Well for goodness sake, why the heck should they refund you if you are stupid enough to do this? It clearly costs effort and money to process a refund, so I quite agree with the effective refusal to make a refund in these circs.
How different is this to buying a plane ticket and not turning up? No refund in those circs normally either (with low cost flights anyway).
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It's inconvenient, but it would seem to me that the responsibility falls on you to make sure you could pay the charge correctly. Having a meeting or dinner to attend wouldn't be a valid excuse, I would have thought, any more than using that excuse for not paying a parking meter after your time had expired.
I don't pay my charge until I've been into C London, because things can and often do change at the last minute and I'll wind up not going. But I haven't had a problem paying it at a shop either in London or near home yet, I live 40 miles from the city and there are 2 shops that I know of within 5 minutes' walk of my front door that take payment.
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So how can you get ever a refund if the cost of getting it is the same as the charge being refunded ? Wouldn't it be fairer to simply have a no refund rule ?
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Volvoman - as I understand it, there is a no refund rule. I live about 200 miles from London so there is the chance I could be wrong but I\'m sure I read somewhere that if you pre-book your £5 charge but then don\'t use it - tough pink furry dice. Quite right too. As Dave the taxi driver says, don\'t pay until you know for sure that you\'re going into C London. BTW, don\'t think for one minute that I\'m a CC supporter. Far from it - I think it\'s the nastiest piece of back-door taxation ever to have been introduced in England.
I think it\'s outrageous that people are suggesting that it\'s Richard Turpin\'s own fault for having the temerity to go out to dinner with his friends. Richard has every right to expect to be able to pay his £5 as and when he wishes without fear of being \'fined\' for TfL\'s incompetence. If I were you, Richard, I\'d fight for your fiver. It may only be a tiny amount of money, but it\'s the principle. Just think how much extra Red Ken\'ll be making because his barmy CC hasn\'t been set up correctly - not only are we paying for something we\'ve already paid for several times over (the right to drive on the road) but now we\'re expected to contribute towards gross incompetence as well! The sooner Kongestion Ken gets the boot the better! I\'m going to have to get myself a new soapbox - I\'m wearing this one out!!!
Cheers guys
Never rub another man\'s rhubarb.
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Never rub another man's rhubarb.
Huh??
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It's a quote from the first Batman film with Michael Keaton - Jack Nicholson as the Joker has the privilege of uttering it. I just like it because it sounds vaguely filthy! And I'm irredeemably puerile!!
Never rub another man's rhubarb.
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