I arrived at Tesco forecourt to buy petrol. At the first pump, my card was declined, I tried another then a third, because I chose to pay the cashier. My card was declined each time. The reason was that Forecourteye had emptied my current account of all available cash. Even when I arrived home I could not pay the bill. This is the second time this has happened. This is out and out theft. They applied a £4 surcharge which is an almost 27% surcharge which Forecourteye call an admin fee. They have done no admin, their computer system has added the surcharge in a split second. If the surcharge is taken over a 12 month period it would be over 9,700% interest, but because they call it an admin fee, they can get away with it and not cause the FSA to investigate. Their site states that no admin fee is charged if the payment is made within the first 24 hours. That time is not up until after 17:00 today. I spoke to an uneducated robot who just wanted to cut me off. It ended up with me telling him I would see them in court. Tesco is not the only company doing this. Asda also uses Forecourteye. I will never use a Tesco forecourt ever again. I was lucky I had bought my groceries before otherwise they would have taken £120 as Asda did once to me.
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