On Sep 6, 10:53*am, "David A Stocks" wrote:

"Zen83237" wrote:

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But they can add a refund at Watford Junc.

I assume this is yet another weirdness of online top up.

My reasoning is that Watford Junction is a London Midland managed
station, and online Oyster PAYG top-ups would bypass the LM retail
channel entirely - therefore they aren't offered at Watford Junction,
and pax wanting top-ups will need to go to the ticket office.


Somewhere near the start of this thread I asked for people who use online
top up and find it to be easier and more convenient than manual top up at
ticket machines to tell us why they found this to be the case.

Somebody posted a valid but rather spurious suggestion that using a ticket
machine means somebody might get to see your credit/debit card PIN. If I
were to post my PINs here on a newsgroup what would anyone be able to do
with them without the cards? I suggest people have a *lot* more to be
worried about in terms of security when entering into online transactions
over the web from a PC.

From there the thread went off into discussions about the progress Foyles
have made in book retailing over the last 30 years. Meanwhile, I'm still
waiting for the online top up user to pop up and tell me what I've been
missing out on over the years.

I suppose that's Usenet for you ...

There might not be a big online top-up user amongst the ranks of utl,
but just because you have no use for it doesn't mean it's useless,
unless the whole world is going to be subject to the David A Stocks
test of utility. But I suppose a belief in one's self-righteousness is
also part of Usenet too...

I'm quite sure that a decent number of people make use of it. Plus the
mechanism that delivers one-off topups is the same one that delivers
auto-topups, so there's no reason for TfL not to offer it.