In message , at 17:59:43 on Tue,
15 Sep 2015, Theo Markettos
remarked:
Seems like a cunning plan to lock people into paying long before they
discover there are better cheaper routes, and to prevent them making the
decision on the day.

HEx's original business model is to abstract travellers from taxis. It
was never meant to compete with the tube/bus.

At least they don't tie you to a given train. Though 6.99 one-way 90 days
in advance merely brings them into the land of 'sanely expensive'.

But this perhaps marks a change in that business model, and a fairly
sensible one because people buying advance tickets aren't likely to be
from the taxi-using fraternity.
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Roland Perry