How to Pay a $35 Parking Ticket Thats $140 in Collections
Channel: Larry Chiang
Date: 2015-04-25

Parking tickets often have zombie afterlives. They live on even after paying due to double billing, parking ticket numbers getting juxtaposed or just plain laziness.

When paying a $140 collection notice, there is a myriad of snafus to avoid. Snafu is 'situation normal: all effed up'. 9's are credit code "charge-off". Duck 9's

I’m a “fixer”. It’s a dirty job.

 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
6/12/14, 11:39 AM
‘Countermeasures to Getting Double Billed by SFMTA’ (for SF parking tix) on.fb.me/1kRpRWy

The problem: your FICO score just dropped
You’re a traveling vc with automatic autopay. You think it’s impossible for their to be a collection against you! Credit data Au contraire,
mademoiselle it’s not fair
The problem: the paid parking ticket is now back haunting u (founder-that-has-sold-a-startup)
Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) tweeted at 11:38am – 3 Oct 13:

I pattern recognize a one time double bill by SFMTA because of a Ryan Junee fB update 120 days prior (https://twitter.com/LarryChiang/status/385836247979421696?s=17)
Solution: Parking tickets often get a zombie “afterlife”. The data entry person juxtaposes two numbers. Thus, your paid ticket number becomes unpaid.
Solution: start your ticket paying process with what you need: a paper trail.