Parking Control Services

Ok so lets go back to 1998 when i was an employee of this company. They paid $ 7 an hour $ 1 a ticket and .40 cents a mile for driving around town to the different lots. I would make bank at the McDonalds by Golden Gate park. People would look around for me and i would be crouching down in my front seat and when they walked through the mc’d’s to go down haight or hang in the park on their ticket i would write, left parking lot and had dinner at, even putting down what they ordered LOL. Man that was some fun times watching cars get towed and sometimes giving a ride to some poor guy that didn’t read the sign about being there more than an hour etc. I still have the shirt and a jacket from Parking control services somewhere.

Saturday went to see the Phantom of the Opera and parked in the handicapped space with our placard in the parking lot on Larkin next to Wells Fargo after hours because I have a mother in a WHEELCHAIR! And after having an amazing evening we come back to a bright orange envelope on our windshield! Who does this!!! This is so illegal for them to write tickets and make them look official so they can try and intimidate you to pay these bogus charges. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing this especially to those of us who are parked in the handicapped spaces with our official placards!
Watch the below abc 7 on your side news footage.

Watch this report before responding to your ticket. It turns out, PCS has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE FINES OR CITATIONS.

Had a horrible experience with the parking attendant at the Wells Fargo branch on Main Street in Napa at 1pm today. He discriminated against my family for my mother being in a wheel chair, had a bad attitude, and disobeyed the state laws for parking for disabled people. I hope that Wells Fargo ends this contract.

Have you ever got a ticket from this company in Sta. Rosa Wells fargo Parking lot?
Forget… They don’t have any right to do it.
In Marin, they had problems a few years ago.
According to whose opinion works almost as a law, the Attorney General from the State of California:
IF YOU GET A TICKET FROM THEM, DON’T PAY!

So I stopped at a Starbucks at California Ave in SF the other day. They were located in a shopping center and there was a PARKING LOT! So sweet. After a couple of hours in Starbucks I returned to find a PCS ticket on my windshield. Pay now for $ 40 or pay $ 68 later.
Now, my thinking is that the only value of a shopping center is the free parking. Otherwise, who the hell would want to do business in an ugly strip mall.
So I think this is bad business for Starbucks. For me? Who cares. I will not be paying that bill Sir.
Now if you rate a company by how well they accomplish their mission, the I must give PCS a high rating for all of the following.
— Well placed citation in my windshield wipers.
— Extremely official looking document better than a Nigerian scammer could produce
— Oodles of Chutzpah (big balls in current slang)
— A catchy abbreviation — PCS
— and finally, mostly for thinking up a way to make money through nothing more than intimidation. And doing it so well.
Their company motto is «Do evil». And they exceed their own expectations.
But I have to take off a star because the orange envelope didn’t go with my red car. White would be a little more official looking. Red might be even more intimidating. So hard to say.

I actually talked with the parking security, at a SF lot, and the agent said it would be «ok.» After shopping, and walking outside of the center, I came back to a «ticket» issued by his Supervisor. This type of activity is going to inhibit me from shopping at these centers. I think Trader Joe’s, etc. should prohibit this type of activity in their lots.

Be advised that there is an opinion from the California Attorney General about the citations firms like this are issuing. In short, they are NOT authorized or enforceable. Print the opinion out at the following link (
) and keep it for any defense from, or better yet, lawsuit against this company.
Hey PCS, how about following the law???

I just a ticket for going into party city but stepped out to make a phone call. My ticket had said I walked off across Bryant. This happened less than 20 minutes by the way. After reading this I did some investigation. Like the previous reviewers, private property’s lot has no authorization in «citation» or «ticket» you for any money whatsoever. Your car will not be towed, booted, etc if you did not pay your ticket.
Upon reading the California Vehicle Code…
What rights or remedies are available to the owners of vehicles that have received
parking citations imposing monetary sanctions issued by private property owners?
Absent statutory authority, a private property owner may not issue a parking
citation imposing monetary sanctions on a vehicle owner. A vehicle owner who has
received an unauthorized demand for payment from the private property owner needs no rights or remedies with respect to the payment itself; no payment is due. However, the vehicle owner may have grounds to seek damages arising from the property owner’s conduct, such as threatening to report or reporting a delinquency on the part of the vehicle owner to credit reporting agencies.
The only citation they can really give you is any violation of the Vehicle Code such as parking in a disabled or reserved parking. Other than that, they can only tow your car. supposedly they have to give you an hour before you get towed.
In conclusion… Fudge this «invoice».

Flash back:
Potrero Center, Tuesday noon, lot half full. After running my errands in the complex, I placed several large bags from both Office Depot and Sally’s into my car and grabbed a recognizably green Sports Basement bag to run across the street and do a quick exchange. Came back to find a $ 65.00 parking citation tucked into my hood. The security guard had been watching me since the citation said «Walked off to Sports Basement.» Uh, what about telling someone you’ve got some freaky-​ass policy, if you are actually standing there and watching me? Then the light went off — they aren’t interested in keeping parking available for customers — they are interested in scamming money from unsuspecting victims! Thankfully, there were others to confirm my suspicions here on Unilocal.Way to go, Unilocalers!
Yet, I have to admit the citation looks all official and shit and really pissed me off. FU parking Control Services!

If I ever get one of these again, I’m going to go to Kinko’s and copy the ticket 1000 times, and distribute them all over the safeway lot after altering the contact info.

I parked in a free lot by a Pet Store/​Party Supplies/​Ross off Gellert in Daly City and found a bright orange «parking ticket» since I walked to an adjacent area for lunch. $ 40 «ticket» or $ 63 if paid late.
I checked the internet and found out this is basically a scam and CBS a few years ago did a story where the Marin DA forced PCS to reimburse big bucks to everyone. I’m not going to pay this, but will sit & watch who actually does this sort of thing one of these days… idiots…

I’d give this company negative 5 if I could.
After falsely giving me a ticket for parking in the Potereo Centre and shopping in Safeway, they proceed to call me a liar and cite that my receipt from Safeway made with a few minutes of the ‘ticket’ being issued didn’t prove that I parked there…
A little research later proves that these guys are actually a private parking firm as run by California Parking (the valet service) and can’t enforce the tickets.
Update — I’ve found this!
Looks like the authorities were also aware of this little scam! Shame its still going on however…