"Andrew Heenan" wrote in message
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wrote:
Auto top-up triggers whenever the balance falls below £5. Thus your
balance is always in the £5-£25 range, never below. The loophole I'm
suggesting is to add cash before each journey to keep it in the £5-£10
range, but what you can't ever do with a card with auto top-up enabled
is spend the last £5. You can still have the card refunded of course,
but then you have no Oyster Card.
None of this helps us provincials who use perhaps a tenner a year on
PAYG.

That being the case, what on Earth are you doing even considering auto
top-up.
That's insane.

No it's not. It's just as much a PITA having to feed three quid cash onto
my card each time I want to make a return tube journey than it is to feed
thirty quid for a week's travel.

tim