In message , at 08:32:53 on
Wed, 20 Feb 2008, solar penguin
remarked:
And there was no chance of getting back the money stored on the old
card, because if she couldn't even read it in the first place, there
was no way she could know how much money there was.

The amount of money on the card is held on the central database too,
surely?
--
Roland Perry