Andrew Heenan wrote:

"tim....." wrote :

Assuming you are referring to the bit that you left, he is saying
that it is only possible to "initiate" your top up by visiting a
tube station and actually making a TUBE journey, something which not
everybody will want to do.

If you don't want to travel, why, for God's sake, would you want to
top-up your oyster, auto, manually or any other way?
It simply does not make sense.

Who said anything about not wanting to travel? Just about not wanting
to travel by Underground. Remember that this whole sub thread was
started by someone pointing out the difficulty of recharging Oyster for
buses when you don't live near an Underground station.

And now that the *******s at TfL have abolished Saver tickets, a lot of
us are being forced to buy Oyster just for bus journeys. Despite the
fact that, as you point out, Oyster was primarilly designed with
Underground users, not bus users, in mind.