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Old October 7th 14, 11:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:55:00AM -0500, wrote:

Why on earth would anyone who visits London 2 or 3 times a year have any use
for auto-top up?

Just consider the costs of auto-topup vs topping up manually. Auto-topup
means that you have, on average, a tenner or so of your money not
immediately available to you. You also miss out on 0.00000001% interest
on that money in your bank account. Topping up manually means that for
each of those 2 or 3 times a year you need to waste a few minutes in a
queue.

For most people the cost of auto-topup is pennies, so is far less than
the cost of queueing. Therefore auto-topup is better.

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