Another reason NOT to use etoll

That's hectic. Nothing about that SANRAL statement breakdown appears correct.
 
What is odd to me is that it is debiting the E-Tag account for a vechile without E-Tag so all you need to do is clone an Avis numberplate and you are golden eish...

EDIT : Like the OP says another reason not to register.... what a mess!
 
So basically they deducted funds from an prepaid e-tag account, for a vehicle without an e-tag. WTH??

herbertk said:
What is odd to me is that it is debiting the E-Tag account for a vechile without E-Tag so all you need to do is clone an Avis numberplate and you are golden eish...

EDIT : Like the OP says another reason not to register.... what a mess!
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Time to hang around Avis looking for a car matching your vehicle's appearance?
 
They lied - blatantly. They promised that IF you have an etag, you WILL NEVER have to worry about cloned number plates or fraud.

This is a lie.

What happens is, Vehicle A (your vehicle) has an etag and numberplate ABC123GP. But, another vehicle B only has a cloned numberplate ABC123GP. When B goes through a gantry, the gantry does not detect your etag, so they bill YOU the standard rate as if your etag was faulty, missing or unreadable. They DO NOT flag this as fraud and don't give a !@#$.
 
Gaz{M} said:
They lied - blatantly. They promised that IF you have an etag, you WILL NEVER have to worry about cloned number plates or fraud.

This is a lie.

What happens is, Vehicle A (your vehicle) has an etag and numberplate ABC123GP. But, another vehicle B only has a cloned numberplate ABC123GP. When B goes through a gantry, the gantry does not detect your etag, so they bill YOU the standard rate as if your etag was faulty, missing or unreadable. They DO NOT flag this as fraud and don't give a !@#$.
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This.

And of course, they knew that this would obviously happen.
 
Garyvdh said:
Our Red van also shows up White in the SANRAL photos.
But it is clearly our van.
I think the Ultra Violet light makes all red cars appear white in the photos.
You can't go by colour, you have to go by shape and other distinguishing marks.
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The issue is not the colour, it is a completely different vehicle.
 
This sort of blatant F-up needs to be reported to the media!!
 
My solution for vehicle clone victims: drive out of the province and renew your license. You will receive an non-GP registration code on the system. Drive back to GP and renew you license again. You will now have a new GP number plate. Print the plates and avoid having to deal with Sanral until they solve this muck
 
jansdejager said:
My solution for vehicle clone victims: drive out of the province and renew your license. You will receive an non-GP registration code on the system. Drive back to GP and renew you license again. You will now have a new GP number plate. Print the plates and avoid having to deal with Sanral until they solve this muck
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Expensive solution, and the victim has to foot the bill ....
 
So basically, if your number plate digits are detected by a gantry, YOU WILL get charged.

It is entirely up to you to manually check each and every single transaction and photo to see if anyone else is using your digits.

Unbelievable!
 
Gaz{M} said:
So basically, if your number plate digits are detected by a gantry, YOU WILL get charged.

It is entirely up to you to manually check each and every single transaction and photo to see if anyone else is using your digits.

Unbelievable!
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And if you are not registered, no photos.
 
You only get photos in the 40 page invoice the post to you.
 
I believe that they only send a few photos, not all of them. Is that right ?

So you can't check your invoice ?
 
Jola said:
I believe that they only send a few photos, not all of them. Is that right ?

So you can't check your invoice ?
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I went under one gantry and I got 3 shots of that momentous event. A buddy of mine has gone under about 10 and they sent him pics of the first gantry in that string. This raised an interesting debate - pay for the first transaction because it was clearly him but then dispute the rest until evidence is provided. (And you don't need to be registered to pay, or even to have accepted any terms or conditions). That way, if it ever ends up in court Scumral cannot claim that you have refused to pay the tolls.

Trying to check your invoice is probably an exercise in frustration. I have 2 statements and 1 invoice - the values on them seem to be linked to the random number generator that Lotto uses for Quikpik rather than reality.

Oh, I do have one other document from them - a letter (attached to an email) telling me that my dispute has been logged. My dispute was that I want evidence that I used the toll road.
 
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