The City Attorney set up a hotline for this investigation!

From the desk of Simone Davalos:

Welcome to Wewillnotpay.org. Maybe you saw our ad in both the SF Weakly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, or perhaps you encountered us on one of many permutations of social software that are out there.

However you got to us, I am guessing that at some point you had a car, and that it was towed. Getting your car taken is a major bummer, however, getting your car taken and having it come back to bite you in the kiester is even worse.

My car was stolen in 2001. When the police found it, I happily signed over what was now a burned out, useless hulk to City Tow, thinking that was the end of the matter. Not to be! This July I received a notice that was very similar to Chicken’s. There was no way I had seven hundred dollars to pay for a car that was a distant memory, so we decided to do research instead. The City Attorney of San Francisco has opened an investigation on this very issue, and we decided to help them out.

City Tow/Pick Your Part is a Southern California based company that, up until last year, had the towing contract for the City of San Francisco. Now that their tenure is up, they appear to be resorting to questionable tactics to keep the cash rolling in.

This is not the first time City Tow has been embroiled in scandal:

From ABC-7 News

From a previous class-action suit

Please click on all the links on this site, then tell us your story. Tell your friends! By getting as many people as possible to come forward with these collections notices we can keep many more people from being duped into paying.

-Simone, Gal Friday