On 08/10/2014 01:17, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:55:00AM -0500,
wrote:

Why on earth would anyone who visits London 2 or 3 times a year
have any use for auto-top up?


For most people the cost of auto-topup is pennies, so is far less than
the cost of queueing. Therefore auto-topup is better.

You are forgetting the non-trivial chance of losing or mislaying the card so
the whole value is lost to you, at least temporarily. TfL make a lot of
money from that. I have no intention of contributing.

But you're happy to cost TfL more money by doing small top ups in person
at ticket stops? (I presume ticket stops get paid for providing the service)

On 2014-10-08 07:57:10 +0000, Someone Somewhere said:

But you're happy to cost TfL more money by doing small top ups in
person at ticket stops? (I presume ticket stops get paid for providing
the service)

If a provider offers a service, why should a consumer moralise as to
whether to accept that service or not? If they did not want to offer
it, they wouldn't offer it.

Neil
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On 08/10/2014 09:30, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2014-10-08 07:57:10 +0000, Someone Somewhere said:

But you're happy to cost TfL more money by doing small top ups in
person at ticket stops? (I presume ticket stops get paid for providing
the service)

If a provider offers a service, why should a consumer moralise as to
whether to accept that service or not? If they did not want to offer
it, they wouldn't offer it.

Neil
Because they are a public entity and are therefore duty bound to offer
the service, to some extent without regard of cost?

And what's the problem with moralising about things? If we all did this
a little more with respect of things paid for or subsidised by the state
and were a little less selfish about things then maybe the economy would
be in a marginally better state.

In article , (Someone
Somewhere) wrote:

On 08/10/2014 01:17, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:55:00AM -0500,
wrote:

Why on earth would anyone who visits London 2 or 3 times a year
have any use for auto-top up?


For most people the cost of auto-topup is pennies, so is far less than
the cost of queueing. Therefore auto-topup is better.

You are forgetting the non-trivial chance of losing or mislaying the
card so the whole value is lost to you, at least temporarily. TfL make
a lot of money from that. I have no intention of contributing.

But you're happy to cost TfL more money by doing small top ups in
person at ticket stops? (I presume ticket stops get paid for
providing the service)

Given how many months between such events, then yes.

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Colin Rosenstiel