"Mizter T" wrote in message
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My reading of tim's comment was that it was really about the bus
ticket machines - perhaps he might care to clarify matters?

I was referring to the bus at the time, mainly becuse there is more need to
be sure that the money has been debited correctly than on the tube.

But the tube ones are crap as well!

(Indeed the whole pickpocket/criminal issue has certainly crossed my
mind - arguably a good reason to just choose £20 rather than £40 when

I admit that I didn't think of this, but now that it's been pointed out, I
think it's a pretty weak argument.

Most people are going to have either a season ticket or auto top up, or
(like me) a low balance. I can't really see that there would be much of a
business in watching people's credit and targeting the ones with a lot of
money on their card. You'd be there for weeks until you found someone. A
thief would be much better off just randomly choosing people and collecting
100s of cards with small balances than one card with a large balance.

tim