Departure fee from KBED

[SHIPCHIEF]

I just received an invoice of $10 for departing Massport Hanscom Field (KBED) on 12/2/2011 @ 3:01 PM.
Vector-us.com is the billing service.
I went to KBED's site, what a bunch of fees!
I got off lightly.
Unfortunately, N89SE has never left the State of Washington,
doesn't have an Airworthiness Certificate, and has never flown. (maybe this year?)
I emailed Vector-us.com, and left an after hours phone message to the manager's office at KBED.
I've been billed for parking fees at airports that I already paid for, mostly in California, but never before at an airport I've never been to, let alone in an airplane that has been registered, but never issued and airworthiness certificate, and has never flown.
Until now I've been able to prevent double billing by paying with a check.
This one is new for me.
How much trouble is this going to be? I hate spending time fighting this stuff.

[Clarkie]

Good Luck! I used to teach there in the late 90's. Massport truly sucks to deal with. Hope your experience is better than any of my dealings with them have been.

[Ron Lee]

Send it back with a statement such as

" I have never flown to your lovely state but look forward to in the future. No payment is included since this is an erroneous bill. Good day.

[dlloyd3]

It may have cost $10 to leave but it was worth it.

[Jamie]

The funny thing is I went to the billing agency's website and this blurb is in the very center.

Vector's comprehensive solution bills, services and collects landing fees without any airport labor and yields 100% aircraft operator identification and a 99% collections rate.

Maybe they should bump that identification part down to 99.9%?

[Mitch757]

A couple of my neighbors here in Mass have received the same bills by just flying near the airport. Both had mode S transponders.

A phone call solved the situation for both of them.

Mitch

RV4 flying

[Subwaybob]

Originally Posted by dlloyd3

It may have cost $10 to leave but it was worth it.

Thats great!

[az_gila]

Originally Posted by Mitch757

A couple of my neighbors here in Mass have received the same bills by just flying near the airport. Both had mode S transponders.

A phone call solved the situation for both of them.

Mitch

RV4 flying

...and I thought it would be the FAA that would charge us user fees based on Mode-S transponder returns.

I guess many agencies can get in on the billing act...

[humptybump]

Originally Posted by Jamie

The funny thing is I went to the billing agency's website and this blurb is in the very center.
Maybe they should bump that identification part down to 99.9%?

Actually they should bump the identification rate up to 100.5%

[DanH]

Originally Posted by az_gila

...and I thought it would be the FAA that would charge us user fees based on Mode-S transponder returns. I guess many agencies can get in on the billing act...

Yep....there's the REAL future of user fees. Fight it while you can.