A bit of advance warning for those who haven't heard - from November,
if you use pre-pay Oyster, and you fail to touch in or out at any point
of your travels where you're supposed to do so, you will find yourself
being charged £4.00 for the incomplete journey.

In addition to this charge, word on the street is LUL ticket offices
will be unable to adjust this (as they can now), and you will have to
call Oyster Helpdesk (which, like most call centres, can often mean
sitting on hold while you could be doing better things).

Just so you know.

wrote:

A bit of advance warning for those who haven't heard - from November,
if you use pre-pay Oyster, and you fail to touch in or out at any point
of your travels where you're supposed to do so, you will find yourself
being charged £4.00 for the incomplete journey.

All the signs up say this came in on October 10th.

Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
All the signs up say this came in on October 10th.

I'm not sure where you saw that, but the official word is November
2006. Also, this is from london.gov.uk - "A £4 charge for Oyster pay
as you go users who do not touch in and out at the start and end of
their journey will be introduced in November 2006"

also found on tfl.gov.uk at the following link -
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent...t.asp?prID=891

Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

wrote:

A bit of advance warning for those who haven't heard - from November,
if you use pre-pay Oyster, and you fail to touch in or out at any point
of your travels where you're supposed to do so, you will find yourself
being charged £4.00 for the incomplete journey.

All the signs up say this came in on October 10th.

I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note of it
given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this change
wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of one of the
posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Mizter T wrote:
I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note of it
given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this change
wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of one of the
posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Ah well, whatever the date people, start using your Oysters right

wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note of it
given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this change
wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of one of the
posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Ah well, whatever the date people, start using your Oysters right

My sympathies go out to LU ticket office staff who'll be on the
receiving end of many angry words from irate passengers.

The poster does say something like "98% of Londerners use their Oyster
properly. Are you part of the 2% that don't?" - which is a good way of
putting the point across.

This de-facto 'penalty' for incomplete journeys does plug a hole in the
Oyster system. But there will inevitably be much frustration and
frothing to come.

Mizter T wrote:
My sympathies go out to LU ticket office staff who'll be on the
receiving end of many angry words from irate passengers.

The poster does say something like "98% of Londerners use their Oyster
properly. Are you part of the 2% that don't?" - which is a good way of
putting the point across.

This de-facto 'penalty' for incomplete journeys does plug a hole in the
Oyster system. But there will inevitably be much frustration and
frothing to come.

Tell me about it, the thing is that inevitably someone with an
incomplete journey cannot understand what they did wrong. The basic
thing people need to learn is there's more to successfully touching in
or out than waving your Oyster in the air in the approximate vicinity
of the reader. It must beep at you once, and will show you on the
screen that it has been successful. If it makes an angry three beeps,
it didn't work.

I think the second main offence with them is people who have
difficulty, but the person behind is in a big rush and put their card
down, letting the first person through without using their own card
properly.

Still, once all the rabid arguments calm down, hopefully it'll prove to
be a better system overall.

In article om,
(Mizter T) wrote:

wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note
of it given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this
change wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of
one of the posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Ah well, whatever the date people, start using your Oysters right


My sympathies go out to LU ticket office staff who'll be on the
receiving end of many angry words from irate passengers.

The poster does say something like "98% of Londerners use their
Oyster properly. Are you part of the 2% that don't?" - which is a good
way of putting the point across.

This de-facto 'penalty' for incomplete journeys does plug a hole in
the Oyster system. But there will inevitably be much frustration and
frothing to come.

Those of us outside London who have no option but to use a confusing
combination of Oyster and paper tickets will be even more angry if we
make a mistake and find it can't be sorted out without a laborious trawl
through the call centre to sort out a £4 charge. If one opens a gate
with the wrong ticket, as happened to me once, there is no way of
correcting it there and then.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

For stations are currently being "trialed"

"Mizter T" wrote in message
ups.com...
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

wrote:

A bit of advance warning for those who haven't heard - from November,
if you use pre-pay Oyster, and you fail to touch in or out at any point
of your travels where you're supposed to do so, you will find yourself
being charged £4.00 for the incomplete journey.

All the signs up say this came in on October 10th.

I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note of it
given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this change
wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of one of the
posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Robin Mayes wrote:
For stations are currently being "trialed"

"Mizter T" wrote in message
ups.com...
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

wrote:

A bit of advance warning for those who haven't heard - from November,
if you use pre-pay Oyster, and you fail to touch in or out at any point
of your travels where you're supposed to do so, you will find yourself
being charged £4.00 for the incomplete journey.
All the signs up say this came in on October 10th.

I also saw one of these posters today - I took particular note of it
given the previous discussions here on utl had suggested this change
wasn't coming until November. I'll try and take a snap of one of the
posters tomorrow and post a link here.

Hmm. It's taken me the best part of five minutes to make sense of this
post. After scrolling back a few messages, and back down again, I've
finally tumbled to the fact that some chuff-wit has top posted and left
the previous message completely intact.

For the benefit of all chuff-wits everywhe trim the message to which
you're replying; then start your reply underneath it. Otherwise it just
looks like you're repeating someone else's post.

Oh, and I don't usually get too worked up about spelling, but "for"??
"For"? What ITNOF am I supposed to be derive from that??
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
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Not in a good mood.