<p>Anyone selling their parking pass? If you are give me a pm cuz I'm looking to buy one, don't wanna spend <em>that</em> much either, thanks.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately economics are not on your side as the demand is high and the supplies are low. Your best bet is to look at the myucla forums and craigslist, but what seems to be the case for the most part is the seller will throw out a price around $100 a month with the tag-line OBO and sell it auction style to the highest bidder with the listed price as the minimum as it is very easy to sell a spot at that low of a price.</p>
<p>awesome, but isn't it easy to get caught. don't they perform random audits or do they?</p>
<p>audits are once a quarter and are totally random. however, if they suspect you've sold/bought a pass or if you get a ticket and bring attention to yourself, you're much more likely to get caught. </p>
<p>the bottom line is that its not a good or reliable option. the difference between getting a parking pass through <em>creative</em> application skills and straight out buying from someone else is that once they've granted you a pass in your name, you're pretty much set. even if they audit you, they don't require a ton of documentation and unless you totally just made crazy stuff up you should pass. however, if you buy/sell and get audited, you're fairly screwed. the punishment tends to be more consistent and more severe for buying/selling. </p>
<p>i definitely second the my.ucla forum and craigslist suggestion.also check out facebook marketplace and the ucla lj community.</p>
<p>but uh. don't get your hopes up on finding a cheap spot. they don't exist. and the closer you get to the beginning of fall quarter, the scarcer and more expensive they get.</p>
<p>Actually the policy since last year was mandatory audits for all applicants who are living in the dorms and applying for parking: you must provide information about your employer (no job = no permit now- you can't even complete the online application w/o your employment information, and volunteering no longer cuts it) so if you're a regents scholar w/o a job, you have to apply in person. You also must provide all documentation in order to receive your permit, and they check every individual person (last year they did it at sproul turnaround) for the information you put down on the application including a request of a copy of your most recent paycheck when you pick up your permit, which since last year, will no longer be mailed home.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how they check for commuters, but I assume they also implicated some sort of verification mechanism.</p>
<p>i had a commuter permit last year and that wasn't the case. it was still fairly easily manipulatable, with random, quarterly audits. i'm not surprised they did that for the dorms though.</p>
<p>so, it's not legal to buy/sell passes? If I buy one how can they possibly find out? What kinda trouble would I be looking @ if I was caught?</p>
<p>nope. they're pretty clear that passes aren't transferable. they can find out if the person who sold it to you is audited or if they suspect something (which can happen if they give you a ticket or if attention is otherwise brought on you or the seller). each case is reviewed separately but you could be held under academic dishonesty (others have and they make this clear in all of their regulations), which could result in expulsion. expulsion is a pretty serious consequence if you take the chance. not worth it imo.</p>