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Old February 26th 12, 05:34 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Adam H. Kerman Adam H. Kerman is offline
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Default cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
On 25-Feb-12 15:46, Roland Perry wrote:
at 17:30:39 on Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Adam H. Kerman remarked:


I routinely spend amounts of the order of a thousand dollars at
retailers by Chip and PIN card, and it's a one-shot process.


If that's true, then I suspect your credit limit is stored on the card.


It isn't. What you have to accept is that things are done differently in
USA vs the rest of the world.


Aside from our lack of EMV, things aren't done differently in the US;
don't take Adam's misunderstandings as authoritative.


Impressive maturity there, Stephen. I now expect you to own up to
the several misstatements I've caught you at as you always do,
hahahahahahahahaha.