While visiting LA I pulled into a parking space in front of a restaurant off of S. Vermont. I acknowledged the parking attending walking my way as I was parking, I stepped out of my vehicle and said to the parking officer I was going to go inside to get change. The officer nodded his head and walked past my car.
I went into the café and had to wait in a short line to get change. I came out of the café to see the officer writing me a parking ticket. I asked the officer if he see me park and acknowledged I was going into get change. He said yes he did. Then he went on to say that’s why he walked past my vehicle and started on 2 vehicles behind my car and wrote me the ticket when he got to mine. It took me about 1 minute to get change and he literally wrote my ticket as I was putting the first quarter into the machine.
I should note the officer was very nice and expressed his condolences for the ticket then walked off, I'm sure with a bit of a grin. I am not familiar with your parking laws but I would imagine that you would extend the courtesy of allowing someone a minute or two to obtain change for the meters.
I sent in a complaint to the city but they of course said "too bad" as well. Now, I'm not from LA and was visiting for a brief business meeting. This will be my last time in LA - don't think I'm missing too much - especially the warm hospitality. I think New York just moved up a notch.
i also gave them $700 as a deposit for absolutely nothing but 3 months of wasting my time with off the shelf templates and a team that had no clue about web design. Additionally i was VERY clear in my expectations, objectives and content requirement and outlined everything in writing. They delayed for several months then contacted me that they needed more money. But they had not done anything yet other then provide me a link to a sample page.
I contacted them and cancelled my order but they indicated I signed a contract and refused any refund. So I ended up with absolutely nothing.
I would stay FAR away from this company!
I have countless emails and documents that i would be very happy to share with anyone that isn't convinced this company will only take your money and produce nothing.
David Raine
DyoCore
www.dyocore.com
Wish we would have found this post last year while visiting Gran Caribe Real Club. Though we very much enjoyed our trip we are now almost a year into paying a little over $3, 000 of the $15, 000 package. We have tried many times to reserve rooms for this coming summer with no luck at what was promised to us. We were told we get a 40 to 60% discount off of posted prices - this is NOT TRUE, we were told we get rooms for a full week at only $99 that can be booked on a special site that they showed us during our stay - we have yet to get access to anything like that. Every time we call we get someone that speaks very little english and can only book a "full price" reservation that costs more than if we went to hotels.com. Fortunately we've only spent $3000 and just this past month closed the account they were billing. we are now seeking an attorney in Mexico to file a dispute.
