Sell your S.F. street parking spot for $20?

[Jesus Malverde]

An Italy-based startup is rolling out an app that offers San Franciscans the pleasure of being paid to leave.

MonkeyParking allows drivers departing prime street parking spots to auction off the city-owned real estate to other app users, who agree to pay anywhere from $5 to $20 for the ability to stop circling the block.

The app, first reported by Uptown Almanac, is an intuitive idea — though one that city officials aren’t sure is legal.

Read More: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/05/05/sell-your-s-f-street-parking-spot-for-20/

[jberryhill]

1. The concept is flawed

Parking is an on-demand thing which isn't suited to fiddling with your smartphone while trying to do it.

But, one could work out a decent parking meter arbitrage system. Get a couple of cars in a row at a line of meters, keep feeding the meters and swap the cars out for an hour at a time.

You can get around the legal problems by pulling the quarters out of a bodily orifice and calling it performance art.

[AndyTiedye]

2. You get your space auctioned off for $20 and Someone in an Old Clunker Barges in and Takes It

The guy in the beat-up old pickup who grabbed the space isn't party to your deal, so nothing you can do about it.

[MADem]

3. STUPID. For twenty bucks, go to a frickin' parking garage!

Take the doggone train, or bus!

This is a moronic "app." I agree with the guy quoted in the article, who said:

...you are trying to monetize public parking spaces and it is disgusting.

Not all "tech-y" ideas are good ones. This is such a "Republican" idea--selling something you don't even own! Yeah, that's the ticket!!!!

MonkeyParking has their greedy head up their greedy ass.

[woolldog]

4. Now tell us how you really feel.

[MADem]

7. Hee hee! 951-Riverside said it best...Bundy ranch economics! (Post 5). nt

[951-Riverside]

5. Its basic Bundy Ranch style ecomomics

And when the city says you need to stop taking up and selling spaces that you don't own, you can just show up with a few dozen men with guns and claim the City doesn't exist and your great grandfather (x500) first parked in that space in 1525.

[MADem]

6. That's it, precisely!!! nt

[grahamhgreen]

8. Should be illegal. It's my space too.