On 3 Feb, 20:24, Mizter T wrote:
On Feb 3, 8:03*pm, MIG wrote:





On 3 Feb, 11:48, wrote:

Neil *Williams wrote:

Perhaps people could be encouraged to return them if doing so was
easier? *I don't see why a machine shouldn't be provided to take one
back and return the deposit and outstanding balance. *(Though it's not
totally simple, as I guess a refund of balance paid by credit card
must go back to the credit card).

They don't have to call it a refund, they could just give you
£3 for being lovely and returning it. It's only £3, not £30.

The question is whether they actually want them back, or whether they
just want £3 extra from a couple of million people. *They have to go
through the motions of taking them back either way.

It has been stated that returned cards are never reissued. *I'll have
to search for the thread that that cropped up in.

I've still got to reply to your post upthread still (and the other
post about Oyster, and a million and one others too!) but I rather
fear this is a muddling of two separate issues - lost Oyster cards
that have been returned to ticket offices (or wherever), and
*surrendered* Oyster cards returned because the holder didn't want
them any more. In the case of the latter the deposit is returned plus
I think those cards do then get re-issued (dunno what quality control
process there might for for that though).

Oh I remember now. I think it was the one where someone thought that
they'd been issued an old card with an expired season on it ...

This was the one.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....5089535c?hl=en