I wanted to get out of the car…
Throw my phone to the floor…
And stamp on it…
While screaming at the top of my voice…
What was I doing?
Trying to pay for parking in London…
Back in the olden days it used to be so simple…
We pulled up to a parking space…
And put a coin in the parking metre….
Or if they were really high-tech you would put a coin in a machine and it would print a ticket…
But now, mainly due to cost-cutting…
Most areas in the UK have got rid of their parking metres and pay-and-display machines…
Instead you have to pay by either sending a text message or phoning up a robot!
It’s so frustrating and mega complicated to use…
You’re standing in the street phoning an automated robot, with a robot voice…
The whole thing takes about 15 minutes…
However this morning I was messing around with this for around 25 minutes!
I phoned the number, and there wasn’t even an option to set up a new account!!
I eventually selected the account reset, kind of bizarre since I don’t have an account…
And eventually I was able to set up a new account…
I had to set up a password and entering all my credit card information….
Such a lot of messing around just to park my car!
God it was so frustrating!
What kind of idiot designs a system like this…
Or rather what kind of idiot who works in local council thinks this is a good idea…
I work with computers all day, every day…
And I consider myself quite a technical person…
And I found it difficult to use….
So how would a non-technical person or somebody who can barely use a computer use a system like this?
Don’t they test systems like this….
Or are they just too stupid to test them out using non-computer literate people…
Surely it would be far simpler to have a QR code on the lamppost..
A QR code is one of those square boxes, basically it’s the new barcode…
You would point your phone camera at the QR code…
And your phone would go to a website address…
You could then just enter your credit card information…
No account or password needed…
And you wouldn’t need to download an app….
Obviously the one thing they try to make you do is get you to download their mobile app…
Quite frankly I don’t want to do this…
I can’t deal with having a different mobile app every single area in London that I park…
The whole thing is a big mess…
And it kind of reminds me of what the non-Tesla electric car charging network is like…
Let me know your experience with this…
If stuff like this pisses you off please reply to this email and let me know!
In some ways this kind of reminds me of Internet marketing…
Some people who teach Internet marketing make things so complicated…
When in reality it can be quite simple…
And that’s why very few people succeed with making a decent income online…
That’s why this Saturday I want to teach you how to make your first sale online within 24 hours…
Click here to sign up for this class 🙂
I want to cut out all the BS and cut straight to the chase this Saturday…
I want to show you exactly what you need to do…
Step-by-step…
To start making sales by next week!
I look forward to seeing you on the call on Saturday…
By the way if you can’t make Saturday don’t worry everything will be recorded…
If you invest in a ticket today you will have lifetime access to the recordings…
After the event the recordings will be available for purchase but at a much higher price…
I look forward to seeing you on Saturday,
Sarah staar