Nochex Steal Your Money
For a client recently I had to test osCommerce was accepting Nochex payments. Having never used it before I went through the lengthy and painful process of signing up for a Nochex account.
Well now I know why no one used Nochex. It’s rubbish. It’s the only thing that would make me recommend Paypal (and I hate Paypal) to anyone but at least their service does what it is supposed to with minimum fuss.
OsCommerce was working fine and accepted my Nochex account but Nochex wouldn’t accept my address, so I was unable to put a card straight through (as a user without an existing Nochex account might). So I gave up on that as the client offers their own credit card gateway.
So I thought that was that – but when you add a credit/debit card to Nochex they debit a ’small’ amount from your card to help with their verification process. They didn’t go out of their way to tell you this when you register and they certainly don’t make it clear enough that this is non-refundable!
So there I was waiting for my couple of quid to get refunded only to discover it has been stolen. And for what? … other one for ‘the list’
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Thanks for bringing this to your readers attention, about 12 Days ago I transferred the balance of my NOCHEX account to my bank account, and the money was deducted from my NOCHEX account but never appeared in My Bank Account. (yes the bank sort code and account number where entered correctly, before you ask). because previous smaller withdrawals have been credited, my advice is don’t wait for money to accumulate in your NOCHEX account.
Tried to contact NOCHEX via the Ticket system but to date not got a reply, These people need investigating they are robbing us blind, we need to stamp on this type of Internet Fraud , I am now removing all NOCHEX payment buttons from my websites and suggest those of you who have them as a payment gateway do the same, don’t wait for them to rob you. If they see a mass increase in people closing accounts they will get the message. All I asked them for was a reply to my Support Tickets, and my money back of course.