In message , at 10:53:28
on Fri, 11 Mar 2011, David Cantrell remarked:
Pay wave can only be used for a purchase of up to £15 (only recently
increased from £10), so it's not really suitable for purchasing multiple
tickets.

No? It would cover 7 adult singles between Victoria and Paddington.

You'd only get two typical Travelcards (in one transaction). But I don't
think anyone is suggesting that TfL are upgrading their ticket machines
to take Paywave - they've had three years to do that and no sign of it.
--
Roland Perry

On Feb 27, 1:47*am, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

On Feb 26, 3:02 pm, wrote:

What about more than one person using the same card? I use my credit
card to buy tickets for all the family quite often.

I don't think it'd be any different to Oyster - any one credit/debit
card could only be used in this way by one person at any one time (and
strictly speaking at least I'd expect it should only be the named
cardholder).

Multiple (regular, paper) tickets could still be purchased in one
transaction using a debit/credit card from the ticket office or ticket
machine.

People using the wrong card to get through a gate - or erroneously
using a card when they've already got a paper ticket - is an obvious
issue one can foresee about this development.

Rather destroys the pay-wave system for adults with children then.

Yes, I think they might as well give up and cancel the whole project,
since you've pointed that out I can now see there can't possibly be
any utility in this system whatsoever...

On 2/27/2011 5:40 AM, Mizter T wrote:

On Feb 27, 1:47 am, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

On Feb 26, 3:02 pm, wrote:

What about more than one person using the same card? I use my credit
card to buy tickets for all the family quite often.

I don't think it'd be any different to Oyster - any one credit/debit
card could only be used in this way by one person at any one time (and
strictly speaking at least I'd expect it should only be the named
cardholder).

My VISA card has one number, but it's in two separate names -- mine and
Mr Cat's. So wouldn't that confuse the mechanism to have two of the same
card numbers in a row touching the thingie? I'd love to see a paragraph
on this. (and larger families! that'll be a chore. Sounds like a system
for singletons only.)

On Feb 27, 9:33*pm, redcat wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

On Feb 26, 3:02 pm, wrote:

What about more than one person using the same card? I use my credit
card to buy tickets for all the family quite often.

I don't think it'd be any different to Oyster - any one credit/debit
card could only be used in this way by one person at any one time (and
strictly speaking at least I'd expect it should only be the named
cardholder).

My VISA card has one number, but it's in two separate names -- mine and
Mr Cat's. So wouldn't that confuse the mechanism to have two of the same
card numbers in a row touching the thingie? I'd love to see a paragraph
on this. (and larger families! that'll be a chore. Sounds like a system
for singletons only.)

I'd assume that each card would transmit a unique ID (via the 'pay and
wave' functionality), even if the card number was the same.

In message , at 16:33:14
on Sun, 27 Feb 2011, redcat remarked:

My VISA card has one number, but it's in two separate names -- mine and
Mr Cat's. So wouldn't that confuse the mechanism to have two of the
same card numbers in a row touching the thingie?

This may have been already considered as part of the paywave
specification - for example, is the limit (for non-TfL purchases) ten
per day per card, or ten per day per account (which might have two
cards).
--
Roland Perry