So i've been parked at RDU for ~22 days, at 10 bucks a day thats gonna be a pretty hefty fee when I come home Thursday.

Anyone know what the lost ticket fee there refer to on their website is? My thinking is maybe its some set fee of like 100 or something, so I could "lose" my ticket and actually get a better deal. Also, I have no idea if they would try to verify itinerary, etc...b/c that could be a failure waiting to happen...

Anyone who's done this or know how the lost ticket stuff works...lemme know

6/17/2009 12:34:51 AM

call and ask what the fee is?

6/17/2009 12:36:22 AM

Yeh there are closed til the morning...I just thought this up...

6/17/2009 12:38:30 AM

might be on the recorded message
(919) 840-2140

6/17/2009 12:45:01 AM

Nope..already looked

Thanks though

6/17/2009 12:46:09 AM

next time:

http://www.preflightparking.com/RDU.aspx

6/17/2009 2:14:19 AM

they record your license plate number at Charlotte, they probably do it at RDU as well

6/17/2009 4:58:12 AM

yeah that's what you should do... since you were too lazy to determine what to do with your car before leaving it in a $10 a day lot for 22 days you should cheat the system.

do you really think that you are the first person to think this is a genius idea?

And I'm sure with the way security is at airports now, they have already noticed that your car has been there for over 3 weeks.

pay what you owe and next time take a taxi or ride...

6/17/2009 5:57:14 AM

The lost ticket fee might be a fee they charge to look up your plate in their system (if they record it like they apparently do in Charlotte). Then you'd just end up paying:

$220 for the 22 days + $100 lost ticket fee

6/17/2009 7:08:28 AM

hahaha that would be an uber pwnt.

I guess you could pull up to the kiosk, tell them you lost the ticket, see what they say. If they try to do ^, make the ticket magically appear from somewhere.

For at least $120, you may want to think about crying a little too

6/17/2009 7:36:31 AM

why the fuck would you park your car in $10/day parking when you were going to be gone for so long? you are an idiot.

6/17/2009 8:49:02 AM

I was only suppsed to be in Vegas for 3 days...it turned into a monster vacations

I'm not an idiot...just thought it was a reasonable idea.

6/17/2009 8:52:09 AM

i guess you just have money to waste.

i would have had a friend go and move my car to the park and ride

6/17/2009 9:10:11 AM

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"i would have had a friend go and move my car to the park and ride"

a capital idea.

also, the only times you should ever park at RDU are a) if the cost of parking is less than taking a taxi, or b) your company is paying for the parking/airfare.

6/17/2009 9:54:48 AM

RDU records every license plate for every car every day. They know when you parked at RDU, and where your car is located.

If you do the lost ticket thing, they will probably go back in their book and look at the inventory.

This was the case 2 years ago, anyway...

6/17/2009 10:18:57 AM

^ score!

6/17/2009 10:21:02 AM

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"I'm not an idiot...just thought it was a reasonable idea."

the fact that you thought it was a reasonable idea proves otherwise.

6/17/2009 10:44:08 AM

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"next time: http://www.preflightparking.com/RDU.aspx"

agreed. print out the coupon too. we always use this place

6/17/2009 11:08:31 AM

wait for another car to pull up to the little arm bar thing where the ticket comes out

when the car comes up, pull out their ticket telling them it didnt give you yours.

take ticket to counter

pay whatever small amount it is

save money

profit.

6/17/2009 11:11:32 AM

Have a friend come to the airport and get a ticket.
use their ticket to get your car out, have them get fined for losing their ticket and pay them back

6/17/2009 1:02:10 PM

1985, I like the way you think.

6/17/2009 1:03:57 PM

Just walk up to the entrance and get a new ticket. Use it when you leave. ?

6/17/2009 1:08:46 PM

you guys are going to get this guy interrogated by homeland security

6/17/2009 2:03:13 PM

If you have the cash for a 22 day vaca in vegas, coughing up $220 for parking should be no big deal.

6/17/2009 11:46:27 PM

^does not compute. One does not make money in Las Vegas.

6/18/2009 11:02:49 AM

^then you're doing it wrong

6/18/2009 2:26:11 PM

CarZin is correct. Lost mine once, they have it all in their system. Turned out the attendant was my neighbor so he may have cut me a deal. It was kind of a pain waiting for him to go through everything though.

6/18/2009 9:46:45 PM

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"Just walk up to the entrance and get a new ticket. Use it when you leave"

i tried that once at another airport, but i think it has to detect a car to issue a ticket

i dont know about RDU though

but i guess you could drive a car up, get a ticket, and back out,

but thats gonna be real hard too in the one way traffic

6/18/2009 10:20:29 PM

they just need to back up enough to get a new ticket and go through the gate

you come back a few hrs later to grab your car so its not completely ridiculous

also if you got your car at like midnight or whenever the last flight gets in, the person manning the booth is going to be dead on arrival and not give a fuck

[Edited on June 19, 2009 at 3:54 AM. Reason : ]

6/19/2009 3:53:25 AM

boy i hate when i use a service for convenience sake and they actually charge me the listed price!

i went to the grocery store for bread yesterday, but i ended up seeing more things i liked so i stuck them under my coat. i only went for bread after all, why pay for the rest?

[Edited on June 19, 2009 at 11:17 PM. Reason : i love threads asking for advice on how to commit crimes]

6/19/2009 11:17:18 PM

take the bus foo

6/20/2009 12:24:35 AM

donate your car to airport security. then they won't charge you to get it out.

6/20/2009 5:30:55 PM

was it still there or had it been towed?

6/21/2009 9:45:43 AM

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"but i guess you could drive a car up, get a ticket, and back out, but thats gonna be real hard too in the one way traffic"

they're aware of this scheme too. once I pulled up and couldn't reach the ticket so I had to move my car. when I left an hour later the guy had to get out of his booth and get my license plate info and run it in his computer. every time they have a "back out ticket" they run your plate to see how long you were there.

6/21/2009 12:10:56 PM