Good Evening to you all; been a long time in getting in touch. I am now working so time coming on here is now limited. Anyway went and applied to register my drone and I thought the registration fee was £9 , I ended up paying £45 - does anyone out there know why there is a huge difference in price please or have I just been ripped off ???
John
It sounds like you’ve been ripped off, £9 is all it should have been.
How did you go about the registration?
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Hi. Googled Drone Registration. Went to first site ’ CAA Drone Registration/Become A Drone Pilot’. I signed on this site as thinking it was the CAA site. Now I see from what you have stated it was the wrong site. I think a Warning should be put out about this site. I paid via pay pal and filled in all my details on this site. Any advice from you or anyone else. I have just emailed CAA over this price hike.
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If it wasn’t this site you should claim on PayPal for your money back
https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/individual
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As @anon34183503 has said contact PayPal to get your money back.
I would also contact the CAA to see if you have a real registration number.
It might be worth changing your PayPal details as well.
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I have emailed the CAA over this and emailed pay pal who stated that I had to contact where payment went to. So hopefully get a refund back. I have to wait 6 days for a response back from CAA.
Whoever you sent the money to are not going to care less, they are scammers, surely PayPal should be refunding you if this is a scam, the thing is I suppose you will have to prove it.
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From reading the site I cant work out if they actually register you or just provide instructions and advice.
Did they mention ID card and labels or anything like that?
From the bottom of home page.
The link is and Ad and reason it was first in Google results.
I must be looking at wrong site as I cant see any way to register.
Do you have a link to the site you used as I cant find it in Google results.
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I just had a look and you have to put all your details in first, I think then you will get to the price after the test.
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Thank you for information. Just to let you all know did test and passed with flying ( sorry for the pun ) colours. Now got ID for flying legally.
Wii sort out with that other site and I will be sending an email to google with a warning in regards to them. Hopefully get my money returned. Will keep you all up dated
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Hi this the site below : I googled drone registration and this what I saw first: without all the rest of rubbish below title
www.drone-registration.uk
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Was it the same site as @callum posted above?
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All what you asked they stated that they would provide but at the cost of £45 anyway did my test on proper site and passed and paid another £9. But still it is not right they the site that I first went to uses the wording in BOLD ‘CAA’ it looks as though that is the CAA site - extremely naughty of them to get away with it and con people.
Did you do any type of test after checkout on the dodgy site?
The way I see it, its is one of 2 things.
Its genuine and they register on your behalf and send you the registration number by email and stickers and card in the post.
Problem with that scenario is they are taking the test for you on CAA website and simply emailing you the email they receive.
If you do end up with a registration without taking a test its fraudulent on their part.
Or it’s just a scam pure and simple.
Good case for a refund either way.
@kgbciafbi007 I’ve edited your post to remove the clickable link from the web site in question.
We don’t want to be sending more people their way by helping their web presence.
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The site is fake!
Weird because nowhere up to payment requests you to provide an operator ID for the label, which implies they’re going to fraudulently take the test for you… but there was this:
Which would mean they’re expecting you to go and register then come back and provide the op ID for their (very expensive) labels. 
