Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 &
 

On 10/11/2014 21:25, wrote:

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:
[...]
Alas, I'm 'with' Visa (which payment network a debit or credit card
is with is not something that exercises me a great deal!)

Oh, woe is me too! I have an HSBC credit which used to be
Mastercard but they switched me to Visa. Bother!

[...]
Visa Europe seems to have offered a pretty unbeatable deal to banks
for debit cards, as those that offered Maestro (nee Switch) mostly
defected to Visa a few years back - perhaps your credit card change
was a result of the same effect.

Dunno. HSBC never explained it.

Well, they wouldn't ("we're switching to Visa to save some money and
hence bump up our bottom line" isn't the kind of customer facing
communication banks really go in for!).

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

In message , at 21:05:13 on Mon, 10 Nov
2014, Mizter T remarked:
a refund
...
to a maximum value of £9.80.

So that's roughly zone 2 peak, zone 6 off-peak. Or one or two zones if
you avoid the central area.

The first sentence I understand - you're alluding to the peak zones 1&2
cap, and the off-peak zones 1-6 cap.

But the second sentence I can't decipher - these days there are no
daily caps that exclude zone 1 (used to be, and sadly missed, but
that's another story).

I was taking it off a pdf I googled from the TfL site (I can never
navigate that site to a price-list, they seem to keep it well hidden).

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...o-adult-fares-
jan-2014.pdf

And that shows (eg) an off-peak price cap of £8.50 for Z5-6 on the top
line of page 2. It's also populated with the £21.80 figure (for zonal
combinations not including Z1).
--
Roland Perry

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28
 

In message , at 21:14:27 on Mon, 10 Nov
2014, Mizter T remarked:
Oh, woe is me too! I have an HSBC credit which used to be Mastercard but
they switched me to Visa. Bother!

Worth looking at MikeS's post in this thread - there's a maximum £9.80
refund on offer, so it's a "Fare Free Friday" only up to a certain
point (or rather fare).

Visa Europe seems to have offered a pretty unbeatable deal to banks for
debit cards, as those that offered Maestro (nee Switch) mostly defected
to Visa a few years back - perhaps your credit card change was a result
of the same effect.

My two non-contactless cards which I'd prefer to use for the tube [but
can't] are one each Visa and Mastercard - not my choice, it just
happened like that.

I also have a contactless Mastercard, but am unlikely to be in London on
the Fridays in question.
--
Roland Perry

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 21:05:13 on Mon, 10 Nov
2014, Mizter T remarked:
a refund
...
to a maximum value of £9.80.

So that's roughly zone 2 peak, zone 6 off-peak. Or one or two zones if
you avoid the central area.

The first sentence I understand - you're alluding to the peak zones 1&2
cap, and the off-peak zones 1-6 cap.

But the second sentence I can't decipher - these days there are no
daily caps that exclude zone 1 (used to be, and sadly missed, but
that's another story).

I was taking it off a pdf I googled from the TfL site (I can never
navigate that site to a price-list, they seem to keep it well hidden).


http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...lt-fares-jan-2
014.pdf

And that shows (eg) an off-peak price cap of £8.50 for Z5-6 on the top
line of page 2. It's also populated with the £21.80 figure (for zonal
combinations not including Z1).

Yes, but £8.50 is also the off-peak price cap for Z1-6!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

In message , at 05:41:25
on Tue, 11 Nov 2014, remarked:
a refund
...
to a maximum value of £9.80.

So that's roughly zone 2 peak, zone 6 off-peak. Or one or two zones if
you avoid the central area.

The first sentence I understand - you're alluding to the peak zones 1&2
cap, and the off-peak zones 1-6 cap.

But the second sentence I can't decipher - these days there are no
daily caps that exclude zone 1 (used to be, and sadly missed, but
that's another story).

I was taking it off a pdf I googled from the TfL site (I can never
navigate that site to a price-list, they seem to keep it well hidden).


http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/tube-dlr-lo-adult-fares-jan-2014.pdf

And that shows (eg) an off-peak price cap of £8.50 for Z5-6 on the top
line of page 2. It's also populated with the £21.80 figure (for zonal
combinations not including Z1).

Yes, but £8.50 is also the off-peak price cap for Z1-6!

I see what you mean. That's a bit underhand of them.

Meanwhile, where does the £9.80 come from? There's nothing close to it
in the table.
--
Roland Perry

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
05:41:25 on Tue, 11 Nov 2014, remarked:
a refund
...
to a maximum value of £9.80.

So that's roughly zone 2 peak, zone 6 off-peak. Or one or two zones
if you avoid the central area.

The first sentence I understand - you're alluding to the peak zones
1&2 cap, and the off-peak zones 1-6 cap.

But the second sentence I can't decipher - these days there are no
daily caps that exclude zone 1 (used to be, and sadly missed, but
that's another story).

I was taking it off a pdf I googled from the TfL site (I can never
navigate that site to a price-list, they seem to keep it well hidden).



http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...ult-fares-jan-
2014.pdf

And that shows (eg) an off-peak price cap of £8.50 for Z5-6 on the top
line of page 2. It's also populated with the £21.80 figure (for zonal
combinations not including Z1).

Yes, but £8.50 is also the off-peak price cap for Z1-6!

I see what you mean. That's a bit underhand of them.

Meanwhile, where does the £9.80 come from? There's nothing close to
it in the table.

My question too.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...

Did the newspaper jump the gun with the £21.80 figure?

I haven't checked the MSE site, but the £21.80 figure is clearly stated in
Mastercard's T&C for this offer.

http://promotions.mastercard.co.uk/T...iday_Offer.pdf

Regards
Sunil

Mastercard's "Fare Free Friday" for contactless travel - 14 & 28 Nov
 

In message , at
10:42:55 on Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Sunil Sood
remarked:
Did the newspaper jump the gun with the £21.80 figure?

I haven't checked the MSE site, but the £21.80 figure is clearly stated in
Mastercard's T&C for this offer.

http://promotions.mastercard.co.uk/T...iday_Offer.pdf

That's the second "Free Friday".

On the other hand, here it's still got £9.80 for the first one:

http://promotions.mastercard.co.uk/T...d_Contactless_
TfL_Free_Fare_Friday_Full_TCs_07112014.pdf

Assuming neither is a misprint, then perhaps the newspaper read the
second one and didn't check that the first was the same.
--
Roland Perry