On Jul 23, 2:56*am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Tim Woodall wrote:

Then there's sharing a card to only have one cap. But I wonder how
many people are going to make a journey, then phone their accomplice
"Ok, I'm out. Now you make the journey." It's the sort of thing some
university students might do to prove it can be done but it seems
unlikely there are many other people who will bother.

There were people who shared paper travelcards by hiding them on the system,
for instance someone who commutes from zone 6 to zone one sharing tickets
with someone who commutes from zone 1 to zone 6. I know because I saw one of
them hiding his ticket.

You may not be allowed to share travelcards, but I thought that you
were perfectly entitled to share Oyster PAYG with other people on the
same day.

I still can't see what all the fuss is about. Unless someone invents
an undetectable way of adding cash to an existing card, and actually
makes their money through selling the system to others without getting
caught by undercover police etc, what serious money can realistically
be gained by any of this?