London Banter - View Single Post - TfL, Oyster, contactless payment cards and Apple Pay.

Tony Dragon · April 18th 16, 06:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 15/04/2016 12:46, d wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:33:33 +0100
Tony Dragon wrote:
On 14/04/2016 09:50, d wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:20:11 +0100
Tony Dragon wrote:
My Oyster Card is registered, I have auto top up, if I ever have had a
refund it tops up my oyster card.

The system also gets to know your regular journeys and will auto refund
if something unusual happens.

I also get a spreadsheet showing my Oyster journeys for a week emailed
to me.

So TfL have your bank details and store a nice track of your journeys.
Hello big brother. Made so much easier by people just embracing it.

Yes, I'm sure they track my card too but I paid for it with cash and top it
up
with cash so they have no idea who I am and thats how its going to stay.

--
Spud

No doubt you never use a credit/debit card and you do not have a mobile
phone.

Its a bit difficult not to use cards in general. However its very easy not to
use them on the tube. Also its somewhat different buying something in a shop
than it is essentially giving an unreliable company like TfL direct access
to your bank account where it can suck out money when its computer decides.

--
Spud

I have never had a problem in the way you seem to have.
How do you pay for your phone, broadband, gas, water, electric, council
tax, etc.?

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus