On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:12:32 +0100, tim (back at home) wrote:

Just got myself a PAYG Oyster.

I CBA to stand in line at the counter and fill in a form
just to 'protect' my 5 pounds worth of credit.

But I am interested in knowing that it records my
journeys correctly so I go to the website, type in my
number and what do I get "We are unable to provide
this informaton for an unregistered card"

WTF not. Surely I should be as entitled to confirm
that the system has recorded my journeys correctly
as the next person.

Not really an answer to your question, but TfL don't like unregistered
Oyster users much. When I called the helpline to get an unresolved
journey fixed, I was flatly told that they wouldn't help me because my
card was unregistered. (Even though when I checked my journey history
on a Tube ticket machine, it said "You have an unresolved journey,
please call the Oyster helpline on...".) This was despite the fact
that the unresolved journey was the fault of the system (rather than,
say, my forgetfulness), and it was obvious by looking at the journey
history what had happened and that there was no attempt at fraud.

This was a year or so ago though, so they may have since changed the
policy.