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Mizter T wrote:

On 13 Dec, 18:48, Graeme Wall wrote:
In message
Mizter T wrote:



On 13 Dec, 15:42, jonmorris wrote:
On 13 Dec, 15:21, Roland Perry wrote:

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I must admit that when I was in Paris and we visited the Louvre, we
opted to go to a ticket window (with queue) instead of the many
(completely unused) credit card machines to ensure we got the right
tickets for four people. This is despite the fact that I'll nearly
always go for a machine when I see one!

Jonathan

On a recent cross-Paris termini transfer the machines were all busy or
out of order and the queue at the window was long, so I got two Paris
Metro tickets from the handy tout who sold us them at normal face
value - he'd obviously bought a carnet of 10 which costs less than 10
single tickets.

Incidentally the guy was very polite, and didn't come across like a
nefarious individual whatsoever. Fair play to him. Which I'm sure is
not the sort of thing I should be saying on uk.railway!

Did you check what the tickets were? The scam is to buy discount tickets
for one of the various concessionary fares, eg child, military veteran
and so on.


Yes - they were two kosher non-concessionary Metro carnet tickets.

But thanks for the heads-up on that!

Next time I'll buy a carnet from the machine myself - at the other end
of the metro journey I had a quick chance to check out the machines.
From what I remember - but I might be wrong - the RER machines (as
opposed to the Metro ones) didn't sell single Metro tickets but did
sell a carnet of 10. I'm not sure how long they remain valid for,
though I could easily find out I'm sure.

I've never been able to discern a validation period for carnets. I had one
that was 6 months old from a previous trip on one occasion and it worked the
barriers.

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