ISTR a story in the media (not the Daily Mail) of someone who struggled when the only machine was broken, and they got no sympathy from the ticket office staff or the inspector, despite having a paper receipt.
I've only been pickpocketed twice in my life (so far.. touch wood...) and once was in a bustling market in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
The other was in Tesco, in Huddersfield.
Consequently, I only carry the card I am about to use, if I'm about to use it. I would never carry all my cards together in one place.
Nick
In message , at
11:01:56 >Some bigger stations have more than one, but it's common for there to be just a single one. My station has three, and they break down frequently (last weekend all three were broken).
My local station is supposed to be manned, but last weekend (as has been the case ongoing for months on numerous days of the week) the office was empty, but they did have a person with a portable machine. They can't issue these online tickets.
Don't always remember to take the one I use for online ticketing, and sometimes the ticket was bought for someone else.
In message , at 10:05:35 on Tue, 14 Oct
2014, Jethro_uk remarked:It depends, see my earlier posting.
There are ticketing sites for employers which don't require the actual card, this has been the case for a long time. I don't know who bears the cost of any subsequent fraud.
In message , at 10:06:05 on Tue, 14 Oct
2014, Jethro_uk remarked:They do, because I've tried a subset of cards which didn't work, and their common feature was not having my name readable from them.
In message , at 11:16:28 on Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Mike Barnes remarked:
The ticket office staff should be aware the machine's broken and be prepared to stamp the receipt to the effect the tickets can be collected at the far end. Some are reluctant to issue such tickets unless you have separate photo-ID, although last time I tried their machine couldn't access the ticket details on the central database either.
An unstamped one isn't worth much to an inspector, as you could easily have collected the tickets and given them to a friend earlier.
And, to complete the "how to blag a free train journey", after collecting the tickets one or other (or both) of you break the machine and take photos[1] on your phone to show it was broken :)
[1] very important detail: you take photos *after* breaking it; you don't video each other smashing it and post the result on YouTube
I am beginning to see the flaw in your cunning plan ....
what ticket office staff ?
In message , at 15:14:12 on Tue, 14 Oct
2014, Jethro_uk remarked:Mike posted:
"ISTR a story in the media (not the Daily Mail) of someone who struggled when the only machine was broken, and they got no sympathy from the ticket office staff or the inspector,"
Those ticket staff.
OT I have been there. Wife is a parrot nut, lots of parrots in Bolivia! You need velcro on your pockets, solves that problem.
A travelling companion was robbed of cash in Caracas by slitting the fabric of pocket, presumably with a razor blade. The scrote only got away with a few Ecuadorian Sucres, but the damage to the jeans and sense of well-being was considerable.
The next time I went to Bolivia I was wearing a pair of trousers with two pockets on each side. One pair of pockets on the outside, as usual, the other pair on the inside. Worked a treat.
Not OT because this is a DIY group and I sewed the pockets in myself.
Nick (who's going back to Argentina in less than two weeks time)
Presumably beacuse like any other sensible person the easyly accessable "wallet in pocket" only had enough in it to get lunch. A larger amount, but not all of the rest, of their money being in a money belt or pocket that is not visible or accessable from the outside.
Never use back pockets on trousers, front only. For some reason most people are very aware of someone dipping a front pocket. B-) Not saying it's not possible but it's a lot harder than a back one. And as for jacket pockets just give your money away, it'll avoid the stress of knowing that you've been dipped and having to report it etc etc.
Tight jeans did it for me when an attempt was made to extract my wallet from my back trouser pocket on the Paris Metro many years ago.
Agreed with all of that. And couples should split their money between them.
I don't have a wallet as such. One habit that has stayed with me for decades is to sort my notes by value and fold them with the big ones on the inside and the small ones on the outside. When I pay for something I expose the minimum possible value, which has numerous benefits.
Not so viable in the UK where notes increase in size *and* value.
Notes vary in size in most places (everywhere?) except the USA. But the point of having the large notes on the inside is just to make them less obvious, even if they're not completely hidden. I don't end up riffling through the 100 euro notes just to find a fiver.
I keep my wallet in my back trouser pocket. I have only ever had one attempt made on me that I am aware of and that when I was 14, where they slit the back pocket and the wallet too, with what must have been a razor. I always used to have a lot of cash with me, but do tend to walk fast and developed an habit of having my thumb in the pocket when I paused or slowed down. Maybe I simply looked too poor, to have much money on me :')
In message , Harry Bloomfield writes
Wouldn't use them - they charge a booking fee whereas Virgin trains is free.
In message , Roland Perry writes
Trainline introduced it some time ago. They claimed it was necessary because the commission paid to them (not sure by whom) had been reduced.
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