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Ken Wheatley wrote:

Have you spoken to your credit card issuers? I find these days that
rejections of payments are becoming more and more frequent due to
anti-fraud procedures. In fact I've just binned one card due to my
total inability to buy any software on-line.

No, life's too short for all of this.

If that's not the reason it could be something as simple as a comms
fault at your card issuer - M&S (more accurately the bank behind their
card) were failing to authorise any card transaction during a week-day
morning a year or so ago.

I guess that may be the reason - but I will make one call to TFL to see
if they actually have some kind of fault code on record. But that will
be the extent of my investigation.

In my experience though faults are rare - I travel a lot abroad and this
particular Mastercard has never let me down from Kiev to Lisbon and many
points in between. The only time I've had problems with cards is when
they physically breakdown, which obviously is not the case this time.

E.