MoneysavingExpert.com noted that councils, including Lambeth and the Isle of Anglesey, as well as a number of companies were unfairly charging cardholders for payments over the weekend.
Lambeth Council wrongly charged the residents a fee of 1.65 percent after the ban had been imposed. One man who tried to pay his tax on Saturday said, "The Lambeth Council told me they were not charging any more, so I paid by credit card and guess what - they charged me."
A spokesman for the city council said that customers should no longer be charged for credit card payments, adding, "We apologize for any administrative errors and will make refunds if necessary."
Meanwhile, some small businesses seem to have misunderstood the rules and still require customers to pay by card.
Kelvin Kabs, a local taxi company based in Glasgow, Glasgow, said it would continue to charge a 50 pence service charge to customers paying by card. This does not apply to cash payers.
When asked why he was still charged despite the change, the manager said it was a "service charge" rather than a "transaction fee," adding, "It's a bit of a gray area, I want that one Service. "
And East London Energy, a small green electricity provider, has admitted that after paying the ban, it continues to charge customers a 1 percent charge for paying by credit card.
East London Energy has now stopped collecting the fee, stating that it would reimburse those who were wrongly charged. In the meantime, a number of other companies, including Premier Inn and the Student Loans Company, have forgotten to change their websites and are still warned that they will be charged for their cards.
On January 13, councils and companies were banned and government agencies banned if credit card payments - allegedly to compensate card companies - were prohibited.
The week before the ban The Telegraph announced that some retailers and other companies were planning to circumvent the rules by rejecting credit card payments. rising shelf prices and generally new "service fees".
Even those who pay in cash will now lose out as some companies - including the food company Just Eat - apply the cost increases to all customers.
Consumer experts have called for law enforcement to ensure that companies can not circumvent regulations. So far, many city councils, travel companies, and businesses charge customers who pay by credit card up to 3 percent of their purchase.
This was despite the fact that the actual cost to companies that charge customers with credit cards is a fraction of that price. So-called "interchange fees", which retailers pay payment providers, were limited to 0.3 percent by an EU ruling in December 2015.
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