Max Park Solutions: Shopping center demands end to “fake tickets”

The manager of Galeries Laval ordered a controversial company to stop giving “fake tickets” to its customers, following

about their bogus fines.

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“Following your message [sur cette enquête], we checked with Max Park who sent us their response this week. Max Park’s responses were not satisfactory,” said Patrick McQuilken, spokesperson for the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, in an email.

Owner of Galeries Laval, the Fund has been using this company specializing in the management of private parking lots since 2022. Last week, however, the shopping center ordered Max Park Solutions to immediately stop issuing “false fines” on their land. The controversial company will therefore have to review its methods with this client.

“This decision was taken following the analysis of the responses that Max Park sent to us at the beginning of the week,” specifies Mr. McQuilken, without giving further details.

Illegal and paid

A lawyer specializing in traffic offenses has also confirmed to Newspaper than these “invoices” which look like .

“The form of the document does not work. It gives a false impression to people that they have to pay a real ticket or that there will be legal consequences. They thus contravene the Act respecting the recovery of certain debts,” explained Me Éric Lamontagne, lawyer at Contravention Experts.

The specialist also mentioned that under this law, no one can collect money from citizens with a writing likely to be confused with an official document… such as a real report given by a police officer or an agent of parking lot in a city.

According to the Consumer Protection Office (OPC), . Most of them are related to the company’s “fake” parking fines, which are worth between $69 and $99.

Gary Bastien, head of Max Park Solutions, had still not answered our questions about Galeries Laval on Tuesday afternoon.

They still refuse to comment

At least one other company issues “false tickets” in Quebec, namely ., located in Laval. She was hired by Quartier DIX30 in Brossard and the Jean-Talon Market in Montreal.

These two companies, however, refused to answer our questions related to contracts given to Stat Park inc., which belongs to Lyne Côté.

Note that the amount of fake Stat Park Inc tickets amounts to $103. M’s company^me Côté is the subject of the OPC.

In a press release sent to Newspaper Last month, Max Park Solutions and Stat Park claimed that their “fake tickets” were instead invoices and that their goal was to avoid a “towing festival.”

WHAT TO DO IF YOU RECEIVE A FALSE PARKING TICKET?

• File a complaint with the Consumer Protection Office
• Do not pay the amount of the false fine
• Do not contact the company. Otherwise, it will collect your private information
• If you have paid these fees, you can give notice to the merchant to reimburse you
• You could even seek punitive damages in small claims court

Source: The Consumer Protection Office