Absolute Towing Big Money Making Towing Scam Colorado Springs, , Colorado

Pretty much all business tow zones are also marked with business hours, where it is ok to park there after business hours. It's odd that they'd enforce "business only parking" well after the business hours.

I also do agree more-so with the author that the negative rebuttals are apparently people involved in other scams, probably on this site to clear their names of various other scams. Maybe not the tow company in question though.

I know several landlords, and even from them, I have heard only bad things about this company, but I've been fortunate enough not of had a run-in yet. I think instead of contacting the police, you should of contacted the IRS. It certainly wouldn't be out of their hands. As a cash-only business, there has to be some hefty tax evasion going on.

If you think that you are an honest, reputable towing company you might want to use the laser on your brain.  Yeah, people shouldnt park in parking lots marked customers only.  Youre just doing your job right?  However, is it ethical to authorize the towing on a building you own, right next door to your unmarked towing/impound lot?  Furthermore, you tow them within 5 minutes of parking there, and the businesses that lease the building from you are not the ones complaining of unauthorized parking at night?  Most ethical businesses give a certain amount of time before a car is towed.  Its legal, and your just doing your job, but its morally wrong.  Charging someone over $250 to tow and impound a car right next door.  Does that seem like a fair price to you?  The police say you have people towed there all the time, and just recently you put signs up.  If you are just doing your job, and this isn't a money making scheme, why don't you have the guys sitting there every night, looking out the window tell people to move their cars - at least once in a while?  

I have to give you some credit; its a great way to make a lot of money!! 

The towing stings you set up at Dennys and the Department of Human Services especially appall me.  It doesnt matter to you that the people going into the Department of Human Services are going in there for financial aid?  They parked illegally too, so therefore you have the right to tow them, and then you write you are just doing your job.  Does it feel good, when you are sitting in the parking lot there, waiting for someone to park and walk into DHS?  Having your tow truck wait around the corner to tow all these lawbreakers going into DHS is just doing your job right?  Youre a great towing company because you get them towed in record time.  Who cares that they dont have any money, your making money and thats all that matters.   

Try not to act like the innocent towing company, saving the world from illegal parkers, because your not.  You set up everyone to be towed, and that is how you make all your money.  It's one thing to receive a call from businesses and tow cars that are parked in spots they are not suppose too, but it's a whole different thing, when you are sitting at both these locations, waiting for people to park there.  To top it off your fees are not consistent, and are more money than the other towing companies.  There are many other reputable towing companies in this town that do not rip-off people the way you do. 

Thankfully, we have this site to learn about disreputable companies, such as yours.     

If you think that you are an honest, reputable towing company you might want to use the laser on your brain.  Yeah, people shouldnt park in parking lots marked customers only.  Youre just doing your job right?  However, is it ethical to authorize the towing on a building you own, right next door to the unmarked towing/impound lot you also own?  Furthermore, you tow them within 5 minutes of parking there, and the businesses that lease the building from you are not the ones complaining of unauthorized parking at night?  Most ethical businesses give a certain amount of time before a car is towed.  Its legal, and your just doing your job, but its morally wrong.  Charging someone over $250 to tow and impound a car right next door.  Does that seem like a fair price to you?  The police say you have people towed there all the time, and just recently you put signs up.  I have to give you some credit; its a great way to make a lot of money!! 

The towing stings you set up at Dennys and the Department of Human Services especially appall me.  It doesnt matter to you that the people going into the Department of Human Services are going in there for financial aid.  They parked illegally too, so therefore you have the right to tow them, and then you write you are just doing your job.  Does it feel good, when you are sitting in the parking lot there, waiting for someone to park and walk into DHS?  Having your tow truck wait around the corner to tow all these lawbreakers going into DHS is just doing your job right?  Youre a great towing company because you get them towed in record time.  Who cares that they dont have any money, your making money and thats all that matters.   

Try not to act like the innocent towing company, saving the world from illegal parkers, because your not.  You set up everyone to be towed, and that is how you make all your money.  There are many other reputable towing companies in this town that do not rip-off people the way you do. 

Thankfully, we have this site to learn about disreputable companies, such as yours.     

Okay you want to put them(or should I say us) out of business.  STOP Parking where you are not supposed to. 

Edgeman, you probably shouldn't have told everyone about the Mind Control Ray Gun.  That was supposed to be a secret project that the SSUIA(Super Secret Underground Intellegence Agency) asked us to do.  They might get upset at us for using it to get people to park where we want them to.

I too have been ripped off by these guys, or should I say women...Jackie and sharron Denny are the owners, interestingly enough they own several address' in the area. The dispensary you were towed from is in a building owned by the dennys they own the tow company (absolute towing) 15 feet away from the place where they tow the cars from! So here is the deal when I got towed I went into the dispensary the next day and they told me the owner of the building call in the tows not the owner of the business. So I looked on my tow reciept and of course the name of the caller is Jackie! So she spots a car in the lot and calls herself to have it towed? This is an inside job here, the fact that the sign says "customer parking only" really doesn't apply to the dispensary it really should read towing customer only lol.

I don't have as much of a problem with them towing q car in a marked no towing spot but $254 to tow it 20/30'? That is insulting, I can have a car towed 10 miles for less than $100 and the fact that they only take cash raises an eyebrow.

I also looked them up with the secretary of state of Colorado, absolute isn't even listed, I am going to follow up with the tax decision and also the city clerk and the public utilities commission to see if they have any of the proper papers that I suspect they don't.

Anyway just wanted to throw my experience with these guys.

C

That the rebuttals are not employees but I guess that would make me an employee too!

You knew you were parking in an area where you should not have parked so NO Ripoff

I have been identified as part of the scam but you people have no idea just how much work it took to get the OP to park in that parking lot.

First of all I had to go and get every vehicle in my impound yard and park them all around the gym and the surrounding area. Then I had to keep that parking lot empty so that the OP would want to park there. I waited and waited until he finally showed up and then i had to use my mind control ray gun to force him to drive to that particular parking lot.

There was a moment when I thought the OP wouldn't park there. He saw the signs telling him not to park there and I thought that I wouldn't be able to tow his vehicle. Quick thinking, I fired the mind control ray again and this time I forced him to park there and walk away. As soon as he was out of sight I towed his vehicle away.

Thanks for the money! I'll be seeing your vehicle around town, eh?

It's obvious to anyone who reads this report that the previous three comments were left by people who are involved in this scam or ones like it. How do you people sleep at night?

This entire operation is unethical and dangerous. A car is towed 50 feet in a suspect part of town at night within an hour of being parked, and the car owner is charged $250, cash only? And if you don't have the $$, oh well, better walk to an ATM, huh? Any reputable towing company takes credit cards and charges far less than $250.

You station people who lick their chops waiting for people to park and then ring as much money as you think you can off them. There are plenty of poor folks here, especially around the Denny's on Bijou. What happens if they can't fork over a large chunk of cash? I'm sure Absolute Towing would never take advantage of this by taking the car and making money off it.

Absolute Towing, we know what you are doing on Platte and Bijou, and we're coming after you. I would suggest quitting while you're ahead.

Are there any cabs there at night? It would be cheaper.

It never ceases to amaze me when people violate laws and other peoples property rights and are angry when they are caught.  You would be doing the owner of the property a favor by patrolling the area and warning others not to park in his lot.  Wish there were more people like you.

The OP muses that he doubts the property owner was there to see who was parked in the lot and to call the tow truck company. Well, this is the year 2010 and video cameras can do some nifty things these days. For instance, at my workplace we can see what employees at a building on the other side of the country are doing. The owner of that parking lot could have been at home or vacationing in China and know exactly how many cars are parked on his property. Hell, some video cameras can be accessed with an iPhone.

I seriously doubt that you are going to waste time sitting across the street from the parking lot to tell people not to park there. The signs telling people that the lot is for customer use only is sufficient notice to people not to park there.

In the future I suggest that you only park in areas that you are authorized to park in. That means do not take up space in a business parking lot unless you are doing business with that establishment. As you noted, times are tough and I'm sure that you have better uses for your money than to get a car out of the impound lot.

Although the parking lot was marked customer parking only, I verified that the business was closed for the evening. When I came out of boxing my car was gone

- If the business was closed you obviously couldn't be a customer.  So why do you think you are so special that you had the right to park there?

Why not write a report on the owner of the business who only wants their customers to use their parking lot.  Or better yet why not post a report on your Boxing Gym for not providing enough parking for you.

Really you can't come off as some "innocent, unsuspecting human being" when you saw the signs and decided to park there anyways.  Perhaps the owner was monitoring the site and got tired of people parking in the lot at night.  I wonder if you would feel the same way if you had people park in your driveway night after night to go to a party across the street because there was no where else to park.

As long as they followed the law there is really nothing you can do. Oh, other than not to park in parking lots on businesses you are not a customer even if the business is closed.