"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 14:07:55 on Wed, 7 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
Unless you use auto-topup.

As someone who sometimes doesn't use his card for a year at a time the
trigger point and the minimum top up are far too high. (It's ridiculous
to treat me like a child and assume that I might - without realising it,
want to use my card to go to Watford and thus need the fare to there to be
available.

They are treating you as a criminal, who might make an unresolved journey
to (say) an unbarriered commuter station in Kent, where they can at least
collect the fare to Watford from you before you shred the card and get a
new one for tomorrow.

But I can do that anyway with auto top-up turned off

tim