David of Broadway wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

Being a scruff is no crime! Perhaps the RPIs thought someone had lent
you their Oyster, as period Travelcards are non-transferable. However
there is no real way they can enforce this unless they look up the
relevent details on the Oyster database and ask you to confirm them -
something I haven't heard ever having happen, though it's technically
possible. (If you were using a borrowed Oyster then I wouldn't recomend
complaining - but it sounds like the card was indeed yours.)

And even that isn't possible if the Oyster card isn't registered
(although IIRC registration is required for Travelcards valid for longer
than a week).

True. Though as you rightly point out, only 7-day Travelcards are
available on an unregistered Oyster card - anything longer and it needs
to be registered.

Mizter T wrote:

True. Though as you rightly point out, only 7-day Travelcards are
available on an unregistered Oyster card - anything longer and it needs
to be registered.

While on that topic, is it possible to register an Oyster at an address
outside the UK yet? When I attempted in 2005, the agent at Notting Hill
Gate seemed annoyed that I even tried.
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA

David of Broadway wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

True. Though as you rightly point out, only 7-day Travelcards are
available on an unregistered Oyster card - anything longer and it needs
to be registered.


While on that topic, is it possible to register an Oyster at an address
outside the UK yet? When I attempted in 2005, the agent at Notting Hill
Gate seemed annoyed that I even tried.

I don't think so. I tried a couple of months ago and it did not work.

--
Olof Lagerkvist
ICQ: 724451
Web: http://here.is/olof

While on that topic, is it possible to register an Oyster at an
address outside the UK yet? When I attempted in 2005, the agent at
Notting Hill Gate seemed annoyed that I even tried.

I don't think so. I tried a couple of months ago and it did not work.

When I got mine in 2004 at Stratford, I just wrote my German address on
the form and they did not complain. Interesting enough there seems to be
no country field in the address shown online.

If they refuse to register you and thus limit your usage of the
Oystercard (no refund if lost, no monthly travelcard etc.) it is a clear
discrimination against Citizens of the European Union and thus illegal.
The European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition...sumer_liaison/
might be interested.

Martin