Classic Parade
Reviews and Complaints

Hired a car in June for my son’s prom, the car did not arrive and no refund had been issued, stay well away from this company. We have emailed them serval times and they responded with they are having banking issues this has now been going on for nearly 2 months they can receive money but can’t refund it, we sent an email giving 28 days before legal action and the 28 days have now expired, we have no option but to start legal proceedings. They will comment back saying we are a fake account ect as they do on every negative comment , the only fake reviews are the good ones. Please STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY

Like other people's experiences, Andrew Brown or Hassan, took £3200, promised us a car, didn't supply it and failed to give us a refund. He has 14 CCJ's totalling £75k as of June 2024. He gets away with this by writing fake reviews (amazing how many 5* ones only ever write one review!), especially look out for the ones taking about the guys, crew or team. The scam company is only him. Please do not give him any money, he's a serial scammer and liar. Please read the 1 star reviews on trust pilot and save yourself the nightmare. AVOID AVOID AVOID.

Andrew Brown runs the scamming company Classic Parade Supercar Hire. He offers supercars for rental. Here is the con. At first he will sound very professional over the phone. Discussing your needs and passionate about the car you have chosen. He emails you an invoice for the rental to deposit money via bank transfer into a bank account. Part of this will be the cost of the hire the bulk will be the refundable deposit say £5, 000. You will send the money thinking you are booking a supercar for a special day. The day comes and the wrong car shows up. In some cases no car shows up at all. Penny drops and you realise you've been scammed. You complain and ask for a refund and Opps Andrew Brown now turns into scamming mode. He ignores your calls and emails. He threatens and black mails if you dare to leave a bad review online. He has stolen your money and you won't see it again.

He then desperately continues to posts fake articles and reviews about himself making out classic parade is legit. Clearly an insecure failed businessman. Andrew Brown has been to prison before for doing this. He's now back at it. You only need to google his name and his other scamming company Prestige Cars. I am shocked at how he is getting away with it. I've been a victim of his scamming ways. The police have been informed and Croydon police are already investigating him. I am not the only customer he has done this too. I'm trying to get together as many customers as I can to form a group and get this guy sent back to prison. I won't stop until I get my money back. If you've been a victim of his fraud please comment or message me directly.

Also keep an eye out for Andrews fake response to this complaint.

He won't get away with this.

Following the agreement and paid £5650 to hire a Lamborghini for sons prom Andrew Brown the so called company director then informed me on the day that a car wasn’t available this was in June 2024, still no refund, it’s a scam company! And Andrew before you say you can’t find my details and I’m a rival company forget it you emailed me just yesterday with another stupid excuse

Payed for a Lamborghini Urus Hire for February 10, communication was going well with Andrew and in the day before the hire it was cancelled by Andrew, regarding an "issue with supply chain" I then asked if an alternative vehicle could be sent and he was unable to send an alternative. Eventually my bank details were requested for a refund but still no refund as of yet...

But since that time we have uncovered more information about Andre Brown, got a few photos, his social media (Instagram) and another address of another one of his business. Andrew Brown is a British born Nigerian. We have managed to track him down.

Still no reply to our emails, he doesn't understand the severity of the situation, im not like these other guys that will use police... This is Last week that we will wait for Andrew to issue the refund. After this week we will go looking for Andrew at the various addresses we have of him.

Three months have passed since I paid the invoice for the Audi RS6 I booked in November, and yet, I'm still without the car or a refund.

I've reached out to Andrew via email eight times, only getting back three replies. Each time, the issue was blamed on ongoing problems with their banking system.

After waiting for so long, I see no other choice but to share my complaint here, as trying to sort it out through emails hasn't led to any progress.

All I'm asking for now is a refund of the money owed to me, so we can finally put this matter to rest.

This horrid company has taken money from my brother and have failed to provide him with a car or refund him his money. My brother (Mohammed Atif) is owed £5000 by this company and has now been waiting for 3 months. If you look in the reviews you will see his name. Despite the company claiming this issue has been “resolved,” I can confirm this is not the case. My brother has had to issue legal proceedings to which this company have still failed to make a response. The lack of empathy shown is appalling. Stealing money from hard working people and failing altogether to respond to them. This is a clear pattern as you will see from the numerous 1 star google reviews and Tripadvisor reviews. The 5* reviews are mostly fake and unverified. I urge people to avoid this company like the plague as they will cause you nothing but financial and mental stress.

Classic Parade Ltd.

(Invoice refund CP-8412)

Once again, I'm writing to inform you that the above refund has yet to be resolved. I have had email correspondence regarding the above refund from Andrew Brown (Andy) since the 30th of August as per the attachments. The contents of his emails are full of baloney and petty excuses (see attachments) Would you kindly have the decency and integrity to process this refund without any further delay.

Thanks,

Riyaz.

On the 3rd of August, we contacted Classic parade about the hire of a Supercar. We confirmed via invoice number CP8412 about the payment and delivery. On the 17th of August, got an email late at night saying that there has been a technical issue and they cannot deliver hence gave us options to reschedule or refund straight away. We chose to get the refund and since then we have been in contact with them via email and phones. On the 8th of September, got an email that he refund will be processed within 2 working days. We still await for our refund of £3350 till date. We found this company very unreliable, unprofessional, unethical to do further business of hiring. If this matter is not resolved ASAP, we will be compelled to take legal action.

DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. It is clearly a scam. The car I was due to receive unfortunately suffered an 'engine warning light' fault before delivery. I was promised a full refund. I have not received this refund, all calls and emails are now going unanswered. Looking online it seems many other people have fallen for this as well. The 'owner' Andrew Brown clearly has a long track record of this.

booked a Nissan gtr r for the 12th (today) but got an email on the 10th saying that there is a problem with the car and would try to find an alternative. Various emails to them to find out what was going on with little to no response from the owner Andrew Brown. They finally responded to say that they could not find an alternative so I requested a refund from them. It is now 9pm and I’m still have no refund, no conformation that a refund has been processed or any other response. I have now had to get the bank involved to get my money back. I am also going to be getting legal advice to see what else I can get because this is not acceptable from a company that asks for so much money and claims to be high end and professional. Avoid at all costs!

We wanted to hire a supercar for our client and we had a contact with Andrew Brown of this company who quoted 5600 pounds for the deposit and the rental. The rental date was set as 30th May, 2023 and the transfer was made a week before. But, a day before the rental, he called and emailed us mentioning that the rental can't be done the next day as they had a some issue with the insurance provider. So, he offered us an option for a refund. We opted for the refund and sent him the bank account details. From then on and until now, he has stopped responding to our emails and calls and has not refunded the money as well. We have also raised a complaint with the Metropolitan Police, UK regarding the same and we are attaching the complaint (fraud) report for your reference. Please help us in getting our money back. Thanks.