Kat wrote:

In message , Dave Newt
writes
Kat wrote:
Are you certain the readers were off? The gates can be set to open but
wouldn't normally be powered down unless there's a fault.

Absolutely. No lights and no reaction. (I tried briefly.)

OK, I can find out about that.


So it would assume I had started in Z1-3 (my season)? So if a Z6-D gate
had been off, I would have only paid £1 to get out in Z4, since it would
have assumed I came in in Z1-3?

On the way back you'd need to put £2.00 for the cost of two
extensions (assuming you have 1 - 2)

Oh yeah, getting back would not be a problem - I mean the extension
calculator didn't know where I got on in this case, so I am just
wondering how it would guess where I got on (and what it would guess).

I've given up assuming anything about what Oyster cards might guess. If
you go to a ticket office and get your journey resolved, you can tell
them where and why you couldn't validate the start of your journey and
they ought to accept your word for it.
I imagine you've used your Oyster since Saturday, so how much did you
have to pay?

Hmm, nothing in this case - my journey was not unresolved, since the
machines were off on entry, and the SAs were nice on exit. :-)

(Plus I didn't reenter anyway, got a lift home.)

I think at South Woodford there is no cash office inside the gate, so
they had to let me out even if they were gonna make me buy an extension.
However, they made it clear they didn't expect me to, they just said
"we'd suggest you put some prepay on for coming back and if this journey
comes up as unresolved, go to the ticket office to sort it out".

In a way, I am glad there wasn't any prepay on it, since I don't know
how much it would have deducted!