On 30/03/2015 20:48, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
18:57:41 on Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
Indeed; even the TfL website isn't sure exactly which foreign or prepay
contactless cards they accept.

Isn't that just posterior covering? Most cards will work, but if they
said "all", then someone would one day turn up with a People's
Republic of Donbass bank card which isn't even recognised by the goat
sellers of the Donbass People's Republic, never mind anywhere else.

Have you actually looked at what they say?

Yes. I rather suspect it is isn't realistic to cover every possibility
currently out there in the wild, so "nearly all" is a safe bet; the best
is the enemy of the good, 80:20 and all that.

Not bothering with contactless because someone might have an obscure
(for London) card would seem silly - did ticket machines ever take
Canadian dollars or Aruban florins anyway?

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK