Being a bit of a schmuck for marketing, the snazzy Barclaycard ad with
the water slides got me onto their website. There, I discovered that
they do a version of the OnePulse credit card which gives 5% cashback
on all your TfL spending until the end of the year. Quite handy for
offsetting Boris's most recent fare increases.

And I've also just received my last 16-25 Railcard (bought online just
before my 26th birthday; curiously it expires a few days after my 27th.)

So now I want to put the two together, to get discounted Off-Peak Daily
Price Capping.

At the first two tube ticket offices I tried, I was told I'd need to
register my card first, and was handed a pink registration form. I
didn't quite see the need for this, as the card is already registered,
so took the form and said I'd fill it in later.

The third ticket office were fairly convinced that the discount
couldn't be applied to the OnePulse card, and said I'd need to get a
regular Oyster Card.

I can't see anything on the TfL or Barclaycard sites to suggest that
the Oyster part of a OnePulse card is any different from a standard
Oyster card, so while I wait the 7-10 days for the Oyster people to get
back to my email, I thought I'd see if anyone on u.t.l had successfully
managed this.

- martin