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Fare rises , legalised extortion?
sweek wrote: I guess I'm part of that lucky elite group too! Living in London, use my Oyster almost daily, and haven't had any problems at all. I love that I just don't have to worry about buying tickets or queueing at all with auto top-up on it. I don't know of any friends that have had problems either. Are you sure it might not just be you who's in the minority here, It could be. I have a very bad track record with ANY technology from after the early-to-mid-nineties. Anything more modern modern that can crash, fail, or break down usually will when I start using it! I can't be in the minority _every_ time that happens! and are you sure you haven't just walked through gates even though you got an error beep or anything? What gates? I only ever used it on buses. And I don't travel on them very often, which is why I'd hardly used it. Anyway, one day it just stopped working. It didn't respond at all to the readers on the buses. It didn't even respond to the reader in the newsagent when I took it back to complain. I couldn't prove there should still be five quid on there, because the readers wouldn't even acknowledge there was a card there, never mind how much money was on it. And I couldn't even get a refund on my deposit, because the newsagent claimed the damage must've been my fault! Now maybe you're saying there's something special and different about the readers on gates that lets them read faulty cards that other readers can't even detect. No-one told me anything about that at the time! |
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