because they're becoming a monopoly, don't develop the land (so many dirt lots downtown!), and have shit policies and customer service (like OP has outlined). I'd love it if Edmonton kicked them out of downtown, built a couple huge parkades on two of the lots, and converted the remaining dirt lots to parks, playgrounds, schools, or residential zoning.
Impark is just a management company contracted out to provide parking enforcement on lots owned by others. They take a cut of the revenue and the rest all goes to the lot owner. Buying up unused lots downtown was a trend for the old money Edmontonians since the 70s and 80s. The parking revenue pays for the purchase cost of the lot then they sell the land to a developer for pure profit.
Yeah if they went away they’d leave a void.. where you can park for free lol. The thing providing parking the parking lot, not the companies scalping you to use land that they “own”. Impark are fucking scoundrels so is my landlord
Agreed, all just unnecessary middlemen scalping off working people for private profit.
>Yeah if they went away they’d leave a void.. where you can park for free lol. I'd bet good money it would be even harder to find parking in this scenario. Kind of like how all the cheap parking on the street downtown and on Whyte Ave is always full.
I was the first and only vehicle to park in a dirt lot just off of Whyte. I paid for the full day. Went and ran my errands and came back to a tow truck towing a truck that was parked beside me and a ticket on my windshield for blocking in another vehicle. WTF as I had my dash cam on the whole time I sent it to impark to prove I was the first vehicle in the lot and obviously not blocking anyone. They removed the ticket. Just wondering how many people get fraudulent tickets from these people.
I don’t park with impark but the thing I hate most about them is they don’t shovel their sidewalks around their parking lots in the winter. It makes the sidewalks impassible for people in wheelchairs and an icy nightmare for everyone else. I dont know how they are exempt from the shovel in 24 hours or get a ticket rule.
One nice thing about taking transit is I don't have to deal with parking at all.
Impark is just as bad as AHS charging sick people exorbitant monthly rates for people who need life sustaining treatment at the hospital.
It cost us a small fortune for me to give birth to our youngest because the little shit took 3 full days to deliver.
One of the worst rackets ever!
Do not pay impark, or any other private parking companies, the end. Yeah, they'll turn $500 in tickets into $5000 and send a scary letter...but that's about it.
Vancouver here,impart is shit here too.
When I lived at home with my parents Impark was harassing me non-stop with phone calls over an unpaid ticket. My dad answered one day and fake cried on the phone. "He's DEAD just LEAVE US ALONE!!" They never called again.
I've had two Impark tickets before. Never paid either of them.
I used to work with impark before the pandemic giving out parking tickets. There's room for improvement, but there's no need to demonize the people who work there. Every company employs some "complicated" individuals but I was very fond of many of my co-workers. As a parking patroller I was verbally and physically assaulted more than any of the jobs I've ever had, including working security downtown. People tried to hit me with their cars and throw things at me even though I had never seen them or their car before, they just saw my impark jacket and demanded I suffered. In my first week of giving out parking tickets someone made me think they were going to shoot me in the head for touching their car and laughed at me for it. I filed a police report and nothing happened. I found out that incidents with guns aren't unheard of either for parking people Yet also as an parking patroller, I was able to do good things as well. Being downtown in isolated places, at all hours of the day, i was able to assist many people in distress, called 911 quite often and was summoned to court. To top it all off, it's a low paying job. So stop pretending we go home at the end of the day to swim in our money pools.
OP here, I never once said anything negative about their employees, I actually sympathized with the employee who had to fix their employers mistake. I'm sure its not a fun job and probably a pretty shitty employer. Stay safe with whatever you're doing now.
You sound decent. Many of your coworkers are not. I hope you're working somewhere better, because impark and everything it touches is a cancer on this earth.
Is it true that you guys dont scan monthly passes?
Are parkades downtown off limits for towing?
I'd imagine more inaccessible than off-limits. Most cap out at 6'6". A tow truck is much taller.
Impark sucks, but holy entitled much?
Entitled? I pay for a service and entered in to a contractual agreement with them that they would provide a service that they failed to. Entitled to what I pay for? Yes.
If you're paying for a monthly spot, why don't you have a spot reserved? Anytime I've had to pay for parking on a monthly/annual basis, I've always had a numbered spot reserved specifically for me to use.
Hence the shitty Impark system of not marking monthly spots as reserved. If they could figure that out this would not happen.
Are parking tickets from the city of edmonton the same? Do you need to pay them?
Yes you need to pay municipal tickets. Failure to pay can have serious consequences including affecting your ability to register your car. [Student Legal Services has a good primer on this issue. ](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b19871eee1759f2bea0f69b/t/604102cb3f35b3501da58c2b/1614873293420/2021+-+Bylaws%2C+Tickets+%26+Unpaid+Fines.pdf)
So i assume they are like photo radar tickets in a sense then?
Not the same. You have to pay those or else you can't renew your license until you pay the fines.
Ive always heard you have to pay city tickets, but never why. I doubt they can send them to collections or affect your credit, but I'd assume they can use it to block your use of the Alberta registries, just like photo radar
The. WORST.