On Mar 3, 4:54 pm, "Sherilyn" wrote:
On 3 Mar, 16:50, Michael Hoffman wrote:

But they have already stated publicly that they
will not refund or exchange current Savers.

I wonder if they simply cannot reliably distinguish counterfeits from
real tickets. If so that's unfortunate. I think giving people up to
June to use them up seems reasonable, though there may be one or two
people with large stockpiles to insure against possible fare rises or
something of the sort.

Contrary to the impression given in the article, there have already
been two (or perhaps one and a half) designs of Saver ticket put into
circulation. The original ones were as pictured, but at some point an
amended design was issued. The newer type are identical to the
original version, with the addition of little embossed TFL logos (or
Dwarfish mine sign) repeated throughout.

AFAIR, no announcement was ever made invalidating the old, un-embossed
design. It would be interesting to know whether the majority of
counterfeiters have bothered to replicate the embossing on V1.5
tickets, or if they've simply stuck to churning out copies of V1.0.
--
Rob