Parking at Tuggeranong Hyperdome

ah, ok.

If it helps I can just do up a sign that says:

“Get here before 6pm Fridays and It’ll cost you $2”

If they wont, I will! : P

from what i gather, even if you enter at like 5:30 or something its still free as the gates are up after 6?(around there)

The only thing is that it’s friday and late nite shopping and commonsense(rather than what the sign says) says that you would have to pay for late night trading

One good thing about the ‘dome’ is that it used to be free to park there when other shopping centers charged. This was part of the attraction of going there.

From what I can gather from this post the sign says :

after 6pm free

rather than

Entry after 6pm free?

Adding the word ‘entry’ probably should have been a requirement to eliminate confusion for people driving past also concerned with no running into concrete/other cars. No need to be nasty if someone admits they found a sign misleading or confusing – signs are supposed to clear up confusion!

Not only are they now charging (not sure when this came about) but they sit people in booths after 6 to collect even more revenue – this may also be part of TW’s issue. $2 a day for a year is $730 a car, which would pay your rego bill each year.

“Despite any fine print on a 2 metre sign (or posted on the Internet), the sign at the entry, clearly stating the carpark charges, could not possibly give anyone a reason to think that they would have to pay for parking after 6 pm. Most people would use the same logic…”

No. Only f*ckwads and imbeciles would think this. You are an idiot who cannot comprehend even the simplest of instructions clearly laid out in front of you, and furthermore, have the hide to complain about being proven utterly wrong.

You’ve basically said “The rules state X, I don’t agree with the rules, therefore I do and pay whatever I want.”

Why didn’t you just put on your hobnailed boots and go for the world ‘kicking-in-the-c**t’ record?

Then give her $2 for the pleasure of it.

Yes it’s free after 6PM but use your frigin brains nimwit.. You entered at 5pm therefore you were there for more than 2 hours and didn’t enter after 6! maybe they need a sign just for you

Nothings free in this world. Pay your $2 and get over it, the carpark attendants wouldent be there if it was free and give them a break they’re doing their job they don’t need drama queens coming through and stressing them out.

“The attendant called the security guard, who wanted my driver’s licence (which I also refused)” You have the right to refuse to produce a drivers license to any one that is NOT a Police Officer or an officer of the Court. However that Police officer has to also produce proof of being a sworn officer. Not those people that work for the Australian Protective Service and other Security services.

Same sorta deal at the Canberra centre. There signs say $2 after 6pm. However, I entered the other week at 4pm’ish, left around 9ish and it set me back $10. You must enter after 6pm for the offer to work. So yes, you were charged correctly.

I totally agree with TW. Good on ya!

It’s the vibe of the thing, your honour. 🙂

Holy crap, I would have just paid the $2 and saved myself the stomach ulcers. I mean, sure, you are trying to make a point, but in the process you are holding up people who probably have places to be. Is it really worth it? Unless I didn’t have the money, I would have just gone on with life. Go buy yourself a pizza.

“All this drama for $2. You have got to be joking!”

$2 goes a long way to cover the extra markup on woodfire pizza nowadays, you know.

It sucks, but if the fine print says “arrivals”…

Step 1: Build bridge. Step 2: Get over it.

Some of the comments may be missing the point a tad. It’s not so much saving $2 – and there would have been very little wording change to my original post if I had’ve handed the money over – as it is the amount of money being taken by the shopping centre in what I would argue is a scam. Despite any fine print on a 2 metre sign (or posted on the Internet), the sign at the entry, clearly stating the carpark charges, could not possibly give anyone a reason to think that they would have to pay for parking after 6 pm. Most people would use the same logic as with parking meters – if you arrive shortly before the pay period ends (say at 5 pm), you pay the amount up until that time (usually 5.30) and then you don’t have to pay any more, even if you stay there for longer. In this case, the shopping centre charges people who park their cars for more than two hours, up until 6 pm. Where there is a parallel universe logic used, as seems to be the case here, the shopping centre should be forced to either change its sign or its practice!

As for the security guard, to be fair, he actually wasn’t too heavy handed. The attendant was being far more insistent about giving her my licence. When I didn’t, she called security and I could hear her say, “she is blatantly refusing to give me her driver’s licence”. When she got off the phone she advised me that security is coming and “you’ll have to hand it over then”. I just looked at her and asked, “Why?” – but I don’t think she got it. I did offer a number of times to drive straight back into the carpark if they let me out, so that we could let the other cars through while we sorted it out, but they refused. (I also offered to walk home and leave the car there overnight – I don’t live far and I could drive it straight out in the morning). It was the security guard that eventually instructed the attendant to let me through, despite her protestations.

But, as Security were giving you a hassle then remember to take down their licence number (whihc should be on display at all times) and either take it up with the centre Security Coordinator, or go through DoFair Trading and lodge a complaint.

Apparently bonfire is like a stopped clock – every now and then he makes a comment that I agree completely with!

“…this is eventually going to be one of the “teh pizzaman hast obercharged me!” threads”

Exactly!

My initial comment was a little ambiguous: I was meaning why would you make such a fuss and cause so much trouble over a measly $2?

Hospital treatment required after being punched in the head by an angry driver trapped five cars behind you would surely cost more than $2?

i like the assumption by the jackbooting security guard he could demand to see your licence.

Although I’m agreeing with Mr Evil, this is eventually going to be one of the “teh pizzaman hast obercharged me!” threads.

Trust only the big white one covered in legalese when you enter, it mentions “entry after 6pm” as one of the qualifiers.
The information desk will probably have a copy too, as you really ought not be expected to read an A2 page of legal contract while behind the wheel of a car.

From first google hit I could find (a document from June 2005):
“Free parking at the Hyperdome for arrivals after 6.00pm.”

All this drama for $2.

You have got to be joking!

For some reason I am under the impression that it’s one set of rules for mon-thur and another for Friday. Not saying it definitely is, but I do have that idea from somewhere, so maybe there’s some fine print on the sign (I can never read the bloody thing cos I’m too busy trying to drive).

Sorry Skidbladner, but I went back the next day and checked. The sign is set out something like

1st 2 hours Free
2-3 hours $2.00
3- … …
after 6 pm Free

There is late night shopping after 9 pm on Fridays but, according to the sign, parking is free after 6 pm from Monday to Friday. I’m not really after advice on how to avoid paying for parking when I incur a charge and I wouldn’t have thought to fish for a movie ticket – it seemed pretty clear to me that I would not need to pay for parking as it was free from 5 to 6 pm (within the first two hours) and free from 6 to 8 pm (after 6 pm).

Minor point: The signs say “Entry after 6pm free”.

They have late night shopping on Fridays, and so parking is charged until 9pm.

Or, at least, that is my understanding of it (and I haven’t read the sign lately).

Next time, go fish yourself a movie ticket out of a rubbish bin, so you can claim 3 hours free.

Yes, I’m afraid I dug my heels in and absolutely refused (I know it wasn’t worth it, but I just couldn’t help myself!). The attendant called the security guard, who wanted my driver’s licence (which I also refused) and then called the police to check to see if my car was stolen! They finally let me through after some of the forty or so cars that were backed up kept beeping their horns and one woman asked about compensation for her defrosting grocery items.

A bit strange…

You say that they “tried to charge” you – I assume then that you protested and didn’t have to pay?