Clive wrote:
Whilst in London last week I wanted to put 20UKP onto my card to take it
over the 100UKP mark,

WTF are you crazy? £100 would take you 2 weeks to spend, minimum, its
a lot to store on a pice of crappy plastic.

Paul Weaver wrote:
WTF are you crazy? £100 would take you 2 weeks to spend, minimum, its
a lot to store on a pice of crappy plastic.

You might be interested in setting up auto-topup. This will
automatically debit your bank account and credit your oyster card
whenever you pass through a TFL:LU reader and your balance is £10. If
you register now you can get £10 for free. I was going to do this but
you have to visit a reader within 7 days, and that is not practical for me.

On 25 Sep 2005 22:24:37 -0700, "Paul Weaver"
wrote:

Whilst in London last week I wanted to put 20UKP onto my card to take it
over the 100UKP mark,

WTF are you crazy? £100 would take you 2 weeks to spend, minimum, its
a lot to store on a pice of crappy plastic.

Plenty of paper tickets are worth more.

In message , Laurence Payne
writes
Whilst in London last week I wanted to put 20UKP onto my card to take it
over the 100UKP mark,

WTF are you crazy? £100 would take you 2 weeks to spend, minimum, its
a lot to store on a pice of crappy plastic.
The original idea was to pre load it to about 120UKP so that on a
fortnights holiday in the Capital finding change or queuing at any time
would not be necessary.
--
Clive

In ,
Clive typed:

The original idea was to pre load it to about 120UKP so that on a
fortnights holiday in the Capital finding change or queuing at any
time would not be necessary.

2 x 7-day (Zone1-D) Travelcards will only cost you £118!!


£120 in a fortnight??!!??



--
Bob

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:36:28 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

The original idea was to pre load it to about 120UKP so that on a
fortnights holiday in the Capital finding change or queuing at any
time would not be necessary.

2 x 7-day (Zone1-D) Travelcards will only cost you £118!!

On holiday, travel before 9.30 might not be required on many days.
Some days might be buses-only. So Prepay seems sensible.

But the solution is simple. Order Auto-top-up a few days before
leaving for London. Your first Underground journey will activate it.

In message , Laurence Payne
writes
But the solution is simple. Order Auto-top-up a few days before
leaving for London. Your first Underground journey will activate it.
This sounds like the answer, can you tell me how I go about it? The
last time I got in touch with Oyster I was asked for my postcode and
memorable phrase, however I could give them my postcode but didn't know
about the phrase and because of this they refused point blank to talk to
me any further. (This was online.)
--
Clive

Clive wrote:
This sounds like the answer, can you tell me how I go about it? The
last time I got in touch with Oyster I was asked for my postcode and
memorable phrase, however I could give them my postcode but didn't know
about the phrase and because of this they refused point blank to talk to
me any further. (This was online.)

My partner was in a similar situation. However, a phone call to Oyster
customer services resolved the situation.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:52:05 +0100, Clive
wrote:

But the solution is simple. Order Auto-top-up a few days before
leaving for London. Your first Underground journey will activate it.
This sounds like the answer, can you tell me how I go about it? The
last time I got in touch with Oyster I was asked for my postcode and
memorable phrase, however I could give them my postcode but didn't know
about the phrase and because of this they refused point blank to talk to
me any further. (This was online.)

I've just logged on to my Oyster account, where I could have ordered
auto-top-up (if I hadn't already done so). I needed my username and
password. Where were you getting asked for your Memorable Phrase?

"Clive" wrote in message
...
In message , Laurence Payne
writes
Whilst in London last week I wanted to put 20UKP onto my card to take
it
over the 100UKP mark,

WTF are you crazy? £100 would take you 2 weeks to spend, minimum, its
a lot to store on a pice of crappy plastic.
The original idea was to pre load it to about 120UKP so that on a
fortnights holiday in the Capital finding change or queuing at any time
would not be necessary.
--
Clive

This sound like a lot! Depending on your plans, it may be possible to spend
much less than this. I'm sure people here would help with suggestions.

James