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My day has been something like this.
The latest thing has been putting £40 cash on my Oystercard last night, getting on a bus this morning and having it record that I have only 90 pence on it. And when I then go back to the station where I put the money on, being told that it is not possible that I added £40 as the system cannot fail. In other words, I am a liar.
It's only the second time I have used cash to top it up. Usually I use a credit card online, but I couldn't log in when I tried last night. Why do I never use cash? Because the last time I did, some 18 months ago, I stuck a fiver in, the machine said it was recorded and...when I went to use it, it had no record of the fiver.
Have other Londoners had a similar experience using cash to top up their Oyster?
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Does the machine not give you the option to print out a receipt?
Not a Londoner now, of course but may I seethe with you? And just what do they have against cash these days? The only way to beat the system is with a debit card.
Not quite the same, but some time ago I was topping up my Oyster with cash, and the machine ate my note.
I went to the window and the cashier huffed and puffed and complained that he had to tally the cash in the machine with all the sales that had been made. Eventually he found that the machine was over by the amount which I had lost and handed the money back to me.
The system clearly is not foolproof and should not be assumed to be in the way that TfL do.