Paid for parking for 7 hours at 11:56 AM; came to ...

Paid for parking for 7 hours at 11:56 AM; came to car at 5:35 PM to find a ticket had been issued at 12:45 PM that same day... that is correct, less than 1 hour after I paid for 7 hours, I got a ticket

Now I have to pay money to appeal the ticket or give my information to people who have no business with any of my PII.

Appeals do not work, by the way. I have sent in pictures with time/date stamp, stubs from payments, pictures of bank statements indicating I paid and still they try to assess more fees.