On Jul 6, 8:33*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:04:50 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jul 6, 1:55*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:24 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:
I bought an oyster card dec 4 2008 and used it last dec 11 . I live in
us if i come back for the Olympics will it still be refillable?

Shouldn't be a problem as it is number of transaction cycles rather than
time that "wears out" the card.

In other words, a well used Oyster card will eventually become
frazzled?


You may need to get the card "re-activated" at a ticket office but this
is standard practice as on other smartcard systems.
Like at heathrow?

Any ticket office should be able to read the card and re-activate it.
It's only "switched off" due to lack of regular use. This happens with
my Octopus card in HK - it takes seconds to reactivate and stick some
cash on it.

I'm not sure this has actually been implemented with Oyster though -
although the Oyster T&Cs certainly reserve the right for it to happen
(IIRC after 2 years of no use).