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Post by snoggle on Aug 5, 2014 20:18:38 GMT
My Oyster has never gotten damaged. A couple of days ago it went through a cycle in the Washing Machine and I was scared it might get damaged. In reality, nothing happened. The only possible way I can think of that it might break is if someone purposely snaps it. Or possibly puts it next to a very strong magnet. There is one very simple way to break any transport smartcard. That is put in your back pocket in your trousers and then sit down on a hard seat. You will break the aerial inside the card which renders it inoperable. This was a massive problem in Hong Kong when the Octopus card launched and they had to mount regular publicity campaigns to tell people to take more care of their card. Octopus Dos and Donts
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 20:36:46 GMT
My Oyster has never gotten damaged. A couple of days ago it went through a cycle in the Washing Machine and I was scared it might get damaged. In reality, nothing happened. The only possible way I can think of that it might break is if someone purposely snaps it. Or possibly puts it next to a very strong magnet. There is one very simple way to break any transport smartcard. That is put in your back pocket in your trousers and then sit down on a hard seat. You will break the aerial inside the card which renders it inoperable. This was a massive problem in Hong Kong when the Octopus card launched and they had to mount regular publicity campaigns to tell people to take more care of their card. Octopus Dos and DontsLuckily, I don't use my back pocket(s).
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Post by sid on Aug 6, 2014 13:39:44 GMT
Nor have I but then in all the cases I've witnessed the passenger has been allowed to travel for free, when that stops (as surely it must) then that's when the arguments will start Let me re-phrase it: Since the 6th of July, I have not been on a bus where someone wanted to pay by cash. (I think it shows how sophisticated and informed people are in my area- Tower Hamlets. ) P.S. If you know Tower Hamlets, you'll know that the last sentence and emoticon are both meant in a sarcastic way. Yes I see what you mean, I've witnessed about half a dozen instances of people wanting to pay cash although living down in Sussex now I don't use London buses that often.............and yes I do know Tower Hamlets
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Post by overgroundcommuter on Aug 6, 2014 15:54:53 GMT
The Londonist website has done a straw poll to see how people have been affected by the changes, it appears that there is a new trend of passengers offering to use their contactless card to cash payers in exchange for £1.45. londonist.com/2014/08/cashless-buses.php
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Post by Steve80 on Aug 10, 2014 5:14:50 GMT
Yesterday, I had 5 passengers boarding my 157 bus at Stafford Road in Wallington. They all wanted to go to Croydon but all wanted to pay by cash as they had no oystercard. I then asked them if they have a contactless card and one of them did have one so he thought he can pay for all of them with his contactless card. I had to tell him that you can only pay for yourself. They then said not to worry as we will get a taxi instead
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Post by sid on Aug 11, 2014 9:39:18 GMT
Yesterday, I had 5 passengers boarding my 157 bus at Stafford Road in Wallington. They all wanted to go to Croydon but all wanted to pay by cash as they had no oystercard. I then asked them if they have a contactless card and one of them did have one so he thought he can pay for all of them with his contactless card. I had to tell him that you can only pay for yourself. They then said not to worry as we will get a taxi instead None for ages and then five come at once This is the trouble with contactless cards and oysters, you need one each. At least with the paper carnet tickets they could just give you five tickets and job done.
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Post by overgroundcommuter on Sept 4, 2014 1:40:17 GMT
I noticed a sign on the drivers cab about the One More Journey on Oyster scheme on the P4.
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Post by YY13VKP on Sept 9, 2014 20:07:04 GMT
With the arrival of the iPhone 6 and 6 plus with the Apple Pay service, i had a thought When Apple Pay comes out in the UK, will it be accepted on London Buses as a method of paymentAs contactless is rolling across the network, i think they will accept it on Buses, Also it would make life easier for tourist with the new iPhone to pay for their bus ride instead of delaying the bus asking how to pay without an Oyster or an Accepted contactless payment card What are your thoughts?
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Sept 9, 2014 20:22:06 GMT
With the arrival of the iPhone 6 and 6 plus with the Apple Pay service, i had a thought When Apple Pay comes out in the UK, will it be accepted on London Buses as a method of paymentAs contactless is rolling across the network, i think they will accept it on Buses, Also it would make life easier for tourist with the new iPhone to pay for their bus ride instead of delaying the bus asking how to pay without an Oyster or an Accepted contactless payment card What are your thoughts? If the technology used in the iphone has exactly the same type of magnet and gets attention of the machine reading it in exactly the same way as a Contactless card, then won't the Ticket machine just see the iphone as a Contactless card?
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Post by snoggle on Sept 12, 2014 22:20:58 GMT
With the arrival of the iPhone 6 and 6 plus with the Apple Pay service, i had a thought When Apple Pay comes out in the UK, will it be accepted on London Buses as a method of paymentAs contactless is rolling across the network, i think they will accept it on Buses, Also it would make life easier for tourist with the new iPhone to pay for their bus ride instead of delaying the bus asking how to pay without an Oyster or an Accepted contactless payment card What are your thoughts? There are already NFC phone applications which can be accepted on a TfL bus and will be accepted on rail modes from next week. The system is designed around industry standards so use of the appropriate standards should allow any NFC phone to work with the right app. There are also tags and wristbands that can work. TfL infoProviding Apple play by the banks' rules then an iPhone 6 should work. However if they have, as usual, decided to take over the world by doing their own thing and created a mechanism that is not compliant then it won't work. I also don't expect TfL and the banks to bend to Apple's will. I expect someone, somewhere will create a suitable app but whether Apple decide to approve it is open to debate. Let's be honest here Apple's aim in life is to try to monopolise certain channels such as how people pay for and use music and videos via I Tunes. Apple Pay is another way of exploiting the I Tunes account holders and the links to bank accounts.
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Post by fl70500 on Jan 1, 2015 14:31:10 GMT
Been going a while now and there is only one niggle that as my oyster is always active will not face...
If you get charged an Emergency Ticket as you tap on you've already paid it and could be heading somewhere without means to top up.
Surely this feature needs to be a YES or NO option so the passenger can decide if they top up there or at destination?
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