• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Oyster Cards

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Oyster Cards

    How about this for being royally raped. I need to travel from Leyton (Z3) to Hammersmith (Z2) so I bought a Zone 2-3 Oyster card top up for £14 (on a card that had £2.50 available).

    I travelled yesterday like this:

    Touch in at Leyton. Go to stratford (central). Go to Gunnersbury (North London Line). Go to Hammersmith (District) and touch out. Note: Avoiding zone 1.

    Then the same in reverse.

    This morning I hit the barrier and find out that my Oyster card is £-0.40 and that I cannot use it until I have:

    1. Registered it.
    2. Paid the extra £.40 because their system thinks I'm travelling through Zone 1 and is charging me appropriately.

    None of which I can do apparently as my credit card is blocked thanks to them sticking the transaction through twice.

    Total rip off. I'm disgusted at it - you just can't win with this city. Whatever you do you get raped. Argh!!!

    In conclusion - how Oyster works:

    - Record start point A
    - Record end point B
    - Work out the MOST PROFITABLE route between point A and B, rather than the most economical.
    - Charge accordingly

    Another failed application if RFID.

    Sorry - rant over. I will be buying good old paper tickets from now on.
    Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

    #2
    Someone has to pay for Ken's department.

    Comment


      #3
      Well it ain't going to be me. I'm going to egg the ****er if I ever see him I tell you.
      Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

      Comment


        #4
        Is it not possible to touch out/in at the intervening stations, or am I missing something?
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

        Comment


          #5
          Originally posted by threaded
          Is it not possible to touch out/in at the intervening stations, or am I missing something?
          I did actually do that. Somehow it appears to not know of the existence of the North London line in its database.
          Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

          Comment


            #6
            So it would therefore appear to be calculating the most expensive journey. Surely something contary to the Sales of Goods Act?
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

            Comment


              #7
              Are you allowed to use top-up cards on the BR line?
              I travel on the Heathrow Connect every day and they're clear that season tickets are fine, but prepay topups aren't.

              Comment


                #8
                It's only fair.

                Comment


                  #9
                  Hows about having two cards! Touch in/out with one, and in/out with the other, and back to the first, rinse, repeat

                  It'd have to be code written by someone as devious as me to then match up the journey.
                  Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                  threadeds website, and here's my blog.

                  Comment


                    #10
                    I thought the Oyster card capped the day's charge at the cost of a one day travel card?

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X