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General => General discussion => Topic started by: VW BUSH on 25 January 2012, 19:50
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Went up town for a meeting last night, got a £20 fine for not having enough funds on my oyster although it said I had enough when I beeped in.... grrrr
Put £30 on it to come home so I am down £50 at this stage.
Picked up my car from work on the way home about 10pm got home upset about my expensive night.
Reversed off the drive this morning only to see my misses come out waving her arms at me, someone had nicked the grill off the front of my car the night before in the work car park :sick:
rant over
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Bummer :sad:
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Arse wipe Mitcham pikeys
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Sh*it didn't know you get fined I have an oyster pay as you top up only, use it for meetings up town but sometimes I'm a few quid under then top up and all good?
How or why do they fine you I thought you just pay whats negative on the balance? :undecided:
I know if you don't beep out you get fined for that fair enough!
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Bad things always happen in 3's...stay sharp!
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Sh*it didn't know you get fined I have an oyster pay as you top up only, use it for meetings up town but sometimes I'm a few quid under then top up and all good?
How or why do they fine you I thought you just pay whats negative on the balance? :undecided:
I know if you don't beep out you get fined for that fair enough!
I swiped in and saw 6.40 in credit, thought that will get me up to Holborn but I will need a ticket back.
I tried to buy a 1/4 TC at the station but it would not accept my card, no bother do it on the way back.
Oh how I wish the ticket machine worked....
They said i had only 40p on my oyster, but i argued that it normally goes -£5 before it lets you out.
he said that you only had 40p at the start so you could not have bought any fare. ok fair enough but why did it show £6.40?
He said this happen all the time with oysters, and that tickets are far more reliable :undecided:
Cards and phones can affect how it reads your oyster and could have interfered with it, and that it needs to be in a thin wallet on its own :undecided:
I said let me pay up at the excess fare machine as I am decent sort of guy and did not make a habit of this.......sorry sir no exceptions :sad:
And then the Grill, damn pikeys :angry:
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Oyster card system is sh!t in the way that it works. All the oyster card is, is a proximity card, an iClass one if I remember precisely, can't remember how many bit.
All that is stored on that card is an ID number, no money nothing, just the cards individual number. When you swipe it on a prepay machine it just logs your card number, synchronizes with a database and deducts according on what is stored on the database in regards to that cards ID number. So if there is some-sort of communication break down with synchronization process your balance may well be shown incorrect as it's not received or processed any other journey information.
However this system is very unsecured and pointless, as I could carry around a long range card reader, a backpack, laptop and batteries and read peoples oyster card numbers without them knowing at a distance, go home reprogram a card with the same ID and use there account, brilliant if they have a season ticket on there...
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Sh*it didn't know you get fined I have an oyster pay as you top up only, use it for meetings up town but sometimes I'm a few quid under then top up and all good?
How or why do they fine you I thought you just pay whats negative on the balance? :undecided:
I know if you don't beep out you get fined for that fair enough!
I swiped in and saw 6.40 in credit, thought that will get me up to Holborn but I will need a ticket back.
I tried to buy a 1/4 TC at the station but it would not accept my card, no bother do it on the way back.
Oh how I wish the ticket machine worked....
They said i had only 40p on my oyster, but i argued that it normally goes -£5 before it lets you out.
he said that you only had 40p at the start so you could not have bought any fare. ok fair enough but why did it show £6.40?
He said this happen all the time with oysters, and that tickets are far more reliable :undecided:
Cards and phones can affect how it reads your oyster and could have interfered with it, and that it needs to be in a thin wallet on its own :undecided:
I said let me pay up at the excess fare machine as I am decent sort of guy and did not make a habit of this.......sorry sir no exceptions :sad:
And then the Grill, damn pikeys :angry:
Okay Man takes your money got it now!
Still its hard to prove you had £6.40 you should just get them to change the card over if yours has a mind of its own fella.
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I quite like the oyster cards. Been using them for years without a single problem.
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Can you use one to get to Wembley?
:lipsrsealed:
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Too soon :cry: :cry: :cry: