Thread: CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
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Old February 24th 12, 01:29 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
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Robert Neville wrote:
d wrote:

He must be one of those bloody annoying people who insist on paying for
a 2.50 sandwich with a credit card and causing a huge queue of ****ed off
hungry customers behind him.

That may have been true 10 years ago. Current terminals handle credit card
transactions far faster than cash and in most cases, don't even require a
signature if the value is under a certain threshold.

In the UK pretty much all credit cards are authenicated by PIN. Very few
transactions are unauthenticated (except for pay-wave ones, which have a
limit of £10-£15).


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