Esta

Nixpix

To late for me but would like to make everyone aware that a normal (no rush) ESTA should only cost you $14 . I clicked onto the USAESTA site and was charged $14 and in small print under that it said once application goes through I will be charged another $85 . So I paid £78 for my ESTA and I got 3 of them = £234 for something on a different site would have cost me £32. Feeling stupid . Beware !

NoodleDoodleMan

It's (relatively) well known that only the US Government ESTA website should be used.

Same applies to other US official websites - for example, tour tickets for Alcatraz visits.

bradders1983

I have no words.

pogofish

Did all the standing threads here on rip-off/impersonation application sites not give any hint that we are already well-up on this?

bradders1983

OP - just in case you get any emails off a Nigerian warlord wanting you to transfer $4,000 to him in order to unlock a $7,000,000 bounty of which you will get half, don't bother doing it.

Nixpix

I could not find anything on the site about this, hence the reason I posted. It was a legit ESTA just cost the Earth , and obviously panic stations at airport finding out what others had paid

EssexExile

It's worth bringing it up now & again, not everyone is as well informed as some of the regulars on here.

agrinnall

How about this on the main site from 2013?


https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2013/06/us-travellers-warned-over-esta-sites-after-boris-johnson-aide-stung-by-50-copycat/


Or this about a range of copycat sites, including ESTA?


https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/copycat-websites/


Or this thread from January 2019?


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75393541#Comment_75393541

pogofish

Nixpix wrote: »

I could not find anything on the site about this, hence the reason I posted. It was a legit ESTA just cost the Earth , and obviously panic stations at airport finding out what others had paid

Not even the official MSE guide/article and its associated discussion thread which is right at the top of its forum, right now?

pogofish

EssexExile wrote: »

It's worth bringing it up now & again, not everyone is as well informed as some of the regulars on here.

But that negates all the good advice already here that actually helps a great many people reclaim these charges.

Nixpix

Ah so I can claim the money back? If you could send me that thread that would be very helpful, I will also check the ones you listed too