Scammers charged £5.95 for a car check which I authorised. A week later they quietly charged another £40 for a 'subscription' which I DID NOT AUTHORISE. There is no account set up on the website so... See more
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Scum must be reported
Happened to me as well, I just realised I have been charged for 3 months for 39.90 pounds. I am reporting this to the bank now and trying to get my money back.
No contract, no email, no anything from them as a subscribed membership.
Definitely a scum.

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Scam
I like many others, have been a victim of obscure and hidden subscription fees that I did not knowingly consent to. The checkmycar website is vague in the extreme and verging on being illegal due to the crafty and misleading wording. Furthermore, for several days after I tried to cancel 'my subscription', I recieved multiple phishing scams via text and email which could easily be coincidence but all of them mentioned my bank by name and were not just generic. Be warned, this website is not to be trusted so please go elsewhere and read the small print before commiting yourself.

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SCAMMERS- DO NOT USE
I wish I had checked here first because as others have mentioned they start taking £39.90 without any warning or authorisation
Total scammers avoid at all costs!!!!
I am raising with my bank as I have read they will try to take this monthly
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY/WEBSITE!!!!!!!!
WHO would need this on a monthly ongoing basis (as the company has replied to other unfortunate victims that it is in their small print)…WHO?
No-one and that’s why people don’t expect it, Thieves and crooks!!!!
I hope the police shut them down!!!
I believe there are new laws on the way to prevent these kind of scams, I hope this company gets hammered for the worry and misery they cause
Update:
Despite emailing as requested you have continued to take my money and have not responded to my email
You are total thieves and a warning to anyone reading this. This company is a total scam
THEY DO NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT SUBSCRIBING WHEN PURCHASING AND HAVE NO PROPER ORDER NUMBER TO QUOTE BACK TO DISPUTE AND THEY SEEM TO THINK A 48 HOUR WINDOW TO CANCEL IS ACCEPTABLE!!!
NO, IT’S RIDICULOUS AND WHEN YOU AREN'T EVEN TOLD YOU ARE SUBSCRIBING IT IS DOWNRIGHT UNSCRUPULOUS
DODGY DODGY DODGY
AVOID AVOID AVOID
Also, have been inundated with spam calls ever since so my guess is they also sell personal info like phone numbers and emails!!!!

Reply from Checkmycar
Paid for a one off check
Paid for a one off check. I have since had 2 months of subscription taken. I have not got you marked as a subscription or a regular payment so please correct this!! I have tried to contact you but no response.

Reply from Checkmycar
I've been scammed too 100% DO NOT USE…
I've been scammed too 100% DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!! Paid the £5.95 for a car check then couple of days later notice they had also taken £39.90 out of my account and signed me up to a subscription service.

Reply from Checkmycar
Asked for a £5.95 check on a car took…
Asked for a £5.95 check on a car took £39.90 out of my bank 2 days later.Basically helped themselves to my money,reported straight away to barclays fraud team as I got no response from this company.
Police are involved as they have done this 100's of people
DO NOT USE FRAUDULENT
(i have managed to get back the £39.90)so pursue it through your bank as a fraudulent transaction

Reply from Checkmycar
You thieviving Bast--ds- You have taken…
You thieviving Bast--ds- You have taken money on the account of Alan Thomas Nash on the 8 april 2026 £39.90. This is the second month you have done this, return monies NOW or expect repercussions.Alan Nash 198 temple grove park chelmsford cm28lw.

Reply from Checkmycar
Span Subscription with no warning
I am raising a dispute with this company ‘HP Checkmycar’ (also trading as Checkmycar). I had paid for their service online for what I thought was an initial sum of £5.95. However, it was not made clear that by proceeding with the payment I would also pay for a monthly subscription of £39.90 two days later. I had not received any correspondence by email to confirm payment nor received any correspondence to say they had taken payment of the subscription for £39.90....no trace is how this company seems to operate, so please be very careful. I have tried to contact them on their number and by email and no response. I have also notified my bank about this company and they are dealing with this.

Reply from Checkmycar
Absolute deceptions
Absolute deceptions, please refrain from purchasing anything from these websites. I remitted £5.95 in March 2025, and they subsequently withdrew £39.90 in April 2026, with an attempt to debit more in May 2026 from my account. I reached out to them following the April payment, but received no response to my correspondence. I have since contacted the Bank, which has flagged them as fraudulent within their system, and I have also notified authorities.

Reply from Checkmycar
Like a lot of other people have said
Like a lot of other people have said, this company is unscrupulous, bordering on fraudulent. AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. I have been charged £39.90 without knowledge. I’m disputing payment and will have to cancel my card.

Reply from Checkmycar
Unexpected charge on a credit card led…
Unexpected charge on a credit card led me to these reviews.
I can see from other reviews that people seem to have done a check on a vehicle and then been hit with a subscription charge, however, that’s not the case for us.
We have never used this service or even entered any details and yet a payment of £39 odd was taken in April. The same amount was just attempted again but the credit card company blocked it thankfully. If this hadn’t happened we wouldn’t have even noticed!
We have now frozen the card and flagged the previous payment as fraudulent because there is no way of us knowing how this company got the card details.
People beware. As the payment was taken it proves that checks are not being completed.

Reply from Checkmycar
Checked one car with this company..steer clear
Checked one car with this company for £5.99 and it has so far cost me just over £200. I have contacted them through their contact us portal but they continue to take money from my account. I understand that their small print says you have to cancel subscription within 48hrs but it is well hidden. I am still trying to get them to stop taking money from my account and wouldn't go near this company. I am an OAP battling cancer and just dont know what to do. Just an update to say Checkmycar Ireland has refunded 5 payments of £39.90 which had been taken from my bank. I am really grateful to the company but wonder if they should make the cancellation criteria more obvious .

Reply from Checkmycar
Trading standards issue
Along with most of the other 1,760 1-star reviewers, I was misled by this company's website into signing up to a time-unlimited subscription for £39 per month after receiving what I had intended to be a single vehicle report. My UK bank were aware of this recurring scam and have refunded the last payment. The Irish Trading Standards authorities, CCPC.ie, under whose jurisdiction this company operates, have been made aware of this clear example of business malpractice.
Postscript ...checkmycar's responses are factually incorrect, at least three payments of £39.90 have been taken from my bank card. I'd be happy to engage more on this forum if checkmycar undertakes to refund those payments.

Reply from Checkmycar
I have very dissappointing experience…
I have very dissappointing experience with this company.
I paid £5.95 for a car check report, and at no point was it made clear that I was signing up for any kind of subscription.
A few days later, I was unexpectedly charged nearly £40 without my knowledge or consent.
Look how they are stealing money from people! Unacceptable. I should have read the reviews before using their service.

Reply from Checkmycar
Unfortunately this company runs a…
Unfortunately this company runs a subscription scam.
When you download a report (access for first time) the 'small print' (and I mean small) signs you up (within exp of 48 hours) to a monthly subscription of £39.90.
Don't go anywhere near them, there are plenty of honest Car Checking services who are plain about this and only charge a one off.
BE WARNED OF THIS COMPANY.

Reply from Checkmycar
If i could put 0 i would
If i could put 0 i would. Avoid at all costs
They charged £5.95 and then the next day tried to get £39.90 claiming i had signed up for a subscription
Luckily Barclays are aware of this scam company and blocked the payment.

Reply from Checkmycar
Scam. Avoid.
Pretty much what everyone else is saying. Paid for the initial car check and thought that was it. I have now realised that 3 further payments of £39.90 have been taken from my account. On trying to cancel it appears I don't have an account as my email is not recognised. So how can I cancel a subscription that I don't have??!!
Please avoid at all costs.

Reply from Checkmycar
The report on the vehicle is very…
The report on the vehicle is very comprehensive and perfectly happy with it for a £5.95 one off payment, no trial period or membership was subscribed to nor appears as part of the information on my android device as I stood at the dealership checking the vehicle out. 3 Days later I'm charged again, this time £39.90 on 22/04/2026 without any explanation nor had I subscribed to any service or bought another vehicle report. I bought a one off vehicle check for £5.95 and paid then and there (18/04/2026)!
It's very sharp practice and pretty disgusting really. Given this taking additiinal funds without any consent i could not reccomend checkmycar which is a shame given the decent vehicle report. I cannot get past them taking money using my debut card info without my permission. Be careful who you give card details to. Lesson learned...

Reply from Checkmycar
If I could put zero I would
If I could put zero I would. Despite having rung up and emailed several times to cancel this subscription (that I didn't want in the 1st place) you have taken a 3rd payment from my credit card. Avoid this fraudulent company like the plague. They have taken £120 off me for a service I used once to check a new car.

Reply from Checkmycar
SCAM
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!
Ditto to all the reviews about this company.
Information on the website is not clear; Google should stop these types of websites from running!

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