Parking fees cash/credit cards VS Parkingpay

Parkgebühren bar/Kreditkarten VS Parkingpay

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In principle, I think it would be good if Parkingpay were also offered as a payment option - this payment option is certainly more cost-effective for Migros, because with a deposited credit card with Parkingpay the user pays the surcharge of 25Rp per parking process up to the amount of CHF 20. Unfortunately, the reality is that with cash/credit card you can park 30 minutes longer for the same price, because after the payment process a free exit time of 30 minutes is granted - with Parkingpay the time is measured at the exit barrier. Especially if a person forgets to pay the ticket and goes on foot to the far away payment station to make up for this, the exits are blocked and you are then charged an extra hour because of this circumstance. These 30 minutes are also decisive for a larger purchase or a short visit to the Migros restaurant for a coffee. For me, at least in these two cases, Parkingpay is not interesting because it is clearly the worse payment option...

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M-Infoline

Hello Polarstern90, thank you very much for your input. In which region do you usually shop? We will be happy to look into your points with the relevant cooperative. Best regards, Noemi

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M-Infoline

Hello Polarstern90, thank you very much for your input. In which region do you usually shop? We will be happy to look into your points with the relevant cooperative. Best regards, Noemi

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Let me take the example of Pizolpark (Migros Ostschweiz). There you pay CHF 1 for 1 hour and because the routes in this shopping center are quite long, you can hardly get through with Parking-Pay - where parking is metered from the entrance to the exit - especially if someone forgets to validate a punch card and thus blocks the exit. The costs for me as a customer with both systems a) ParkingPay (badge) : 60 minutes from entry barrier to exit barrier = 1.25 CHF = 1 CHF + one-off surcharge of 0.25 CHF per parking process if the parking process costs less than 20 CHF for TWINT, Postfinance, Mastercard and VISA.

b) Cash/credit cards (punch card): 90 minutes from entry barrier to exit barrier = 1 CHF, because the amount of 1 CHF is charged for 60 minutes from entry barrier to payment station and an additional 30 free minutes from payment station to exit barrier and NOTHING is charged for the use of the credit card or in other words: the credit card charges are borne by the operator here - with a) they are passed on.

I don't want to play the rag splitter here, but these procedures are repeated several times a week and basically these two systems "bite each other" Hence the recommendation: In conditions like a), use the procedure under b) with the same credit card. The situation is different in places like Buchs SG, where the free parking time is 2 hours and this time is sufficient for shopping and a coffee in the Migros restaurant - here the procedure under a) is much more practical...

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