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Old October 8th 14, 09:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:17:53PM -0500,
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 (David Cantrell) wrote:
For most people the cost of auto-topup is pennies, so is far less
than the cost of queueing. Therefore auto-topup is better.
You are forgetting the non-trivial chance of losing or mislaying
the card so the whole value is lost to you, at least temporarily.

You are forgetting the non-trivial chance of losing or mislaying a
tenner so the whole value is lost to you. At least if you lose your
Oyster card it is possible to get a (partial?) refund.

You assume I pay with cash. Why?

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