"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 22:22:45 on Sun,
23 Nov 2008, Stephen Osborn
remarked:
he is saying that it is only possible to "initiate" your top up by
visiting a tube station and actually making a TUBE journey, something
which not everybody will want to do.

pedant Or a DLR journey /pedant

But what's to stop you touching straight back out, then getting the
ticket
office to cancel out the pair of transactions?

How would that work? Would I just touch my Oyster twice on the same
reader

If you go through a barrier it's not the "same reader", just the "same
line of gates".

Okay, the next door reader - if I choose the right pair of gates ;-)

As you will be doing this at a LUL station (so there's a suitable ticket
office to talk to), the ones with ticket offices virtually all have
barriers, surely?

Of course. What point are you making?

then go to the ticket office and ask them to cancel a 'phantom' journey?

Yes.

As someone said earlier there seem to be a number of cases where the user
has to come up with a clever way of working round the system rather than the
system working sensibly. In this case 'working sensibly' would be being
able to switch on auto top-up at the ticket office.

regards

Stephen

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Roland Perry