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eFlow payment page issues

  • 08-02-2016 03:54PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone else ever had issue where the webpage tells you there has been an error with payment but you get charged anyway?

    I've only used the site twice, first time the page seem to crash then it tells me there was a problem with payment and on the third attempt I tells me it was successful, later I look at my statement and see I had actually been charged multiple times.

    I contact eFlow they refunded the money so no big deal.

    I use the site a few months later same things happens.
    Reason I ask this is, it was only by chance I actually looked at my statement other wise I would of missed it, it was only 6.20.

    My dealings with the staff at eFlow are that they are generally very helpful and will clear up any issues you might have and wave penalties if you have a genuine reason to why you did not pay the toll.

    That being said this is still a company that will attempt to charge you 41 euro per journey if you fail to make good on payment within 14 days of travelling on the M50.

    Does anyone else think this excessive?
    Also 14 days, I would say a large number of people see a fine of 41euro x 2 before they are even aware they owe any toll at all.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Indricotherium



    Does anyone else think this excessive?
    Also 14 days, I would say a large number of people see a fine of 41euro x 2 before they are even aware they owe any toll at all.

    There are signs all over the place on the m50.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Shermanator


    Was moving to Australia a few years back and shipped my car from dublin about a month beforehand. Forgot to pay the single toll when I got home (easy to do when u don't use the M50 a loat and had already paid 2 tolls in cash on the way from Cork), anyway got a bill including penalty before I left Ireland. Rang and offered to pay the original fee and told them the penalty amount was crazy. They were having none of it. Insisted I pay the full whack so I told them i was leaving for Australia the following week and that my vehicle had left the country. House was sold etc and told him good luck tracking me down. Still wouldn't accept my payment of the original toll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭ShowMeTheCash


    There are signs all over the place on the m50.

    What has that got to do with anything?

    There could be signs all over the place and still be a 5 euro fine or a 10 euro fine and an allowance 30 days before the fine kicks in? Why is it 41 euro after 14 days?

    My penalty which was waved was delivered almost a week after the 14 day deadline.

    Also not that I want to get into it but, not everyone lives around Dublin, there are no tolls in Donegal so confusion for elderly drivers from rural areas of the country is not too far fetched.

    My mother in her 60s from Donegal who last drove to Dublin I think the 90s for the Riverdance thought she had paid the toll when taking my Dad for treatment in Dublin turns out she had only paid some side toll not sure exactly where.

    So you think it OK for a company to charge 1300% of the cost of the toll within 14 days?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    I'm sure most people would love a longer time before the fee escalates but this is not e-flow's policy, the tolling structure for all motorway toll schemes is set in bye-laws.
    http://tii.ie/roads-tolling/tolling-information/statutory-notices/

    Never had a problem with the site crashing though.


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