Congestion charge

[Sol]

Did you know that there is a Company taking congestion charge payments which is not the official website and takes a fee for doing the payment on your behalf which is about ?6. Surely that shouldn't be legal, but according to CC London it is as they are doing the payment for you. The offical website is

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/congestioncharging/6743.aspx

The one that want to rip you off is this one, they may be more though:

http://www.paylondoncongestion.com/pay-charge

[seemster]

Wow, that's mad! So some people are paying ?16 instead of ?10? Poor mugs!

[Sue]

There's a similar thing going for passport applications, which is also apparently quite legal.

They rely on people being in a hurry, googling, and clicking on the first thing that comes up without properly checking what the website actually is and what you are actually paying for.

[Jeremy]

The website states clearly that it's not the official TFL site, and that they charge extra. They're hardly ripping anybody off.

Does seem like a bit of a strange business idea though.

[Sue]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> The website states clearly that it's not the

> official TFL site, and that they charge extra.

> They're hardly ripping anybody off.

>

> Does seem like a bit of a strange business idea

> though.

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Seems like quite a good one to me, if people actually pay them money for doing very little!

[StraferJack]

the website does state it's not official and will charge a fee - but it's not in big text, and it's not in the red callout NB text.

It's in a relatively chunky block of text which I'm guessing many people skim-read if at all, assuming all else looks ok having looked at the large, bold and coloured text

It's there, but it's cheeky IMO

[KidKruger]

I am offering a services from today going forward where I will organise tickets for the ED Folk Club (Goose) for a mere ?20 per ticket. This includes all services/costs and entrance to the gig itself. NOTE: I am not the official Goose ticket outlet. Prices may vary according to the mark-up I fancy making / who's playing.

Please PM me for bookings.

(..BTW Sue, I found it !)