Dead Steve Jobs owed $174 by San Francisco parking ticket wardens

[tangor]

Steve Jobs is owed $174 by San Francisco parking attendants.

It's not just the deceased co-founder of Apple either. PayPal co-founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel is owed $170; Napster co-founder and Facebook's first president Sean Parker $320; Salesforce's Marc Benioff $94.

But top of the pile comes, ironically, CEO of Uber Travis Kalanick, who is owed a significant $510 by the blue-and-white Interceptor crowd.

How did this happen?

[theregister.co.uk...]

If your website was/is coded this way you'd be out of business but, apparently, crappy web design for a governmental site yields $6.1m/200,000 transactions. That's some return!

[engine]

Eh!
I don't get it. You mean, they parked illegally and somehow the software meant they ended up overpaying!
If the average person is owed money, too, this is shocking. They should pay it back immediately, with interest.

[tangor]

After posting the report a few days ago I took a look. Visited the website where traffic/parking tickets could be paid on line. Utter mess. Slow as molasses. I can see that two clicks would be double billed ... and also see (ahem) that those with bountiful income would move on (and not check their receipts, that's what their accountants do), and EVEN IF they noticed and say what the hey! it would take filling out a form, mailing it (snail mail) and waiting 30 days to get a check they would have to take to a bank to cash or deposit. If one is in that income tier there's no flipping a coin as to which costs less: ignore and forget or .... never notice.

MEANWHILE, the city and their crappy website collected $6.2 million over clicks and errors and "oh my!". Try that with any other kind of site and see how that works.

Only works with gubermint (sic)!

[engine]

$6.2 million - that's is an incredible amount of overpayment they should have paid back. shocking!

[tangor]

Sorry, that was a typo ... actually the number was $6.1 million (as originally reported). What is more mind boggling is the length of time between site reviews (as we all do annually and some of us do it anally):

According to the spokesman, demonstrating the sort of mathematical skills clearly prevalent at the agency: "Last time we did this was in 2004 – ten years ago [um, 12? – ed.] – so we felt it was time to do it again."

Appears one way to make money is to not do the books. :)