Colin Rosenstiel wrote:


If you want to throw your money away, it is of course your inalienable
right to do so.

I don't _want_ to. I ended up having to do it because it seemed like
the least worst option. How much _more_ money would I have found
myself losing if I'd stuck with that unreliable technology?

However, why didn't you go to a ticket office?

Because there's no Underground ticket office anywhere near me! But I
asked in both the local newsagents that do Oyster, and they both said
there was nothing that could be done.


I use my Oyster pretty infrequently (about 10 journeys in 2006) and it
works fine technically.

That's lasted for four times as many journeys as mine did. I'm
impressed. What's your secret?