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Contactless on the tube and rail
contactless. This is especially difficult as many (USA at least) tourists arriving in London will have bought one of the latter at the airport (where they are marketed aggressively) in order to get over the C&P thing where their cards may not be compatible, and of course in order to have their money in their pocket in Sterling. Does the bank have some sort of "special" overdraft for that or do they just refuse payment and the vendor is out of pocket as can happen with credit cards? On the other hand, TfL has gone out of its way in the past to say that certain foreign issued and prepay cards won't be accepted. But it's not clear if they mean "because they aren't contactless - duh!" or whether they fail TfL's risk management tests due to the possibility of being dry. Now that CPC is fully rolled out, I expect we'll see more information about both TfL's position on this issue and also war stories from disappointed would-be travellers. One possibility is that while they won't be able to get a balance from the bank in the milliseconds it takes to touch in, maybe by at least overnight they'll know to blacklist such a card's future use. -- Roland Perry There are two different types of contactless cards around: i) just emulates the magnetic strip ii) is connected to the EMV chip. It's the first (mostly USA issued) which won't be accepted. |
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