"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message , at 09:52:24 on Fri, 23 Sep 2011,
Mizter T remarked:
I suppose one other possible solution is if you could come to some
arrangement with Oyster customer services, e.g. pay the 40 pounds minus
whatever's left on the card, and then they'd keep the card on the
blacklist.

How does that help? It just leaves £35 locked on the card. [...]

Er yes, 'brain fart' moment, you're quite right it wouldn't help resolve the
situation at all.