I incurred a fine at Gatwick Airport
I incurred a fine at Gatwick Airport, and in attempting to pay that fine on your website using two credit cards, my payment was declined several times over a week of trying. Both credit cards were successfully paying other merchants.
I contacted my credit card issuer's credit/fraud teams and they assured me they had not refused any payments to Times24. What it appears was happening was my bank was paying the transaction, but for some unexplained reason, Times24 was instantly reversing the transaction.
It was then I discovered a telephone number for making complaints, which I called and said I wanted to pay off this fine. On my first call, , the agent manually attempted to take payment on two separate cards, each of which was again declined (i.e. The transaction was accepted by my card issuers and then a reversal was instigated by Times24. I got the impression the agent was really impatient with me and kept saying it was a "such and such an" error and I should talk to my bank/cardissuer. I asked them not to be antsy or irritated with me and in a louder voice was told I was wrong. I explained what my bank was saying and the response was basically it's your bank's fault, you speak to them. There was absolutely no attempt to understand the issue - just a blanket response - "speak to your bank, it's not our problem".
I ended the conversation and did go back to both my banks/issuers who again confirmed that they were accepting the transactions and that Times24 were reversing the transactions.
So, wearily, as I had by now probably spent around 90 minutes one way or another, spent another 10 minutes speaking to another Times24 agent. Who again, had no other solution than to speak to my banks/issuers. Again, there was absolutely no empathy or preparedness to understand my problem, an abruptness that one might consider rudeness. We tried again to process the transactions on both cards, and both declined again. I asked for other payment options e.g, cheque, and was told abruptly they only took credit cards. I was also told that it must be my fault because they were processing other customer's credit cards. It failed to cut any ice when I mentioned that both my credit cards had been successfully used that day to pay other merchants!
I asked to speak to a manager - all the time feeling helpless faced with this uncompromising and unhelpful attitude. "you'll have to wait 2/3 days'. I asked to be put on the waiting list. It then occurred to me to see if my bank's debit card would do the trick. Lo and behold, it did. Saga over!
3/4 days before I had submitted one of their on-line requests, outlining the problem I received a receipt message but no response to date.
In summary, it was their agent's uncompromising, unhelpful and verging on rude, by inference and tone almost insisting that it was me who was wrong, lacking of any attempt to understand the problem and make any suggestions to fix it.
8 de junio de 2026
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