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Nick Cooper wrote: Why should I be expected to get an Oyster for just 7 single tube fares so far this year? Why not? My mother lives in Newcastle, but comes to London a few times a year. She loves her Oyster card. It strikes me that a lot of people seem to object to Oyster on some bizarre principle, and end up cutting off their noses to spite their face. There was some woman being interviewed on BBC London yesterday. "The likes of me don't have an Oyster card," she said, "I think it's disgusting." FFS.... I have a friend who won't get an Oyster card because she doesn't want "them" to know where she's been and what she's been doing. Not even an unregistered pre-pay card... I on the other hand love mine, and if I could have the thing implanted in the palm of my hand I would! Just think how much easier that would be! :) Cheers Steve M |
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How does one document the tickets in order to claim expenses then?
You can request a statement which will be mailed to you the same day by 1st class post. At any time? I expect a receipt when I part with cash. If I pay by credit card I expect a transaction voucher. Why should I pay a year's worth up front? You don't. You can charge up your card with only the cost of your next journey each time. And the machines tell me what the Oyster single fares are, do they? Are you just looking for any reason not to get one? You can get a receipt every time you top up no matter what way you pay. You can order a statement whenever you want or get a print out from the ticket office. There will only be a very limited number of possible Oyster fares from next year. Someone pedantic enough to only be prepared to top up on a per-journey basis could surely be able to carry these listed on a small piece of paper with their Oyster for them to refer to? Otherwise don't bother - pay the higher price - the structure has obviously been designed to penalise those not from London or the very stupid and it will subsidise the costs for the rest of us. |
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On 5 Oct 2005 11:01:04 -0700, "Mizter T" wrote:
As I see it the TOCs are wary of Pre Pay for business reasons, and given the current business structure of the railways it shouldn't surprise anyone that they look at things from this perspective. Some day I'll kick of a thread with some further thoughts on the TOCs aversion to Pre Pay, but this thread is not the right forum for such considered thoughts as the temperature is a little too hot with indignation! The principle with the equivalent bus day tickets, which cover several operators and several counties, is that the issuing company keeps the revenue, and swings and roundabouts sort the whole thing out. Trying to account for every journey and allocating revenue would be an impossible task. Well, maybe not impossible, but nobody has found he need to do it so far. -- Terry Harper Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society http://www.omnibussoc.org |
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:54:11 +0100, "TKD" wrote:
Otherwise don't bother - pay the higher price - the structure has obviously been designed to penalise those not from London or the very stupid and it will subsidise the costs for the rest of us. I see this as well. I don't consider it appropriate. (I am not putting up barriers to me getting an Oyster - I don't need one as I always travel to London on outboundary ODTCs, be they of the peak or off-peak variety. I am merely objecting to the offensively expensive fares). Neil -- Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK When replying please use neil at the above domain 'wensleydale' is a spam trap and is not read. |
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As I see it the TOCs are wary of Pre Pay for business reasons, and given the current business structure of the railways it shouldn't surprise anyone that they look at things from this perspective. From: http://www.alwaystouchout.com/project/66 "The DfT recently specified that TfL's zonal fares must be rolled out to all rail services within London by 2007, with a phased approach being taken to achieve this with an individual train company at a time." Once that has happened there will be much less reason for them to resist. |
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
At any time? I expect a receipt when I part with cash. If I pay by credit card I expect a transaction voucher. When you feed cash into the machine, you press the receipt button and it gives you one. I had these into work for expenses. And the machines tell me what the Oyster single fares are, do they? On the leaflet, next to the machine. |
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Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:24:45 GMT, Chris Tolley Remind me, Neil - how much interest were you going to get on this fiver that TfL are getting to keep? It is the principle, not the amount, in this particular case. But what is the principle? It's effectively no different from buying a book of ten stamps when you only have an immediate need for one, is it? -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9633030.html (From all the smoke, you'd think 47 225's train was really heavy!) |
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